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How Edutainment is getting kids passionate about Sustainability
Combining fun and useful tasks Previously we wrote about how Gamification can make the world a more sustainability place, but beyond gamification, there are many more ways to make sustainability more fun and exciting. Another key example is the term Edutainment. Humans have an innate desire to learn I believe that learning should be a…Read more »
Interview with Carolyn Finney Ph.D. Professor at UC Berkeley
Investment, Innovation, and Inspiration With the next CSSC Convergence, at UC Berkeley, only a few short weeks away, we have another exclusive and thought provoking CSSC interview. Dr. Carolyn Finney is a professor at UC Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. Her research focuses on identity representation difference and place, race and natural…Read more »
Confessions of a 21st century environmentalist studying abroad in Chile
I was born and raised into a generation of friction, a generation of young people with the world at their fingertips but also on their shoulders.
Interview with Mike Roselle Co-Founder of Earth First!
Sustainability from a Radical Perspective Portrait of a Life-Long Activist Long before the California Student Sustainability Coalition was even a thought in the eyes of young university students, there was an organization which decided to bring non-violent direct action into the forests and wild places of the United States. This organization was and still is…Read more »
How Gamification can make the world a more sustainable place
Gamification for a better world We are living in a world where what we “should” do is often times different from things we “want to” do. This holds true for Sustainability – often times the things you need to do to be sustainable is not necessarily what is the most convenient or comfortable to do….Read more »
2013 Winter Leadership Retreat
The CSSC leadership retreats are a space for leaders working on sustainability initiatives on their campuses to come together with other leaders working on similar projects throughout the state During breakout sessions and workshops retreat attendees have the ability to shape the CSSC by setting goals for the organization and policies to help…Read more »
Students Move to Divest at the Claremont “7C’s”
Across the United States, students from various colleges and universities are saying “Yes!” to ask their presidents, deans, and boards of trustees to divest. Recently, this movement spread to the Claremont Consortium.
Reading, writing and realizing nature: explore your local place this holiday season
Here are eleven activities you can use to strengthen your personal relationship with place – and maybe even share your experience with family, friends, or community members.
Should Chiapas Farmers Suffer for California’s Carbon?
“We are not responsible for climate change—it’s the big industries that are,” said Abelardo, a young man from the Tseltal Mayan village of Amador Hernández in the Lacandon jungle ofChiapas. “So why should we be held responsible, and even punished for it?”
Election Day TUESDAY: Do you have a vote plan?
One of the biggest regrets I have is not voting in my first presidential election, the 2008 election.
Project We Own It
Why YOU should make a pledge to support the Isla Vista Food Co-op in Santa Barbara
GMOs: Too Big to Fail
We all fail. Our attempts, for example, at crafting an esteemed piece of literature or painting a revered portrait or impressing our friends with a delicious gourmet meal often end in disastrous disarray. But, most of us accept and learn from our failures.
Invitation: The Future of Higher Education Endowments
November 9, 2012, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA
Upcoming Opportunities
Check out these three fabulous opportunities to enhance your leadership in the sustainability movement:
The Three E’s of Sustainability
The CSSC is committed to recognizing and working toward the “Three E’s” of sustainability: economy, ecology, and equity.
Sustainability, Here at Home with the Winnemem Wintu
I recently returned from a four day Coming of Age Ceremony with the Winnemem Wintu on the banksof the McCloud River in Shasta County. This experience has had me thinking a lot about the connections between culture, environment and sustainability.
Spirituality and Sustainability
A question that has been lingering on my mind this semester: is spirituality a necessary component of sustainability?
The Lexicon of Sustainability
“Words are the building blocks for new ideas. They have the power to activate change and transform societies.”
LA Approves Plastic Bag Ban
Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation Wednesday to approve a ban on plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines, handing a major victory to clean-water advocates who sought to reduce the amount of trash clogging landfills, the region’s waterways and the ocean.
Occupy Comes Down to Earth
Occupy the Farm began on April 22 in Albany, just north of Berkeley, when 200 community activists cut through a chain-link fence surrounding a vacant patch of land owned by the University of California.
Connect the Dots
Across the planet now we see ever more flood, ever more drought, ever more storms. People are dying, communities are being wrecked — the impacts we’re already witnessing from climate change are unlike anything we have seen before.
University of California Holds $234 Million in Filthy 15 Coal Corporations
Data in a new report authored by California Student Sustainability Coalition alumni Sarah Siedschlag and published by the University of California reveals that the University of California Regents have something on the order of $234 million dollars worth of holdings in 15 of the largest coal companies. Titled “Reducing California Higher Education’s Support of and…Read more »
Can the University of California make campus food sustainable?
Fast food joints offer a quick and easy fix for hungry, busy students on college campuses. But at the University of California, they’ve also become a target for student activists intent on shifting their schools’ large dining budgets away from less healthy, industrially produced food…
Recharge! Retreat
Call for applicants! The Focus the Nation Recharge! Retreat is a week-long, expenses-paid retreat for young clean energy leaders.
March in March: Reclaiming California Education
On Monday, March 5th, I had the privilege of attending the March and Rally in Support of Higher Education at the California State Capitol in Sacramento.
NEWS RELEASE: Palo Alto Leading the Charge on CLEAN Programs
Silicon Valley leaders approve CLEAN Program to increase local production of cost-effective renewable energy.
California Considers a Cottage Food Law
Since the homemade food renaissance has taken root in California, there’s been no shortage of home picklers, jammers, and bakers. But under current state laws, it’s a misdemeanor for those home artisans to sell their goodies in the open marketplace.
Capitalism vs. the Climate (Part 1)
There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. His question for the panelists is this: “To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine?”
Wonders of Cookin’ with Cashews: Creamy Cashew-Pepper Penne
For my very first Green Grub post, I decided my grand debut recipe must be vegan, of course, and this thought naturally led to the decision to make one of the main ingredients this, a staple of vegan cuisine – cashews.
11 important clean energy provisions in Obama’s budget proposal
President Obama’s proposed 2013 budget invests in clean energy to help power the engine of economic growth. The budget would direct funds to efficiency and renewable electricity technologies to create jobs and boost domestic manufacturing, and would also make manufacturing more efficient.
Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh explains why mindfulness and a spiritual revolution rather than economics is needed to protect nature and limit climate change.
The New Student Activism
Ashley Ward, an aspiring idealist with waning faith in the world, was standing in the newsroom of her college paper at Humboldt State University in Northern California when a fellow student rushed in with startling news.
Battling The Bottle: Students And Industry Face Off Over Water
Bottled water is trickling away from college campuses nationwide, thanks to the efforts of student activists and the non-profit groups that support them with campaigns like Ban the Bottle. But that’s not going over too well with the International Bottled Water Association.
No, that’s not snow: Pesticides coat California’s Central Valley
I am driving along a state road with Becky, a local activist, who is narrating from behind the wheel. “I once stuck around to see them spray and I had to turn the car around and get out of there, the smell was so overpowering.”
Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning in France
A French court on Monday declared U.S. biotech giant Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides.
24 Hours to Stop the Pipeline – Be the Solution
Every once in a while an opportunity comes along for all of us to be the solution. This is one of those times. We’re collecting a half million messages to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in the next 24 hours.
LEED Certifies 10,000th Project
In the midst of ongoing discussions on the program’s merit, the Green Building Certification Institute announced that the 10,000th commercial project has been LEED-certified, according to the U.S. Green Building Council. The Live Oak Family Resource Center in Santa Cruz, Calif. was awarded LEED Platinum by the institute, — a community center providing families with…Read more »
Chile’s Commander Camila, The Student Who Can Shut Down a City
Camila Vallejo’s call for better and cheaper education has seen student protests transform into a two-day nationwide shutdown. Her press conferences can lead to the sacking of a minister. The street marches she leads shut down sections of the Chilean capital. She has the government on the run, and now even has police protection after receiving death threats.
Banning Corporate Personhood: How Communities Are Taking the Law Back from Big Companies
This is the story of individuals speaking up when the gas corporations are attempting to control their hometowns and of individual becoming increasingly involved in their local government, collaborating with each other as they face drilling throughout the area.
Join the Activist Network! Intern with Greenpeace
Do you want to join the fight for climate justice with the world’s largest independent environmental organization? Greenpeace has several incredible volunteer internships available in San Francisco! You’ll get the chance to work on the most pressing issues of our time – saving ancient rainforests, protecting our oceans, stopping toxic threats, and launching a clean energy revolution.
Fuel-efficient vehicles could save $7.2 billion annually in California health costs
May 10, 2011 Susan Carpenter, LA Times California could save $7.2 billion in healthcare costs — and prevent more than 400 premature deaths — annually if the state adopts a 64 miles- per-gallon equivalent fuel economy standard, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Lung Assn. in California. The Road to Clean Air…Read more »
Why I Lived With My Garbage For a Year
From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2010, I saved every piece of my garbage. No, I’m not homeless, and I didn’t lose my mind. I decided to save my trash—in my bedroom—because I started to realize how living in a consumer culture like ours means using a lot of “disposable” products. We buy things, use…Read more »
Tim DeChristopher found guilty, shows power of nonviolent civil disobedience
Climate activist Tim DeChristopher, who was put on trial in Salt Lake City, Utah, this week for his interference with an oil and gas auction held at the end of the Bush administration, on Thursday was found guilty by a jury. He faces a sentence of up to 10 years, to be determined by a…Read more »
Al Gore to Deliver Keynote to 10,000 Young Environmental Leaders at Power Shift 2011
Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore will join 10,000 youth activists at Power Shift 2011 as the opening keynote speaker on April 15, 2011. Gore, who is chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, will be speaking about climate change and how we can take action to solve the climate crisis. For four…Read more »
Environmentalists stand up to Obama, win big
Under intense pressure from green groups and their members, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) announced Friday that Republican proposals to gut the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were off the table in budget negotiations. “Neither the White House nor Senate Leaders is going to accept any EPA riders,” Reid said. Reid’s pledge…Read more »
Our Chance to Get Clean Energy Right
It’s springtime and birders, rock climbers, wildflower lovers and maybe even some long-lost U2 fans are flocking to the boulder-strewn desert wilderness just east of Palm Springs. But unless we act quickly to curb climate disruption, soon the one thing they won’t be able to find in Joshua Tree National Park is an actual Joshua…Read more »
Koch-Funded Climate Skeptic’s Own Data Confirms Warming
This week, a climate hearing was held in the US House of Reps. Six ‘experts’ on climate were brought in, but only three were scientists. And it turns out that one of the GOP’s star witnesses — a scientist who’s been vocal in his skepticism of global temperature records, the physicist Richard Muller, of University…Read more »
Students gather at UCSC for food and justice summit
With journalists like Michael Pollan and books like “Fast Food Nation” bringing national attention to nutrition and food justice, it’s no wonder that 300 students from 40 California campuses gathered at UC Santa Cruz Saturday for the fifth annual “Real Food Challenge.” The conference, founded in 2007 with the intention of educating students about the…Read more »
Students Rally Against Prop 23 Supporters in Rancho Mirage
UCSD was one of several universities represented at a rally against oil company executives held on Jan. 30 in Rancho Mirage, where a secret meeting was held by energy conglomerate Koch Industries and Tea Party members. The rally was organized by the California Student Sustainability Coalition, an organization that works with universities across the state…Read more »
Thousands Converge on Koch Brothers Billionaire’s Caucus; 25 Arrested
Twenty-five protesters were arrested in Rancho Mirage, California today, at a protest in front of the Rancho Las Palmas resort, site of the “Billionaire’s Caucus,” an annual meeting put on by the Koch Brothers and other corporate entities and conservative movement operators. Riverside Sheriff’s deputy Melissa Nieburger said that the sheriff’s department did have contacts…Read more »
