- By Trevor Johnson
This was the project we were given, to make something good. Our professor Val Veirs is the one who challenged us with this. Val is returning to Colorado College just to teach Introduction to Global Climate Change. As it turns out he helped build the first environmental science classes at CC and the environmental science major. Throughout the class we were asked to think of creative ways to communicate to people of our generation the concepts we were learning in class. At the end of our three and a half week block (CC is on the block plan as you may know), we were asked to implement as many of these ideas as we could. Our class project for a class of 24 people was underway. We wanted to create a way to bring all of our ideas together.
Thus we have a website devoted to creative communication of Global Climate Change. This includes a rap music video, as well as several other silly videos, a forum to discuss skepticism, information about what we can do to become greener, and several of the papers that we wrote for the class. The website is called Making Something Good: Walking the Green Talk. Every member of the class took part and it seems that we all were able to bring something different to the table.
We each had different interests, talents, and backgrounds. I was able to play a small role, but in the end we came up with a great product that seems so important. While this website may be the basis on which we build, our group has done other things to appear to our generation. This includes making a YouTube channel to display our videos, and a Facebook groups to gain more support. And to top it all off, we did this all in a week. If you want to find out more, please visit www.makingsomthinggood.com, or go to our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/coloradocollegeev128.
“Making Something Good” is dedicated to motivating the millennial generation via collaboration and education to become more responsible environmental citizens and providing practical solutions for a more sustainable tomorrow.
