Sustainable Peralta

An official negotiation meeting at the Copenhagen climate talks. Photo from Johannes Jansson/norden.org

Many people from the Oakland/East Bay traveled to Copenhagen including Laney College’s Green Jobs Program Coordinator, Emily Courtney, who travelled to observe the proceedings and atmosphere.

“It was amazing just how many dedicated people there were,” described Emily. “I met people on the bus ride to the conference center. You wait in the registration line and meet somebody else. Then you met the person you sat next to, and another person a lunch, and another new person on bus ride out. And it was like that everyday.”
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The film makers chomp on corn never meant to be eaten by humans.

On Wednesday night at Laney College, the Sustainability Committee hosts a screening of the film King Corn, telling the story of America’s biggest agriculture product. Approximately 40 people, mainly students, attended the screening.

“Students showed up for the extra-credit, but they got a lot more out of it than that,” said Amy Bohorquez, a Biology instructor at Laney College who helped produced the film series this semester. The series also screened other important documentaries such as The Waterfront and The Power of Community. Each of these films is available in the Laney library for instructors to use in their classes or community events.

In King Corn, two friends from college on the East Coast, move to the Heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. They try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, and find some uses for corn only a industry can imagine.

Students, Faculty and Staff added their faces to show Laney's support for the 350ppm CO2 goal.

On Wednesday, October 21, 65 people at Laney held one of 5200 events in 181 countries for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet’s history. Students, faculty and staff from Peralta celebrated 350 Day, an international day of grassroots action to show international decision-makers that people in every locale in the planet agree with lowering the human impact on Climate Change.
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