STUDENTS FOR A GREENER BERKELEY
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Accomplishments 1. Sustainability Student Group Award 2. Recycled Paper Purchasing Campaign 3. Paper-Reuse Program: The OSC (One Side Clean) Project 4. Greening Your Campus Building 5. Green-Project Student Fee Referendum 6. GA Environmental Sustainability Committee 7. Sustainable Investments Working Group 8. “Sustainability Pledge Page” 9. Free Screening of "The Future of Food" |
1. Sustainability Student Group Award SGB is awarded the Sustainability Student Group Award at the 2006 Sustainability Summit hosted by CACS!! The Sustainability Awards are to recognize contributions by four different groups (student group, faculty and leadership, staff, and mixed student/staff/faculty) to each of the CACS goals: engage the campus in an ongoing dialogue about reaching environmental sustainability, integrate environmental sustainability with existing campus programs, and instill a culture of sustainable long-range planning and forward-thinking design. Awardees are selected by CACS members in each of the categories. Congratulations to SGB and thanks everyone for all the great work contributed!! Click here to see a photo of the award.
2. RECYCLED PAPER PURCHASING CAMPAIGN - Adoption of New Paper Purchasing Policy Beginning in the spring of 2005, we engaged campus administrators in a discussion about how to move the campus toward the universal purchase of 30% and then 100% recycled content paper. This dialogue helped to produce two major successes: - Recycled content paper was prioritized in recent negotiations with the University's preferred vendor for office supplies, Office Max. Now 30% recycled content paper is within 2% of the cost of virgin paper. - The campus Administration as well as UC Printing have adopted a policy to use at least 30% recycled content paper. For the Adminstration's annoucement of this new policy, see this letter and the fourth item in the campus press release page.
3. PAPER-REUSE PROGRAM: THE OSC PROJECT Since the start of this pilot project in Summer 05, we have designed and fabricated unique green bins purposed to facilitate paper re-use on campus. Nearly 100 bins are placed near printers and copiers across the campus , e.g., library, offices and residence halls, and they are being monitored to gauge their usage. Some of their locations are listed on the OSC page. SGB’s overarching goal with this project is for the bins to become as widely used and recognizable as the blue paper recycling bins, and to be utilized by the whole UC system.
4. GREENER HEARST MINING BUILDING SGB initiated a "Greening Hearst Mining Building" project in early 2006. Out of this came the formation of a student Sustainability Committee for Hearst Mining Building; the creation of a dish station to minimize disposable container use; internal can and bottle recycling; performing a waste and energy audit, and a building website explaining how to handle other forms of waste generated within the building. See the HMMB recycling website, and the "How To" page on greening campus buildings. This model has also been applied to the College of Chemistry.
5. GREEN-PROJECT STUDENT FEE REFERENDUM SGB helped initiate a $5/semester increase in student fees to generate over $200,000 per year for sustainability-related projects on campus. Passed April 2007.
6. GRADUATE ASSEMBLY - ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE In Fall 05, SGB put forth a resolution to the Graduate Assembly (GA, or graduate student student body government) proposing the formation of an Environmental Sustainability Committee designed to govern environmental sustainability within the GA, to encourage student groups funded by the GA to host green events and spend their funding in environmentally preferable ways, and to put forth resolutions encouraging the administration to switch to greener practices. The resolution passed unanimously and the committee is now fully integrated within the GA.
7. SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS WORKING GROUP SGB is responsible for the formation of this newly formed group dedicated to working with the university administration to responsibly invest and manage the university’s endowment.
8. “Sustainability Pledge Page” SGB created this page to encourage members of the campus and community to make one change in their lives to become more sustainable. To date over 70 pledges have been made.
9. FREE SCREENING OF "THE FUTURE OF FOOD" On Nov. 20, 2005, SGB along with Engineerings for a Sustainable World hosted a free screening of "The Future of Food" with guest speaker Ignacio Chapela at the Parkway Speakeasy Theatre in Oakland. There was a full house for the event - apparently a first for a Sunday Salon screening at the Parkway.
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