Jessica Evans

Dec 19, 20182 min read

What's really recyclable?

You’ve been there. We all have. You get to the recycling bin and you’re faced with the decision: to recycle? Or not to recycle? You don’t...

Jessica Evans

Dec 14, 20184 min read

Eco-friendly gift-wrapping and what you didn't know about paper

It’s no secret that plastic is B A D. I’m trying to cut it out of my life and my consumption wherever possible and gift-wrapping is an...

Jessica Evans

Dec 12, 20182 min read

We live in a binary age. You’re either a gay or straight, right or wrong, boy or girl. Nature is not binary. Humans have introduced the...

Jessica Evans

Dec 9, 20183 min read

Plants are super cool to say the least. They literally terraformed Earth and made it habitable for animals! They're also completely...

Jessica Evans

Dec 5, 20182 min read

Life can be hard. Forreal. It's easy to get into a slump and think "I'm not ______ enough." (See? I bet you filled that space pretty...

Jessica Evans

Oct 23, 20183 min read

Sharks have an unfairly bad reputation. Ever since Jaws debuted, beach trips have been accompanied by the silent question:"What if...

Jessica Evans

Oct 14, 20186 min read

On one of Makhanda’s bordering hills, where the wind is always high and the view always beautiful, rest the white tunnels of the Waainek...

Jessica Evans

Sep 25, 20186 min read

This is going to be a longer read than usual - my mom said it's interesting enough to keep the reader attentive so that should be reason...

Jessica Evans

Aug 16, 20183 min read

South Africa has been in a drought for a few years now and every time I fly home (Johannesburg) from university the ever-present cloud of...

Jessica Evans

Aug 6, 20183 min read

This year in my zoology class I've been working on a mini research project to do with microplastics. I had never heard of them until I...

Jessica Evans

Jul 31, 20183 min read

Okay so there's a big fuss about conservation at the moment, particularly the conservation of the world's oceans. But really, what's the...