General Sustainability Announcements

Join over 850 students, staff, faculty and administrators in California higher education to explore the ways in which Universities in California can implement social, environmental, and economic sustainability on their campuses statewide, prepare future generations for “green collar” jobs, and bring sustainability to campus practices, policies and contemporary culture.

Present your best practices and learn about innovations in campus operations, planning, design, curriculum, and research through the peer-to-peer network that is being built within the California State University (CSU), California Community College (CCC) and University of California (UC) systems.

Registration is now open. Please go to http://sustainability.calpoly.edu/ for more information and to reserve yourself a spot at the conference.

"Evening On Strawberry Creek" symposium will be held on Tuesday, April 22^nd, 2008, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on the U.C. Berkeley Campus at the Alumni House.

This is a free event, sponsored by UC Berkeley Office of Environment, Health & Safety and the Strawberry Creek Fund, and is open to all those interested in the preservation and restoration of the Strawberry Creek watershed with a focus on the UC portions of the creek.

The program:

6:00-6:30 Reception and refreshments

6:30-6:45 Introductions and update on recent restoration activities

6:45-7:05 Cal’s "New Century Plan" and major projects for riparian renewal

7:05-7:25 Student research on Strawberry Creek (presentations)

7:30-8:00 Panel discussion and Q&A on the future of Strawberry Creek

Our panel so far features Barry Hecht, Principal, Balance Hydrologics, Inc.; Susan Schwartz, President, Friends of Five Creeks; and UC Berkeley staff and faculty whose work focuses on the restoration and preservation of this precious natural resource, Strawberry Creek.

Seating at Alumni House is rather limited; to assist us in planning; RSVP. For further information and updates, go to the Strawberry Creek website at: http://strawberrycreek.berkeley.edu

From Protection to Empowerment: Policy Solutions to Ensure Equal Access to the Green Economy

The environmental justice movement is at a turning point. Instead of focusing solely on ways to protect underprivileged communities from environmental harms, today's environmental justice leaders are finding positive, proactive ways to create opportunities to empower communities within the growing green economy and a reinvigorated environmental movement. UC Berkeley School of Law's Environmental Law Society seeks to create a symposium that addresses the nexus between environmental, economic and social justice. This symposium will present a host of cutting edge policy solutions designed to empower communities which have traditionally been victims of environmental injustice.

This conference will bring together leading environmental policymakers, scholars and legal practitioners to address California's current and future role at the forefront of environmental law and policy development. In the process, speakers will map for conference attendees California's environmental policy agenda for the coming decades. That agenda, in turn, has broad ramifications, inasmuch as California's environmental dilemmas are a microcosm of those faced nationally and globally. The environmental solutions California devises to those problems will doubtless prove influential far beyond our borders.

April 10-11 at UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall,

To get more information and to register, visit http://cafuture.wordpress.com/

**Final Deadline To Apply: April 28th!**


Greenpeace, the world's leading international environmental
organization, is seeking passionate organizers who are ready to stop
global warming. Scientists say we must act now to stop the worst effects
of climate change: more severe hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, floods,
and sea level rise. We have the solutions and the technology to solve
global warming, but the political will is lacking. Greenpeace's
cutting-edge Project Hot Seat (www.projecthotseat.org) is leading the
charge to convince Congress to take significant action to stop global
warming. Our field team is mobilizing thousands of citizens to make
global warming a key issue in the 2008 elections. Greenpeace Field
Organizers will make sure that Congress pays attention to the people
they represent instead of powerful corporate interests

History
Greenpeace was founded in 1971 by a small group of activists standing up
to nuclear testing off the Alaskan Coast. These daring few effectively
won a total ban on nuclear testing and launched Greenpeace's legacy of
"bearing witness" to environmental abuse. We continue to use non-violent
direct action, creative confrontation, and grassroots organizing to
build solutions to global warming, toxic pollution, and destruction of
our ancient forests and oceans. Today, Greenpeace is the world's largest
environmental organization, with 2.5 million members in 40 countries,
and continues to lead the way to a clean and peaceful planet.

Job Scope and Responsibilities:
Greenpeace Field Organizers are driven, articulate, strategic, and able
to quickly and effectively inspire a community to challenge their member
of Congress to stop global warming. Each organizer will plan and
implement a community-based campaign to mobilize the public and work
with Congress to make global warming a legislative priority.

Specific responsibilities include:
-Recruit and train campaign volunteers and key coalition partners
-Plan and execute global warming education and outreach events
-Generate media coverage on the issue of global warming
-Build relationships with Congress to ensure long-term action
-Implement other tactics to pressure congressional targets to become
champions
-Quickly develop knowledge of global warming issues

Skills and accomplishments:
-Demonstrated leadership experience
-Able to inspire a diverse group of people
-Strong communication skills including public speaking, written and oral
-Critical thinking and time-management skills
-Able to keep a level head in a fast-paced campaign environment
-Commitment to grassroots organizing as a means of affecting change

Apply online at:http://members.greenpeace.org/survey/start/41/
Preferred deadline: February 18th, 2008; final deadline April 28th; 2008
Two start dates: April 14, 2008 or June 9, 2008. Campaign expected to
end December 2008.

Salary: $30,660 plus paid medical and dental, generous paid vacation
package and more. BA/BS Degree preferred or equivalent experience.
Nationwide positions available, willingness to relocate preferred.
Locations expected to include: Iowa, Illinois, California, Oregon,
Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Delaware, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, North
Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Leadership opportunities for top candidates. Greenpeace encourages all
interested persons to apply, regardless of sex, race, religion, national
origin, disabilities or sexual orientation.

We are seeking amateur, professional, and student photographers and
photojournalists to participate in Portraits of Sustainability, a
photo-essay exhibition that will capture a variety of themes related to
sustainability efforts on the UC Berkeley campus--both celebrating the
campus community's progress towards more sustainable practices and
highlighting the challenges that have yet to be met. Each participating
photographer will be asked to identify a specific theme for his or her photo
essay, although the artistic and editorial approach to that theme will be
unique to each photographer.

Participants will be paid $250 for their work, and their photo essays will
be exhibited at the campus Sustainability Summit on April 21. In addition,
selected works will be published in the Fall 2008 issue of the Breakthroughs
magazine, the alumni publication of UC Berkeley's College of Natural
Resources.

For more information or for consideration to be a participating
photographer, please email cyril@berkeley.edu to schedule a portfolio review
and discuss the details of this opportunity."

The city of Berkeley is holding a public meeting on April 9th regarding AC Transit's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in North Berkeley Senior Center on 1901 Hearst Avenue at 7pm. Everyone is welcome to attend. Bus Rapid Transit is bus system AC Transit is in the process of getting approval for that will have dedicated bus lanes, vehicles running on cleaner fuel, new bus stops, and capability of controlling traffic lights for an efficient bus schedule.

BRT is still a contested issue because of the multitude of stakeholders - such as merchants on Telegraph Ave. who do not want lose parking spaces for clientèle - as well as people doubtful of BRT's merit who are environmentally conscious, but do not necessary think BRT is the best way to solve the Bay Area's transportation issues.

This is definitely a chance to hear more about BRT and where the City of Berkeley stands on the issue so far.

Meeting Agenda
BRT website