Sustainability Day

The Institute for Sustainability would like to invite you to attend Campus Sustainability Day on October 19th in the USU Northridge Center. Speakers will present on sustainability topics including water, energy, and social justice.

The first session will be held from 11:00 am – 12:15 pm, and is titled “Your Water: Now and the Future.”  It will feature presentations from two CSUN professors - Dr. Amalie Orme, Geography department, who’ll discuss California’s water supply and the impact of drought, and Dr. Sami Maalouf, Civil Engineering & Applied Mechanics, who’ll explain regional strategies for coping with water shortage.

The second session, “Watts up With Your Utility Bills?” from 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm, will host 3 speakers.  Cole Hershkowitz, Founder and CEO of Chai Energy, will explain what his startup does and how their App can lower your electric bill. Kiana Lucero from CSUN’s Institute for Sustainability will highlight opportunities for households to save energy and water and save money in the process.

*Attend this session and receive a FREE low-flow shower head, LED light bulb, AND bathroom and kitchen sink aerators!* (Must be an LADWP customer)

From 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm, we will be screening the documentary "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet,” followed by Q&A. This film chronicles the environmental movement, showing grassroots campaigns and global activism spanning fifty years.

From 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm, Dr. Stevie Ruiz, Chicana/o Studies, will chair a panel on social and environmental justice, including Vanessa Torres, Supervisory Park Ranger for Santa Monica Mountains and Board Member for the City Kids Wilderness Project, and Fabian Garcia from the U.S. Forest Service. Each will discuss barriers Latinos face in accessing the great outdoors and initiatives that community members can take in order to access and sustain healthy relationships with federal lands, oceans and mountains.  In doing so, they aim to break barriers between Latinos and the great outdoors in reimagining how these national spaces can better reflect the diversity of the state of California. See a full description of the session here: FEDERAL LANDS & WATERS: REIMAGINING LATINA/OS RELATIONSHIP TO THE GREAT OUTDOORS.

This session is co-sponsored by the Civil Discourse and Social Change program.

*Please note, this session will be held in the Lakeview Terrace Room, adjacent to the Northridge Center.

**Faculty, if you are able to bring your class, please email your class roster to as soon as you can so that we can have sign-in sheets available.  Students will sign-in and sheets will be returned to you after the event.  If you cannot bring your class but would like to offer them extra credit for attending one of the 4 sessions throughout the day, we can have sign-in sheets available for them as well!

We look forward to sharing sustainability and resiliency activities and ideas with your students.  We hope to see you on October 19!