UC Berkeley Sustainability Awards

If you are having troubles viewing the photo gallery, try downloading the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player.

From the Berkeleyan

At the well-attended and high-spirited summit, Chancellor Birgeneau presented five UC Berkeley Sustainability Awards to staff, students, and faculty for outstanding efforts to promote the campus’s environmental sustainability. Those honored were:

Lisa Bauer (Peg Skorpinski photo)

+ Lisa Bauer, manager of Campus Recycling and Refuse Services, called the "driving force behind sustainability at UC Berkeley ….Lisa has worked relentlessly over the years," the citation read, "to bring UCB to the forefront on all sustainable issues ... going way above and beyond ... to rally everyone’s abilities and enthusiasm to make significant, positive, and lasting changes."

+ A Cal Dining staff team, for its work to gain Green Business certification at Crossroads and Clark Kerr dining facilities. The facilities compost food waste (60 tons a year), recycle food packaging (350 tons a year), offer discounts for use of reusable mugs, and use biodegradable containers and unbleached napkins. (Update: The Crossroads facility since became the first Organic Certified dining hall in the country. CCOF - California Certified Organic Farmers)

+ Bill Berry, professor of earth and planetary science, for "exploring environmental issues with generations of Berkeley students." Berry was honored for "giving students the tools and inspiration to think about problems from a sustainability standpoint and fostering a culture of sustainability and forward-thinking design."

+ Mezies Chen, a December 2004 graduate of the College of Engineering, who worked with Parking and Transportation to implement a system to provide real-time information on the location of campus shuttle buses.

+ The ASUC Sustainability Team, for its work to advance the student government's work on such issues as energy use and food and paper waste.