OS Projects

Office Initiatives

Faculty Sustainability Curriculum Workshop

The Office in partnership with faculty from across campus disciplines are offering annual workshops to incentivize other faculty and lecturers to integrate the concept of sustainability into courses. The goal of the program is improving student learning and literacy in sustainability and climate by adding and infusing physical, social and economic environmental topics into the curriculum. The workshop offers time to brainstorm ideas for including sustainability principles in curricula across campus – from art history to design to gender studies to business to environmental science. The workshop focuses on expanding the range and definitions of sustainability beyond traditional disciplines and explores current topical concepts like environmental justice. Teachers leave with creative, concrete ways to help students increase knowledge of sustainability concepts. 

The next workshop will be offered on Thursday, December 10, 2020, 9am-12pm. Register here.

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This workshop has been held twice before, see a poster of the outcomes of the last workshop.

Student Team 

The Office of Sustainability student team is integral helping us reach the next level of campus sustainability. The team supports the Office's priorities and pilots and promotes new cutting edge initiatives.

Students will help the Office produce numerous sustainability plans (waste, water, transportation, and more) that will guide our direction for the next decade:

• Piloting new zero waste efforts and organizing students in the Zero Waste Coalition.
• Enhancing energy, green building, and climate initiatives to support carbon neutrality by 2025.
• Powering-up community engagement and behavior change, including sustainability trainings and research into emerging global issues.      

UC Berkeley Leadership and Engagement in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Globalization, and the Environment

This office initiative aims to increase UC Berkeley's global citizen leadership through participation as a member of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU). The International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) is a network of eleven research-intensive universities from nine countries who share a similar global vision and commitment to educating future world leaders. To learn more about IARU, click here.

The office's current engagement with IARU:

• IARU Sustainability Initiative: projects include the IARU Green Guide and new IARU E-Publication for UN SDGs

View and download the IARU's new green guide for universities, which addresses key areas of sustainability at universities, ranging from laboratory design to managerial and organizational aspects.

• IARU Student Platform: an online research community created by UC Berkeley students to bridge local and global connections between IARU undergraduates

Carbon Neutrality Initiative

The UC President’s Bonnie Reiss Carbon Neutrality Student Fellowship Program funds student-generated projects working towards the UC goal of zero-net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. All 10 UC campuses plus the UC Office of the President, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are participating in the program.

The program began in spring 2015(link is external) and is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.  For more information, including how to apply for funding, please see the UC Office of the President's website(link is external).