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Homegrown harvests and bread baked by the family down the street. Medical care subsidized by local taxes and available to all residents of a municipality. Mixed-use housing, water catchment systems galore, walkable neighborhoods and thriving community connections.
Transition Santa Cruz, a citizen coalition that educates and acts on the principles of personal and community resilience in a future devoid of cheap oil, believes all of these and much more are possible in a post -petroleum world.
Published on: Monday, September 21st, 2009
Category: Primer 2009
Tags: Environment, Oil, Transition Santa Cruz, Volume 44 Issue 1
Keep SC Beaches Beautiful
Summer 2009 is almost here, and everyone knows what that means: people from all over the world will be stampeding to the beaches in Santa Cruz to enjoy some of the most beautiful coastal scenery in California. There is no feeling quite like the one you get when you are standing on the cliffs at [...]
Published on: Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Category: Opinion & Editorial
Tags: Environment, Letters to the Editor, Volume 43 Issue 30
College Eight Graduates Pledge to Retain Ethics
For some, graduate school is around the bend, while others are looking to start their careers. At College Eight, no matter what students’ next step may be, they are asked to take into consideration more than just their future goals.
Published on: Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Category: Campus
Tags: College Eight, Commencement, Environment, Graduation Pledge Alliance, Volume 43 Issue 30
What if a shovel, a seed and a conversation could change the world? Students of University Repair find themselves asking such questions every day.
Published on: Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Category: Features
Tags: "University Repair", Campus Sustainability Council, Environment, Kresge Garden, Sustainability, Volume 43 Issue 28, World Cafe
Talking Trash: The Truth About What we Waste
Craig Pearson hates plastic. It’s 9 a.m. on a brisk and windy morning at the Santa Cruz landfill, where a fence bordering an exposed mound of garbage is lined with Pearson’s archnemesis: single-use plastic bags.
Published on: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Category: Features
Tags: Environment, Santa Cruz Landfill, Volume 43 Issue 25, Waste Management
On April Fools’ Day, Daniel Press, the head of the environmental studies department, wrote an opinion piece in the San Jose Mercury News deriding UCSC’s recent purchases of renewable energy certificates, calling them a “feel-good scam” and saying that the school, which purchased certificates for 57,000 megawatt-hours of clean energy in 2007, “was getting fleeced by green-energy scammers.” Despite the cover date, however, his piece was no joke, and it was completely wrong.
Published on: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Category: Opinion & Editorial
Tags: Environment, Letters to the Editor, Volume 43 Issue 25
From Trashy to Classy: A Compost Makeover
The hunger of an overworked, sleep-deprived UC student is a force to be reckoned with. And it’s not something our campus takes lightly, lining every dining hall with infinite entrees and produce that are magically replaced with each ravenous feeding. The daily smorgasbord and buffet-style dining are responsible for two things: gratitude from the growing college kids it serves, and food waste. Lots of food waste.
Published on: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Category: Opinion & Editorial
Tags: Compost, Editorials, Environment, Volume 43 Issue 25
Climate Action Council Seeks Student Feedback
Antonio Bautista spoke with City on a Hill Press to explain the campus’s carbon forecast and how the plan hopes to achieve it.
Published on: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Category: Campus
Tags: Antonio Bautista, Council on Climate Action, CUIP, Environment, Q&A, Volume 43 Issue 25
We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands
Everywhere you turn, it’s there. Climate change, as little front-page attention as it receives, is what many experts agree to be the single greatest threat facing Planet Earth, and all life on it, in all its four-and-a-half billion years of existence.
Published on: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Category: Opinion & Editorial
Tags: Columns, Environment, Student Empowerment, Volume 43 Issue 25