Abstract submissions for the 2012 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Conference are due Monday, April 23rd. This year’s conference is being held in Los Angeles October 14-17th. For more information, visit the AASHE 2012 website and check out the submitter’s packet.
Last October and November, Cal’s Greek community hosted its first energy savings competition between fraternities and sororities. Green Cup 2011 challenged 18 chapters to reduce their per-capita electricity and natural gas consumption while offering a $2,000 grand prize to fund a sustainability-related retrofit of the winning chapter house. The competition idea was incubated in ER
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Background: The Sustainability Map project received a 2011 TGIF grant to create an interactive web-based campus sustainability map for UC Berkeley. This project began as a class project in the Building Sustainability @ Cal service learning class, but has evolved into an independent initiative that could greatly increase the knowledge about and utilization of the many diverse aspects
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In celebration of International Women’s Day on Thursday (3/8), the Campus Bike Initiative invites you to join us for our Women on the Move workshop, an urban cycling empowerment workshop for women. We’ll be gathering on Thursday at noon on the 1st floor of Eshleman (ASUC senate chamber). Men outnumber women as bike commuters, in the
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February was quite the busy month for the Sustainable Laundry Campaign! Although Green Campus interns applied static cling stickers to all the washing machines and Laundry Tip posters to all the laundry rooms in the undergraduate campus housing Units 1 – 5 in January, that still left a huge segment of campus housing units untouched.
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