The Urban Legend

Opinion: Burning Man is burning our Earth

Oliver Yeaman, Opinions Editor • November 16, 2023

Burning Man, a festival that claims on their website to center around radical sustainability, is burning our planet. In 2019, the entire country of The Gambia, with a population of over 2,300,000 people,...

Buying better: the fashion industry’s moral and environmental dilemma.

Tulin Chang-Maltepe, Staff Writer • March 28, 2021

Walking down Haight Street, even walking around Urban, we all see a riot of color and culture. Everyone is dressed head to toe in the various colors of the rainbow, in styles ranging from funky oversized...

Consumers add environmental devastation to their shopping carts

Ellie Lerner, Editor In Chief, Print • January 20, 2021

For more than 40 years, the share of consumer spending on experiences and events has increased by 70%. Millennials have been at the forefront of preferencing experiences over material goods. According...

Eco Thanksgiving Recipes

Ellie Lerner, Editor In Chief, Print • November 19, 2020

As Thanksgiving draws closer, consider substituting some of your traditional Thanksgiving dishes for more environmentally sustainable foods. According to a recent study at the University of Oxford, cutting...

Is coronavirus good for the environment?

Ellie Lerner, News and Opinions Editor • May 21, 2020

Images of blue skies and waterways, reports of goats taking to the streets in Wales, endangered sea turtles returning to empty beaches in Eastern India, macaque monkeys traversing through Lopburi, Thailand,...

Editorial: It’s time for Urban to boycott bottled water

Ellie Lerner, Staff Writer • May 30, 2019

As of this May, hundreds of VOSS water bottles can be seen strewn around Urban classrooms and knocked over next to recycling bins. While Flik recently replaced the sale of plastic LIFEWTR water bottles...