Everything is connected

One of the things you learn when you study nature and ecology is that everything is connected. Like salmon and forests, wolves and rivers, phytoplankton and oxygen in the air we breathe; as John Muir famously said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we...
UW Climate Change Video Contest

UW Climate Change Video Contest

We posted earlier about the University of Washington Climate Change Video contest and award event at Town Hall. This contest was open to high school and college students, and the goal was to create a short video about climate change. The winning videos have been...
What does climate change mean to you?

What does climate change mean to you?

The UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences challenged Washington students (high school and undergrad) to answer the question “What does climate change mean to you?” in video format. The top 10 student-directed video shorts will be presented at...

Overview

One of the astronauts in the Apollo 8 mission (1968) said when he returned, “When we originally went to the moon, our total focus was on the moon. We weren’t thinking about looking back at the Earth. But now that we’ve done it, that may be the most...