Carbon is now a commodity. Under California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, businesses and institutions – including universities – must pay for the carbon they emit. Senate Bill 497 strives to alleviate the financial burden on the University of California and California State University by freely allocating allowances, effectively exempting both university systems from having to […]
Author Archives: Megan Beck
Megan Beck: Overnight lighting drains UCLA’s sustainable reputation
The UCLA campus may be adhering to the University of California system’s motto, “Fiat Lux,” or “Let there be light,” a little too literally. If you stroll across campus past midnight, you’ll find that many of the buildings still have their lights on. For a campus that prides itself on its sustainability, such a visible […]
Megan Beck: Greek system should unite to go green
That infamous red plastic party cup could – and should – soon become a relic of the past.
Megan Beck: Botanical garden a valuable teaching space
Of the dozen libraries located on the UCLA campus, students are probably most familiar with the Powell Library or the Charles E. Young Research Library. However, Wayne Dollase, a professor emeritus in the department of earth and space sciences, recognizes a thirteenth library on campus: the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden. Dollase describes the garden […]
Megan Beck: UCLA should expand tray-free initiative to all dining halls
The campaign to dine tray-free is merely one among many as colorful placards decorate De Neve dining hall’s tables and encourage students to participate in a variety of worthy causes, from donating blood to downloading music legally.
Professor utilizes social media as a teaching tool
Instead of asking students to silence their cell phones and close the tabs on their Internet browsers, Camal is incorporating social media into his course, Music History 5: The History of Rock and Roll, this quarter.
UCLA study reveals suicide rates in California
Californians who identify as a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community were almost three times more likely than their peers to consider suicide, according to a health policy brief released by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research last month.