The Orion Newscast: Chico Bans Flavored Tobacco & Students Walk Out
December 11, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4xPtsxoxwE This week on The Orion Newscast reporters cover Chico City Council's decision to ban all flavored tobacco sales in Chico, as well as a climate, walkout staged by Chico State students and Chico high schoolers. Christian Solis can be reached at the...
Students strike to raise awareness of climate change
Carolyn Allen and Jack Lewis
December 9, 2019
On Friday, high school and college students dropped everything to join an on-campus Climate Strike, the second of its kind in Chico.“We’re stopping business as usual and demanding that transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis we are currently living through,” Steven Marquard...
Forum explores relationship of local housing, climate change
Kimberly Morales
November 7, 2019
On Wednesday, Butte Environmental Council hosted a listening session designed to educate the community about the role housing plays in climate change, while allowing discussion to examine the possible solutions.With the Chico Green New Deal freshly introduced a week earlier, the city began planning ...
Students and community rally for the Chico Green New Deal
Kimberly Morales
November 3, 2019
On Friday, at the edges of Chico State's campus, Sunrise Movement Chico rallied with other Sunrise Movement locations across the state demanding a change to save California from their state of emergency.Sunrise Movement made note of the importance of standing with communities in Los Angeles and Sonom...
Climate change demonstration offends Camp Fire victims
Kimberly Morales and Melissa Herrera
November 2, 2019
On Thursday, Sunrise Movement Chico displayed 86 tombstones for 86 lives lost last year from what they claimed to be due to “the negligence of PG&E.”With tombstones laid out on campus, volunteers from Sunrise Movement posed a question for PG&E: “With even more fires happening...
Sustainability measure shows Chico’s determination for climate action
Nate Rettinger
April 12, 2019
On April 17, students will have the opportunity to participate in Chico State's student election. This year's ballot includes a proposition to better educate students on the issues of climate change.Local leaders in the community have expressed support for a more sustainable Chico. Mayor Randall Stone, Vi...
Passionate Chico residents and city council members discuss cannabis and climate change
Gordy Papalias
April 4, 2019
The city of Chico held a council meeting at the Municipal Building downtown on Tuesday, where they discussed who would be on the commercial cannabis citizen advisory committee, and whether or not the council should declare a climate action emergency for Chico.The cannabis committee would be tasked wi...
Sustainability Task Force unites with people of Chico against climate change
Nate Rettinger
March 6, 2019
The Sustainability Task Force held a meeting Thursday evening to discuss taking steps to become a commission. They also endorsed the Declaration of Climate Emergency as proposed by Chico 350, a local group devoted to sustainability. The Task Force listened to solutions to environmental problems posed by member...
Chico State hosts open sustainability forum
Julian Mendoza
February 7, 2019
An open forum was held in Colusa Hall on Tuesday to discuss measures to move campus in a more sustainable direction. The goal of the forum was to hear ideas from Chico State affiliates and community members. It featured small group discussions about different topics. Each topic had its own tab...
Chico Women’s March 2019 highlights Camp Fire recovery, indigenous advocacy
Kendall George
January 19, 2019
Early Saturday morning, Chico residents filled the city plaza for the third annual Chico Women’s March. People took to the downtown streets to stand in solidarity for women’s rights, climate change and intersectionality. This event comes just three months after the Camp Fire left Paradi...
Chico 2037 shares a much different future than most are considering
Josh Cozine
December 11, 2018
Students of Mark Stemen’s Community Service and Geography class shared stories, Dec. 5, written from the perspective of students living in a much warmer and very different future from what we now face, during a Community Action Planning (CAP), organized by the First-Year Experience Program. With ...
We all are responsible for reversing climate change
Rayanne Painter
October 21, 2018
The Earth as we know it is disappearing at an alarmingly fast rate. I know it, you know it and we need to stop ignoring it.Over the past decade, there’s been no secret about the fact that our climate is rapidly changing and becoming too hot for the earth to remain sustainable. Coral reefs once full of vib...
