Theme: Education & Behavior Change

The Free Little Library which will be installed at Clark Kerr Campus where adults and children alike come to walk their dogs or sit and enjoy the sun, hopes to bridge the gap left behind by the closing of public libraries.

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Grant funding will be used to hire a student to produce supplementary video and still photography documentation of the City of Berkeley Climate Coalition Multi-Family Working Group's (MFWG) pilot multi-family housing energy retrofit program. The video and photo documentation of the process will be edited and compiled into an efficient but thorough step-by-step instructional tool for multi-family home retrofits- many UC Berkeley students live in multi-family homes in the city of Berkeley.

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The goal of this project is to maintain the energy and engagement of the Land Use Working Group (LUWG) as a representative campus and community body, effectively incorporate LUWG recommendations into the Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) process, improve the process of LRDP outreach and review to be more transparent and inclusive, and institutionalize the LUWG recommendations so that they will be implemented in future LRDP processes as well.

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Campus land use decisions are structured through campus planning documents, namely the Landscape Master Plan and the Long Range Development Plan (LRDP). The Campus Sustainability Plan also includes language related to development of the physical campus. Case by case decisions are made by campus administration including planners, the campus landscape architect, and the campus architect. These plans have been written with commitments to environmental sustainability, but lack social sustainability elements such as equity and...