The Blackfish Effect
SeaWorld has never quite been the same since enduring an onslaught of backlash brought about by Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s documentary Blackfish, which hit US theatres back in 2013. In an article...
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Perspective on the Gold King Mine Accident: In Defense of the EPA
DURANGO – When the temporary seal covering the Gold King Mine broke and 3-million gallons of contaminated, potentially toxic orange water flooded the Animas River, the protective bubble sheltering our...
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Like Riding a Bicycle: Sydney Rides to Work
The usage of the phrase ‘like riding a bicycle’ to mean something easily remembered and executed has never been quite applicable in my life. Traumatised early on by what my mum and I contentiously...
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Changes in the Kitchen: Battling Deforestation, Climate Change and Disease
This Labor Day, families across the nation will light up the charcoal pit, wheel out the beer cooler, and enjoy the novelty of cooking on an open flame. But for 3 billion people around the world,...
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Art for Change: Photographing Deforestation
Last year renowned conservation photographer Daniel Beltrá released a series of photographs documenting the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Focusing specifically on the destruction caused by...
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Something Fishy: The Effects of Aquaculture
By 2050 there will be two billion more people on the planet to feed. To put that number is perspective, over 800 million people around the world currently face hunger every day. Fragile ecosystems are...
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Expanding Pacific Ocean Sanctuaries
On June 17, President Obama announced plans to expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument from 87,000 square miles to 782,000. The Monument surrounds several uninhabited atolls and...
View ArticleThe Subhumans: Man’s Violent History with Whales
Some folks says as whales is only fish. No, bye! They’s too smart for fish. I don’t say as what they’s not the smartest creatures in God’s ocean. [...] Aye… and maybe out of it as well. —Uncle Art, in...
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Don’t Blame the Ice Cream: Queensland Government Vilifies Ben and Jerry’s for...
On 31 January 2014, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) approved a permit for the North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation to dredge around 3 million cubic metres of seabed and dump...
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Toxic Cosmetics – Unregulated Killers in Everyday Products
Propylparaben, Retinyl Acetate, and Butylparaben can cause endocrine disruption, biochemical or cellular level changes, and organ system toxicity, among (many) other side effects, like cancer. They’re...
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Earth Day, Then and Now
An Introduction In 1970, there were two separate Earth Day events hosted in the United States to raise awareness about environmental activism. The second, on 22 April, brought students from two...
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The Emergency of Seed Freedom from GMOs
Like so much of what lines the aisles of our shopping markets and clothing stores, the true cost of genetically modified plants is buried so deep within the ticket price it’s barely perceivable. But...
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Engineering Paradise – Will De-Extinction Save the Planet?
There’s no Edit>Undo button in real life. Except when it comes to accidentally/on purpose eradicating an entire species from the planet. There’s an app for that. Back in the day of Jurassic Park,...
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Urchins Take Sides: Reader Responses on ‘Animals Were Harmed’
Gary Baum’s piece, ‘Animals Were Harmed’, in The Hollywood Reporter was shocking for us to read, partly because of the heinousness of the subject matter and partly because we, like a lot of other movie...
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Urchins Take Sides: Do Your F****** Job
This week on Urchins Take Sides, we will focus on Gary Baum’s article, ‘Animals Were Harmed: Hollywood’s Nightmare of Death, Injury, and Secrecy Exposed’, and weigh in on the uncovering controversy,...
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Urchins Take Sides: For Our Entertainment
This week, The Urchins take sides on a recent expose in The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Animals Were Harmed: Hollywood’s Nightmare of Death, Injury, and Secrecy Exposed’ by Gary Baum. Read our introduction...
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UTS: Where have all the bleeding heart liberals gone?
This week, The Urchins take sides on a recent expose in The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Animals Were Harmed: Hollywood’s Nightmare of Death, Injury, and Secrecy Exposed’ by Gary Baum. Read the prompt here....
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Urchins Take Sides: Animals Were Harmed
While it has more or less entered the collective consciousness of a well-informed public that animals under the control of humans in settings like factory farms, circuses, theme parks, and zoos face...
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Outside In: New York City’s Underground Park of the Future
For the past 65 years, the former Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal has occupied an unused acre below Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a vast space in an ever-increasingly space-strapped city collecting...
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What Does It Mean to Save a Whale?
In December 2003, the large body of a six-tonne orca was found beached in Taknes Bay in Norway. Strangely, the orca wasn’t anonymous to the people who gathered around his body. He was famous. Keiko the...
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