Wild Card
A neighborhood that lacks proper access to healthy food.
What is a Food Desert?
The extinct bird species, native to the island of Mauritius, which is famous for its tragic story of human-induced extinction and serves as a symbol of the consequences of human colonization and environmental destruction.
What is the dodo bird?
What does PPM stand for?
Parts Per Million
This percentage of the world population owns 40% of all wealth
What is 1% (or the 1%)
This building produces 600 pounds of food waste daily
What is Debot Dining Center?
This action, which allows us to obtain free food and goods that otherwise would go to a landfill, was legalized by the supreme court in the 80s.
What is Dumpster Diving?
The author of "Industrial Society and its Future"
Who is the Unabomber or Ted Kazinski?
The time period during which atmospheric carbon exceeded 350 ppm
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This economic system seeks to extract as much surplus value from the labor of the worker in order to increase profits and accumulate capital
What is Capitalism?
The primary energy source used on campus
What is Natural Gas?
The indigenous concept, often associated with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy or Iroquois Great Law of peace, that considers the long-term impacts of actions on future generations
What is The Seventh Generation Principle?
The obsolete, 70 year old pipeline that runs under Lake Michigan
What is Line 5?
This term refers to the ongoing mass extinction event primarily caused by human activities such as habitat destruction, pollution, and climate change
What is the Anthropocene?
The nation that gives $8 million dollars of munitions daily to Israel's deadly bombardment of the Palestinian people
What is the United States of America?
The number of people buried under Old Main
Who are 100 people?
The inability of a household to access electricity, whether for financial reasons or geographic ones
What is Energy Poverty?
The process of hammering metal into trees to discourage logging
What is Tree Spiking?
The current concentration of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere in parts per million
What is 420 ppm?
The music star who produced 140 tons of carbon emissions over the past 3 months
Who is Taylor Swift?
The local business where UWSP students can shop for organic food and bulk items, with a 5% student discount
What is The Co-Op?
The local business owner who was one of the founders of 350
Who is Trevor Roark?
The social movement that combines human rights and environmental protection
What is the Environmental Justice Movement?
Group of people who are 80% more likely to be climate refugees
Who are women?
This US President campaigned on blocking all new fracking on Federal lands and not drilling in the Arctic, but broke this promise anyways...
What is Joe Biden?
The UWSP Professor who does not believe in human-caused climate change
Who is Jacob Prater