Welcome to UC Berkeley Sustainability
UC Berkeley's renowned dedication to excellence does not stop at academics - it also translates into efforts to be an environmentally sustainable campus. At its core, the university's commitment to sustainability has always focused on public service, transparency and excellence. As the program matures it is also acquiring a new focus on innovation, apparent in the abundance of cross-cutting programs and projects led by student, staff, faculty, and academic communities.
See highlights of UC Berkeley Sustainability.
Announcements
2013 Sustainability Summit
The 10th Annual Sustainability Summit was a great success; it featured Dr. Mike Biddle, a plastics pioneer and co-founder of MBA Polymers, as the keynote speaker, and this year's sustainability awardees and grant recepients were announced. Learn more about the summit and see videos of event speakers.
Read about UC Berkeley becoming green
UC Berkeley was not always the green campus it is now known to be. The creation of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability ten years ago was the start to making our campus more sustainable. Read about the changes the campus went through for ten years to become the green campus it is now.
Bright Green News-May 2013
In this issue read the Annual Sustainability Summit wrap, find out who are this year's sustainability awardees, learn about 18 new projects funded by the CACS green fund and TGIF, give a cheer to Haas-the newest green department, and much more. Download a copy!
Committed to cutting kilowatts, and heck on wheel
“Weekdays at UC Berkeley, Erin Fenley is all about helping the campus reduce its carbon footprint by saving kilowatts. After hours, she’s all about burning energy – her own – in an intense roller derby scrimmage.” Read more about this Person of Interest - our very own myPower energy-management communication specialist – in Cathy Cockrell’s recent article.
Did you miss the CITRIS i4Energy Seminar Series?
Did you miss Lisa McNeilly talk about how to sustain a green campus for the seminar seriers hosted by CITRIS? See it here.
2012 Campus Sustainability Report
The Office of Sustainability has released the 2012 Campus Sustainability Report, which documents how well the campus has implemented projects to achieve our goals, initiated new best practices, and expanded the culture of sustainability. Read the report and let us know what you think in our comments section.
Travel-Free Meeting Grant Program
With funding from the Climate Action Fund, the Office of Sustainability is awarding grants to faculty and staff for a computer camera for web-conferencing on your office desktop computer. The intention of the grant is to promote travel-free meetings with a goal of reducing UC Berkeley's business air trips. The grant program is on-going until the grant funds are expended.
Skype Training - See the archived video.
To learn more about the grant project and fill out an application click here.
Sustainability award for senior thesis on campus emissions
A recent UC Berkeley graduate has won a sustainability research award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) for her senior thesis calculating the campus's greenhouse gas emissions based on its entire supply chain of goods and services. Kelley Doyle, who received a B.S. in environmental sciences in May 2012, presented her thesis, "Converting university spending to greenhouse gas emissions: A supply chain carbon footprint analysis of UC Berkeley," at AASHE's annual conference in Los Angeles earlier this year. She won the association's undergraduate. Learn more here.
CalCAP Wins Leadership Award
UC Berkeley's Cal Climate Action Partnership was honored with a clean air award for its leadership in greenhouse gas emissions reductions from Breathe California. Berkeley was one of seven institutions, businesses and individuals to win 2012 Clean Air Awards.
