Learn About Working in 'Green' Industries at Free Palm Desert Expo

Cal State San Bernardino's Palm Desert Campus will host its annual Environmental and Sustainability Expo for local students next month, a campus spokesman said Tuesday.

The fifth annual event, free and open to the public, will be held May 8 and 9 at the Indian Wells Theater. Pamela Clute, who lectures on education and mathematics at UC Riverside, will speak on May 8 to start the expo and, on May 9, students can learn about working in "green" fields from various organizations, according to campus spokesman Mike Singer.

Students from the Palm Springs Unified School District also will screen their environment-related digital films on both days, and attendees can tour the Health Sciences Building, which is LEED gold certified, one of the highest ratings available from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Representatives from the Southern California Gas Co., U.S. Green Building Council, Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District, Coachella Valley Water District, California Department of Food and Agriculture, SunLine Transit Agency, The Living Desert, Bureau of Land Management, S.C.R.A.P. Gallery and Friends of the Desert Mountains.

To make a reservation, email jneimeye@csusb.edu or call (760) 341-2883, ext. 78120.

— City News Service.