Campus Advisory Committee on Sustainability
Established in 2003, the Campus Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS), promotes environmental management and sustainable development on campus.
The purpose of the Campus Advisory Committee on Sustainability (Committee) is to support sustainable environmental management, resource-efficient and resilient campus development, and an inclusive environmental community at UC Berkeley. The Committee membership includes UC Berkeley faculty, staff, students, and administrators.
The mission of the Committee is composed of four central goals as they relate to UC Berkeley:
- To ensure the university makes meaningful and ongoing progress in implementing sustainable practices, projects, and/or initiatives;
- To engage the campus in an ongoing dialogue on environmental sustainability;
- To advise on the integration of environmental sustainability with existing campus programs in education, research, operations, and public service; and,
- To instill a campus-wide culture of sustainable long-range planning and forward-thinking design.
CACS celebrates the campus achievements during Earth Week with its annual Sustainability Awards.
The charter of the Campus Advisory Committee on Sustainability can be found here.
CACS Impacts
Guiding sustainability planning
CACS members and friends served as an important sounding board during the recent update to the sustainability plan Input from faculty, staff, students and community members has helped put the sustainability plan into action.
Getting to Zero Waste
CACS worked with various constituents and student leaders to craft a comprehensive target for eliminating all non-essential single-use plastic with viable alternatives by 2030.