Activism is KEY

For Mass Comm, everyone has to do an activist project for one of the seven group projects, and i think this is one of the best out of the 7. It is good because it allows everyone to get together and form a sort of alliance and do something good for a change. One of the biggest concerns recently in the world has been pollution within cities and large factories around the world. There are so many different products in our society that are easy to make, cost basically nothing to produce, and are convenient, but definitely do not contribute to the environment in a safe and healthy way. When we first got together we all thought of this as one of the major concerns in the world that we as residence students see every single day when we are down in the cafeteria. STYROFOAM. Everyday as residents get their food, they are given Styrofoam containers without having the choice of that or a plate. This, although very cheap to do is horrible because styrofoam has been proven to take nearly 500 years to decompose. 25 billion styrofoam cups are thrown away just by americans every single year, none of which can be made in to more styrofoam therefore making a process which is uncureable until it is completely stopped. For our project we decided that we would each make a poster with some facts and other options in order to fix this ongoing problem we have in the residence. The day after these posters went up, our group went down to get some food and see what the deal was on our idea, and it seems there actually were noticeably more people with plates. This was fantastic, and let us know that just doing one or two good things can actually change the world just a bit and maybe save it for another couple minutes.