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Students utilized online resources to research attitudes toward a wide range of sustainability topics in Leon County and beyond.

Despite the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, students in Dr. Tingting Zhao’s Sustainable Society course were able to conduct primary research across a range of sustainability topics.

Dr. Zhao, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, partnered with the Leon County Office of Sustainability and challenged students to utilize online survey tools to investigate community attitudes towards sustainability.

Whether you're traveling or staying local for Thanksgiving or the winter holiday break, here are a few reminders to consider:

The current climate crisis may make us feel overwhelmed and find it difficult to find optimism. If you find yourself wrestling with these emotions and negative thoughts about the environment, know you are not alone. In fact, anxiety induced by thoughts of environmental defeat has its own term: eco-anxiety. Eco-anxiety has been defined as “chronic discomfort brought on by an overwhelming fear of environmental disaster,” and is a prevalent issue for many people, not just those who work in  the environmental field.

Please share a bit about yourself, what you do for work or study, and when you became interested in sustainability.

My name’s Zoë, she/her/hers, I’m currently an FSU graduate student in East Asian Languages and Cultures focusing on Chinese language and literature. I am a teaching assistant teaching Chinese 2. I’ve always been interested in sustainability, but I think when it really became a committed practice was in my junior year of high school around the time of taking AP Earth, Space, and Science.

Please share a bit about yourself, what you do for work or study, and when you became interested in sustainability.

This week, we asked the Sustainable Campus team their favorite ways to reduce food waste!

Emma

I overestimate the amount of ingredients in most meals, so freezing leftovers like macaroni and cheese, eggplant parmesan, soups, and honestly anything I can’t finish, into a glass tupperware is how I stretch a meal and a buck.

Please share a bit about yourself, what you do for work or study, and when you became interested in sustainability.

Hiya! My name is Nathan, a senior in Chemistry at FSU. I am 20 years old and transferred to FSU last fall. I use he/him pronouns and have been interested in sustainability since I was 9. I am currently working for the Census Bureau, and hope to help ensure an accurate count of all our citizens.

We're celebrating fashion week this week with a sustainable twist! We asked the Sustainable Campus staff what they usually look for secondhand when they're shopping at thrift stores or secondhand sites like Poshmark, ThredUp, or Depop. Here's what the team had to say!

This week, Sustainable Campus and Thrift Club of FSU partnered up to celebrate fashion week with a sustainable twist. To wrap up this week, some members of Sustainable Campus staff, as well as some of our friends in Thrift Club, sat down with sustainability leaders on campus to chat about sustainable fashion.

Professor Luke Hopkins from the fsu Marketing Department

Q: How has the presentation of Sustainable Fashion in social media differentiated from other movements in the apparel industry for marketing?