Fifty-six percent of 5,528 Cal Poly students polled do not support a fee to fund student-led sustainability projects on campus.
Green spot: Cal Poly doesn’t offer much in the realm of ‘real’ food
At Cal Poly our food comes from all over the planet. As an agricultural school, one would expect we could sustain our own food consumption.
Poly graded B+ in sustainability, room for improvement
GreenReportCard.org gives Cal Poly a B+ for sustainability efforts for 2010, up from a B- last year, but environmental club leaders still see room for improvement.
There are a myriad of ways to be part of sustainability
The Empower Poly Coalition is Cal Poly’s largest sustainability group on campus, comprised of 27 sustainability clubs working collectively to embody and empower students.
Greening your holiday season
Living green is the method by which we think and therefore live that is the theme for living green during the holiday season.
Random acts of kindness will keep planet green
In our daily actions as citizens of the world, there are countless contributions in which we can take part through random green acts of kindness.
BLOG: Get better gas mileage
Cal Poly’s Supermileage Vehicle Team knows a thing or two about how to get the most mileage – the team’s futuristic prototype vehicle got 2752.3 mpg at the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas in 2008. Here are their tips on how to make your car more fuel-efficient.
Poly student sustainability mindset needs improvement
We must develop a unique epistemology of systems thinking; that is, an understanding of how problems can be solved by looking at the components as a part to the whole.
Sustainability across California: Is Cal Poly losing its edge?
Cal Poly has historically done a number of things that have propelled us in a direction of creating a more sustainable campus, but not recently.
Utilizing the old Powerhouse as a sustainability center at Cal Poly
As with most institutions, sustainability at Cal Poly is a phenomenon that has made headway on campus in large part through grassroots organizers.
Sustainability: Easily done in daily routine
Students may not have the power to influence politics or can afford to drive a hybrid, but there is a way to affect positive change by paying more attention to the way we do everyday routines.