The TGIF Committee is currently reviewing the 2013 TGIF grant submissions with plans to announce the recipients early May. TGIF successfully launched its first mini-grant program this fall, awarding $17,525 to 12 projects. To date, TGIF has awarded $1.3 million to 82 projects. Over 165 student internships have been funded through these projects. Some visible
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UC Berkeley’s PowerSave Campus program and The Green Initiative Fund have published a guide to direct student groups through the process of creating and running energy-savings competitions within college or university Greek systems. The guide is based on Green Cup, a Greek energy-savings competition at the university.
I recently went to see environmental author and 350.org co–founder Bill McKibben speak in Berkeley, California as part of his new “Do the Math” campaign*. I have heard McKibben speak multiple times—the first being my senior year when he spoke at BC for a Lowell Humanities Series lecture. He successfully convinced BC to be one
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Kelley Doyle, who graduated from UC Berkeley in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, was recently honored by AASHE with the Student Research on Campus Sustainability Award for her senior research project “Converting university spending to greenhouse gas emissions: A supply chain carbon footprint analysis of UC Berkeley”. While a student at
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UC Berkeley was awarded honors last week at the 2012 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference held at UC Davis. PowerSave Green Campus and Greening the Greeks took home the award for “Best Student Energy Efficiency Program” for their TGIF-sponsored Green Cup Competition. UC Berkeley also took home awards in the “Best Overall Sustainable Design” category for the Energy
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