Arcadia Earth: Facts, Stats, & Beautifully Shocking Rooms
*Written by Kayla Glee, Jane Biedermann, Valentina Pellegrin, and Joanna Mertakas.
LIM's Office of Student Life collaborated with the College's Sustainability Club for this special "Weeks of Welcome" program. Students were invited to participate in a private large-scale multi-sensorial journey through underwater worlds, fantasy lands, and inspirational art installations. These vivid installations were themed around climate change and sustainability, with interactive elements.
Tencel is comfortable and is a key factor for any active garment. Being of natural origins. Tencel's fibers will regulate the absorption and release of moisture.
This installation, which resembles the interior of a crystal palace but is actually made of about 44,000 plastic bags — the estimated number used every minute in New York State — celebrates New York’s plastic-bag ban. More info here.
Just last year Hawai’i banned the sale of sunscreen containing oxybenzone or octinoxate after research showed that these chemicals are detrimental to coral growth and increase the rate of coral bleaching. They are also shown to damage coral DNA, impair coral reproduction, and make it harder for coral to heal after breakage
Worldwide, industrial agriculture is the cause of roughly 85 percent of deforestation. A large portion of this is to fuel meat production, particularly beef. Deforestation causes nearly 15 percent of carbon emissions annually. More info here.
Did you know? Approximately 46% of the 79 thousand tons of ocean plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of fishing nets, some as large as football fields, according to the study published in March 2018 in Scientific Reports, which shocked the researchers themselves who expected the percentage to be closer to 20%. More info here.