On April 16, the Student Sustainability Center and Associated Students of Colorado State University hosted a panel featuring multiple sustainability experts who presented CSU students and community members with insight and information regarding consumption habits and how to enact solutions. The topics discussed ranged from fashion ethics to transportation and food.
To kick off the discussion, Nicole Vieira, an assistant professor in the Honors program researching ecology and environmental ethics, discussed the importance of personal reflection and making environmentally conscious decisions based on individual personal interests.
“I’m trying to teach students not to feel powerless, but to start with internal reflection, figure out, ‘What is important to me?’ identify those, research those things and then make your choices for your consumption based on the things that excite you and interest you the most,” Vieira said.
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