Considering How Sustainable Riverside City College is Achieving

What is more green than the spring semester season? Finding out whether your college campus is really sustainable to be called a green campus.This is what my 5th blog will be discussing about, so I will let you know that I attend Riverside City College. Slowly and maturely, Riverside City College is becoming a sustainable campus. Here are some impacts that I see where Riverside City College is trying to make changes are in the cafeteria, garden area by the math and science building, the water fountain and grass area in front of the nursing building, and how the campus want to become a free smoking campus.In the cafeteria, the school have a poster telling students to think about what is really trash or recyclable items. Therefore, students  must decide what is really trash or recyclable among the poster that they see in front of them. I will admit that in some classes and buildings at RCC are quite strict on keeping their classes clean from drinks and snacks being inside their buildings. When I am in the math and science building, I see some tutors get mad about having the boards dirty after someone else leaves a finish problem on the board for awhile. In addition, Riverside City College makes the professors or tutors to supply their own makers or materials to class or a learning area. However, when you visit RCC you will still see some needs of improvement in being sustainable.

How to improve Riverside City College Sustainability

• Energy Usage: Riverside City College can improve in this area because we are consuming a lot of electricity around the campus such as the classes building, administration offices, student store, football stadium, baseball and softball field, parking lot, swimming pool, tennis court, walk way lights, and the cafeteria. The electricity we are consuming comes from a lot of technology being used at once. There are several ways we can definitely go around using these electricity usage on campus.
• Water Usage: This is another area of focus Riverside City College can concentrate on because there are still a lot of wasted water system going around on campus. For instance, in the cafeteria where the dishes are being washed over and over again each day from breakfast through the end of the day. There are several bathrooms and drinking fountains that are consuming a lot of water found at the Quad, Martin Luther King building, Math and Science building, Cafeteria, Business building, Music building, Theater building, Gym building, and finally around the fields or courts. Riverside Aquatic at RCC does use a lot of water in it's pool, and it is used for quite a few events. Riverside City College may use their water to keep their field green, and the campus grass, trees, bushes, and roses fresh. 
• Transportation Decision: Every professor, students, and staffs have a choice on how to get to Riverside City College. On each open days that the school is open, commuters have an impacts on whether keeping this campus sustainable or not sustainable. The choices may contain from is driving a car to school alone or carpooling, riding a bike, skateboarding, scootering, riding a motorcycle, walking, by the RTA bus, and either getting a family or friend to drop them off at RCC.
• Grounds: We already know that Riverside City College has a small garden by the Math and Science building. Water Fountain attraction and grass area in front of the nursing building. However, we need to keep count how much nature the school is actually using up instead of paving the surrounding area. Some counts must be consider on how many trees, bushes, types of plants, and other natural surrounding like sand, rocks, and grass sections.
• Waste Management/ Green Waste/ Recycling: Riverside City College must do better in our waste management, green waste, and recycling proper materials. For instance, our parking lots may have trash laying around the ground of our parking lots and campus grounds.This might be a lack of students properly throwing away their trash..The campus needs to consider what can be recycle through the campus such as all types of paper materials, cans and bottles, metal scrap, and whatever materials that are reusable. I actually learned that some grass you mowed can be used to help be nutrient for a lot of fruit trees. The grass really help the fruit trees grow, and would be nice to have at school.

Arizona State University More Green Than Dry

In order to focus on an assessment plan for Riverside City College, I wanted to figure out what other colleges have gone more sustainable. I went on the examine a college that I would have like to play football or wrestled for is the Arizona State University. The Sun Devils is an amazing campus to attend to for your education and for sports. This leads me to what a dry Arizona State University was able to come up to become a sustainable school. If there is one focus that I want Riverside City College follow to Arizona State University footsteps it will be to reduce our water usage. Arizona State University is definitely hotter temperature state than Southern California, so we can handle what they are achieving. ASU is committed to reduce their indoors and outdoor water consumption through technology and refined practice. One way they are trying is going through with is an installation of low flow water - fixtures around the campus dorms, bathrooms, and anywhere water is pumping. Water management had instituted on reducing the amount of water used in landscaping their campus. Two -third of campus is watered at night to prevent evaporation. Different types of plants on campus are being automated for a remaining senser-system, so it can get the proper amount of water. This will mean the plants will get water by an evaporation rate and current weather condition. I will now need to create an assessment plan, so first thing I will do is talk to my father's friend name General. He is a ground keeper for my main campus, and he can give me some ideas to go see whoever is in charger of the utilities. He will be an advisor for myself, so I can plan this water waste plan the right way.I will talk to professor Huff if her club will want to go along with a water waste control plan. This plan will benefit the campus on the long run because of how much money and water we will save. Employing someone for the labor is not that big of problem because General worry about it on his job. This plan should be measured for about a semester or half a semester for the soonest. We will just measure what it will take to have the plan accomplished by seeing if the dean of RCC will accept using less water on campus. It's simple our winter was by far the driest, and even Arizona State University a dryer campus than us is doing it already.