Episode 5: Sustainability Across Cultures

Episode 5: Sustainability Across Cultures

Where did our sense of sustainability originate? During a special hour-long episode, Maddie and Tatiana discuss shifts in sustainable culture throughout their time growing up in the United States ⎼ specifically the state of Colorado. We invite CMU alum and Japan native Shinnosuke Kajiwara to discuss the systems that help form our relationships with the planet. Through the lens of Triple P framework (people, planet and profit) to measure sustainability, we discuss the environmental education we received in the United States compared to Japan. By cross-examining American and Japanese infrastructures (e.g. transportation, energy, individual responsibility and future goals), this episode breaks down political and cultural barriers in order to make sense of our individual connections to the environment.

Episode 4: The Nuclear Debate

We talk with CMU Environmental Science graduate, Ben Denardo, about the practicality of nuclear energy on the Western Slope. We also dive into H&M's new sustainable clothing line and chat about the body product brand, Native.

Episode 3: The Three Pillars of Sustainability

We talk with CMU Sustainability Council vice president, Blake Poole, about personal, social, and environmental sustainability. We also cover palm oil, reusable bags, and the sustainable clothing line, tentree.

Episode 2: The Flexitarian Diet

We talk with CMU Sustainability Council president, Ryan Biller, about his flexitarian diet and his plans for the future of the Sustainability Council. We also chat about reusable make-up removers and fast fashion.

Episode 1: Introductions

Get to know us as we take an ecological footprint quiz.