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After announcing a series of initiatives to make the University of California more sustainable, UC President Janet Napolitano met for the first time Monday with her advisory group on sustainability.
The group discussed in a closed meeting how the UC can reach its goal of carbon neutrality by 2025 and how the group can support initiatives already happening at different campuses, said Shelly Meron, UC spokeswoman.
When announcing the initiative in November, the UC said it plans to urge its campuses to increase its usage of renewable energy and use energy more efficiently. The initiative includes reducing water usage by 20 percent by 2020, producing zero waste by 2020 and managing a center to purchase and develop alternative energy, among other goals.
The UC Global Climate Leadership Council has 27 members, including UC officials, students and other experts. One regent, who has not been selected, will also serve in the group.
Members of the advisory group who work at UCLA include Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at the UCLA School of Law, David Feinberg, president of the UCLA Health System, and Jack Powazek, administrative vice chancellor at UCLA. Powazek directed the development of UCLA’s climate action plan in 2008.
In an annual sustainability report filed in January, UCLA reported its greenhouse gas emissions increased by 7.7 percent in 2012. However, the university said it plans to meet the goal of having a 1990 level of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 through energy conservation and other abatement measures. UCLA receives about $2 to $3 million annually for carbon allowances for its emissions from the California Air Resources Board, funds it spends on emissions reduction measures.
Meron said it is not yet determined when the group will meet again.
Compiled by Jeong Park, Bruin senior staff.
Clarification: UCLA receives $2 to $3 million annually from the California Air Resources Board to spend on emissions reduction measures.
With either the willfully blind approval or the willful ignorance of the judiciary the right has killed & stolen several of my pets and routinely shoots energy weaponry at me and my pets. Recent harm to animals include: two kittens from a pregnant stray i took in were killed a few months ago. The remaining two, just 9 weeks old, shake their head as government operatives shoot them with energy weaponry. They shot the eye out or removed the eye of a large really good natured stray at the port, hobbled another cat at the port, shooting it with energy weaponry, and routinely kill and leave dead animals in my path. A few years ago one of them threatened ‘we’ll just kill a cat every so often’, in so many words. This has continued despite my calls to the police, the FBI, Congress, and my petitions in court. In the usual case, it appears that the right goes to a judicial crony for a ruling permitting them to harm animals to retaliate against me for my free speech. There’s no serious argument but that they interfered with my personal life and economic options for 3 decades, so their solution to my noting it is to kill animals. Makes perfect sense right? It does if you’re a sociopathic criminal, criminally stupid, and hawkish. Invariably their lies are exposed and the wrongfulness of the harm is clear to everyone, though not until the animals have been maimed or killed. There is really only one solution, and that’s to disempower them politically.
Typically operating through puppets–including puppets in the judiciary–the right wing has for decades been committing crimes and trying to classify them to cover them up, a move explicitly forbidden by the Code of Federal Regulations. The right has accomplished its political objectives by presenting a fraction of the evidence to judicial officials who, having seen the pattern dozens of times before, could not help but realize that they were being presented with incomplete and inaccurate information.
If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth, right? the Democrats’ great accomplishment is producing the political equivalent of a Rodney King video, clearly demonstrating the lies of the right, the right Hilary Clinton correctly identified as a vast conspiracy. Confirm by examining Central District of California Cases, 01-4340, 03-9097, 08-5515, 10-5193, US Tax Court 12000-07L –though I think you want to view my US Tax Court Appeal to the 9th Circuit for a good account of their day to day assaults, a few month time slice indicative of a decade of assault, and more 9th Circuit case 11-56043.