Institute for Sustainability CSU, Northridge

Campus food garden (spring 2012)

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:31:18 +0000

Join us on January 16th from 2-5pm to prep our campus food garden for the Spring semester. We will be building a herbal spiral, planting veggies, and weeding along the garden path. The Student Dietetic and Food Science Association Sustainability Committee will also be holding a wooly pocket workday which will focus on putting up a new irrigation system and pockets in the campus garden. There is lots to do! Remember to dress comfortably, bring your garden gloves and some water. The garden is located near the northeast part of campus between the softball and baseball fields. We look forward to seeing you there!

Spring2012

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:53:42 +0000

If you are looking for courses to enroll in next Spring, check out these sustainability related courses.

FCS 496S: Sustainability in Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS). This course is team taught by five FCS faculty members and will give students a theoretical and technical knowledge of sustainability in FCS including Interior Design, Apparel Design and Merchandizing, Family Studies, Consumer Affairs, and Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science.

PAS 590B: Sustainability and Environmental Justice in the African Diaspora. This course includes theories of sustainability, Black Environmental Thought, eco-imagination, linkages between environmental policies, poverty and racism, industrial pollution and black health issues and, creative conservationism. This is a graduate seminar and is open to all graduate students and seniors.

Please see the attached flyers for more information.
PAS 590B Flyer-12-10
Flier_FCS_496S_Spring_2012

Garden Workday

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:24:11 +0000

Join us Saturday, Nov.5th at the CSUN garden to plant some vegetables, spread mulch and dig up some trenches for our edible garden fence. We will have master Gardner Randy Thomson joining us to talk about composting and worms. The work day will take place from 10am-1pm. The garden is located near the northeast part of campus between the softball and baseball fields. Please bring water, sun screen, a hat, gloves, and if you have an extra rake or shovel please bring that along as well.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Campus conservation nationals

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:22:26 +0000

Valley Mobility Summit

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:12:46 +0000

FOOD DAY at CSUN

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:18:15 +0000

EAT REAL, AMERICA!

As part of the nationwide Eat Real, America! campaign, CSUN’s Institute for Sustainability in association with the SDFSA (Student Dietetic and Food Science Association) and the Marilyn Magaram Center for Food Science, Nutrition & Dietetics is sponsoring an Eat Real! Food Day event on campus on Monday, October 24.

A project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Food Day is a nationwide event focused on America’s food supply. Recognizing the alarming levels of obesity and diet related illnesses in the U.S., CSPI’s objective for Food is nothing less than a food supply revolution in America. The event will showcase the connection between food and dietary consumption choices, health, and food sustainability with the following activities:

10am-11am – Campus Edible Food Walking Tour with Dr. Erica Wohldman – see and learn about the local edibles on campus, including the food garden and other edible plants at CSUN. Meet at Matador Square at 10am.

11am-1pm – SDFSA Sustainable Food BBQ – enjoy delicious and healthy BBQ selections and ask CSUN food science students about any dietary and nutrition questions you may have. At Matador Square.

12:30pm-2pm – “Fresh” – documentary film screening featuring urban farmer and food activist Joel Salatin and showcasing practical alternatives to agribusiness and industrial farming. Q&A and discussion following the screening – in the USU Theatre (upstairs in the Northridge Center).

For more information about the event sponsors, visit:
CSPI/Food Day: www.foodday.org
CSUN’s Institute for Sustainability: www.csun.edu/sustainability, or call 818.677.7715
SDFSA: www.csun.edu/sdfsa
Marilyn Magaram Center: http://www.csun.edu/hhd/fcs/magaram/

TALKIN’ TRASH

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:37:28 +0000

CSUN is proud to participate in the ninth annual Campus Sustainability Day (CSD) program on Wednesday, October 26. Sponsored by AASHE (the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education), Colleges and Universities across the country will showcase sustainability issues, initiatives, and programs in on-campus programs as well as webcasts and networked events. CSUN’s CSD theme this year is trash.

Our CSD program includes a screening of the film, “Bag It,” at 11am that focuses on plastic waste, followed by Q&A with a panel of experts on the issue.

Our speaker session, starting at 12:30pm, will feature CSUN’s Dr. Michael Sullivan talking about hazardous waste in his Toxic Trash presentation and Andy Shrader, discussing plastic waste and what you can do about it in his “Take Action” segment.

Light refreshments will be served between sessions.

The event takes place in the USU Northridge Center from 11am – 1:45pm. For more information, please see the flyer.

Join us in seeking solutions for a sustainable future, and check out http://www.aashe.org/campus-sustainability-day for more information about AASHE and the nationwide event.

See you there!

The New World F.E.S.T

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:59:03 +0000

COME JOIN US FOR A WEEKEND OF FUN AND CELEBRATION
WHAT: New World F.E.S.T. is a large, eco-friendly event
WHEN: October 7,8, and 9
WHERE: Santa Monica beaches
INFO: www.thenewworldfest.com
And what could be a better, more important cause for celebration than our “new world”. Let’s make it the best world possible, and that means working together toward a “smart future”. Working together toward a smart future makes sense. We share this planet. How we live impacts us all. We are one community.

The New World F.E.S.T is about gathering as a community, and having ourselves a good time while we hang out and maybe learn a thing or two … together. Rarely has the process of learning been this much fun. That’s a good thing.

At the FEST, we’ve got 150 exhibits featuring some of the best and most innovative eco-friendly products and services you’ll see. We’ve also got 6 stages of live performance – music, guest speakers, panel discussions, live product demo’s, chef demos, an eco-theatre screening award-winning films and documentaries, a very cool Sustainable Art exhibition, art workshops, live street art, plus a Spiritual Oasis, yoga classes, healthy food and beverage, robots, futuristic eco-science, and lots for families and kids – including music, puppetry, dinosaur digs, and a petting zoo.

Pick Oranges in the Grove at CSUN

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:38:42 +0000

Free Campus Bicycles

admin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:41:50 +0000

The Institute for Sustainability is partnering with the CSUN Bicycle Collective and campus Housing to provide free, refurbished bicycles for use by faculty, staff and student assistants in getting around campus. To reserve a bicycle for your department, send an email to sustainability@csun.edu with the following information: department name, requestor’s name and title/position, department location (building & room number), and number of people (staff and faculty) in the department. We’ll get back to you at the beginning of the Fall semester.

For information on the CSUN Department of Police Services FREE Matador Bicycle Compound and Bicycle Registration Program, visit:
http://www-admn.csun.edu/police/crime/documents/bicycle-registration-program.pdf