agill110May 5, 20226 min readIs Biodiversity the Future of LMU’s Sustainability Activism?On Friday morning Sean Richards is already at work in the garden before ten. It’s one of the first truly warm days of the season and...
agill110Apr 25, 20223 min readHow We LiveThis week we watched David Attenborough’s film “Life On Our Planet.” The film contained beautiful footage. I found it both impressive and...
agill110Apr 11, 20224 min read5 Life Forms from Below Above and Around WaterThis week out class turned towards the water, visiting San Pedro and fostering a curiosity for those life forms that are both so like us...
agill110Mar 30, 20223 min readBorders and BoundariesThis week we read three pieces, each of which detailed divisions either within the US or between the United States and others. Because of...
agill110Mar 23, 20222 min readArticle PitchI’d like to write an article about integration of native plant species into spaces to promote biodiversity particularly in the LA area....
agill110Mar 21, 20222 min readPrice, Pixley and LustgartenThis week’s readings and discussions revolved around the question of how we can talk about environmental issues in order to be effective...
agill110Mar 18, 20224 min readThe Yuma DesertMy relationship with the desert has always been an uneasy one. It has the misfortune of being the biome in which I was raised and...
agill110Feb 25, 20224 min readNatural Inspiration in Temescal CanyonIt’s difficult to pin down one particular way in which we are inspired by nature. The question itself is somewhat interesting when we...
agill110Feb 16, 20223 min readPromise, Peril, and Pointed LanguageReading Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature” and attending a screening of Veronica Becker-Peral’s film “Promise and Peril” once again has...
agill110Feb 7, 20223 min readLaudato Si'For week four we read two chapters from Pope Francis' encyclical centering around the global climate crisis, “Laudato Si’.” As a person...
agill110Feb 2, 20225 min readWetlands and AnxietyArguably the climate crisis is a topic that is personal to every living being, that said, this week’s approach to it hit close to home...
agill110Jan 24, 20223 min readWhere Should We Look?This week felt like an exercise in choosing an intentional worldview, especially pertaining to humanity and its capacity for improvement....
agill110Jan 19, 20222 min readReading WaldenThis week we read a segment of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. While I’ve heard of the work innumerable times and been aware of its...