Taylor's Environmental & Sustainably Blog

       Kirsten Stolle is an amazing artist who works mostly with text based images and collages to fight for several causes: Herbicide Free Campus, Pesticide Action Network , and Real Food Media . Her installation at College of Charleston's Halsey Institution of Contemporary Art is exhibiting "Only You can Prevent a Forest." This collection uses advertising strategies used by agrochemical corporations to bring their use to light.     There were two pieces of this collection that I was most interested in. Pesticide Pop and Plant Protection had left me thinking the most about the piece itself as well myself. Pesticide Pop is a large piece that I have pictured above, ten individual pictures, that all have different household weed killers or chemical mixer for your garden. Stolle uses the similar seductive power that chemical company use to advertise; they are simple photos turned into pop art because of the bright colors. This has made this obj...

Taylor Schullo Parajuli Intro to Environmental & Sustainability 19 October 2022 Ways Humans are Cooling Down Cities While cities across the world only use two percent of the earth’s available land, sixty percent of humans live in cities. This has caused several negative effects on our planet like pollution levels and high consumption of electricity but especially the Urban Heat Island Effect. The Urban Heat Island Effect is when the heat is built up in one area compared to the rural surroundings; London, for example, is six degrees celsius warmer than the surrounding areas. This heat is abundant because of absorption in the dark concrete and asphalt, lack of parks and greenery, and overall pollution. One city has been designed to avoid this High Island Effect: Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates. This prototype city has been completely designed to have no cars and close together buildings to provide shade; as well, the “Wind Tower'' pulls down cool air to go throughou...

Taylor Schullo Intro to Environmental & Sustainability  Parajuli 5 October 2022 Environmental Injustice in Cancer Alley There is a disproportionate rate of humans who get cancer in America based on living location. The major of these people is the minority: people of color, poor, and under serviced. This is found in many cities, especially the 85 mile long road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. This road is nicknamed Cancer Alley because of about 200 chemical plants and oil refiners along it. America’s minority live here because of a political process called Redlining; black and brown neighborhoods are marked with lower value. Industrial plants have little to no difficulty building in these neighborhoods because of the lower value and lack of representation in the government to stop these companies. Redlined communities are more likely to go to the hospital for asthma than any other area. Looking at a redlined map shows the disproportionate rate of black people, pollution,...