CUNY Academic Commons

I have always been interested in plastic and all the subcategories that comes with that broad term. It was so interesting to learn about plastic pollution here in NYC. The New York sewer system is a complex system but the model they showed during the presentation made it easy to understand and digest. I didn’t know it took as little as 10th of an…[Read more]

I loved the presentation that Gabrielle mentioned about how washing clothes could affect the environment. I thought it was super informative and eye opening. I have always been  conscious about how often I wash my clothes and when but not because I didn’t want to waste water. It never occured to me to think about how the intensity of how I wash…[Read more]

I found it super interesting to learn about pangea and how our continent’s placement came to be. My favorite part of the video when they showed the triple junction where three different seafloor spreading centers come together and showed actual pictures where you can see the new rift zone appearing. It was mentioned that about 45 million years ago…[Read more]