Due Feb. 23: 2024 CACS Sustainability Award Nominations Open!

January 30, 2024

We are excited to announce the call for nominations for the 2024 CACS Sustainability Awards. 

To formally recognize contributions of those helping the campus to meet its sustainability goals, the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS) annually provides awards to faculty, staff, and students (both undergraduate or graduate) in recognition of their hard work making Berkeley a more sustainable place to work, live, and play. Nominations can be made for groups, projects, or individuals. Awardees will be honored at a ceremony on March 15, 2024.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: Wednesday, February 23rd, 5:00pm PT

Nominees will be evaluated on how well they have met the goals set forth in the Charter of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability and the priorities of the committee, including addressing positive impact on environmental justice:

Charter and priorities: 

  1. Engage the campus in an ongoing dialogue about reaching environmental sustainability

  2. Integrate environmental sustainability with existing campus programs in education, research, operations, and public service

  3. Instill a culture of sustainable long-range planning and forward-thinking design

  4. Impact through environmental justice

This year nominations will be collected using the 2024 CACS Sustainability Awards Nomination Google form.

More about the awards:https://sustainability.berkeley.edu/office-sustainability/cacs/cacs-sustainability-awards

Feel free to check out last year's recipients here: https://sustainability.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkeley-celebrated-2023-cacs-sustainability-summit-may-1

Have questions? Email sustainability@berkeley.edu