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Make iT Human Make iT Human
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- Gesellschaft und Kultur
Humans have been evolutionarily molded to simplify and stereotype beings and groups of beings we don't understand or who could be a threat to our mortality.
This works quite well for surviving in the woods or on the Serengeti, avoiding being eaten by lions and various other beasts, but in the modern age, it provides a biological basis for not talking to other humans in the grocery store or on the bus; it keeps us from attempting to understand folks who we have been instructed are already different from us. This evolutionary advantage for our survival turns humans into iTs that we keep at a safe distance. But humans aren't iTs!
So, we were faced with what to do about this predicament--people love podcasts. What better solution than to try and make all these iTs human--one episode at a time.
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iT 6 -- Constructing Green: The individual student, and the Cal Poly Corporation
Can Instagram ads, twitter pop-ups, and corporate marketing shape the way that we think of sustainability? In this episode, we dig deep into the green marketing from Cal Poly corporation. Phrases like "Sustainable Dining", "drive green", "save water", and "reduce your footprint" are recently painted in a remodeled cafeteria at Cal Poly. But, are these claims really true? Is Cal Poly dining. . . "sustainable"?
Moreso, what do Cal Poly students themselves think of sustainability? Is their perception shaped by advertisements and frames used within marketing? -
iT 5 -- Constructing Green: The Climate tells stories!
Our penultimate episode on climate change sustainability! We listen to the variety of stories told about climate change--stories from corporate marketing and investments, to local knowledge, to the story from the temperature of the Earth. By engaging in these stories, we learn some tools on how to parse any voice that sings the tune "climate change."
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iT 4 -- Constructing Green: What do these words even mean??
We begin our journey into climate change and sustainability by trying to define these terms. In doing so, we learn what our friend Martin Buber may have to say about how to go about even defining something so ambiguous and complicated.
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inTro: Constructing Green
Introducing our first series: Constructing Green
Danielle and Paul will be exploring how sustainability has been constructed on Cal Poly's campus, and exploring the various actors that shape our perceptions of and responses to climate change, and how an individual can deal with all this noise. -
iT 3 - Cal Poly ASI Presidential Candidates
This episode is the first in a series exploring the actors in the complex network of perception and response to climate change. We interview each of the Cal Poly ASI presidential candidates on their platforms for climate change on campus, and we learn of the scope of power of this position, and how this affects what sorts of solutions they are able to propose to large issues like environmental sustainability.
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The Mayoral Mix
It is easy to reduce people in politics to what we see about them in social media, commercials, or what we hear that our friends, professors, and other peers say. In this episode, we explore the humans and mayoral candidates Heidi and Keith, and consider the importance of local politics.