We have been working very well recently on integrating research, community, and climate change to our project in the recent weeks. After meeting with our professors for feedback, our project shifted from trash pick up to more research based to better inform our viewers. To begin, we have done a third trash clean up around the college town area, only for the purpose of adding plastic to our sculpture piece, not for the use on social media. Our sculpture will be located on the ground, to contrast the earth with the garbage. By being located on the ground, it will also make the integration of community participation easily accessible.
The group has found research pertaining to recycling facilities specific to FSU. Additional research was done to find the “ideal universities” in terms of sustainability, that Is This What Your FSU Looks Like can model our solutions after. We found universities such as the University of Hawaii and alternative solutions such as reverting back to the use of glass. The group has now connected plastic creation to climate change through the use of fossils and petrochemical feedstocks.
Additional research by the group has show the legislative and university stands that must shift in order for an entire campus from single use plastics to reusable sources. The group is planning on adding a portion in the coming weeks about how plastic translates to water pollution as well. The group is working with See the Difference, Be The Difference on this ongoing initiative of integrating different kinds of the pollution.
Production Stills
Photo 1: The team working during the Climate Change Collaboration Class. Students pictured from left to right: Hunter Smith, Madison Shaff, Mikayla Gamble, Linnet Berna, Madison Malone, Jack Flei, and Katherine Weck.
Picture 2: The most recent posts on the social media platform of the environmental campaign. The #NoFuelTank shows the integration of the research we have done into our own university initiatives.
Photo 3: Third trash clean up. Three students pictured with friends, from left to right: Linnet Berna, Don Arellano, and Madison Shaff. The location of the trash pick-up was Woodward Avenue, adjacent to the “Old I.M. Fields.”
Photo 4: Katherine Weck collaborating with fellow groups in the Climate Change class. The meeting was held at the Delta Zeta Sorority House with Greek Communities and Climate Change.
Photo 5: Photos 5a and 5b illustrate the trash picked up during the third outside of class meeting near the “Old I.M. Fields.” Our favorite piece found was the full cooler to be used during our sculpture.