Campaign
tackles global warming
By Yoshinori Okada
On-line Forty-Niner
 A
road team from One Sweet Whirled Global
Warming Campaign arrived at Cal State Long
Beach Monday and will keep appealing to
people on campus through 4 p.m. today to
join forces to stop global warming.
Dave Matthews Band, Ben & Jerry’s and
SaveOurEnvironment.org, a coalition of the
nation’s most influential advocacy group,
have teamed up as One Sweet Whirled to tell
people to take an action to curb global
warming through the campus-tour campaign
sponsored by Winnebago.
“It’s really to educate people about ways
that they can take simple steps in their
daily lives to reduce their impact on global
warming,” said Brice Blaisdell, a road-team
member. “Most students are kind of environmentally-conscious,
so they want to learn about these things.
Students have been very excited. Our point
is that it doesn’t take a lot, it just takes
some kind of everyday little things that
make a big difference if we all do that.”
Setting up a tent in a center quad in front
of the Peterson Hall Buildings, Associated
Student Inc.’s Conservation Commission,
in association with the road team, has encouraged
students to help stop global warming by
giving out pamphlets.
The pamphlets have information regarding
global warming, including tips to reduce
personal carbon dioxide emissions, a letter
to Congress members to urge the government
to set tighter regulations on industrial
emissions, as well as a dollar-off coupon
for Ben and Jerry’s ice cream called One
Sweet Whirled. The site also had ice cream,
along with games and prizes such as T-shirts
and CDs.
“I just think it’s kind of interesting that
they are serving ice cream in promoting
to reduce global warming at the same time,”
said Tzu-Chi Hsu, a graduate biochemistry
student. “I think it’s a good idea to give
out these pamphlets, how to reduce, to recycle
and to turn off the lights, actually, useful
tips to help the environment.
“It’s practical stuff we can do every day
like conserve energy and how to drive less,”
Hsu said. “I think I’ll try to watch myself,
try to remember to turn off the lights and
so on.”
CSULB is one of two campuses in Southern
California that the destination road team
visits, said A.S.I.’ s Conservation Commissioner
Chhunny Chhean, a sophomore philosophy student.
Chhean said that the campaign was well received
by students.
“I hope students leave with a greater perspective
on how an individual’s acts affects our
entire world,” Chhean said. “I hope that
students realize that their roles as citizens,
not as people, include doing what they can
to make our world livable for all those
inhabiting it, including those in distant
countries that produce far less waste than
we do here in America. I hope we become
less wasteful and more mindful as a university,
if not a country.”
While the road team will leave the campus
today, on-campus campaign will run through
Dec. 15.
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