O.C. Sustainability Decathlon, coming to fairgrounds Oct. 5, proves it is easy being green
It's not easy being green — but it could be. At least that's the hope of a new event, years in the making and due to open next Thursday at the coun...
It's not easy being green — but it could be. At least that's the hope of a new event, years in the making and due to open next Thursday at the county fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. The first-ever Orange County Sustainability Decathlon is a simple concept that hopes to make a big impact in the way people understand, talk about and respond to climate change, according to Fred Smoller, co-founder of the event and Chapman University associate professor. 'What I've been arguing for years is if you're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars transforming the economy, which we are [in California], you'd better raise people's comfort levels,' said Smoller, who teaches political science courses at the Orange campus.