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Doing your
part for the
environment
By Patty Salazar
The Clackamas Print
Sustainability: what does this mean to you?
It might mean riding your bike to school every day or growing your
own garden right here on the Clackamas Community College campus.
These are just some things a person can do to help the community and
the environment.
This year the college’s annual Sustainability Lectures are about
four main themes: electric vehicles, renewable energy, sustainable
food and consumption.
This Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. in the McLoughlin auditorium
David Allaway is speaking on “The Story of Stuff,” where he talks
about how everything bought has an impact on the world.
For those of you who missed the first lecture featuring Mike
Grainey, Oregon’s energy adviser, he talked about how the electric car
can do wonders for the environment.
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve definitely noticed the sky
rocketing gas prices. The amount of money that Oregonians pay is
more than $14 billion for energy every year, most of which goes out of
state and country, according to Grainey. The United States alone uses
20 million barrels of oil a day; that’s 25 percent of the world’s oil. So
what does 20 million barrels of oil a day do to the world? One of the
biggest problems today is vehicles that use gas.
Grainey, who works in Salem, mentioned during his lecture, “Every
biodiesel bus equals 110 cars not driven in.”
Grainey admits that this is an expensive way but ultimately worth
it. Oregon is No. 1 in the country for having the highest amount of
plug-in vehicles. Although fuel-efficient vehicles can help the envi
ronment dramatically, not everybody can afford a $30,000 plus dollar
car, especially in the economical state that the country is in right now.
There are things someone can do. Suzanne Munro, one of the orga
nizers of the Sustainability Lectures, explained that she and another
faculty member carpool at least twice a week.
“(Associated Student Government) can take on a project to get
students interested and involved,” Munro said on what students can
do here at CCC. She went on to say that if students “just try it, once
a week for three weeks” it doesn’t take much to do your part for the
environment..
“We’ve launched a new sustainability website that features aca
demic programs, workshops and green events and job resources,” said
Mike Noel, CCC’s Sustainability Outreach Specialist.
Noel said another way to get informed is to attend the documentary
series on Thursday, April 28 in Roger Rook 220 starting at noon. The
series will focus on ecological designs emerging in the 20th century,
starting with the work of Buckminster Fuller in the 1920s all the way
up to the 21st century.
“Follow us on Facebook to keep up with what the sustainability
activities here on campus,” said Noel. If you would like to grow your
own garden here on campus, contact Michelle Baker from Student
Outreach at 503-594-3040.
If you want to know more on what is available here to help out the
environment, go to depts.clackamas.edu/sustainability/ or email Noel
directly at mnoel@clackamas.edu. And don’t miss your opportunity
this Thursday to meet David Allaway on May 5 in the McLoughlin
Theatre; the first hour will feature Chance Currington from Sunlight
Solar and Adam Serchuk of Vestas Wind System.
Mike Grainey, Oregon’s energy adviser speaks at the first sustainability lecture of the
on April 7. His lecture was titled “The Electric Car Comes to Oregon.”
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April 21: David Allaway
“Consumption’s Effect on Sustainability”
12-1 pm. McLoughlin Auditorium
May 5: Solar Energy Panel
Executives: Vestas Wind Systems & SunLight I
12-2 p.m. McLoughlin Auditorium
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