Jessup Journal

Plastic is the new kid on the block, in the grand scheme of things -- considering that Bakelite, the predecessor of plastic, was developed in 1907 , plastic has been around for just over one hundred years. It's versatile, durable -- and it's going to be around for a lot longer than we are. According to the Ocean Portal Team, the authors behind the Smithsonian Institution's page on marine plastics , "Depending on the type of plastic and where it lands, items can take days to hundreds of years to break down into very small pieces, which likely never biodegrade." The plastic we use every day has a long shelf life. Even worse, it's piling up, cluttering the planet that we call home. Plastic poses a big problem, but you can be a part of the solution. Bring your plastic shopping bags to the main campus for a College-wide Recycle Day . Our recycling day will take place in the North Mall Meting Room on Monday, November 5, 2018 from 11:00am to 2:00pm . Every ba

There's a sixth mass extinction coming -- and in the words of Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the award-winning book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History , the cataclysm is us. Kolbert traces the history of mass extinctions from antiquity to the present day, from the mastodon to Panama's golden frog, and shows how humans have impacted the earth in ways not experienced since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of Cretaceous period. Humans have catastrophically altered the course of life on this planet -- but while there is no question we can destroy, is there hope that we can also heal? On Monday, October 15, 2018 , join student organizer Kibiriti Majuto as he turns the discussion from extinction to how we -- and specifically, young people -- can alter the planet's course from catastrophe towards a livable future. "Racing Extinction: Youth Movement for Climate Justice" seeks to refocus our attention from what has been done to what can be done, right