Tag Archive for: calpirg
The Green Student Assembly will be the ninth assembly on USG’s Program Board.
CalPIRG doubles fundraising goal
By ARJUN VAS
in News
The organization’s current campaign focuses on banning plastic bags in California.
In the bag
By Daily Trojan Staff
in News
USC CalPIRG, as part of its “Save the Oceans” campaign, displays a chain of around 200 plastic bags in front of Tommy Trojan to spread awareness of single-use bags people use each year. CalPIRG said a single shopper uses an average of 200 bags in six months.
Bag ban should go statewide
By RASIK SRINATH
2 Comments/in Opinion
Students in CALPIRG continue an initiative to ban plastic bags in California to aid the ecosystem.
Funding an obstacle for green groups
Students must keep green momentum going
By KASTALIA MEDRANO
2 Comments/in Columns, Featured, Opinion
The refrain that USC isn’t the most environmentally friendly campus has been beaten to death. Our facilities are not swathed in solar paneling and we don’t have wind turbines powering our dining hall kitchens. But there has been a respectable amount of progress in sustainability at USC in the last year. The Leadership in Energy […]
Earth Week is a chance to learn and have fun
By KASTALIA MEDRANO
in Columns, Featured, Opinion
Earth Week was fun when I was in elementary school. Each year, my class would bake cookies in solar-powered ovens or trek to some local park, where teachers would cheer on either Team Stratosphere or Team Thermosphere as they raced to collect the most trash. I recall testing the pH of nearby rivers and, after […]
Greeks Gone Green is a viable force on campus
Open textbooks cheapest option, new study says
By TASBEEH HERWEES
in News
Bookstore manager Raymond McDermott says digital books will not soon replace print books.