As a biologist turned architect, School of Architecture Associate Professor Doris Sung approaches sustainable design in a unique way.
Author: Rod Yabut
From coffee and pastries to eyebrow services and jewelry, student-run Trojan Marketplace has it all. It’s not your typical Wednesday at USC — bustling crowds, white canopies crashing with the Wednesday wind, the shining Southern California sun and faint indie music playing in the background. Usually, the Farmer’s Market sets up in McCarthy Quad on…
The Undergraduate Student Government hopes to expand and progress on their sustainability initiatives in the 2022-23 year by advocating for recycling bins to be implemented on the Row and calling for a ban on single-use plastics. One of the sustainability projects USG advocated for over the 2021-22 year was talking to University administration about the…
With plans to ban plastic bottles and to implement sustainable infrastructure, USC has set an aggressive timeline to reach carbon neutrality.
Los Angeles County on Tuesday became the largest government entity to restrict single-use plastic food ware items from restaurants, stores, hospital cafeterias and food trucks. County supervisors finalized an ordinance that will require single-use food ware to be compostable or recyclable, unless it’s a full-service, dine-in eatery, in which case it needs to be reusable.…
This Earth Day, it’s important to remember that our health as we age has a lot to do with the health of our environment from the soil to the sky.
Metro will be offering free bus, rail and bike share rides on Earth Day, Friday, April 22 in recognition of public transit’s role in helping improve the environment and reducing greenhouse gases that cause climate change. If you’re new to Metro or haven’t ridden in a while, use the Transit app for iPhones and Android…
USC School of Architecture alumna Brittany Moffett (Master of Building Science ’16, BS Civil ‘14) has found a home at Arup, a mission-driven global engineering and consulting firm committed to sustainable development. There she has an uncommon but emerging role: Resilience Engineer. “Right now, the world is grappling with multiple concurrent crises, like climate change,…
Scientists in the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department of Population and Public Health Sciences are stepping up to evaluate climate change’s impact on human health — particularly for communities already enduring disparities — and devise ways to reverse course. Within the last few years, a cadre of four faculty members concerned with the detriments of…
USC President Carol L. Folt kicks off Earth Week with a video message and announcement of plans to eliminate plastic beverage bottles on campus.