GRC Brown University Articles

Sustainability

The Hidden Implications and Social Cost of Climate Colonialism

Briggs, Helen. “Carbon: How Calls for Climate Justice Are Shaking the World.” BBC News, BBC, 2 May 2021, www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56941979.Climate change is rooted in the intersection of capitalism and

Cecilia Marrinan

4 min read

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A Magic Money Tree for the Climate Crisis

The climate crisis has begun, posing an immense threat to both life and prosperity. Raging fires, unprecedented storms, deadly heat, rising sea levels all threaten the livelihoods and lives of billions of people.

Claire Costa

8 min read

Brown

Taking the Trash Out of Orbit

Walt Whitman once wrote that “every cubic inch of space is a miracle”. Yet it seems that every cubic inch of space is becoming increasingly inhospitable, clogged with garbage from Earth. As the

Aden Littlewood

5 min read

Brown

Chinatown Moves Out: Demography and Hate Crime in Modern Asian America

Take a look at Sugarland in Texas, Rockville in Maryland, and Richmond in British Columbia. What do all of these places have in common? On the surface, they may seem to be average,

Steven Long

3 min read

Brown

Bolivia’s Lithium Woes

In the future, lithium is king. As electric vehicles (EVs) force traditional gasoline cars out of America and the world’s garages, the price and profitability of lithium is expected to skyrocket in

Steven Long

4 min read

Climate Change

Kiribati: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

In much of the world, climate change often struggles to steal the limelight, but in few places is that less true than in Kiribati. The Pacific island nation of Kiribati is one of

Aden Littlewood

5 min read

Brown

The Rental Clothing Industry: a Fad or the Future?

The fashion industry is notoriously unsustainable. Its current system contributes 10% of the Earth’s total carbon emissions and its tendency towards overproduction means that 85% of textiles produced in a given year

Lucie Smith

4 min read

Brown

Will the World Stomach Edible Packaging?

A man picks up an enclosed burger and promptly bites straight through, wrapping and all. A bag of coffee granules is placed into a cup of water and simply stirred away. Seasoning sachets

Aden Littlewood

6 min read

cotton

The End of Modern Slavery in Uzbekistan?

De jure, slavery is illegal in every country on Earth. De facto, however, modern slavery exists in many forms, such as human trafficking or forced marriage. One easily-overlooked form of modern slavery is

Augustus Bayard

5 min read

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West Point Leadership Sciences Instructor Offers Advice on Promoting Effective, Bilateral Communication in the Age of Remote Work

Whether it's the lack of natural small talk before or after meetings, or employees not having enough time to ask their boss clarifying questions, there's certainly much that gets lost in the transition

Chris Walsh

6 min read

ESG

Amplifying Social Impact through Resilience: An Interview with the DSCI's George Bailey on Digital Supply Chains

What if I told you that when managing supply chains for social-benefit enterprises and NGOs, optimization and cost-effectiveness aren't enough? Looking back on the pre-pandemic world, supply chain strategists' laser focus on these

Chris Walsh

5 min read

Inequality

Is Latvia Running Out of People?

What happens when a country disappears? In the last three decades, Latvia has experienced a drastic decrease in its population. First came the collapse of the USSR and a mass emigration of Russians

Aden Littlewood

5 min read

Inclusion and Diversity

Recruitment During The Pandemic? It Could Shape the Future of Consulting.

The recruitment process for consulting is notoriously difficult: it involves rounds of recruiting events, networking prowess, and consulting-specific interviews where candidates navigate unfamiliar case studies that test mental flexibility, general economic knowledge and

Isobel McCrum

4 min read

Education

Tracking the Impacts of E-Learning During the Time of COVID-19

A harrowing photograph recently made its rounds on the internet: two elementary aged sisters, seated on a sidewalk outside a Taco Bell in East Salinas California, hunched over their school-issued laptops, using the

Neil Xu

6 min read

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Increasingly Rampant Wildfires Spark Long Term Economic Restructuring in California

By: Lucie Smith As California burns, the rest of the world carries on, business as usual. However, the effects of the state’s increasingly rampant wildfires may be far more widespread than one

Lucie Smith

2 min read