Sustainability in San Diego

       The prevailing message sent about sustainability in our society is that individual actions will be enough to solve the climate crisis. We are told to recycle, take shorter showers, and take public transportation. As depressing as it is, individual actions are barely a drop in the pool when it comes to saving water.  Did you know that 80% of water in California goes to agriculture? So how much water do you actually save when you take a shorter shower? If you didn’t know this, you would probably never have guessed that it was true. Elected officials are always stressing the importance of water consumption, but instead of addressing individuals, they need to focus on telling farms.  California is an agricultural powerhouse for the United States, and for the world. Over one-third of vegetables and two-thirds of fruit and nuts for the United States are grown in California. Most agriculture in the state takes place in the San Joachin valley. Why are...

  Hello classmates!!! My name is Naomi Waldron, and welcome to my blog! This blog is going to be focused on sustainability, particularly in San Diego and California in general. I may be adding some things about nature as well :) I am a sustainability major and geography, natural resource, and the environment minor, so hopefully some of the things that I have learned in my classes I will be able to share with you all.  It's obvious that I care about sustainability. I have always loved being outside and in nature, but why is sustainability something that you all should care about? We are all residents of an amazing planet called earth. This is the only home we have known, and the only home we will ever know…. At least for the foreseeable future. So, if nothing else, you should care about sustainability because if humans keep degrading the earth at the rate that we are, we will not have a planet that we can inhabit! Degrading the earth puts our food supply at risk because it les...