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No More Down the Drain

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Install a sand and sediment trap to reduce and recycle clay and glazes.

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Lower Sproul Plaza Redevelopment Eco-Charette

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Incorporate an Eco-charrette into the Lower Sproul Plaza Master Plan & Feasibility Study.

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University Hall: Going Green!

Project Description Make University Hall LEED certified. Project Links

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Healthy You for a Healthy University / I Heart Tap Water

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Promote tap water with a public information campaign and distribute free bottles.

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Building Sustainability at Cal

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Trains students to reduce environmental footprint in service learning classes and internships.

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Student Internships for Jump-Starting the Office of Sustainability

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Create an office that will champion and implement various sustainability activities on campus.

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UC Berkeley Campus Dashboard

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Developed a centralized database, website, and visualizations that aggregate resource consumption data at UC Berkeley.

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Fannie Lou Hamer Farm Project

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The Fannie Lou Hamer Farm Project is a Black, student-led initiative organizing around Black wellness and land-based learning and healing on and around campus. We are exploring the intersections of Black liberation and ecological justice through agroecological and Afro-Indigenous land-stewardship practices. Our goals are to (1) increase access to land and food, especially for Black students (2) provide land-based education in topics such as regenerative agriculture, food systems, agroecology, and Black agrarian histories (3) promote connection between people...

Connie and Kevin Chou Hall Zero Waste Certification

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In 2017, Haas unveiled its newest building, the Connie & Kevin Chou Hall, an 80,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility dedicated to student learning. The building embodies Haas’s defining principles: Question the Status Quo, Confidence without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself. Designed for LEED Platinum and WELL certifications, Connie & Kevin Chou Hall will also be the first business school building registered to attain Zero Waste certification by Summer 2018. The building will serve as a model for environmental sustainability...

Healing the Pavement on Campus

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Recycling concrete offers a sustainable path for pavement maintenance. Massive concrete wastes are generated in the civil and environmental engineering (CEE) structural laboratory every year because of undergraduate education and scientific research demand. The existing waste concrete disposal such as “landfill” is expensive ($400/ton) and unsustainable. This project aims at wasted concrete recycling for campus infrastructure repairing, mainly focusing on the maintenance of cracked pavements, to fulfill a win-win situation for both the CEE department and Berkeley...