Completed Projects

These projects have been completed and are no longer being directly funded by TGIF.

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...

Farmworker Justice: Creating Future Researchers to Uplift Farmworker Voices on Climate Change

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The primary goal of this project is to expand student participation in farmworker justice research and to provide interested undergraduate students with the opportunity to engage with farmworker communities in the broader Bay Area. Through this project, students will acquire hands-on experience with environmental justice research methods and practice as they travel to farmworker communities, participate in local advocacy and community building efforts, and conduct interviews with workers to learn more about their experiences with climate changes. The goal is to...

Fallen to Functional: Community Spaces from Campus Wood Waste

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A) Jack Van Thyne
B) Fallen to Functional: Community Spaces from Campus Wood Waste is a design-build project that turns fallen campus trees into outdoor furniture for student gathering spaces. The project offers a more sustainable and locally sourced alternative to the plastic and metal benches typically purchased from third-party suppliers.
By reusing wood that would otherwise be discarded, the project reduces waste, lowers environmental impact, and highlights UC Berkeley’s natural landscape. Each piece will include a small plaque describing where the...

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...

BARE Necessities Exchange Shop

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A) Project Leaders: Dr. Amari McGee, Amada Madrigal
B) Goals of Your Project: To provide accessible and gently used clothing and essentials to student residents and their families, fostering confidence, comfort, and a culture of giving and sustainability through donations and reuse.
C) Optional: a link to your website or social media presence: BARE YouTube page"

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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...

Strawberry Creek Ecological Stabilization Project

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This Ecological Stabilization Project will help Strawberry Creek regain ecological stability by applying basic LID strategies and habitat restoration measures. Grant funding will finance the design phase of the project.

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Solar Powering Cal

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Solar Powering Cal will ensure student engagement in the campus efforts to install solar on selected campus buildings and will make TGIF a key partner in solar as new reality at UC Berkeley. TGIF will also play a role in the larger regional effort to bring over 100 solar PV installations to public agency sites around the bay area.

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SPROUTS

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SPROUTS, or Student Projects Redefining Our University's Trash, Sustainably, will be a waste education and outreach team focused on events, education campaigns, working with Overstock and Surplus, and teaching a standardized campus waste audit.

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Refills Not Landfills

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Refills not Landfills will collaborate with local beverage sellers to create a stamp card that can be used by customers who bring their own mugs. Each time a customer BYOM's s/he will receive a stamp and work towards a free drink, with a goal of incentivizing customers to "refill" or reuse, not "landfill".

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