Every year we seem to forget about the holidays that do not drive us to shell out the big bucks. This year we seem to have skipped over Thanksgiving, again. What many have not forgotten is Black Friday and Christmas. Malls all around are already advertising their enticing sales prices for the day after Thanksgiving and the [...]…
Read moreIt was a typical Wednesday evening on the corner of Reseda Boulevard and Nordhoff Street, where red and white lights filled the streets as traffic moved along. Motorists, pedestrians and bicyclist were trying to go places when all of the sudden time stood still for a bicyclist. A distracted driver nearly ran the beach cruiser bicyclist over [...…
Read moreA New York Times article “Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None” caught my attention recently. The article is about a new anti-garbage movement know as Zero Waste. The article cites statistics by the Environmental Protection Agency stating Americans dump 4.6 pounds of garbage per person per day and food waste accounts for about …
Read moreActress Alicia Silverstone, best known for her role as Cher in Clueless, has written a book about being vegan. The Kind Diet, which was released on October 12th, gives Silverstone an opportunity to share the reasons why she decided to go vegan 11 years ago — before it became a Hollywood fad. In the book, Silverstone [...]…
Read moreWhether your a tree-hugger or not, you can’t miss the second annual CSUN Campus Sustainability Day that will be held on Wednesday, October 21 from 9 am – 8:30 pm. Throughout the morning, faculty and students will hold presentations in the Whitsett Room,room 451, in Sierra Hall. Helen Cox, director of CSUN’s Institute for Sustaina…
Read moreMark your calendars. CSUN’s Water Day is fast approaching. If you want to learn about the things CSUN is doing to improve the university’s water conservation efforts then this is an event you can’t miss. The Institute for Sustainability is putting on the event and their tentative schedule for the day includes a workshop on water …
Read moreLike many other people, I love shoes. A couple weeks ago I discovered Payless had started a green line of shoes that cost less than $30. I was not surprised because it seems that everyone has jumped on the bandwagon of going green. Their Zoe and Zac line hit stores in April with a flirty [...]…
Read moreAt the beginning of last week I learned some disappointing news. It was brought to my attention that President Koester removed the CSUN Farmers Market from her agenda. In other words, we are not having a farmers market on campus. This news arrived unexpectedly. Up until now all seemed to be going well. Although there had been some setbacks things [...]…
Read moreI went to see the documentary film “No Impact Man” and loved it. The film follows Colin Beaven, a writer and blogger, who along with his family, embark on a project that rids themselves of anything that has a negative impact on the environment. “I”m trying to live a life in line with my values,” Beaven [...]…
Read moreCSUN is going green with the new Chaparral Hall. It has many new environmentally friendly features from the way it was designed. Chaparral Hall uses fluorescent lights in all the rooms as well as energy saving light controls to help reduce the amount of energy the building consumes. The light controls include multi-level lighting levels and occupan…
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