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Creating and Maintaining Public Archives: Green Fund Website Redesign
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
With help from our Student Union Marketing Team, The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) at UC Berkeley has entirely rebuilt its website on a new platform, creating a public archive of ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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University of Californiac's RFI for Campus-initiated Offsets & the Offset Network Peer Verification
- Duke University (NC)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- Second Nature (MA)
The Offset Network is an online platform for colleges and universities considering the development of their own emission-reducing projects to fulfill carbon neutrality commitments. Self-generated offsets offer greater flexibility than ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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TRUE Zero Waste Platinum Certification, Chou Hall
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Connie and Kevin Chou Hall is the newest building addition to the UC Berkeley Haas Business School. It is the first academic building in the world to achieve US Green ...
- Posted May 20, 2019
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Geospatial Information Science and Technology Graduate Certificate
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) provides an academic structure for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas around geospatial information and analysis. Geographic information science and technology ...
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Environmental Law (JD)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Environmental Law Program offers students opportunities to take a broad range of courses in the environmental and energy field and to engage in cutting-edge research and writing. It also ...
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Environmental Engineering (MS)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Management of environmental resources to protect human health and the systems that support life is one of the biggest challenges facing modern society. In recognition of the interdisciplinary nature of ...
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate (MS)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Energy, climate, and infrastructure systems are closely tied together, and these connections manifest in many forms. Our society cannot function without energy and infrastructure systems. Energy systems with the lowest ...
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Students of Color Environmental Conference
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The first ever Students of Color Environmental Conference (SCECon) was intended to bring together students of color from across California to connect and build with local environmental justice activists. This ...
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Environmental Health Science (MS)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
MS students in the Environmental Health Sciences division are trained to make research and technical contributions to the field of environmental health science. The EHS MS educational objectives are to ...
- Posted May 13, 2019
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Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (PhD)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Ph.D. program consists of four interrelated components: disciplinary emphasis, an area of specialization, research methods, and breadth requirement. The course work program is developed by the Guiding Committee ...
- Posted May 13, 2019
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Energy & Resources and Juris Doctor (MA/JD or MS/JD)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Energy & Resources Group (ERG) and the U.C. Berkeley School of Law offer a four-year concurrent Master’s and Juris Doctor (J.D.) program. Applicants must apply and be ...
- Posted May 13, 2019
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Public Policy and Energy Resources (MPP/MS or MPP/MA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Energy and Resources Group (ERG) and the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) offer a concurrent degree program that integrates the strengths of public policy analytical tools with the interdisciplinary ...
- Posted May 13, 2019
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Energy and Resources (MA/MS)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The purpose of the ERG Master’s program is to educate the next generation of interdisciplinary leaders. Specifically, students are taught the range of methods and subjects they should be ...
- Posted May 13, 2019
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Energy and Resources (PhD)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Energy and Resources Group (ERG) doctoral students work across disciplines and departments to create transformative knowledge for the planet and its people. As one of the first interdisciplinary programs in ...
- Posted May 13, 2019
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Buddhist Economics
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Clair Brown, an economist at UC Berkeley and a practicing Buddhist, has developed a holistic economic approach, where the economy delivers a high quality of life in a sustainable world ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2019
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Chancellor's Green Fund Grant
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The annual CACS Sustainability Innovation Grants program enables members of the UC Berkeley campus community to undertake projects that will create a greener, more environmentally sustainable campus -- while saving resources ...
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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The Green Initiative Fund
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) is UC Berkeley’s Campus Green Fund. TGIF provides funding, via grants, for projects that improve and support UC Berkeley’s campus sustainability efforts. TGIF ...
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Teaching students the complexity of green chemistry and assessing growth in attitudes and understanding
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Green chemistry emerged over the past several decades as an important component of chemical education. Many different types of educational materials have been created to teach students the 12 Principles ...
- Posted Dec. 11, 2018
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Integrated Plastics Recycling and Research Facility at UC Berkeley
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Zero Waste Research Center at UC Berkeley is working to create the first Plastics Recycling Facility at UC Berkeley. This facility, located at the Global Bay Campus in Richmond ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Can You Dig It?: Integrating Vermicomposting at UC Berkeley
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Our project was initially inspired by the work in progress at the CSU - Sacramento Sustainable Technology Optimization Research Center (STORC). They are implementing a new processing system for their campus ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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University Zero Waste Research Center Networking Session
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The student-led Zero Waste Research Center at UC Berkeley works to create circular economies on the UC Berkeley campus by investigating innovative upstream and downstream solutions to campus waste problems ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Accessible and Ethical E-Waste: Adaptability in Infrastructure
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
This presentation is a case study on implementing an accessible and ethical e-waste system in UC Berkeley, where previously no affordable options had been available to students despite the hundreds ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Celebrating Anniversaries: Reflecting and Adapting within Campus Green Funds
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Adaptability is key for any successful program. In spring of 2016, students renewed The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) at UC Berkeley for an additional 10 years, celebrating 10 years of ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Food Service Contracts and RFPs as Vehicle for Sourcing More Sustainable Food
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Vermont (VT)
- Farm Forward (OR)
College and universities need new strategies to scale sustainable food procurement. Programs like STARS and the Real Food Challenge have institutionalized sustainable food purchasing targets and many campuses have made ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Moving Past Tokenization: Integrating Social Equity Internally and Programmatically
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
What does environmental justice programming really look like in higher education? How do we avoid tokenization of marginalized groups within the environmental movement and move beyond buzzwords such as diversity ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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How to Design an Annual Report People Actually Read
- Pomona College (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
Have you struggled with keeping up with annual reporting for your sustainability program? Are you somebody who's on top of their annual reporting but feel like nobody reads your ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Reel Sustainability: Connecting to Audiences Through Video Storytelling
- Princeton University (NJ)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of North Carolina, Asheville (NC)
- University of Montana (MT)
- Emory University (GA)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Central New Mexico Community College (NM)
From television commercials to YouTube, Snapchat, and even Facebook Live, it's no secret that video has become a staple of our everyday lives. Video provides an easy and efficient ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Environmental Justice Grant Funding: Piloting Equity Efforts in Campus Green Funds
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) at UC Berkeley has a 10-year history of funding environmental sustainability projects for its campus community; however, the program has not specifically prioritized environmental justice ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Approaches to Carbon Offset Procurement
- Colgate University (NY)
- Duke University (NC)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- Second Nature (MA)
This presentation will feature a diversity of institutions and their approaches to carbon offset procurement in pursuit of carbon reduction goals. The institutions represented on this panel share the perspective ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Greening the Lab (and Beyond!) A Guide to Applying Green Chemistry to Practical Settings and Creating Displays to Spread the Word
- Cornell University (NY)
- Harvard University (MA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (WI)
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Not all chemistry laboratories are created equal. Broken fume hoods, confusing waste beakers, and distillations that have been running (as far as anyone can tell) since the lab bench was ...
- Posted Oct. 10, 2018
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Forestry and Natural Resources Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
A minor in Forestry and Natural Resources is for students who are interested in learning about the conservation and restoration of the earth's natural resources through hands-on study of ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Environmental Earth Science Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Environmental Earth Science minor focuses broadly on the natural sciences, using earth science as a base to expand outward. Interrelationships are key to this course of study and the ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Environmental Engineering Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Environmental Engineering Science (EES) minor is an interdisciplinary program pairing engineering fundamentals with courses in the environmental and natural sciences. The EES curriculum provides a broader foundation in the ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Environmental Economics & Policy Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Students may pursue a minor in Environmental Economics and Policy as an adjunct to their chosen major field. This program offers interested students an opportunity to explore aspects of economic ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Conservation and Resource Studies Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Conservation and Resource Studies is an interdisciplinary program designed for those who are interested in environmental issues and areas of interaction among natural resources, population, energy, technology, societal institutions, and ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Sustainable Design Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Sustainable design implies making decisions at various scales of the built environment (buildings, communities, land use patterns, urban support systems) in ways that support environmental quality, social equity, and economic ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Sustainable Environmental Design (BA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The sustainable environmental design major recognizes that the emergent, multidisciplinary field of sustainability science is growing rapidly. As the world population urbanizes, the planning and design of resilient, resource-efficient, healthy ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) at UC Berkeley
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
SERC is a collaborative space to strengthen the collective effectiveness of the sustainability community, and provides resources for students to actualize their vision of a more equitable, socially just, and ...
- Posted May 21, 2018
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Pedagogical methods for sustainable development: business educational projects generating direct impact on stakeholders through fundraising and fund management
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Duquesne University (PA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- Universidade Federal Fluminense
Business Schools have faced the challenge of emphasising ethics and sustainability by developing students as professionals able to meet current sustainability needs. To date, there is limited practical guidance in ...
- Posted March 29, 2018
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Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI)
- Yale University (CT)
- Maastricht University
- University of Toronto (ON)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Hamburg
- Columbia University (NY)
- Tsinghua University
- University of Cambridge
- University College London (London)
- University of Zurich
- University of Oxford
- University of Otago (Otago)
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Stockholm School of Economics
- Central University of Finance and Economics
- Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
- Imperial College London
The Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment was founded in 2017 by a network of global research universities in order to promote rigorous and highly impactful academic research ...
- Posted March 14, 2018
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North American College/University Market Carsharing Impacts: Results from Zipcar’s College Travel Study 2015
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- Zipcar (MA)
In partnership with Zipcar, researchers at UC Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), conducted a survey of collegiate Zipcar members to better understand the impact that carsharing has on ...
- Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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Transportation Sustainability Research Center
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Transportation Sustainability Research Center was formed to study the economic, social, environmental, and technological aspects of sustainable transportation.
- Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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College Students' Emissions “Foodprint”: Can Eco-Labels Shift Diet Types?
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Due to the higher greenhouse gas emissions from livestock food production compared to plant-based food production, it is imperative that consumers shift their diets away from meat. One possible method ...
- Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
- Brown University (RI)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
We characterize rates of intergenerational income mobility at each college in the United States using administrative data for over 30 million college students from 1999-2013. We document four results. First ...
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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80 kW Rooftop Array: Jacobs Hall
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The cutting edge solar system on Jacobs Hall will do more than just help the Institute control its electricity bills: the 80 kW system is also estimated to reduce the ...
- Posted Dec. 12, 2016
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Universities and Climate Change Mitigation: Advancing Grassroots Climate Policy in the US
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- ICF International (VA)
While US climate change mitigation policy has stalled at the national level, local and regional actors are increasingly taking progressive steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Universities are poised ...
- Posted Dec. 2, 2016
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Green Funds: How Students Use Their Money to Build a Better Campus and Community
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Utah (UT)
This session covers 2 case studies: A green fund at UC Berkeley and a student-driven Revolving Loan Fund at the University of Utah 1. The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) is ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Beyond Buzzwords: Deconstructing Justice within Sustainability
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become tokenized buzzwords within sustainability in higher education. As sustainability professionals, how do we deconstruct these words to the systemic issues of racial, ethnic, economic ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Beyond the Campus: Developing Students into Employable Graduates
- Lehigh University (PA)
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Recent research suggests that 87% of employers give positive weight to sustainability skills when making hiring decisions. The concept of 'green careers' continues to expand as a professional niche including ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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