In this episode, Grace talks about why it's so important for us to reduce waste in our daily lives. She lists a variety of solutions: eliminate purchases, compost, grow a garden, buy in bulk. Additionally, she talks about landfills: both her personal experiences and the statistics of what materials most commonly ends up on the land.

This week, Grace and Eric discuss the different facets of sustainability: profit, people, and planet. Moving forward, they describe tons of ways to implement sustainable practices into your daily life. There is great potential for you to make an impact through your habits, whether it be energy consumption, health, shopping, or transportation. Most importantly, Grace and Eric emphasize that any change is good change! Tune in next week for a discussion about how population relates to our environment.

Grace and Eric discuss the major impacts of climate change including longer growing seasons, sea level rise, and more intense storms. Moving forward, they then highlight NASA Climate's proposed solutions to our climate reality: mitigation and adaptation. Finally, they reiterate that it is important to understand we must always live with climate change, and it will take a long time for our planet to heal from its' effects. 

This week, Grace and Eric explain the greenhouse effect and how we contribute to it through our habits. First describing five major greenhouse gases and what activities contribute to their presence in our atmosphere, they then move on to describe two different ways to calculate your carbon footprint. Additionally, they discuss the three Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle. They conclude by introducing the idea of a sustainable mindset, and how we need to transition our culture to be less disposable. Tune in next week for a discuss surrounding the impacts of climate change!

In this introductory episode, Grace and Eric dissect the tragedy of the commons and how it relates to environmental economics. Through exploring policies regarding fishing, deforestation, and international water use, they provide examples of what solutions are currently in place (and working!) and then move on to discuss three possible types of solutions: individual, internal, and external.