New Year, Newsletter
Happy New Year, Radicles!
We know it’s been a while, but as always, we’ve still been busy working behind the scenes, and we have a lot of great stuff in this month’s newsletter. So buckle up, this is a longer one.
First of all, some housekeeping:
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If you’ve been to our front page recently, you may have noticed something new! In collaboration with Professor James Nugent and SERS, The Radicle has helped create the Environment Community Bulletin Board. This is a shared Google calendar where groups based in the Faculty of Environment can post their upcoming events and meetings, in one convenient location for students to peruse.
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We’ve also recently updated our website with some more information about ourselves, a page to guide our contributors with submissions, and a page guiding new readers to sign up for our newsletter (that you’re already reading, look at you, you keener).
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Finally, after trying a couple different schedules, we’ve settled with a new date for the bundled release of our content. Going forward, our monthly editions will now go live on the last Friday of the month.
So, as you’ve probably figured out (unless you’ve become completely detached from the passage of time - and who could blame you) that means the January Edition of The Radicle is out today!
We have contributions from some fresh faces to The Radicle, like Bibiana Egbunike’s review of Netflix’s David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Egbunike writes that the documentary is a “must-watch for anyone who is concerned about the creeping tragedy that awaits humanity” that “appeals to both logic and emotion.”
Stephanie Higgins takes a deep-dive into the merits of biodegradables as opposed to our reliance on single-use plastics and recycling in her piece “Go Compostable or Go Home”. Beginning with a critical look of recycling as it stands now and the Trudeau government’s plans to ban single use plastics, she ponders on what exactly we should replace the convenient and profitable - but disposable – material with.
R. Patel tackles the question that any student in the field knows all too well in their piece “Why Geography? A Piece of Advice”. It is not so much a discussion about the actual reasons one might choose to study geography, but rather a study in conviction and sense of self. Anyone struggling with people’s perceptions of their chosen field – whether or not it’s geography – could learn from Patel’s words of wisdom.
As always, we’ve got some more lighthearted content as well, like an interview with the proprietors of ENBUS Memes (for corporate socially responsible teens), and a highlight of a fun challenge from iNaturalist to identify as many vascular plant species as you can within 50km from your home.
There’s too much to say in one newsletter so be sure to check out the full edition here.
Finally, our e-mail and DMs are always open for any contributions from anyone! If you have an idea, we want to hear it, and there's no better time to get it out into the world than right now (yes, right now).
As always, stay safe and keep on keeping on.
The Radicle