Program: Sustainable City Years Program

Monterey Growery

Monterey Growery Experiences, or MGE for short, will provide Seaside visitors and residents with tours of the local marijuana facilities. Through our tours, we hope to educate participant as to what cannabis means to the California economy and community. Seeing various cannabis operations, such as the growing, testing, labelling, and selling, we hope, will help […]

Road Diet modelling and its effects on traffic and pedestrian counts on W. Alisal Street in Salinas

model we were able to pose recommendations best suited to support the road diet. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info University Faculty Contact Daniel Fernandez Natural Sciences Professor, School of Natural Sciences dfernandez@csumb.edu Local Government / Community Contact James Serrano […]

Inspiring field experiences in Seaside, California

Lately there have been city projects created to promote citizen science and utilization of existing parks. These projects have started to be implemented to begin the steps towards more sustainable cities. As we develop cleaner, greener ways of living within our communities, the implementation of well-crafted environmental programs that give citizens tools to explore their […]

See-Seaside – Media Strategies for Sustainable Living

It includes a collection of projects that invite people to observe, notice and care for the place. It features a few strategies from social media engagement, to posters, memes, and even a calendar. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info University Faculty Contact Estella Porras […]

Bilingual Community Outreach Plan

In the city of Salinas, where 32% of residents are children and youth, outreach strategies that embrace participatory practices can enlarge young people’s perceptions and contribute to a more socially and environmentally just community. They can also provide young people with skills and a sense of empowerment to effect change in their communities. This plan […]

Transit Public Outreach Project

In fall of 2016 at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), the Environmental Studies undergraduate program began offering its first group-based capstone course that was based on its first Projects for Sustainable City Year course (ENSTU 471). Capstone projects are a senior-level, project based graduation requirement for an undergraduate degree. The Sustainable City Year projects […]

Effectiveness of Read-to-me Project

In Monterey County, the Read to Me Project’s main goal is to help English language learners accomplish English reading literacy (Read to Me Project, 2017). Fourth, fifth, and sixthborrow age appropriate books from their teachers and read to their younger siblings, cousins, or neighbors. The young children identified by the school-aged child is named “little […]

Modeling and measured bicycle counts and bicycle safety on W. Alisal Road with respect to the West Alisal Road Diet

In analyzing the impacts of the road diet on West Alisal in Salinas, our group observed that there is variety in the stakeholder populations. Drivers, pedestrians, bus passengers, bicyclists, and others, are all stakeholders that will be impacted by the road diet. Our group decided to focus on the bicyclist population near the Hartnell College […]

Environmental Benefits of Implementing Rain Barrels in Seaside, California

For our project, we hoped to educate the public on the environmental and economical advantages of installing rain barrels in their homes. We aimed to do this by contacting employees from the City of Seaside in order to receive feedback and guidance for our project. We initially contacted Rick Riedl, Seaside’s Public Works Director and […]

Infrastructure for Sustainable Commuting at Hartnell College and CSUMB

For the Salinas Sustainable City Year project, we are interested in modeling how a road diet would affect pedestrian safety and traffic along crosswalks on the Hartnell side of West Alisal Street. We have a rough idea that the main stakeholders involved would be students and staff from Hartnell College and W. Alisal St. residents. […]

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