What does it look like when a university decides to walk the walk as well as talk the talk on climate change? The University of California (U.C.) system—which encompasses 10 university campuses and two national scientific research laboratories—is about to find out.
Two years ago, Janet Napolitano, the president of the University of California, pledged that the whole U.C. system would become the first university in the world to become carbon neutral by 2025. That is to say that in just 10 years, the hundreds of thousands of students, faculty, and staff in the U.C. system will no longer contribute to climate change while going about their normal business in the university.
Janet Napolitano, the President of the University of California, speaks at Carbon Neutrality Initiative at the University of California-San Diego Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, in San Diego. Napolitano says reducing the human carbon footprint is a "moral imperative" and vows to turn the system's 10 campuses into a living laboratory for solutions. AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi
