Looking globally: Don’t let the smoke blind you
Charlotte Ehrlich, Editor-in-Chief
September 25, 2020
It’s one thing to sit in your room in September of your senior year seeing your friends and teachers through your computer screen — we’ve gotten used to that now. But it’s another to glance outside your window to find a dark orange sky looming over your normally foggy city. Even with chok...
Visiting with VR
Mackenna Moslander and Tala El Qadah
September 24, 2020
While college tours no longer include strolls around the campus and in-person discussions with student ambassadors, prospective students and parents to consider schools virtually. With over 5,000 universities in the United States and countless internationally, not every potential student can visit ...
The show must go on
Alina Kushner, Senior Reporter
September 24, 2020
The fall play will address climate change and environmental issues through a set of monologues and with specially-built virtual sets. The drama program is partnering with environment groups such as the Marine Mammal Center and Wildcare to further educate and enhance student performances, according to Theater Programs Director Mar...
Watch out Earth, holidays are coming
Gray Timberlake, Editor-in-Chief
December 12, 2019
While giving gifts is on almost everyone’s mind this time of year, the environmental impact of waste over the holidays often gets neglected. Americans throw away 25% more waste between Thanksgiving and New Years than they do any other time of the year, and an extra 3.5 metric tons of carbon dio...
Art students reflect on interconnectivity
Madeline Thiara, Senior Reporter
November 4, 2019
Art Foundation II students are working on a project titled “The Line that Binds Us” as their first project of the year that involves the use of materials rather than research. The project is based on the theme of interconnectivity, where students are displaying how they are connected to their env...
Individual impact matters
Gabriella Vulakh, Editor-in-Chief
October 7, 2019
The Global Climate Strikes two weeks ago helped many individuals realize that they can participate in promoting environmental issues at the local level and individually take action to reduce their carbon footprint. "Everything that we do has an impact on the ecosystem in ways we can't even imagine,”...
Project Green Challenge offered to community
Alina Kushner, Reporter
September 26, 2019
Convent students had the opportunity to sign up for the Project Green Challenge today during Collaboration and lunch as a way to help the environment. Participants in the project in the project receive daily emails between Oct. 1 and Oct. 30 and receive their challenges and tasks for the day, acco...
Biodegradable signs created, hung for Earth Day
Madeline Thiara, Reporter
April 27, 2019
WEB EXCLUSIVE Biodegradable signs illustrated with fish stuck in single-use plastic bottles are hanging in front of the Flood Mansion and on the corner of Broadway and Fillmore Streets in celebration of Earth Day. Five thousand signs were distributed throughout San Francisco, Venice Beach, and Sant...
Fashion industry goes green
Caroline Thompson, Senior Reporter
September 27, 2018
The fashion industry is the third most polluting industry and one of the largest water consumers in the world, but some companies are joining the “eco-fashion” movement, implementing policies to reduce their footprint on the environment. Brands that are certified sustainable and ethical, features prod...
Zero waste, zero change
Editorial Board
February 9, 2018
San Francisco had a diversion rate of 52 percent as of 2001, with over half of the waste generated was either recycled or composted, according to the San Francisco Department of the Environment. Former Mayor Ed Lee announced in 2012 that San Francisco had achieved a diversion rate of 80 percent, the...
Convent and San Francisco strive to be more eco-friendly
Laura Mogannam and Olivia Mohun
October 21, 2016
Students learned about San Francisco’s goal to become a greener city and have zero waste during espacio at today’s assembly. Paul Pryor Lorentz, theology teacher and one of Convent’s environmental ambassadors, presented a video highlighting the management of trash in San Francisco. “I...
Microbeads cause wave of macro effects
Julia-Rose Kibben, Design Editor
November 5, 2015
Neon-colored beads have become a part of many daily hygiene routines and may even make face wash bottles more appealing, but the microplastic polyethylene pearl-like beads, used as an exfoliator in many over-the-counter facial cleansers, are killing marine life. “I’m ashamed to say that I used to use a...
Kassie DeJean, Reporter
September 25, 2020 • No Comments
WEB EXCLUSIVE Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that sales of diesel gas cars will be banned by 2035. Transportation currently accounts for more than 50% of greenhouse...
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