Calpirg Energy Service Corps L.A.

09/02/2013

CALPIRG Energy Service Corps summer term of service has officially ended! It has been a great, fun, and meaningful and progressive summer. We've taught about 1,700 youth in summer camps concerning what they can do about the energy and environmental crisis, educated 120 households on how they can save energy and cut the costs of their bill by up to 40%, and weatherized 10 low income homes and non-profit buildings and made them more energy efficient!

Although the AmeriCorps term of service has come to a close, students will continue to advance energy efficiency at their respective schools with their campus CALPIRG Chapters.

08/26/2013

a new way for efficient, high-speed travel while using efficient energy? What do you guys think? is this possible? food for thought

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-hyperloop-vs-high-speed-rail-20130812,0,2656854.story

It's easy for Californians to get breathless about Elon Musk 's futuristic Hyperloop, considering how much bad news they've gotten about the high-speed rail line they voted for in 2008. So when Musk revealed details of his idea Monday afternoon in a blog post , Golden Staters could be forgiven…

08/26/2013

The Media team of CALPIRG ESC had a really fun time touring the LA Times!! It was amazing to see the inner workings of the newspaper and the media, and we learned so much about its history and the writers. So much of it goes under-appreciated, but putting out news in a timely, fast-paced fashion and getting everything printed out and delivered is a lot of work! News definitely does not come easy, even though buying a newspaper is cheap.

08/18/2013

Talk about having an AWESOME cultural experience immersing into the Sikh/ Indian culture while serving the Riverside community! Who knew that AmeriCorps members would be so ethnically and culturally conscious during this trip?

A big shout out and thank you to the Sikh temple and community for letting us stay/ sleep in their building and providing food for us THE WHOLE week we were there FOR FREE! They were so amazing and welcoming to us, and our trip wouldn't have been the same without them generously donating their space to us.
We definitely had a great learning experience staying at the Sikh temple and being exposed to a culture/ religion different than our own!

08/18/2013

We also got interviewed by ABC News and we're on Press Enterprise for our trip to Riverside!! For more info on our press conference last Tuesday, check out our article! Council Member Mike Gardner and UCR's Director of Sustainability John Cook spoke in the beginning about Riverside's efforts to becoming a more green and sustainable city and after we weatherized the Islamic Center!! Riverside is actually one of the leading cities in California for green energy, and AmeriCorps members were able to team up with leaders in Riverside to help further the city's green initiatives last week. Good stuff, good stuff.


http://www.pe.com/local-news/topics/topics-environment-headlines/20130810-riverside-students-weatherize-islamic-center.ece

Improvements made by AmeriCorps participants are expected to cut energy costs by 10 percent

08/18/2013

Last week's community service trip to riverside was such a blast!! It was a super packed, busy, eventful, fun and successful trip!

We weatherized low income homes to help them save energy and money, went door to door educating households about the things they could do to be more energy efficient, taught youth about the urgency of the energy/ environment crisis, got to meet council members, had an awesome time learning about Riverside's green iniatives with Ryan Bullard the Sustainability Coordinator of Riverside, had a sucessful press conference on tuesday, and had a fun cultural experience staying at a Sikh Temple. CALPIRG members did it all!! Hurray for an awesome trip!!

08/17/2013

Hi ya'll. Come out to our Movie @ the Park Event in Inglewood tomorrow 8/17 at Rogers Park.

Address: 400 W Beach Ave, Inglewood, CA

At 4:00 pm we will meet at the park

From 4:30-6:30 we'll go to the surrounding neighborhood and have 1-on-1 conversations with households about their energy use.

From 6:30-8:00 we will set up a table, do surveys with adult audience, and have fun educational activities with the kids.

The movie starts at 8:00 pm

It will be lots of fun. Hope to see everyone there!

08/05/2013

Chalkboard graffiti!

08/05/2013

Hello everyone!! we have a very exciting and busy week coming ahead of us!! We will be taking a community service trip to Riverside from Monday to Friday and impacting that community to make it more energy efficient! A very exciting and big event coming up is THIS TUESDAY we will be holding a press conference at the Islamic Center in Riverside and weatherizing the building. We have Councilman Mike Gardner and Director of Sustainability John Cook of UCR coming out to talk about sustainability and green energy!!

We are also teaching many many lessons, and well as weatherizing dozens of homes in Riverside and many other projects! More to come!!

07/25/2013

07/25/2013

CALPIRG ESC interns have been super packed this week going all over LA educating many youth in various summer camps!! Today we went to the East LA YMCA and taught a group of cute and energetic kids about what they can do to be better stewards of energy and the environment, and specifically what the best modes of transportation are to cut pollution. Our goal is to educate 10,000 kids this summer and we are working our way up!! This was only one of the many--we are keeping ourselves busy!!!

07/22/2013

Another fun day in Echo Park for their movie night!! We were able to go door to door and survey the neighborhood's homes to see how energy efficient they were, and then we gave each household individualized tips on what they can do to save energy and save money! Later we boothed during a community kids movie night event and were able to interact with many families and educate them about the importance of conserving energy!