Sustainability
Ryan Burbary is owner of Velociti Tennis, a 乐播传媒-based company committed to limiting single-use plastics and incorporating biodegradable technologies for products.
The first Earth Day was held across the United States on April 22, 1970. It motivated student organizers at CU 乐播传媒 to push for an institution dedicated to sustainability and later that year the Environmental Center was born.
This fall Sierra Club鈥檚 magazine named CU 乐播传媒 the top 鈥済reen鈥 university in the nation, a jump up from its No. 2 ranking last year.
Like more than 900 cities, 乐播传媒 has voluntarily committed to meeting the Kyoto Protocol鈥檚 greenhouse gas reduction targets. And, like all but two of those cities, it is failing to meet its goals.
<p>In the United States we import about two-thirds of the oil used to fill the tanks of our vehicles.</p>
<p>Mike West, director of education for CU Biodiesel, has taught everyone from postgraduate students to second-graders how to brew their own biodiesel, showing how simple it is to create cleaner, more sustainable fuel from waste.</p>