The Green Initiative Fund at UC Berkeley will be thoroughly represented at the 2013 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference. Five TGIF projects have been selected to presented and one project will be receiving a Best Practices Award.
The following presentations have been selected to present:
- Zero Waste Research Center: Developing Upstream Solutions
- Break the Mode: Sustainable Campus Transportation
- Nature Village, Sustainable Student Family Housing
- UC Berkeley’s Zero Waste Pilot Project (Wurster Hall Waste Management Project)
- Institutionalizing Composting on a University Campus: UC Berkeley’s Compost Alliance
Congratulations to PowerSave Campus at UC Berkeley for winning the 2013 Student Energy Efficiency Best Practice Award for its TGIF funded project Fight the Flow. The Berkeley PowerSave Team will receive their award in June at the 2013 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference. This is the 2nd year in a row Berkeley PowerSave has won the award for leading a TGIF funded project. The 2012 Award was for Green Cup Competition.
CHESC 2013 will be held at UC Santa Barbara June 23rd-26th. Registration details can be found here.