User:Eekiv/sandbox/Sustainability at UC Berkeley

To-do

 * CalCAP and other admin stuff (including partnerships)
 * GETH
 * 2012 TGIF Grants
 * Migrate everything added on mirrors onto here (excludes some structural changes)
 * Finalize proposal
 * If time permits: Begin information on Strawberry Creek restoration efforts

Questions and notes

 * How could I structure this article to make it inclusive to pre-2003 sustainability/environmentalism at UCB?

Incorporated into main UCB Mirror
NOTE: Final language can be found on the UCB Mirror!

Cal Dining
(see also: housing page, which I think has dining stuff)  Cal Dining, UC Berkeley's residential dining program, offers students optional dining plans every year. The program has four dining commons with Alameda County Bay Area Green Business Certification. These include Crossroads dining commons, Clark Kerr dining commons; Foothill dining commons; and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Cafe. In 2006, Crossroads became the first university kitchen in the United States to become certified organic by the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF), an organic certification process founded in the United States in 1973. Since then Clark Kerr, Foothill and Café 3 dining commons have introduced an organic salad bar.  In 2011, UC Berkeley's Cal Dining became the first public university dining program in the United States to earn international Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Chain of Custody certification. This certification is granted to institutions that serve seafood that has been caught following sustainable harvesting practices, and processed and distributed through entities that only partner with sustainable fisheries.
 * This section can be suuuuuper expanded See: http://caldining.berkeley.edu/community.html
 * Campus Recycling and Refuse Services (compost info)

Transportation
meh? Already including BicyCal in TGIF. Maybe a see also:whatever's in Category:Public_transportation_in_Alameda_County,_California?

Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS)
In 2003, then-Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl founded the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS), a committee of faculty, staff, students and alumni charged with advising the Chancellor on university policies and practices toward sustainability and the environment. That year, the committee founded the UC Berkeley Sustainability Summit, a yearly overview of campus sustainability initiatives, attended by members of the campus community. During the 2003 summit, the university announced the creation of the Campus Sustainability Assessment. The assessment is a yearly review of campus sustainability initiatives, including an audit of the university's environmental impact (include something about before/after audits of measurable improvements by sustainability projects?) and suggested areas of improvement (include info on how these outlined areas are guidelines for Green Grants program). During the same summit, Chancellor Berdahl announced the creation of the Chancellor's Green Campus Fund, a (donor gift channel) that dedicates funds toward sustainability projects on campus. The fund allows the creation of Green Grants, which are awarded on a competitive basis to campus community members who outline projects that address areas for improvement as identified through the Sustainability Assessment.  In 2004, the CACS initiated the Berkeley Environmental Alumni Network (BEAN), an alumni network that focuses upon philanthropy and professional networking within the sustainability arena.

Cal Climate Action Partnership (CalCAP)
In 2006, then-Chancellor Robert Birgeneau created the Cal Climate Action Partnership (CalCAP), an initiative by the university to reduce its green house gas emissions and reach the goal of “carbon neutrality” in accordance with the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). (include desired percentage)
 * Climate Action Fund

Partnerships

 * PG&E info
 * State-wide CSU/UC/IOU partnership
 * AASHE info

Incorporated into the Research Mirror
''The whole page needs to be revamped, which is a task unto itself. This is an incomplete mirror.''

Research programs

 * The Graduate Group in Energy and Resources, commonly referred to as "ERG", is a cross-disciplinary graduate group dedicated to research in the sustainability arena.
 * Harte Lab
 * Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory
 * Transportation Sustainability Research Center
 * Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Earth Sciences Division

Societies, etc.

 * Engineering and Business for Sustainability
 * Environmental Law Society (Boalt)
 * GSSP Environmental Policy Group
 * Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry

Research spaces

 * Gill Tract
 * UC Berkeley Student Garden, maintained by the Student Organic Gardening Association (SOGA) (member of the Berkeley Ecology Center's Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative)
 * Genetics and Plant Biology Field

LEED certification
UC Berkeley currently has 7 LEED-certified buildings on campus: the Haste St. Early Childhood Education Center (Silver), Clark Kerr Campus (Gold-2) , Morgan Hall Laboratory (Gold) , Durant Hall (Silver), Blum Hall: Naval Architecture Building (Silver), University Village family student housing (certified).