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Clean Commute Challenge has CMU in competition with five schools

By Shane Allen on September 22, 2010 1:26 pm in University / 2 comments

 

Central Michigan University has been challenged to clean up its commuting act from today through Thursday.

The Clean Commute Challenge is held by the Capital Area Transportation Authority to see which campus uses the most environmentally sound ways to get around.

“We really wanted to target the youth on campus,” said Cathleen Edgerly, Clean Commute options coordinator. “They can continue it in their professional lives.”

The competition has five schools in the running this year: CMU, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, Cooley Law School and Lansing Community College.

The leader of the Clean Commute Challenge at CMU is Grandville senior Bryce Vredevoogd.

“People understand what our campus is and what it offers and want to keep it clean,” he said.

Heather Smith, assistant director of public relations, said CMU’s strong commitment to environmental sustainability made the competition another opportunity to get involved.

She decided the challenge was a great fit for the university when CATA contacted her.

“This will help decrease our carbon footprint,” Smith said.

Spring Lake senior Caitlin Wozniak said she wants to be as green as possible, but knows it can be a difficult task for busy college students.

“It’s hard because of where we are in life because we don’t have a choice but to use our car at this age,” Wozniak said.

Students can visit www.cata.org/commutechallenge to log their use of environmentally sound methods of transportation.

 

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  • Michmediaperson

    What a joke! Wasting time on this nonsense.

    Let's do this. We ban all motor vehicles on campus unless you have 4 people in the vehicle. I think environmentalists call this ride sharing.
    We'll have a guard watch and count the people. So, if you live 10 miles away, you will have to ride in with 3 others. If their first class is at 8, yours is at noon, then you can ride in and find something to do for 4 hours or you can walk it. Same for all CMU employees. All vehicles for dorm residents will be banned. Try that and watch the screaming and yelling start. We'll see how many students are green. My guess would be none if we'd take away their carbon footprint automobile.

    This is crazy. Why don't these environmentalists find something better to do like create a reading program for kids in these Michigan cities or something positive.

    If you want to do something for the environment, tell Nancy Pelosi, the Kennedys, Algore to ditch their private planes and fly commercial. Tell Barack Hussein Obama to quit taking so many vacations. He and his wife were flying all over the world these past 90 days on vacation polluting the skies and billing us.

    No more concerts, athletic events, nothing at CMU since people would have to drive their carbon footprint auto here. CM LIFE could ditch the newspaper delivery trucks in the community and deliver the papers all over campus and Mt. Pleasant via bicycle. OK, we'll allow a moped if mopeds don't cause carbon footprints.

    And, let's ban smoking and all tobacco products on campus. That emits a lot of bad stuff down into your lungs. No smoking anywhere, even outside. Severe penalties if you get caught. Employees get fired. Students get thrown out of school.

    We'll see how everyone likes the new environmental program then. My hunch, they'll all agree with me.

  • Bryan Koroleski

    Holy overreatction Batman!