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Fashion retailer H&M debuts 2014
Conscious Collection
p. 2
Sustainability in student
housingp. 6
Climate change may lead to
human extinctionp. 10
Baseball players do their part, clean fieldp. 12
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Eco-friendly clothing for conscious consumersH&M reaches greener clientele with new clothing line made from sustainable products, including organic cotton
When shopping for environmentally-friendly products, people tend to pay more attention to the labels on their food and infant care products than the labels on clothes, according to Cotton Incorporated’s 2013 Envi-ronment Survey.
Joanna Del Rosario, 19, freshman accounting major, looks at the price of her clothing before she considers anything else.
“I don’t really think of how sustainable it is what I buy,” Del Rosario, a fash-ion blogger, said. “If it’s good quality and cheap then I’ll buy it.”
While environmental friendliness is not a pri-mary concern when buying clothes, it has been found that 70 percent of shoppers would be bothered if they discovered that a product they bought was made in a non-eco friendly way.
The emerging concern among shoppers for more sustainable products and the retail industry’s desire to be more environmentally con-
scious are leading companies to take necessary measures.
H&M, the Swedish cloth-ing retailer, is one of the leading companies to look at sustainability from all aspects, including being environmentally, socially and economically conscious.
This year, H&M has released their 12th annual Conscious Actions Sustain-ability Report, making their efforts and progress toward sustainability available for the world to see.
“At H&M we want to use our scale to bring about systemic change to our industry and across our entire value chain,” said Karl-Johan Persson, CEO of H&M.
With the company being known for its fast fash-ion (high volume produc-tion and sales of trendy clothes that are meant to be replaced after few uses), the 2013 report aims highlights H&M’s new approach of creating sustainable fashion that is meant for the con-scious consumer.
The report covers a wide range of achievements and areas of improvement from the production cycle to the influence they seek to have on how consumers take care of their clothes.
H&M’s key performanc-es to date include the use of organic and recycled fab-rics. For several years, the company has been known to be one of the biggest users of organic cotton, which is a natural, renewable fiber. Conventional cotton used to make a t-shirt needs about 11 bathtubs of water to grow. Cotton production uses about 10 percent of all pesticides in the world, according to the report.
“With size comes responsibility and we have the opportunity to bring about massive change all the way from improving the livelihood of a cot-ton farmer to lowering the impacts from washing and drying our clothes,” Pers-son said. “We are proud of our achievements but also humbled by the challenges we face going forward.”
By using organic cotton and recycled cotton for gar-ment production, the com-pany seeks to reduce their impact on the environment significantly.
Eleven percent of the materials used are organic, recycled or other innova-tive materials such as Ten-cel, a 100 percent biode-gradable fabric. By 2020, the company aims to be 100
percent organic cotton. With its Conscious
Exclusive Collection, the company makes use of at least 50 percent of sustain-able materials such as those mentioned previously.
This spring the collec-tion included an array of evening appropriate fash-ion. Actress Penelope Cruz set out to prove the validity of this claim by wearing a black flamenco inspired
dress from the line at her recent appearance at the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party.
While the company understands that consum-ers buy clothes to individu-ally express their own style, they do realize clothes that are no longer wanted usu-ally end up in landfills.
In an effort to create a closed loop for the unwant-ed clothes, H&M intro-
duced a global garment collecting program where customers can bring in bags of old clothing to an H&M store and receive 15 percent off of their next purchase, according to their website.
The clothes are then sent to the nearest processing plant where they are recy-cled and turned into raw materials for future cloth-ing production.
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David Guerra sorts through the shirts on the rack at H&M. this Swedish retailer strives hard to pro-duce eco-friendly products.
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this process can account for up to 20 percent of the cotton used for clothing. The company recognizes that the number may be low and explains that due to the techniques they know of now this is the highest content they can work with while ensuring the quality of the product.
Finding better tech-niques for recycling and reusing material is thus one of the company’s goals in closing the textile loop.
Radiology major Tracy Dong was not familiar with H&M’s recycling program. Yet she thinks it is an incen-tive for her to recycle cloth-ing at the store in order to receive a discount on her next purchase.
The 18-year-old fresh-man is not unfamiliar with idea of recycling clothing.
“I definitely try to keep my clothing in great shape,” Dong said. “The pieces that I grow out of I
try to recycle so it’s not like I’m just throwing things away. That way people who are in need of clothing can make use of mine.”
CSUN apparel design and merchandising profes-sor JongEun Kim said sus-tainability in fashion should stress well-made clothing. While using organic and environmentally friendly material is important, she puts more weight on lon-gevity of properly-made clothing.
If a piece of clothing is made well, then it can be used longer and does not end up being thrown away shortly after purchase.
“Another point of view for sustainability is look-ing at how the clothing is made, what kind of chemi-cals are used in the pro-duction process and what it takes to maintain the clothing once purchased,” Kim said. “What if we buy things made from organic
material but have to dry clean the clothing? This is not sustainable. What if the clothes are made by illegal laborers or child workers? That is not sustainable. We need to understand what sustainability is here.”
H&M is trying to show that even though they cater to the masses with their lower budget fashion, they are trying to do things bet-ter for the environment with this new image. Some parts of their efforts are good for
business while other parts are good for the environ-ment, according to Kim.
Kim pointed out a few other major retailers in the sustainability game.
Patagonia, a high-end outdoor clothing compa-ny, is a member of several environmental movements. Similar to H&M, Patago-nia also has a recycling program named the Com-mon Threads Initiative, that focuses on making their product recyclable.
The program allows its customers to bring labeled Common Threads cloth-ing back to stores where they are shipped off to be recycled into new Patago-nia products.
A trade group of mul-tiple companies interested in clothing retail, such as Gap, Levi’s, Nike and Tar-get joined together to cre-ate the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.
In 2012, the coalition founded the Higg Index, an
assessment tool for com-panies to standardize how they measure and evaluate the environmental sustain-ability of products and rec-ognize areas of improve-ment for their apparel.
But for Del Rosario, the price of clothing remains the deciding factor in shopping.
“I know that Ameri-can Apparel is all into the American labor idea,” Del Rosario said. “I’m totally for it. It’s just their stuff is kind of expensive.”
Charlie Kaijo / Senior PhotograPher
A tag is shown with the material composition listed on a garment from H&M at the Americana in Glendale. the Swedish retailer strives hard to produce eco-friendly products.
“With size comes responsibility and we have the opportunity to bring about
massive change all the way from improving the livelihood of a cotton farmer to lowering the impacts from washing and drying our clothes. We
are proud of our achievements but also humbled by the challenges we face going
forward.”—Karl-Johan Persson
Ceo of h&M
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Zipcar use increasing among students
Two monThs after the introduction of Zipcar to CSUN, reports show high usage as Associated Stu-dents (AS) continues to inform more students about the program.
Ken Premo, manager of Support Services for AS, oversees the Zipcar program.
He said Zipcar has report-ed that the usage rate for the vehicles is just over 37 per-cent. The Zipcars are avail-able 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“That is really high for
the second month,” Premo said. “Even the representa-tives from Zipcar were sur-prised.”
Currently, the program has two cars and they are located in the F10 parking lot on Lassen Street and Lindley Avenue. Premo said that Zipcar will add more cars to the campus program one usage reaches between 45 and 50 percent.
“We should be hitting the 45 percent mark quite soon,” Premo said. “It’s likely that we will be adding new cars in the fall.”
Walter Harris, a fourth year child development major, said he has had posi-tive experiences with Zipcar.
“It has been one of the most reliable things for me
here at CSUN,” Harris said.He said the car is usually
available the times that he needs to use it, but would suggest that students reserve the car ahead of time.
Daniel Malki, a fresh-man business law student, said he has used Zipcar once this semester.
“I used the Zipcar to go pick up my mom from the airport,” Malki said. “At first I was kind of confused about how it all works, but it was easy after I got signed up and everything.”
He is hopeful more and more people will eventually begin to use them.
“I think if more people knew how easy it was, they would use it,” Malki said.
Premo said he has even used a Zipcar himself. Last month, he needed to go to a doctor’s appointment after work but didn’t have a car on campus because he takes the train to work.
“When I got in the car, the student that had rented it before me had left a gro-cery store receipt in the car and I thought that was so cool because that means students get it,” he said.
Premo said when intro-ducing the program, admin-istrators questioned why students would want to rent a car for just an hour or two.
“To students, it’s obvious
why you would want to rent a car for an hour to get grocer-ies, so you don’t have to walk and carry heavy bags back,” Premo said.
Freshman Robert Giron knows that struggle.
“I usually have to get rides from friends to go get groceries and stuff like that,” he said.
Giron said if he can’t find a ride, he has to walk. He said he may join the Zip-car program, but he’s still a little skeptical.
“If I hear of other peo-ple using it and they like it, then I will probably try it too,” Giron said. “The price is right.”
AS will be looking for other locations on campus to put Zipcars. They want to make the cars easy to access for all students.
So far, there haven’t been any major issues with either of the cars. One car needed a minor repair. Zipcar picked up the car, had it repaired and returned it the same day.
AS is still trying to spread the word about the Zipcar program, so students may notice Zipcar representatives on campus at various events.
“As students come and go we are always going to need to be educating them on what Zipcar is, what the service does, and how to use it,” Premo said.
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Once students and faculty register online with Zipcar, they receive their membership card in the mail. they can then access a Zipcar by tapping their card to the Zipcar logo on the windshield.
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Samuel Boppuri, an electrical engineering graduate student, made a reservation to use the Zipcar on Saturday. Zipcars are available on campus 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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In an effort to meet the goals outlined in the campus sus-tainability plan, CSUN’s Depart-ment of Student Housing and Conference Services is experi-menting in a few new ventures. These include the creation of a new themed living community (TLC) called the Matasphere, and the participation in the Campus Conservation Nationals.
Randy Lesko, Matasphere coordinator, said the environment is like other TLCs, in that it will bring together students who share the same commitment to promot-ing sustainable practices.
“Matasphere is a new themed living community that we’re going to be offering here in student hous-ing next fall,” Lesko said. “It is a group of students that identify with sustainability and conserva-tion as a shared interest area.”
Having already taken measures like installing waterless urinals, low-flow faucet aerators and shower heads, Lesko said the next step in sustainabil-ity progression was creating the TLC.
“President (Dianne) Harrison, one of her major initiatives here at CSUN, is promoting sustain-ability,” Lesko said. “One of ways we at student housing thought we could achieve that is create a shared interest area via the themed living community concept.”
Through the use of surveys, Lesko said the university gauged the interest of students to deter-mine if this was a feasible venture.
“We had sent a survey out last year asking for student input and had a lot of positive response which is why we decided to create the TLC,” Lesko said. “We also invited students to participate in naming the TLC and Matasphere is choice they came up with,” Lesko said.
While the programing is not set in stone, Lesko said the depart-ment of housing wants students to be involved in the process.
“We try to give them the option of creating that programming and the experience for themselves,” Lesko said.
Lesko said the concepts and practices will be determined once students move in and have a chance to meet with faculty and staff.
“Once students do move in the fall, the RA (resident advisors), the faculty members, myself and all the partners involved in the TLC will meet and decide what kind of sustainability issues we would like to take on as a group,” Lesko said. “Whether that’s water conservation, composting, commu-nity gardening, it’s really up to the students what they’d like to do.”
Because it’s early in the appli-cation process, Lesko said the direction of the program has yet to be determined, but they will have a greater idea once applica-tions start rolling in.
“Over the summer we’re really going to know what that community is going to look like in terms of student makeup and in the fall, once we all meet, that is going to be the deciding moment as to the direction the Matasphere is going to take in the first year,” Lesko said.
While there are still many unknowns, Lesko hopes the sustain-ability and conservation practices from the Matasphere will translate to the rest of student housing.
“The main thing for this group of students is they’re going to be setting the tone for the rest of the students in housing,” Lesko said.
“What I’m envisioning with this community is they’re going to be starting some practices that we’re going to be rolling out to all of the students in student housing.”
Although some signage to pro-mote water conservation already exists, Lesko said Matasphere stu-dents will be involved with sharing
concepts and practices they think other students should be cognizant of.
“We’re creating some signage that’s going to be in all the halls and that’s going to start with the students deciding what kind of practices we want to share with everybody,” Lesko said.
Unlike the other Living Learn-
ing Communities (LLCs), Lesko says there will not be any require-ments or barriers for students interested in participating.
“What’s different with this TLC compared to the other LLCs is there really isn’t any require-ment to get into it,” Lesko said. “It’s really a first-come, first-
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While Lesko knows the endeavor will be a work-in-progress, he said the univer-sity looked into similar living communities as other CSUs.
“The group of individuals that put together this TLC did look at sustainability prac-tices that are put into play by housing offices in the Cal
State system,” Lesko said. “They did some research to look at best practices from other locations and looking into how to best implement them here at CSUN.”
Just as CSUN has ben-efited from learning of their successes and failures, Lesko hopes the Matasphere community will become a model for other universities.
“Our hope is that our program will be doing the same for others so if there any other CSUs or colleges
that are looking to start a sustainability interest floor in their housing depart-ment, they can look to us as an example,” Lesko said.
For students interested in participating, Lesko said they should get their applications in as soon as possible as there is limited space available.
“Housing applications are live so if students are looking to get involved, this is a really opportunity, but they need to remember that it is first-come, first-serve,” Lesko said.
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How to decrease your daily carbon footprintWebsite challenges users to reduce environmental impact
Whether at home or school, or while traveling, the way people dispose of the items they buy and the food they eat affects theirs carbon footprint.
A carbon footprint is a measurement of the car-bon dioxide (CO2) people produce, according to an article by How Stuff Works.
Much of the things peo-ple do as part of their daily lives rely on the usage of fossil fuels like gas, oil and coal. The burning of fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases such as carbon diox-ide, which is a major con-tributor to global warming, according to the article.
“The amount of one’s own carbon dioxide emis-sion has a personal impact on climate change,” said CSUN professor Helen Cox, who is a geography profes-sor and works at the Insti-tute for Sustainability. “An increase in carbon dioxide causes warming and it mixes in the atmosphere and it gets
shared all over the world.”Some impacts from global
climate change include more extreme weather events like droughts, floods and less snowfall, which affects our water supplies, Cox said.
Sarah Guajardo, 20, junior and English major, has been trying to reduce her carbon footprint by changing her lifestyle.
“I ride my bike anywhere I can or just walk,” Guajardo said. “I think it is impor-tant to try and reduce your carbon footprint and edu-cate other on how to do it. I’ve talked to my friends and family and they have all been really supportive and I see them try and do their part by not using plastic and recycling stuff.”
Another student on cam-pus making a difference is Emmanuel Martin, 19, freshman undecided major.
“I’ve stopped using plas-tic straws completely,” Mar-tin said. “They are useless and such a waste of plastic. Plastic lives pretty much forever and the materials used to make plastic is bad on the environment too. If I can do something so little that doesn’t make my life
more difficult and helps out the world, I’ll try anything.”
Helping to reduce your carbon footprint has become Carbonrally’s philosophy. Carbonrally is a website that offers groups or individuals challenges to spread aware-ness of climate change, which are posted every few weeks. These challenges are made to be simple, fun and a social way to have an effect and bring awareness to people’s energy use and climate change, according to their website.
Participants choose a challenge they would like to complete online and create a My Carbon Page. Then peo-ple can check out the results on how they are doing or they can view the Total Impact Map for the site’s real-time shot of people’s results in different parts of the United States.
It tells the user the exact details on how to com-plete the challenge and the connection it has with the individuals results. You can also check how many people have attempted and/or completed the challenge nationwide. With each chal-lenge completed, it tells the
user the total savings of carbon dioxide pounds.
According to an article on the Nature Conservancy, having people contribute to these challenges or do their own versions of them will help ensure a stable climate for future generations.
Users can create teams among friends, family or whomever. Carbonrally also encourages users to post their own creative ideas on a Chal-
lenges Workshop area.Some trending challeng-
es on the website have to do with planting your own vegetable garden, giving up paper towels or walking into a place of business instead of using the drive-thru whether it be a bank or restaurant.
“Stop buying bottled water,” Cox said. “That is one thing students at CSUN can do to help. People also need to use less energy over-
all by using public transpor-tation, walking, using less heat, less air conditioning, less water and buying less items (consumables).”
“It is important people understand that this is our home and in order to live here we have to keep it safe and clean,” Gua-jardo said. “I just wish people would care more and really see the impact they can make by just doing small things to better our world.”
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10 tips for reducing your carbon footprint
1. Carpooling at least once a week.
2. Go one week without using disposable cups given to you at coffee shops.
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4. instead of eating lunch on campus try packing a waste-free (meaning no plastic) lunch .
5. unplug your computer every night for one month if you have a computer.
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8. try reducing your printing a little bit each day and only print what is abso-lutely necessary.
7. try skipping a trip to the store and shop online.
6. use only cold water to do your laundry for one month.
9. Cut your shower time by two minutes for one month.
10. reduce your bottled water consumption for seven days.
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A thirst for cleaner water in UgandaCSUN partners up with the Thirst Project to provide developing nations with sanitation and freshwater wells
The ThirsT ProjecT, an international group that works to bring clean drinking water to developing nations, came to CSUN almost by accident.
“I first heard about the Thirst Project through my cousin, Michael Welch, who is an actor that works with the organization,” said Sarah Johnson, department coordi-nator for the CSUN Institute for Sustainability.
Johnson noticed the Follett Higher Education Group was a sponsor for the Thirst Proj-ect’s annual fundraising event and, since Follett manages the Matador Bookstore, Johnson approached them about bring-ing the Thirst Project to CSUN.
The Thirst Project was started in 2007 by a 19-year-old college student named Seth Maxwell. After learning about the terrible conditions of drink-ing water in Uganda, Maxwell and some friends pooled their money and were able to buy 1,000 bottles of water to donate.
The group gave away the bottles of water to strangers on Hollywood Boulevard and talked about Uganda’s water
crisis. That day they made $1,700 in donations to fund the rehabilitation of a freshwater well in Uganda.
Although conceived as a one-off mission, people began asking Maxwell how they could bring his team to their commu-nities. The group of eight col-lege students was able to raise $12,000 in one month through public speaking engagements at local schools and churches.
The Thirst Project was born.In the first five years the
organization raised over $8 mil-lion and brought clean drinking water to an estimated 300,000 people in 11 countries.
“The Institute for Sustain-ability invited the Thirst Project to speak about the lack of access to safe drinking water in devel-oping nations and the organi-zation’s mission and goals at our annual Water Day event in March 2013 and again in 2014,” Johnson said about bringing the group to CSUN.
The Thirst Project, with help from CSUN’s Institute for Sus-tainability, is currently invested in a campaign to bring clean water and improve workplace sanitation conditions to the South African country of Swa-ziland. They are working with local government, local com-munities, and local employers to help achieve this goal.
Prior to the campaign, the Thirst Project spent 16 months working with the Swaziland Ministry of Natural Resources and the Department of Water Affairs to ensure comprehen-sive coverage for the nation.
Representatives from the Thirst Project will be at CSUN attending various student group meetings in order to generate participation for their latest campaign. They hope to achieve their goal in Swaziland by 2022.
“We are hoping that a student group will take the lead on fundraising and edu-cational campaigns for the campus and in the commu-nity,” Johnson said.
The reason the organiza-tion set their sights on Swa-ziland is because of the great need of the country. Current-ly, Swaziland has the highest HIV/AIDS population in the world and 40 percent of the people don’t have access to clean water or sanitation.
“We at The Thirst Project officially declare that we will not leave, we will not with-draw from the country of Swa-ziland until every single person has safe, clean water,” said the Thirst Project’s 2012 Declara-tion at the launch of the cam-paign to help Swaziland.
According to the group, even if patients with HIV and
AIDS have access to proper medications, the diseases in dirty drinking water will still pose a health threat.
The Institute for Sustainabil-ity has made CSUN’s partner-ship with the Thirst Project a permanent venture.
“We are also working with
faculty to create a study abroad program for students to travel to areas where the Thirst Project is working to do research or assist with the development of wells,” Johnson said.
CSUN’s Institute for Sus-tainability holds an annual Water Day event for World Water Day.
The all-day occasion includes guest speakers, film screenings and opportunities for students and staff to get involved.
Students and staff inter-ested in getting involved in the Thirst Project can visit their website at http://www.thirstproject.org.
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Sarah Johnson, department coordinator for the CSun institute for Sustainability, holds up a glass of dirty water to represent the thirst project’s goal of delivering clean water to developing countries.
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Changing weather shows a dark futureThe undeniable weather changes of recent years is not predicting but showing how our future will be negatively affected
It Is not a well-known fact that there have been several mass extinctions in the history of our planet. The most famous of these (and the most recent as well) resulted in the deaths of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This came as an evolutionary benefit to mammals, particularly for our simian ancestors, where the extinction of one species briskly gave rise to another.
The next extinction will likely do the very same, only humanity may have a key role in that catastrophe, unlike the dinosaurs. Human activities, such as coal, oil, and gas emissions, have con-tributed in a massive shift in the natural processes of Earth.
This tampering of nature has brought forth greater droughts, hurri-canes, snowstorms and other horren-dous disasters, including a gradual rise of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.
Recently, another report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has pointed to several damning conclusions stating what we may have in store in the coming years.
The necessity to adapt and change our methods for the “near-term and long-term” have never been more essential.
Ideas that have been discussed have included making use of carbon diox-ide-reducing technologies and of solar, nuclear and wind energy resources. Considered as being “doable in theory,” according to University of California, San Diego international relations pro-fessor David Victor, gas corporations such as Exxon Mobil protested that their plan, which is to keep emitting fos-sil fuels, will continue due to the lack of any carbon emissions cuts.
Being the case that no government will risk its fragile economic stability in the years since the 2008 crash, emis-sions will continue even though it is known that cuts will help in limiting the disastrous roast of Earth.
A major factor, as mentioned, has been the rancid influence of gas corpo-rations preventing any mandatory alter-ations to stop climate change. Many shallow politicians (I will let you guess from which party) have made denial of climate change a part of their platforms.
While deniers of many scientific facts, they put a grave amount of dis-belief on the 97 percent consensus of climate scientists who agree that our planet is dying because of us. These funded politicians have won over the
dire needs of our planet, thanks to right-wing billionaires such as the Koch Brothers and the fossil fuel lobbyists.
Other scientists have made it clear about how we must react in order to preserve our survival.
“When it comes to climate change...the preponderance of data is pointing in a given direction, your confidence needs to rise proportionate to that,” said theoretical physicist Brian Greene in a 2011 interview. “The data is very convincing.”
Lawrence Krauss, Greene’s col-league and a theoretical physicist wrote, “The possibly drastic upheaval that climate change may bring for future generations as a result of the activities of present and past generations suggests that at the very least we should seriously consider cleaning up our own mess, and doing it now.”
Astrobiologist David Grinspoon made a statement about the planet Venus being a clear example of what can hap-pen to a planet as a result of unstable and unstoppable climate change.
Yet this argument has been around
for several decades. As Nick Cohen of The Guardian asserted, it is difficult to have the human race put the future first, the present second. Big money will keep winning until it is too late. The deniers are winning. Profits are more valuable than lives, an eternal lesson that is irresistibly forgotten with every advancing technological age.
Though China will likely succeed in emitting more than the U.S. in the com-ing decade, the emissions must drop in order for human civilization and all of the natural environments to persist.
Let representatives and leaders from countries like America and the Unit-ed Kingdom decry the inaction being done. President Barack Obama’s affir-mation that “Climate change is a fact” in his State of the Union address may have very little merit compared to the might of other nations. Words will not save our planet. United, sensible coop-eration must be met amongst all nations of the world.
Otherwise, this is what we shall wit-ness: severe droughts and pollution will rob us of the water and food we need to
live. There will be struggles and mass migrations will lead one large exodus after another to find these resources. Farms will be useless in unstable cli-mates. Temperatures will surely rise, and they will surely fall in events such as the recent Polar Vortex. Areas with existing conflicts (i.e., the Middle East) will face intensifying resource and human costs. Whole areas of the planet will gradually flood over time. Animal and plant species will continue to expo-nentially die off.
The human factor will prove to appear apocalyptic. Poverty rates will rise as businesses lose resources. Deniers will continue to ignore offi-cial reports. Politicians will condemn their denialist rivals. Trade will become an impossibility. Wars will pass. The apocalypse, again as it would appear, would be a new reality.
IPCC’s most recent report did make very clear there is a high outcome that the whole world will be afflicted by such calamities before the century ends.
The report also made clear that “(t)throughout the 21st century, climate-
change impacts are projected to slow down economic growth, make poverty reduction more difficult…(and) further erode food security...”
In a tweet, Slate Magazine meteo-rologist Eric Holthaus quoted Chris Field of the IPCC press conference, who contended a distressing warning: “The projections of the future, really, are grave.”
Before his death in 1996, the astron-omer and television presenter Carl Sagan wrote in his final book “Billions and Billions” about his thoughts on the creeping acceleration of climate change on Earth. His melancholy view remains as much a relevant message then as it does now. What we say now are mere repetitions of what this brilliant man made clear to us long ago. Sagan, a master of language, conceded, “We are tugging at the planet-wide biological tapestry and do not know whether one thread will only come in our hands, or whether the whole tapestry will unravel before us.”
If even these immortal words could not make a difference, what will?
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Competition urges students to recycle
AS the city of Los Angeles grows to be one of the top ranked recyclers in the nation, students, faculty and staff at Cal State North-ridge have made it a priority to follow in the same footsteps to become a more sustainable and environmentally friendly campus.
“(Recycling) helps the environ-ment and we’re trying to get the campus to become more sustain-able,” said Judy Gutierrez, recy-cling student outreach assistant. Gutierrez, alongside two other stu-dent assistants, plan out the recy-cling events that are held on cam-pus each semester.
According to the Zero Waste Report conducted by the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation in collaboration with UCLA, Los Angeles has been ranked the top recycler out of the 10 largest cities in the US.
When recycled materials are used to create new products, natu-ral resources are conserved. A report from Stanford University finds that recycling is necessary now more than ever, as it not only benefits the environment, but also helps create jobs for the process-ing aspect.
The Recycling Services Office, a part of the Associated Students (AS), started in 1992. In order to comply with the growing number
of recycling programs, Gutierrez and staff decided to bring that cause to the CSUN community.
Starting Feb. 2 through March 29, an eight-week-long, nation-wide competition of campuses was held and organized by RecycleM-ania, Inc., a non profit organiza-tion that “seeks to tap school spirit as a motivator to reach students who may not otherwise respond to environmental messages.”
The event is held every year, and this year was the first time CSUN participated openly in the competi-tion aspect of the tournament.
The competition has two sec-tions open for colleges to enroll in: competition and benchmark division. CSUN participated last year in the benchmark division, which involved the participation of the campus, but without the
competition with other schools.This year, the competition
aspect was held on campus, where the amount of recycled materi-al, including bottles, cans, card-board and paper was gathered by AS’ recycling program from all involved campus individuals.
Staff at the recycling program office were in charge of conduct-ing the event and keeping track of all recycled goods. The office focuses on two sections, opera-tions and outreach. The outreach section was responsible for con-ducting the event.
The operations section is in charge of recycling on campus, providing recycling containers abundantly around campus for student use. This section also receives service calls around campus for events.
The outreach branch of the recycling program is designed to hold events that allow stu-dents, faculty and staff by getting involved in recycling events and by staying informed.
“We are the people behind the events,” Gutierrez said. She joined the AS team in August of 2013.
The amount of material col-lected is then input by Recy-cleMania and distributed in vari-ous aspects, whether it be by weighing the amount of recycled goods and dividing it by the cam-pus population, accumulating the pounds individually or by divid-ing each of the materials recycled categorically.
According to statistics from RecycleMania’s website, the overall weight of all recycled material accumulated at CSUN, known as the “Gorilla” aspect of the competition, was 52,059 lbs. this year. Compared to last year’s numbers, there was a total increase of 1.3 percent of overall accumulated material.
CSUN ranked 227 of 365 cam-puses that participated in the Goril-la aspect of the competition.
Regardless of the outcome, Gutierrez said they’re happy peo-ple are participating.
“Keep in mind, we are a grow-ing department and we’re trying to get more people involved,” said Gutierrez. “That’s what CSUN is about, we’re getting the importance of recycling out.”
True to the fundamentals that drive the RecycleMania campaign,
Gutierrez feels that this should be something that everyone strives for.
“We’re looking forward to making this a bigger event, along with others we have planned,” Gutierrez said.
Other events planned by the program involve their participa-tion in the Earth Day Fair which will be held on campus by AS, where they will be tabling and conducting games for attendees to take part in. Also, America Recycles Day is on Nov. 15, and the recycling program will hold an event on campus commemorat-ing the day.
Aside from these events, the recycling program has been con-ducting other services. Over spring break, the program, along-side the Physical Plant Manage-ment (PPM), set up containers throughout Sierra Hall where stu-dents can recycle mixed paper, bottles and cans in a three-unit receptacle.
“This is a big deal since we’ve never had them in hallways,” said Cyndi Signett, recycling coordi-nator of the program. Signett has been running the program since its start in 1992 and said that she’s seen the program grow more and more each year.
“We’re working on building a small facility that will house the recycling program and the Insti-tute for Sustainability,” Signett said. Although this process has been unofficial for several years now, she’s hopeful that it will be resolved before the year ends.
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IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING the final pitch of a 6-2 victory at home over the Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors on April 17, Matador baseball play-ers line up and congratulate each other and head over to the outfield, where they meet with coaches for a brief postgame meeting.
Following their coaches’ briefing, players don’t head for the showers, run to the locker room or say hello to fans, friends and family in the stands. Matador players head over to the CSUN bullpen, where groundskeep-ing equipment is stored. Infielders grab rakes and water hoses, pitch-ers gather bags of dirt and tools in a wheelbarrow, and junior second baseman Ryan Raslowsky jumps on a John Deere with a drag mat and drives onto the infield dirt.
The players’ actions are not just a helping hand for longtime Matadors facilities manager Mark Adamiak and assistant Brian Mulligan. A two-man crew, who tend to facilities including Matador Field and Matador Diamond for as much as eight to 10 hours per day, requires the help of the players to care for the field after each game.
“We don’t get the money that other people get,” Adamiak said. “We piece things together around here.”
Regional baseball powerhouse programs, such as the UCLA Bruins, employ a four man turf crew to care for their field before, during and after games at Jackie Robinson Stadium. At CSUN, Adamiak and Mulligan have to work with limited resources.
“Unless you have a stadium and a crew, and we don’t, we have kids, they all have jobs,” Adamiak said. “Some (players) have sweeping the dugouts, others have bullpens. Lay-ing the tarps, that’s pretty much what they do.”
The team’s responsibilities are further reaching than simply sweep-ing and covering the field up.
Matadors baseball head coach Greg Moore has instilled a routine
in players, with Adamiak and Mul-ligan’s help.
“Each guy has a game job, and a field job,” Moore said. “It varies a bit by the day, but for instance, the third baseman will take care of the third base foul line. The pitchers work on the pitchers’ mound. They each take responsibility for a seg-ment on the field and put pride in their work and really pay attention to the details.”
Pitchers gather brooms, tarps, tamps and dirt in a wheelbarrow and head straight toward the most damaged portion of the field. With an average of 200 pitches or more thrown per game by several pitchers, the mound is reduced to a series of ditches where cleats dig in during each pitch.
Junior pitcher Louis Cohen, along with sophomore pitcher Calvin Cop-ping, patch up the holes with dirt. Cohen packs the dirt in with a tamp,
and rakes the mound in a circular motion as he and Copping even out the dirt and prepare for the next use. Cohen, who has taken a greater responsibility in caring for the pitch-ing mound pre-game and post-game, mentors Copping on what to do to repair the mound.
“When I came here, the pitching staff always did the mound,” Cohen said. “I kind of just took over, I learned from the guys, watched them, and from there I realized it’s my turn to make sure that this thing is done correctly. And ever since then that’s all I’ve done.”
Cohen has been tending to the pitching mound for four years, and had previous experience working on the field from his high school play-ing days at Great Oak High School in Temecula. Adamiak said Cohen is one of the hardest working baseball players helping him and Mulligan care for the field.
“Cohen does the mound, that’s his pride and joy,” Adamiak said. “How well (other players) do their jobs is another thing, but Cohen does a really good job with the mound.”
Although Adamiak and Mulligan talk with players at the beginning of the season, the coaches have become more involved in encouraging play-ers to complete their field duties.
Moore noted that players’ respon-sibilities have become part of their daily routines, the same way batting practice or stretching might create a sense of a game day routine.
“It’s built in pre-practice as part of set-up, Moore said. “It’s built in post-practice.”
Adamiak said that coaches will time players to see how fast they will stretch out the tarp when rain delays a game.
“We respect (the field),” Cohen said. “We feel that if we’re going to play on something that’s good, we
have to take care of it ourselves. We go out there, we make sure that it’s to the standards that we would like.”
Despite players’ responsibilities of day-to-day tasks, both players and coaches are quick to give Adamiak and Mulligan credit for the field they play on. Mulligan believes Matador Field “is the most beautiful place on campus,” and Moore agrees.
“The crew that we have, Mark and Mulley, are among the best in the business,” Moore said. “We are so lucky to have them, and our players feed off their attention to detail.”
Although Adamiak and Mulligan take pride in their work and appreci-ate the team’s contribution, they do admit having the players play on the field is hard to watch.
“That’s the hard part about all this,” Adamiak said. “We get it look-ing like this, and then we don’t want players on it. But everything we do is TLC - tender love and care.”
APRIL 22, 2014
Players pitch in to clean up Matador FieldPHOTOS AND STORY BYANDREW MARTINEZSPORTS EDITOR
Game days don’t end after the final out, as baseball players repair, care for the playing surface after each competition
Sophomore pitcher Calvin Copping (left) brushes a fresh patch of dirt on the mound while junior pitcher Jerry Keel carries a water hose towards the infield.
Junior infielder Ryan Raslowsky grooms the infield with a drag mat attatched to a John Deere tractor following Friday’s victory at Matador Field.
Copping drags a water hose towards the batter’s box from the pitching mound after his teammates finish raking and sweeping the infield dirt. Copping follows Cohen’s lead, who has been tending to the field since his freshman year.