Dear Readers,

Sustainability and climate change are complex and often overwhelming topics to engage with. Inspired by lessons from the Environmental Studies Department here at UCSB, our goal is to distill these challenges into an engaging format that sparks curiosity and fosters understanding between one another. We aim to make environmental education inclusive and lower barriers with dense/complex scientific language that makes understanding what’s happening our world scary!

This is our first Issue and we hope to gauge how interested people would be in our left-brain + right-brain love child. We want to extend an open invitation to anyone for feedback or if you want to contribute to a future Issue! We plan to print every quarter and would love articles, poems, art pieces, book/activity recommendations, info on a campus club, or anything Isla Vista sustainability-related!! If you’re interested, we have more information on our last page or reach out to us!

— Evelyn Tsang & Sanjana Sujeet