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Energy Investments
The UCSB Foundation has $118,216,000 in assets as of June 30th, 2011, which includes long-term and short-term investments. Not including short-term investments, the total assets are equal to $106,782,000. The total value of the assets of the UCSB endowment held by the UC Regents is $93,227,000 (also as of June 30th, 2011). The UCSB Foundation invests mostly in funds/groups of investments rather than in individual companies. The companies included in each fund/group of investments fluctuates with the market. Approximately $3.1 million of the Foundation's investments are direct investments towards major sectors (e.g. healthcare); however, individual companies are selected by their financial advisers, Goldman Sachs.

According to the UC General Endowment Pool (GEP) Holdings as of December 31, 2011, the UC system has shares in 7 of the top 25 oil producing companies according to Forbes report on 7/16/2012. These include Gazprom (ranked number 2), Pemex (ranked number 8), Petrobras (ranked number 14), Statoil (ranked number 20), and Petroleos (ranked number 22). There are also holdings in Tengizchevroil, which is jointly owned by Chevron (ranked number 9), ExxonMobil (ranked number 4), Kazmunaygas, and LukArco. The UC GEP also has shares in the number one American coal producing company, Peabody.

Education Engagement
UCSB has goals set for the undergraduate student curriculum including short term, mid-term, and long term goals. Short term goals include, promote existing courses related to climate change, assess current sustainability related co-curricular activities available to students to identify critical gaps, expand on the current UCSB Speaker’s Bureau to better address Climate Change.

Mid-term goals include expand on existing interdisciplinary research collaborations, create a Climate Change identification in the UCSB course catalog, develop a funding source to encourage the development of courses related to climate change, develop a climate change student peer educators program, highlight existing climate change demonstration projects on campus and develop new demonstrations to use as curricular tools.

Long-term goals initiate a long term strategy to maintain and grow our environmental science and climate change research faculty, develop a fellowship program for undergraduate and graduate researchers working on climate change, document climate change curriculum and share with other universities globally, develop 2-3 new large-scale demonstration projects that would engage campus researchers, link to curriculum, and set UCSB in a leadership position beyond peer institutions.

Sustainability
To name a few of the many UCSB sustainibility programs. Building Standards: Completed two LEED-EBOM Gold certifications: San Clemente Villages and Ellison Hall, both under the Portfolio Program, for a total of 12 LEED-EB buildings on campus, more than any college or university in the nation (note: UCSB now has 43 LEED certifications in place). Transportation Actions: 94% of UCSB students commute to and from campus using alternative transportation methods

Waste Diversion: UCSB achieved our goal of a 75% waste diversion rate by 2012 and is moving forward with our goal of being a zero waste campus by 2020. This goal was established in the UC Policy on Sustainable Practices.

Economic Actions: Approximately $500, 000 each year is collected through student lock-in fees and distributed through student-run foundations (The Green Iniative Fund (TGIF) and the Coastal Fund. In addition to these two funds, the Renewable Energy Initiative will generate nearly $3.4 million dollars through student lock in fees by the time it sunsets in 2020.