Think you’ve got a big water bill? Think again. An inches-high stack of bills from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) lands every month on Bill Sullivan’s desk. Manager of utilities and power for Cal State Northridge’s Physical Plant Management (PPM) department, Sullivan scours the bills to make sure there are no anomalies, costly meter misreads or potential leaks hidden in the mountain of numbers.
For many, the term “sustainability” is familiar. Just don’t ask about specifics. Something about the environment, right?
Of the nearly half dozen projects recently completed or under construction at Cal State Northridge, all have exceeded state guidelines for energy efficiency by 15 to 30 percent. The designers of at least two—the Valley Performing Arts Center at California State University, Northridge and the Student Recreation Center—hope to be approved for certification by the highly regarded U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
Graceful, shade-giving, oxygen-producing and essential to global food production, trees are playing a critical role in the drama of the earth’s changing climate. At Cal State Northridge, a move is afoot to assess the role and impact of the thousands that have transformed the campus into something resembling Marvell’s “green thought in a green shade.”
In other times, Nancy Kurland, Erica Wohldmann, Sheela Bhongir and Misak Sevlian may have had a mere nodding acquaintance at faculty meetings or in class.
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