UC Berkeley Sustainability Co-Curricular Education 2014 Summary for the UC Global Climate Leadership Council

Co-curricular education, a sub-category within the Sierra Cool Schools Report, seeks to recognize institutions that provide their students with sustainability learning experiences outside the formal curriculum. Engaging in sustainability issues through co-curricular activities allows students to deepen and apply their understandings of sustainability principles. Institution-sponsored co-curricular sustainability offerings, often coordinated by student affairs offices, help integrate sustainability into the campus culture and set a positive tone for the institution. The following information has been synthesized from the annual UC Berkeley Campus Sustainability Report, the Student Environmental Resource Center records, and the UC Berkeley’s submissions to the Sierra Cool Schools Report. Student Sustainability Educators Programs

Residential Sustainability Program (RSP)

Cal Dining Sustainability Team

Building Sustainability at Cal

Student Environmental Resource Center Associates

Office of Sustainability Communications Associates

Global Environmental Theme House (GETH)

Student Organic Garden Association (SOGA)

DeCals: For-credit courses taught by students and sponsored by faculty o Cal Environmental Team o Communicating Sustainability o Cooperative Enterprise for Sustainable Futures o Creating a Sustainable Landscape: On-Campus Gardening o Extreme Energy Extraction in the 21st Century o Garden Leadership and Management o Impact Investing and Social Enterprises o Introduction to Sustainability & Environmentalism at UC Berkeley o Organic Gardening and Food Justice o Reading, Writing, and Realizing Watershed o Strawberry Creek Restoration DeCal o Sustainable Energy for a Greener Tomorrow o The Zero Waste Movement o Thirst: Global Discourses on Water and Human Rights

Student Sustainability Internship Programs

The Green Initiative Fund

Student Environmental Resource Center

Office of Sustainability & Energy

myPower

Campus Recycling and Refuse Services

Cal Dining Sustainability Team

Cal Energy Corps

Student Organic Garden Association

Berkeley Student Food Collective

Building Sustainability @ Cal Sustainability Grant Funding

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF)

CACS Innovation Grants

Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Student Services and Fees (CACSSF)

Big Ideas @ Berkeley

Green Certification Program for Student Organizations Student Sustainability Outreach Campaigns

PowerSave Campus Blackout Battles

UC Carbon Neutrality Group- Campus Conservation Nationals

myPower

Students Redefining Our University’s Trash, Sustainably (SPROUTS) Sustainability in New Student Orientation

ASUC Sustainability Team (STeam) video

STeam presentation at the International Student Orientation

Cal Summer Orientation (CalSO) Zero Waste Breakfasts and Lunches

Get Your Bearings: Calapalooza Student Activities Fair

Spring Calapalooza Student Activities Fair

Get Your Bearings: Career Center Open House for Environmental Careers Sustainability Outreach and Publications

UC Berkeley Sustainability Website

Campus Sustainability Annual Report

Campus Sustainability Walking Tour o http://sustainability.berkeley.edu/engage/green-campus-walking-tour

Office of Sustainability & Energy BrightGreen News

Office of Sustainability & Energy Facebook and Instagram accounts

myPower Energy Conservation Outreach Campaign

Berkeley Sustainability Community Meetings

Every Drop Counts Water Conservation Campaign

UC Berkeley Campus Recycling & Refuse Services Website

UC Berkeley Campus Recycling & Refuse Services Facebook account

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) Website

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) Facebook and Instagram accounts

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) Annual Report

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) Project Tour and Map o http://tgif.berkeley.edu/index.php/funded-projects/project-locations

Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) Website

Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) Blog

Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) Facebook and Twitter Accounts

Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) Newsletter

Berkeley Food Institute Website

Berkeley Food Institute Newsletter

Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC) Newsletter

PowerSave Campus Newsletter

Words of the Watershed Journal

Berkeley Science Review

Ecology Law Quarterly (ELQ)

The Little Green Book (RSP)

College of Natural Resources Poster Sessions o The Office of Instruction and Student Affairs sponsors two poster sessions each

year (fall and spring) at which CNR undergraduates present their research. Poster sessions give you the opportunity to explain and showcase your independent projects to a large audience.

Cal Dining Sustainable Food Signage

Berkeley Student Food Collective Sustainable Food Signage

Lawns to Meadows Conversions Signage

Sustainability articles published by UC Berkeley News Center, The Berkeleyan, and the Daily Cal

Student Groups

Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) Department of Sustainability

ASUC Sustainability Team (STeam)

Bay-Area Environmentally Aware Consulting Network (BEACN)

Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC)

Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative Undergraduate (BERCU)

Berkeley Environmental Economics and Policy Students (BEEPS)

Berkeley Environmental Law Society (ELS)

Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy (BOAA)

Berkeley Project (BP)

Berkeley Student Food Collective (BSFC)

Berkeley Water Group

Building Sustainability @ Cal (BS@C)

Cal Dining Sustainability Team

Cal Environmental Team

Cal Forestry Club

California Student Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG)

California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC) Representation

Climate and Health IdeaLab (CHIL)

Common Cause of Berkeley

Conservation and Resource Studies Student Organization (CRSSO)

Environmental Coalition (ECO)

Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) at Berkeley

Engineers Without Borders (EWB)

Environmental Coalition (ECO)

Environmental Consulting Group (ECG)

Environmental Science Student Association (ESSA)

EthiCAL Apparel

Feeding Forward

Fossil Free Cal (FFC)

Global Environment Theme House (GETH)

GradFood

Graduate Assembly Sustainability Committee

Greening the Greeks

Nature Village

Net Impact Berkeley

PowerSave Campus

Residential Sustainability Program (RSP)

ReUSE

Society for Conservation Biology (Berkeley Chapter)

Society of Engineering Sciences

Student Projects Redefining Our University's Trash Sustainably (SPROUTS)

Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity, and Sustainability (SEEDS)

Strawberry Creek Collective

Students for Environmental Education Development (SEED)

Student Organic Garden Association (SOGA)

Students Against Fracking at UC Berkeley (SAF)

Students for Economic and Environmental Justice (SEEJ)

Surfrider Foundation Club

Sustainable Environmental Designers Interacting Networking Connecting (SEDInc)

Watershed Stewardship Team

Words of the Watershed (WOW)

World Peace Buddhists (WPB) Organic Gardens

Student Organic Garden

Gill Tract Community Farm

Oxford Tract

Garden at the Global Environmental Theme House (GETH)

Mulford Hall Garden

Barker Hall Garden Model Room in a Residence Hall

N/A Themed Housing

Global Environmental Theme House (GETH): seminar includes learning from faculty and peers, mixed with career advising, but mostly we foster a forum for a meaningful exchange of ideas in a small group setting. We learn about green living, give back to our environment, grow as leaders, and form friendships that can last a lifetime.

o Program Requirements: GETH residents are expected to spend 2-4 hours a week engaged in

Theme Program activities including: Enrollment and active participation in the 2-unit seminar Natural

Resources 24/84: Global Environment Theme House (1 unit each semester)

Attendance at GETH meetings Participation in Theme Program events

o Seminar and events: The seminar is a 1 unit per semester, pass/no pass Freshman Seminar

class that meets once a week and is taught by College of Natural Resources faculty. Topics for the seminar relate to environmental action and research on and around the Berkeley campus. You can review a sample course syllabus to get an idea about the coursework and expectations. If you’re admitted to GETH, you will be given more

information about how to enroll in the class. Events include a wide variety of leadership and community-building

activities like dinners with faculty, study groups, and field trips.

Lothlorian Berkeley Student Cooperative o Lothlorien offers vegetarian and vegan food at all meals, as well as a kitchen

stocked with soy and almond milk, nutritional yeast, tofu, and other vegetarian foods. Meat is not allowed in the common spaces.

Cloyne Court Berkeley Student Cooperative- o The BSC's flagship co-op gives back to the community with community service

days, and also hosts several workshops every semester on cooperative living and social justice. Workshops are led by Cloyne residents and other co-opers, with topics including health, recycling and reuse, harm reduction, gardening, and cooking.

Nature Village: Sustainable Family Living at University Village o Nature Village is a multidisciplinary group of University Village resident

volunteers and campus sustainability students, staff and organizations working towards the goal of building a sustainable community at the University Village at UC Berkeley. Interested families join the Green Family Ambassadors program and participate in energy, waste, and water conservation and sustainability education initiatives.

Sustainable Enterprise

Berkeley Student Food Cooperative

Bay-Area Environmentally Aware Consulting Network (BEACN)

BicyCAL- Bicycle Cooperative at UC Berkeley

EthiCAL Apparel Sustainability Events

Sustainability Student Leaders Forum

SERC Film Series: Monthly environmental film screenings and dialogues with the films’ directors

SERC Career Series: Career Center Intro, How-to-Network event, Networking events, Career Expo

SERC Workshops: Monthly skills-based workshops and trainings

Social Greens: Monthly socials for the student sustainability community

SERC Events Calendar

Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS) Sustainability Summit

Earth Week and Earth Day (April)

Food Week and Food Day (October)

ASUC Environmental Candidate Forum (spring)

RecycleMania participation and Game Day Challenges (basketball and football)

BERC Energy Symposium

Berkeley Food Institute Events and Events Calendar o The Food Exchange Series o Diversified Farming Systems Roundtable Events o The Horace M. Albright Lecture In Conversation

Sustainability Town Halls

Nature Village Monthly Events Outdoors Programs

Cal Hiking and Outdoor Society (CHAOS)

Outdoor Adventures through Cal Recreational Sports Facility o Cal Adventures is the Outdoor Experiential Education Program at UC Berkeley.

Cal Logging Sports Themed Semester or Year

N/A