Bruins For the Future

I love my daily walks. it's great getting fresh air and having time to unplug. I think in WW there could be some improvements to the sidewalks because they are very uneven and I've caught myself tripping multiple times from not paying attention to the ground and where I'm walking

I can do my best to recycle cans & bottles that I use. I have a bad habit of throwing cardboard into the trash instead of the recycling, so I'm trying to be more mindful of that.

This week I learned more about how to implement sustainable fashion practices in my life and the impact that fast fashion has on the environment. My friend and I were talking about how we need to do spring cleaning because we are starting to look like hoarders with all the stuff, especially clothes, we have. We both exclaimed that we barely...

I grew up surrounded by nature in a small town in Northern California, where the outdoors shaped much of my childhood. But during my freshman year of high school, a wildfire tore through my hometown, burning down 36,000 acres and destroying over 7,000 structures. From then, the climate crisis stopped being an abstract issue—it was reshaping the...

One of the most interesting things to learn about sustainable aquaculture practices is that over half of the seafood we eat today is farmed rather than caught in the wild, through a method called aquaculture. This is important because wild fish populations around the world are declining due to overfishing, poor resource management, climate...

This past week, I also learned more about expiration dates and what each different type means. I've commonly been confused between "Best by", "use by" and "sell by" dates, so I went to the USDA website and navigated to the "Food Product Dating" page, and read the articles they had on the meanings and...

Needing to go to Trader Joes and Whole Foods after class, I took it upon myself to walk around campus for a while and see if there are parts of campus that I may have never noticed. In fact, there were sculptures in the sculpture garden that I had never noticed, people enjoying their time on the grass near Jans steps, and just overall good...

Taking the quiz was really eye-opening as it helped me reflect on my choices and their impacts on the environment. The result of my carbon footprint survey was that if everyone lived like me we would need 4.7 Earths which was truly unexpected. I knew that I was not living a net-zero lifestyle but my consumption was much greater than I expected....

This week, I made a commitment to doing some more walking and really taking advantage of the mostly walkable city/community that we have here in Westwood. Normally, I will take my car to the store to be able to easily transport my groceries, but this week I decided to try to only walk to the store rather than use my car. I noticed that it was...

I recently have started volunteering at Cedar Sinai this quarter. Normally, I take the the bus to Cedars and then take an Uber back after my shift. However, I decided to to commit to taking the bus to and from Cedars weekly without using an Uber. This weekend I was able to commit to this plan, which I truly enjoyed taking the time to admire the...