Fall Mini-Grants

We are working with campus Facilities (Theron Klos) and campus Risk (Morris Lever) to install a hive on the east side of the Student Services Building of the Haas campus. We are hoping that TGIF will help us upgrade to two hives. Additionally, we are asking for funds to build a pollinator garden to assure that the bees and other insects have access to food. Towards that, we would use these funds in part for tools to build and maintain the garden. Finally, our partner on this project, Bee Campus USA, would like to purchase educational books to use in their...

Tiny House in My Backyard (THIMBY) is an interdisciplinary team of 27 UC Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students designing and constructing affordable, ecologically sustainable, tiny homes. THIMBY 3.0, the third home constructed by the THIMBY organization, will be piloting Richmond’s “Tiny House on Wheels Pilot Project” ordinance, which the team recently helped renew, by constructing and leasing an affordable, net-zero-energy 240 sq ft. house in the backyard of a predetermined single-family residence in Richmond. In collaboration with the City...

As a senior studying Conservation with a focus on agroecology and rural development, I would like to incorporate the knowledge I have acquired from the past several years of classes on environmental justice as well as conversations from within the agroecology community on campus. 1. Garden for Ohlone foods and other Bay Area/Northern California indigenous foods would be added to the North American section. 2. There are various agroecological methods that could be replicated on a smaller scale within the garden as a display, including intercropping, no...

The ASUC Eco-Office is comprised of 7 departments, including Pour out Pepsi, UC Green New Deal, Environmental Education, Environmental Justice Campaigns, Eco-Community Development, Social Media & Graphics, and Legislative Affairs. Each is headed by directors who coordinate and organize their respective departments. The directors spend roughly 5-7 hours a week leading their department and performing tasks including attending senior staff meetings, hosting department meetings, maintaining logistics and organization of their department, etc....