“It’s not every day we get to paint a roof in Midtown,” said Special Projects Manager for the New York City Service Wendy Dessy to a group of volunteers assembled in the basement of the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center. As she distributed buckets filled with paintbrushes and gloves, an audible hum of [...]

Whether you’re registered to vote Democrat, Republican, Independent, or not at all, you’ve probably tuned into some of the recent coverage of the GOP debates. The debates, which give us a glimpse into the brains (or lack thereof) behind the potential candidates for the next United States presidency, have become a new source of comedy [...]

Since its invention of the ketchup packet in 1968, H.J. Heinz Co. has received nothing but complaints about the small, messy, and above all else, simply wasteful design of the to-go version of America’s most popular condiment. But by the end of year, ketchup packets may disappear altogether. Fast food chains like McDonald’s, Burger King, and Carl’s [...]

Shrimp farming, an industry that supplies the world with over 5 million metric tons of shrimp each year, is known throughout the environmental community as one of the world’s most destructive coastal industries. Aquaculture, the type of industry utilized by shrimp companies in areas like Southeast Asia, dramatically reduces biological diversity, degrades habitats, reduces genetic variability, [...]

When it comes to the topic of environmental degradation in Borneo, conservationists have become the new colonialists. From the conservationist standpoint, forests are seen as pristine sources of wilderness and wildlife, untouched by the human hand and unseen by the human eye. The goal of conservation in Borneo is to preserve important areas of biodiversity [...]

Despite the passing of laws forbidding organ sales, socioeconomically vulnerable people in the global south continue to sell parts of their body to survive. In 1994, India’s Parliament passed the Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA) to make organ sales illegal. Although superficially beneficial, the lived outcomes of this action were anything but advantageous. After [...]