Program Schedule
Racism in the Media
- Date & Time: October 14 @ 12:00 p.m.
- Presenters: Maci Konen and Delia Pastore, Texas A&M Sustainability Interns
- Summary: The media is one of many forms in which white supremacy has been maintained in the United States. The soft power that film possesses over the general public often leads to the influence of unconscious bias for those who do not consume media consciously. The commercialization and compartmentalization of the experience of minorities in film continues to reaffirm harmful stereotypes and promote white saviorism.
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/yGw0ocbzoPs
Impact of Water Disparities Between Different Socio-Economic Groups Around the Globe
- Date & Time: October 18 @ 1:00 p.m.
- Presenters: Adrien Shipou and Claudia Martinez, Texas A&M Sustainability Interns
- Summary: Even in developed nations like the United States, we have cities like Flint, Michigan that have water inequalities due to cost reducing measures. UN goal 6.1 is by 2030, to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all. We look at how water disparities affect the US and the world, seeing how feasible it is to find solutions for this issue.
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/hQ0Fx2iqFes
Food Waste: American Consumerism and the Devaluation of Goods and Labor in the Global South
- Date & Time: October 20 @ 12:00 p.m.
- Presenters: Cam Kasmiersky and Kat Hicks, Texas A&M Sustainability Interns
- Summary: An exploration of the effects of consumer culture in the Global North, and how this culture and its economic and social standards have exploited industries and laborers in the Global South, devaluing products and causing labor wages to be lowered in preference of their own efficiency and revenue maximization. Through these practices industrialized production giants overbuy and oversell imported goods, leading to greater rates of food waste throughout their respective nations and making the goods produced inaccessible to the countries in which they are produced.
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/wDaDbmikvIA
Environmental Refugees: Ripped from Home by Disaster
- Date & Time: October 21 @ 3:30 p.m.
- Presenters: Madelyn Lewis and Olivia Shelburne, Texas A&M Sustainability Interns
- Summary: Environmental refugees are people forced to leave their home region due to sudden or long-term environmental changes. These changes can range from sea-level rise to environmental disasters like hurricanes. Due to climate change, environmental changes like these are bound to be more serve and happen more often. This is going to make the topic of environmental refugees a major issue in the near future, as people are being displaced right now!
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/eC3tquZh0F4