Team Progression

This week my team and I have made a lot more progress since our last meeting!
We have discussed topics that we could research further. Such topics surrounding how millennial's improve the world we live in today include thrifting, carpooling, climate change and house sharing.

Each group member decided to take a topic from each ideology to talk about in further detail. I decided to talk about fast fashion and sustainable fashion. After reading several articles online relating to my topic I felt confident enough to write out what I would be talking about on Microsoft Word for the presentation.

Making small changes to your shopping can really have a positive effect on the environment and help to reduce waste water pollution as the percentage is currently the second highest contributor to waste water pollution due to fast fashion brands releasing toxins, harmful dyes and synthetics into water supplies. Lead and pesticides are also released into the air which are harmful to humans.

Upon doing my research it is interesting to note that millennial's have been influencing others to:

Shop second hand.
Buy and sell their goods on online marketplaces.
Educate oneself on the goods ecological footprint.
Buy from brands that are going 'sustainable'.

The girls in my group Sindija and Laima were happy with my choice of topic and felt it was relevant to the overall topic we chose which was 'Millennial's and our future'. Both girls chose topics they felt was relevant to the topic and we decided we would then combine our pieces together in a YouTube video to present to the class at a later date.

We wanted to incorporate as many tools into the project as possible and decided to create our own video slideshows with voiceovers to combine into one big video at the end. This strategy worked particularly well for my group and I as we all seemed happy to continue with our work.

I look forward to our next team meeting when all the slideshows will come together!

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