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These projects were sponsored by a registered student organization

Sustainability in Energy and Business Speaker Series

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Project Leaders- Jay Shah
Goals of Your Project- The goal of the Sustainability in Energy and Business Speaker Series is to deepen students’ understanding of how sustainability can be embedded in real-world business and energy decisions. By bringing together experts from academia, industry, and startups, the series aims to expand sustainability education, spark interdisciplinary engagement, and create mentorship opportunities. Ultimately, it seeks to strengthen campus sustainability culture and inspire students to pursue climate-conscious projects, careers, and...

SunStock

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A) Sofia Afzal, Brenna Toll, and Ella Heimbrodt
B) SunStock is a solar-powered music festival dedicated to community organizing centered around sustainability and opening discussions on environmental justice. Held each April on West Crescent Lawn, this event brings together students, faculty, and community members to celebrate clean energy, creativity, and collective action towards a greener future. As a 100% free and open event, Sunstock emphasizes accessibility and inclusivity, ensuring that environmental awareness and activism are available to all.
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FUELSAFE - Fuel-Reduction, Ecological Stewardship, and Fire Education

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Goals of Project: The FUELSAFE Project (Fuel-load Reduction, Ecological Stewardship, and Fire Education) aims to reduce hazardous fuel loads, improve forest health, and expand experiential learning opportunities for UC Berkeley students at Russell Research Station. The project focuses on shrub and small-tree removal, burn-pile creation, controlled burning support, and road restoration to increase wildfire resilience. FUELSAFE also seeks to enhance student engagement with land stewardship and long-term ecological management at a UC-owned research forest. 3) Website...

Eco Lobby Day

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A) Project Leaders: Bella Santos, Jackson Goulding, Maya Williams
B) Goals of Project: The Eco Lobbying Day will provide up to 30 passionate students with the opportunity to travel to Sacramento and advocate for environmental issues at the State Capitol, including but not limited to environmental justice, renewable energy, water, and land use. This project seeks to remove the barriers preventing many students from engaging in lobbying and provide selected students with hands-on legislative and policy experience. Program participants will partake in a...

ASUC Sustainable Campus Food System Designathon

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This designathon aims to empower students to share their voices on decisions about the campus food system, because it should be catered to their needs and values. The Pour Out Pepsi campaign pressures the UC Berkeley administration to end the exclusive pouring rights contract with PepsiCo due to its unsustainable and inequitable practices. There are currently discussions in the UCOP about establishing a UC system-wide exclusive pouring rights contract, likely with PepsiCo or Coca-Cola, demonstrating that they value profit over students. The food and beverage...

Berkeley Student Food Collective Sustainable Business and Development Internship Program

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Interns will be hired to investigate and promote the long-term financial and environmental viability of the BSFC. The four positions will be Storefront Sustainability intern, Real Food Advocacy intern, Community Relations intern, and Financial Viability intern.

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Student Organic Gardening Association Intern Program

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The SOGA Intern Program provides the student organic garden with a continuity of management during the summer season, which will support continued education outreach and garden maintenance. The program further addresses SOGA's mission of promoting sustainable food systems through hands-on education and community education.

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Wine Barrel Composting

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The Anaerobic Digestion Project within ESW aims to build an anaerobic digester that will efficiently convert food waste into methane, the principle component of natural gas. Compared to other hydrocarbons, burning methane as fuel produces less carbon dioxide for each unit of heat released. Additionally, a byproduct of anaerobic digestion is digestate, a nutrient rich natural fertilizer.

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Tiny House in My Backyard (THIMBY)

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THIMBY’s objective is to design an innovative affordable and sustainable tiny house that can serve as a seed for a neighborhood of similarly minded design and build projects from UC Berkeley and the surrounding community.

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Sustainability in the Greek Community

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The Sustainability in the Greek Community team will install water aerators, motion sensor light switches, and LED lighting in order to improve energy efficiency and decrease water consumption.

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