The Compost Alliance designs and implements campus building composting systems in collaboration with Physical Plant-Campus Services, which oversees both Custodial Services and Campus Recycling & Refuse Services. This system was piloted in 10 campus buildings and includes service, set-up, equipment, and educational outreach.
Latinx in their Element will be a project funding eight (8) student fellows to conduct environmental research projects during the academic year. This project was created with the
intention of supporting students as they explore the field of environmental sciences and guiding them in doing research on a specific element they are interested in. We will be hosting a series of workshops in order for research fellows to gain an understanding of the elements prior to conducting their own research. L&E has the intention of offering students...
Project Description This project will address several aspects of parking and the environmental impacts between pricing for permits and comparison of TDM programs to benchmark ourselves with developing a new transit and mobility plan to better serve the campus; finding out about impacts of an optional carbon offsetting program and fee, which may be optional to the user, to support additional mobility programs supported by findings of the LRDP but also the TDM strategic plan; identifying the correlation of students who commute to campus and making the case to the University about...
This project proposes a team of students in fellowship roles to develop and implement key priority strategies of the plans. Fellow positions include: Environmental Justice Fellowships: identifying how the OS can improve diversity, equity and inclusion in practices and policies; Air Travel Mitigation Program Fellow: activate a pilot mitigation program currently in design that proposes assessing a fee on air tickets to build a fund for projects that reduce carbon emissions on campus and promote more sustainable alternative travel; Sustainable Science Fellows:...
Demonstrate the comfort effects of heated/cooled chairs for UCB students, and also their energy benefit, in a total of three campus buildings. The goal is to encourage campus-wide adoption of PCS. The approach is: 1) design and fabricate 10 battery-powered heating/cooling cassettes that attach to chairs on UCB’s purchase list; 2) demonstrate comfort effects for students in a library and a common room in a dorm; 3) quantify the HVAC energy savings potential in one open-plan office space.
The Zero Waste Coalition (ZWC) is comprised of over a dozen organizations, both departmental and student-led, focused on waste-related work at UC Berkeley. Since its founding in 2019, ZWC efforts led by the Chair and Vice Chair include: Establishing and supporting the implementation of a Non-Essential Single Use Plastic Elimination Policy by 2030; Establishing and facilitating a Zero Waste Lab of undergraduate student researchers; Collaborating directly with the Student Environmental Resource Center and the Students of Color Environmental Collective (SCEC) to host...
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...
