Focus the Nation is an inappropriate label for what was afflicted upon me last week. Having been to last year’s sustainability lectures, my expectations were already low. Before class, I attended a lecture called Climate Justice. What exactly is climate justice and what does it have to do with focusing the nation?
Climate justice links the effects of climate change to socioeconomics, gender and race.
Economists predict that the current recession will continue through at least July 2009 (with recovery effects lasting the rest of the year or longer), making it the longest period of economic downturn since the Great Depression. The economic crisis will not only transform finance and business, but the way we think and behave.
In response to letter to the editor, “Hope is Not an Empty Message”:
“Hope” is entirely empty rhetoric if the reason for hope is not substantiated.
Should we have hope that our future financial situation will be better than it is today? Sure we should, because we’ve seen it better in the past.
Welcome to 2009. Now make one resolution. Make one simple decision, about one thing in your life that you can change to reduce your impact on the planet. Make it something achievable. Make it something that’s important to you.
Statisticians have estimated that only 29 percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions these days, and only two out of 10 of them actually follow through with their goals.
The autopsy of Favian Mora, an electrical engineering sophomore who was found unresponsive in his room in Poly Canyon Village in December, was released yesterday and said that his death was due to a medical condition.
Toxicology results were negative for drugs and alcohol said San Luis Obispo county public information officer Rob Bryn.
All Cal Poly greek life activity was formally suspended mid-December following the death of freshman Carson Starkey, a fraternity pledge who died the morning after attending a Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) party.
Starkey, 18, was found unresponsive at a local residence at about 6 a.
