A Hobby For the Future Recently at a social outing, I found myself discussing with several of my peers on a subject I didn’t expect, Gardening.  My family has always maintained a vegetable and flower garden no matter where we have lived, but it came to my surprise how many people of different backgrounds and academic majors not only practiced gardening but considered it and even farming to be a personal hobby. It both puzzled and provided me a small comfort to see that despite our generation being so heavily integrated into technology that it only makes sense we would adopt a very calming and primitive hobby.  Still in our…

A changing Landscape As someone who has kept his ear close to the pulse of major environmental trends being faced by American citizens, one issue I observed a lot in the new cycle recently is articles discussing the intense rise in annual extreme weather events. Flooding in coastal cities, forest fires in the forests out west, and it seems like every year becomes the new hottest year on record. I’m not trying to fearmonger here, the truth is these natural hazards are a basic side effect of our planet’s changing biosphere. Whether these hazards have spawned due to human action or not is irrelevant because they’re becoming a commonality. What…

Gen Z: The Prodigal Generation Following the turn of the new millennium 24 years ago the overall hope of humanity was at a relative high. With this new and refreshing century, many expectations were discussed around how humanity would face the 2000s. I was born in 2002, and have shared a similar upbringing to most other middle-class Gen Z kids. Our parents and American culture at large made a great deal of predictions about the first generation of the new millennia some of which have come to pass, such as our overall higher intelligence, media literacy, and our personal attachment to the technological culture of the internet have all proven…