Small Projects (>$10K)

These projects received less than $10,000 from TGIF.

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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Pedaling Towards Zero Waste

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Pedaling Towards Zero Waste would fund a hybrid human-electric powered Truck Trike to be used by ReUSE, CRRS, and other licensed and trained campus individuals for pick-ups and deliveries of reusable materials or during sustainability related projects.

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Cal CAP 2.0 Internships

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Cal CAP 2.0 will support three important student climate related internships. The work the students will perform will be integral to the campus setting its next greenhouse gas emissions target, to informing the next campus Climate Action Plan, and to achieving our CalCAP education objectives.

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Berkeley Student Food Collective Sustainable Business and Development Internship Program

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Interns will be hired to investigate and promote the long-term financial and environmental viability of the BSFC. The four positions will be Storefront Sustainability intern, Real Food Advocacy intern, Community Relations intern, and Financial Viability intern.

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Telegraph Green, Phase I

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This project will train students in green business certification, leverage the training to help south campus area student-serving businesses obtain green business certification, and promote green business consumer decisions via outreach in the campus community.

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SERC Mobile App

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SERC and Chinook Book have teamed up to create a sustainable living and educational mobile app that is available for FREE to all UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty. The app provides resources and discounts: events, jobs, links to sustainability organizations, and over 200 mobile coupons from sustainable local merchants.

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Tiny House in My Backyard (THIMBY)

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THIMBY’s objective is to design an innovative affordable and sustainable tiny house that can serve as a seed for a neighborhood of similarly minded design and build projects from UC Berkeley and the surrounding community.

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Sustainability in the Greek Community

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The Sustainability in the Greek Community team will install water aerators, motion sensor light switches, and LED lighting in order to improve energy efficiency and decrease water consumption.

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Mobile Hydroponic Unit (formerly Dual Flush in Cooperatives)

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In the midst of one of California’s most severe droughts in history, Berkeley Flow of the ASUC Sustainability Team will convert existing toilets in the Cloyne Student Cooperative into dual-flush toilets via retrofit kits. This project will serve as a first step in a plan to implement dual-flush toilets into Student Cooperatives beyond Cloyne.

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Bulk Bins

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In the hopes of furthering UC Berkeley towards its goal of Zero Waste by 2020, the Bulk Bin project, a collaboration between Cal Dining, Building Sustainability at Cal and the Zero Waste Research Center, will introduce bulk food dispensers in 4 on-campus retail locations.

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