Mini Projects (<$5K)

UVA Community Garden

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Tim Cumagun, Ben Carmeli

Goals:

Improve on-site composting of garden waste and waste generated at the local pantry by installing an aerated static composting system.

Produce biologically rich compost for the garden community.

Reduce organic waste from ending up in the landfill.

Share compost use and composting education with the garden community.

https://www.instagram.com/ucvillagegarden

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Tending the Oaks: Community Learning for a Resilient Landscape

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The project will provide nature-based, experiential learning opportunities to K–12 students in lower socioeconomic status neighborhoods, assist in training UC Berkeley students in community engagement and outreach efforts relating to land stewardship and sustainability, and, lastly, help support ongoing oak regeneration efforts in a savannah woodland habitat. These goals will be mainly implemented during the spring semester of 2026.

Instagram: blueoakranchreserve and berkeleyreserves

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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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Stooping Club

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A) Project Leaders
Stooping Club Berkeley Project Leaders: William Chui, Lucas Du, and Inesh Gupta

B) Goals of the Project

Stooping Club is the world’s first free online chain store. Its vision is to transform society's throwaway culture into a reuse culture and build the circular economy. Through its international network of 16 student-run stores across six countries, Stooping Club seamlessly diverts useful items from landfill to good homes. tackling the growing waste crisis and the lack of affordable access to household items. By listing...

Self-Healing Sustainable Concrete using Saturated Recycled Aggregates

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b) The goal of the project is to develop recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) that have a high self-healing capacity while retaining mechanical properties for implementation in construction projects in order to reduce carbon emissions and material waste. Once we have an RCA that satisfies parameters we will develop replicable and cost effective procedures that can be used in industry.

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Reviving Native Habitats Through Student Mentorship Project

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B) This project aims to create native pollinator habitat, restore oak woodland habitat, and provide stewardship training opportunities for UC Berkeley students. These goals would be implemented primarily in winter and spring, approximately from January to May 2026.

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Restoring Creek of UC Berkeley

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A. Project Leaders
Miranda Monge and Sharon Harichandran, Environmental Specialists with the Office of Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S)
B. Goals of Your Project
The Office of Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) oversees environmental programs, including water quality, watershed protection, and the Strawberry Creek Restoration Program (SCRP). For over a decade, EH&S staff, SCRP student interns, and volunteers have collaborated to protect natural resources on campus.
Several creeks flow through the University, including Strawberry...

Promoting Accessibility and Creating Community for Student Volunteers in Sustainable Community Farms

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This project aims to create more accessible pathways for students to engage with the practice and principles of Agroecology outside the classroom, without barriers-to-entry (be it financial, social, or physical). It hopes to foster a critical community, which challenges the predominant industrial framework of agriculture, and reimagines student relationships to land and local communities.

In order to realize these goals, it intends to create a digital Agroecological Action Resource Center (AARC) along with an Agroecology Action Group - Agroecology...

Haas Wonderfil Station

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Introduce Wonderfil station to our UC Berkeley and Haas community, eliminating single-use plastic, and providing quality sustainable inexpensive basic need products.

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