Theme: Education & Behavior Change

These projects focus on environmental justice or sustainability education, behavior change, or other large-scale marketing campaigns to support campus sustainability goals. 

Sustainable Food and Farming Systems Education Mentorship Project

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The Berkeley Food Institute is an interdisciplinary research, education, and policy institute that works with communities on and off campus to advance a just and sustainable food and farm system. Our project, “Sustainable Food and Farming Systems Education Mentorship Project,” develops a replicable mentorship program supporting undergraduate and graduate students studying sustainable food and farming systems, providing wraparound support and targeted activities resulting...

Custodial Staff Outreach 2010-2011

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Conduct an outreach/education campaign between custodial staff and building occupants.

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Greening Kroeber Art Studios and Bathrooms

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Develop a design/marketing campaign to create awareness in Kroeber Hall about sustainability.

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Teaching, Learning, and Change (TLC)

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Create year-long career training and mentoring effort for students and staff.

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BERC Energy Symposium 2011

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Sponsor the 2011 UC Berkeley Energy Symposium, a clean energy conference.

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Sustainability Map Project

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Creation of an interactive web-based campus sustainability map.

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Talking Louder About Sustainability, Next Generation

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The Office is requesting TGIF funds for communication internships both for our current team for next year and the next generation of specialists for next two academic years.

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ASUC Green Certification

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Encouraging and educating student groups about ways their groups can reduce their environmental footprint both on and off-campus.

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Student Fellows Activating Campus

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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:...

Bechtel Terrace Technological and Educational Rooftop Garden

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The goals of this project are to pilot new technologies for rooftop gardening and to enrich educational experiences in environmental sustainability at Cal. The pace of research in the science and engineering of rooftop gardens has increased as urban agriculture has become increasingly popular over the last decade. These technologies have the potential to contribute in important ways to more green and equitable cities. A successful rooftop garden pilot study at the Bechtel Terrace site would be the first demonstration site at UC Berkeley for rooftop...