At the 4th UC Berkeley Sustainability Summit today, Chancellor Birgeneau announced an aggressive target for reducing campus GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2014 -- six years ahead of Governor Schwarzenegger's target for California.

This is an historic moment for UC Berkeley to take an important leadership role in addressing climate change.

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) passed in the 2007 Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) Election at UC Berkeley with 69% of the vote.

TGIF was a student-led initiative that will generate $200,000 per year for 10 years through a $5/semester student fee increase, which will be used to further UC Berkeley's environmental sustainability. The Fund expects to support projects that increase the energy efficiency of campus operations, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and contribute in other ways to improving environmental quality, and expects to begin awarding grants during the 2007-2008 academic year.

Current information on TGIF can be found at TGIF.Berkeley.edu.

A group of students who have participated in a diverse group of environmental organizations at Cal worked for more than 8 months to organize and pass the referendum.

Coverage of the student elections can be found in the Daily Cal.

Please note that no administrative entities within the University of California took a position on The Green Initiative Fund Referendum, but UC Berkeley will help ensure that the funds raised by the program are appropriately used.

Manage an on-campus sustainability program!

5-15 Hours/week

2007-2008 Academic Year, with potential to continue

Start Date Negotiable

$10.00-10.50/hour

Requirements:

• Upper division undergrad or graduate student
• Currently enrolled at UC Berkeley

Skills and Abilities required:

• Excellent writing, computer and web skills
• Strong communication/interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently

To Apply: Submit a resume and a letter of interest electronically to reuse_contact@berkeley.edu by May 7, 2007.

Contact: Jonathan Wright at 759-9036 or Lisa Bauer at 643-4612 for more info.

Background: The basic idea of Re-USE (the Re-Used Stuff Emporium) evolved from a desire to promote the concept of reuse as a means of waste reduction on the university campus. We set up our first permanent exchange center in 2001, and currently have a total of five. Re-USE allows all members of the campus community to donate unwanted items to our exchange centers. All our collected items are made available at our various exchange centers and are provided to students, staff, and faculty at no cost.

Re-USE also runs a number of other projects, including an annual clothing sale and a semesterly reader/notebook drive. These projects supplement our main function on campus, tapping into large pools of reusable materials on the UC Berkeley campus for the first time.

In just four years of providing these services, we have managed to divert over 45,000 pounds of reusable materials from the landfill. Members of the community have saved over $50,000 due to our services. We are currently working to expand these services and expect our exchange centers and reuse on campus as a whole have an enormous potential to grow.

For more information click on the link below.

ReUSE_Job.pdf

Cal Sustainable Transportation Fair

Thursday, April 19^th, 11a.m. to 2 p.m.

Upper Sproul Plaza

Representatives of the Bay Area's mass transit agencies ,including BART and AC Transit, will be on hand to provide you with up to date information on schedules, passes, and opportunities to ride transit that eliminates the costs and hassles of car commuting and you free to read or relax.

The Bay Area's car share outfits will also be there with details on how you get the biggest benefits of having a car without the high cost of owning one. And advocating for human powered transportation options are the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition and Campus Bicycle Committee members.

In addition to options for your personal transportation, the Fair will feature examples from the Cal Clean Fleet, UC Berkeley's own electric, hybrid, and flex fueled vehicles that are in use today and helping Cal reduce its emissions impacts on the planet. Also in the mix will be student representatives of Campus sustainability groups showing off alternative fuels and transportation technologies.

Cal's own Professor Daniel Kammen will keynote the event with a brief talk about the future of energy and transportation.

For more information click on the link below.

Transportation_Fair.pdf

Invitation: EPA Green Building Challenge - Registration Deadline April
15th

Have you heard about "design for deconstruction" yet?

Imagine these possibilities:

~ Nail-free paneling with bio-based adhesive tape. Just pour on the
antidote; the building comes apart and you're ready to rebuild!
~ Walls that move to meet changing needs -- with outlets
~ Sidewalks built with cold joints so you can pick up each block and
move the entire sidewalk
~ A de-nailer gun

Building science fiction? Not at all -- these are just a few examples
of ideas from the U.S. EPA Lifecycle Building Challenge.

** A National Competition -- Call for Creative Minds! **

The Lifecycle Building Challenge was developed by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, the American Institute of Architects, West Coast
Green and the Building Materials Reuse Association. This national competition,
sponsored by GreenBuildingBlocks.com invites engineers, designers,
planners, contractors, builders, government leaders, educators and students to
submit their ideas for buildings and building materials that facilitate and anticipate future
changes to and eventual adaptation, disassembly, or dismantling for recovery.

Also known as "design for disassembly" and "design for deconstruction", lifecycle thinking encompasses the idea of creating buildings that are stocks of resources for future buildings. By
creating building components that can be easily recovered and reused, materials are kept at their highest value, which reduces energy and resource consumption.

Award Categories:

The top entrant in each of the nine categories (3 students and 6 professionals) will be recognized at an award ceremony at West Coast Green in San Francisco, Thursday September 20th, 2007.

Additional prizes include:

For Professionals:
~ Free registration to West Coast Green Conference + Expo
~ Package of green building subscriptions from West Coast Green Media
Partners
~ Set of posters showcasing your submission
~ Display posters at West Coast Green Conference + Expo and EPA
offices
~ Recognition in partner outreach (media, displays, etc.)
~ Feature page on Lifecycle Building Challenge website

For Students:
~ $2500 reward donated by Green Building Blocks
(Thank you Green Building Blocks!)
~ Free registration to West Coast Green Conference + Expo
~ Package of green building subscriptions from West Coast Green Media
Partners
~ Set of posters showcasing your submission Display posters at West
Coast Green Conference + Expo and EPA offices
~ Recognition in partner outreach (media, displays, etc.)
~ Feature page on Lifecycle Building Challenge website

Registration for this competition closes April 15th, with design
submissions due by May 15th. To get started, visit
http://www.lifecyclebuilding.org/

Best wishes for creative brilliance!

For more information, visit http://www.lifecyclebuilding.org/

Boalt Hall School of Law and the

California Center for Environmental Law & Policy

are pleased to present:

The U.S. Supreme Court Confronts Global Warming: Deconstructing Massachusetts v. USEPA

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

12:45-2:00 p.m. PDT

Sibley Auditorium

(2^nd Floor, West Wing)

Bechtel Engineering Center

University of California , Berkeley

Join a panel of distinguished scholars and expert environmental lawyers for a panel discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court's April 2, 2007, decision in the groundbreaking climate change case, Massachusetts, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

In Massachusetts, a divided Supreme Court held that California, 11 other states and the nation's major environmental organizations have legal standing to bring this case; that USEPA has the authority under the federal Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change; and that USEPA has failed to adequately justify its reasons for declining to do so.

This program will analyze the Court's decision in Massachusetts; explore its effect on other, important climate change litigation pending in California and throughout the nation; and examine the larger impact of the Massachusetts decision on the current legal, scientific, policy and political debate over global warming.

The Panel:

• Daniel A. Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law; and Faculty Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law
• Anne Joseph O'Connell, Acting Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law

• Ken Alex, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice
• Theodore Boutrous, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
• Richard Frank, Executive Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy (Moderator)

You may participate in this important program in one of three ways:

1. You are invited to attend the program, live and in person, at Sibley Auditorium on the U.C. Berkeley campus;
2. The program will be Webcast simultaneously over the Internet. The appropriate link can be found on the CCELP's website: www.ccelp.berkeley.edu ;
3. The program will be videotaped and posted on the same CCELP website for future viewing for those unable to view the program live.

One hour of MCLE credit is available to those California attorneys who participate in this program, in person or via the Internet, on April 10th.

This program is offered free of charge, as a service to Boalt Hall students and faculty, the U.C. community, legal practitioners and policymakers.

For further information, please contact:

• Mary Elliott, Program Administrator, CCELP, at melliott@law.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-7235 -or-

• Richard Frank, Executive Director, CCELP, at rfrank@law.berkeley.edu or (510) 642-8305

Earthweek is the largest event on the UC Berkeley campus of the year pertaining to environmental sustainability, where awareness and discussion of environmental issues is promoted.

Bring your ideas, suggestions, concerns and questions!! Snacks will be provided.

If you cannot attend the meeting but want to be involved in Earthweek, please email Christina Oatfield at christinao@berkeley.edu

The City of Berkeley is recruiting a temporary position to develop its greenhouse gas reduction plan.Please visit to http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/hr/Jobs/jobslist.htm to apply for the position.

FROM GLOBAL PREDICTIONS TO LOCAL ACTION

Public Invited to Fact-finding Symposium on Global Warming and

the Greening of California's Energy Resources

WHAT: Symposium on Global Warming: From Global Predictions to Local Action

Sponsored by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

WHERE: Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco

Tickets $10; students $5; Available at the door or www.cityboxoffice.com

WHEN: April 11, 7:30-9:30 PM

WHO: Congressman Jerry McNerney, Member, Select Committee on Energy

Independence and Global Warming

President Michael R. Peevey, California Public Utilities Commission

Dr. Inez Fung, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Co-Director, UC Berkeley

Institute for the Environment

Dr. Daniel Kammen, Professor of Public Policy; Co-Director, UC Berkeley

Institute for the Environment

Dr. Severin Borenstein, Director, UC Energy Institute; Professor, Haas

School of Business

Nancy McFadden, Senior Vice President, PG&E

Douglas Ogden, Executive Vice President of the Energy Foundation, and

Director of its China Sustainable Energy Program

In conjunction with the 2007 Global Social Venture Competition, the GSVC organizers at the Walter A. Haas School of Business will present a public symposium on social entrepreneurship. The symposium will address social entrepreneurship in theory, and as a practice that is generating an international movement of organizations that drive social change.

Saturday, April 14th
Clark Kerr Campus, UC Berkeley
2601 Warring Street, Berkeley
9:00 am - 5:00pm

We invite you to join us.
REGISTER NOW: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=129949

FEATURING

Keynote Speaker:

• Majora Carter, Sustainable South Bronx & MacArthur Genius Grantee

Panels:

• Launching a Social Venture
• Measuring Social Impact & Using the Results
• Social Venture Financing
• The International Landscape of Social Entrepreneurship
• Social Entrepreneurship as a Competitive Strategy
• Social Venture Institute Case Workshop
• Presentations by GSVC Global Finalists and Winners

Speakers include:

Representatives from Acumen Fund, Benetech, Draper Richards Foundation, Give Something Back, Origo, Skoll Foundation, Technoserve, Whole Foods & many more.

To see the full agenda, please visit the GSVC Symposium website.