In the beginning there was (some) recycling. But there was no zero- waste target or green-department certification process. No Cal Dining sustainable-seafood certification or Green Initiative Fund. No climate- action, bicycle or water-use reduc- tion plan. No greenhouse-gas inven- tory. No energy- incentive pro- gram, Power Agents or LEED- certified build- ings. The list goes on. There was no campus Energy Office and no Office of Sustainability. No wa- terless urinals or water- bottle refill stations. And, of course, there was no annual sustainability re- port. All that has changed since the launch 10 years ago of the Chancellor’s Advisory Com- mittee on Sustainability, which many mark as the beginning of a concerted 10 years’ Progress in Getting to Green Bright Green News The Campus Sustainability Newsletter VOLUME 40 May 2013 The Office Update IN THIS ISSUE A Decade of Berkeley Sustaina- bility CACS Sustainability Summit 2013 Sustainability Awardees & Green Grant Recipients Register: CA Higher Education Convergence—June 23-27 Barrows Hall Spring Cleaning Haas –New Green Department Sustainable Efforts by the School of Optometry myPower Updates 2013 CSSC Wrap New Bicycle Fix-It Stations UCB Named Bicycle Friendly University 2013 TGIF Recipients! campus effort to go green. A for- mal and deliberate committee with a student co-chair and many stakeholders at the table, CACS has managed to “stay out in front,” notes Director of Sustainability Lisa McNeilly, and thus to help institutionalize sustainability at Berkeley. To read the rest of this story and see the slideshow “Blue, gold and green all over”, click here. 2013 CACS Sustainability Summit Wrap “I can’t think of our work over the last ten years without recognizing the efforts of our stu- dents…they form groups, fundraise, teach DeCals, intern on campus projects, and are even the source of funding for The Green Initiative Fund, which has supported over 80 campus projects and 165 student internships with $1.3 mil- lion in student fees.” Chancellor Birgeneau also highlight- ed the many efforts of staff that green our opera- tions and buildings and faculty that teach and research in support of the environment. At the conclusion the Chancellor an- nounced this year’s Green Fund Grant recipients and (continued...) On Earth Day, the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainabil- ity (CACS) held the 10 th Annual Sustainability Summit. This summit celebrated the campus sustainability achievements over the last decade and looked to the future. A highlight of the day was the key- note address provided by Dr. Mike Biddle, plastics pio- neer and co-founder of MBA Polymers. His inspiring talk— ”Creating a Circular Economy with Plas- tics” - provided both a glimpse at the complex issues associated with plastic waste and real solutions that he has developed. Dr, Biddle started MBA over 20 years ago—literally from his garage. He has since grown his company to what is now the world’s leading multi-national company re-covering plastics from end-of-life durable goods, such as computers, electron- ics, business equipment, applicances, automobiles and now mu- nicipal solid wastes. MBA has over 300 million pounds per year of pro- cessing capacity in Europe, China and the US to turn waste into plastics for use right back into the same type of products from which they came. Some of the largest manufacturers in the world use MBA’s plastics to replace virgin plastics in their new products. If you missed his talk – it is highly recommended – watch the video. As this was Chancellor Birgeneau’s last summit in his role as campus leader, he spent time reflecting on the outstanding work and accom- plishments Berkeley has made in sustainability – particularly those of students. Article by Cathy Cockrell, UCB NewsCenter Dr. Michael Biddle, MBA Chancellor Birgeneau Monica Hornato, student awardee Please encourage your friends and colleagues to join our listserve. Become a fan of our Facebook Page! Have an idea for an article contact Kira, BGN editor: [email protected]Contact us: [email protected]Check out our website: http://sustainability.berkeley.edu
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In the beginning there was (some) recycling. But there was no zero-waste target or green-department
certification process. No Cal Dining sustainable-seafood certification or Green Initiative Fund. No climate-
action, bicycle or water-use reduc-tion plan. No greenhouse-gas inven-tory. No energy-
incentive pro-gram, Power Agents or LEED-
certified build-ings.
The list goes on. There was no campus Energy Office and no Office of Sustainability. No wa-
terless urinals or water-bottle refill stations. And, of course, there was no
annual sustainability re-port.
All that has changed since the
launch 10 years ago of the Chancellor’s Advisory Com-mittee on Sustainability,
which many mark as the beginning of a concerted
10 years ’ Progress in Gett ing to Green
Bright Green News The Campus Susta inabi l i ty Newsletter
VOLUME 40
May 2013
The
Off ice
Update
IN THIS ISSUE
A Decade of Berkeley Sustaina-bility
CACS Sustainability Summit
2013 Sustainability Awardees & Green Grant Recipients
Register: CA Higher Education Convergence—June 23-27
Barrows Hall Spring Cleaning
Haas –New Green Department
Sustainable Efforts by the School of Optometry
myPower Updates
2013 CSSC Wrap
New Bicycle Fix-It Stations
UCB Named Bicycle Friendly University
2013 TGIF Recipients!
campus effort to go green. A for-mal and deliberate committee with
a student co-chair and many stakeholders at the table, CACS has managed to “stay
out in front,” notes Director of Sustainability Lisa McNeilly, and
thus to help institutionalize sustainability at Berkeley.
To read the rest of this story and
see the slideshow “Blue, gold and green all over”, click here.
2013 CACS Susta inabi l i ty Summit Wrap
“I can’t think of our work over the last ten years without recognizing
the efforts of our stu-dents…they form groups, fundraise, teach DeCals,
intern on campus projects, and are even the source of
funding for The Green Initiative Fund, which has supported over 80 campus
projects and 165 student internships with $1.3 mil-lion in student fees.”
Chancellor Birgeneau also highlight-ed the many efforts of staff that green our opera-
tions and buildings and faculty that teach and research
in support of the environment. At
the conclusion the Chancellor an-nounced this year’s
Green Fund Grant recipients and (continued...)
On Earth Day, the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainabil-
ity (CACS) held the 10th Annual Sustainability Summit. This summit celebrated the campus sustainability
achievements over the last decade and looked to the future.
A highlight of the day was the key-note address provided by Dr. Mike Biddle, plastics pio-
neer and co-founder of MBA Polymers. His inspiring talk—
”Creating a Circular Economy with Plas-tics” - provided both
a glimpse at the complex issues associated with plastic waste and real solutions that
he has developed.
Dr, Biddle started MBA over 20
years ago—literally from his garage. He has since grown his company to what is now the world’s leading
multi-national company re-covering plastics from end-of-life durable
goods, such as computers, electron-ics, business equipment, applicances,
automobiles and now mu-nicipal solid wastes. MBA has over 300 million
pounds per year of pro-cessing capacity in Europe,
China and the US to turn waste into plastics for use right back into the same
type of products from which they came. Some of the
largest manufacturers in the world use MBA’s plastics to replace virgin plastics in their
new products.
If you missed his talk – it is highly recommended – watch the video.
As this was Chancellor Birgeneau’s last summit in his role as campus
leader, he spent time reflecting on the outstanding work and accom-plishments Berkeley has made in
lighting over 25 projects funded by a CACS grant or The Green Fund Grant (TGIF) fund.
Thank you to all the speakers, participants, projects and organizers for a wonderful celebration of the 10th CACS Sustainabil-
ity Summit!
(...continued) Sustainability Awardees. Read the article below for more details on the recipients.
Video of Birgeneau’s remarks, along with other speakers, can be found here.
To recognize all the Chancellor has done for
sustainability, the Summit’s MC’s and CACS Co-Chairs Nolan Pack and David Scrimger present-
ed him with a green fund grant award. A bicycle
rack in his honor is being installed by Le Conte - the home of his Physics lab
where he will be returning to teaching and research in June.
And no Summit is com-plete without the poster
session – this year high-
2013 Susta inabi l i ty Award & Green Fund Grant Recip ients
The new Green Fund Grant Projects
include:
“Spring Cleaning in Campus Closets” - Ron
Holmstrom, Space Management and Capital Programs. This project will improve the utiliza-tion of space on campus through a “Campus
Sustainable Cleanup” effort. This outreach pro-gram will help departments free up underutilized space and repurpose it by coordinating the recy-
cling and reuse of un-used materials that are taking up space.
“Sigma Pi L.E.D.’s the Way to Energy Sav-
ings” - Garrett Vogel, a second year student in Conservation and Resource Studies. This initia-tive will reduce water and electricity use in the
fraternity house by installing energy-efficient devices and materials. Sigma Pi aims to reduce
water consumption by 15% and will install over 30 LED lightbulbs and insulation in their base-ment.
“’Swag’ Bags for Bicyclists” - Greg Haet, Associate Director, Environmental Protection and Chair, Campus Bicycle Committee. This
program will provide sustainable promotional and safety items to hundreds of cyclists at the two campus Energizer Stations during this year’s
Bay Area-wide Bike-to-Work Day on May 9th.
“Fitting Plant to Place: Site-Specific Resto-
ration Planning on Strawberry Creek” - Dylan Chapple, PhD student in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. This grant will
fund the work of two undergraduate students to perform site preparation, collect planting data, acquire native
plants from local nurseries, and propa-gate plants in the Strawberry Creek Native Plant Nursery as part of the
campus effort to restore the water-shed.
And this year’s
Sustainability Awards go to:
Arpad Horvath,
UC Berkeley Pro-fessor in the Engi-
neering and Project Management Pro-gram and in the
Energy, Civil Infra-structure and Cli-mate Program in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering. Not only is Profes-sor Horvath’s research advancing the under-standing of climate impacts and engineering and
teaching students about cutting edge methods, he has also been a contributor to campus sus-tainability efforts for the last ten years. Arpad
was a founding faculty member on CACS and the Cal Climate Action Partnership (CalCAP).
He continues to be a faculty leader in campus sustainability, engaging his students in campus efforts and providing expertise as the campus set
its next greenhouse gas emissions target.
Kira Stoll, Sustainability Manager. Kira has
been a sustainability champion her entire career
at Berkeley, first as the campus Transportation Planner and now in the Office of Sustainability. Kira has been an active member of CACS since
the beginning and Co-Chaired the committee in 2011. She is both a big-picture thinker and detail-oriented, contributing to campus-wide initia-
tives while also producing results and accom-plishments day-to-day. Some successes this award is recognizing her for include co-authoring
Berkeley’s first bicycle plan and zero waste plan, managing Berkeley’s climate inventories and reporting, producing the monthly Bright Green
News, and mentoring countless students.
Monica Harnoto, UC Berkeley B.S. Environ-
mental Sciences, spring 2013. Monica is never
merely content with the status quo and con-stantly inspires and motivates colleagues to think of new and innovative ways to improve sustaina-
bility in Cal Dining. One of Monica’s most nota-ble projects has been Chews to Reuse -- a reus-able to-go container program in dining halls.
Before Monica created this program, the dining halls provided patrons with compostable to-go containers made from sugarcane plant fibers.
Starting out as a pilot, the program has now been expanded to all dining commons, in large
part due to Monica’s strategic implementation.
Nature Village: Nature Village is a multidis-
ciplinary and multicultural group of University
Village residents, students, staff, and campus sustainability groups that work together to pro-mote sustainable living practices at the Universi-
ty Village. In its inaugural year Nature Village launched three programs including the Green
Family Program –with 50 families participating in pilots for energy and water saving tools like low flow shower heads and racks for air drying
clothes. In the long term, Nature Village seeks to create a replicable model for institutionalizing sustainability in student family residential units,
particularly for the UC system and more broadly for universities in the U.S.
Popular poster session Article by Kira Stoll & Photos by
You are invited to this free event featuring acclaimed journalist and author, Mark
Hertsgaard.
Imagine walking down the streets of Berkeley and seeing community gardens where there
were once vacant lots, apartment buildings cov-ered in solar panels, and neighbors out of their
cars and headed to work on foot, bike, or bus. Feels good just thinking about it, huh? These are just some of the projects the Berkeley Climate
Action Coalition is working on to create a safer and healthier Berkeley.
You are invited to join a special quarterly con-
vening, featuring keynote speaker and acclaimed
journalist and author, Mark Hertsgaard -- the author of HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years. Over dinner, we'll have a chance to con-nect with other community members, and hear about and get involved with the Coalition's ac-
tion-oriented projects.
UC Berkeley’s Office of Sustainability is working
with the coalition and welcomes new partici-pants in the effort.
For more about the Climate Action Coali-
tion, including information about how to join a Working Group, please click here.
Berkeley Cl imate Act ion Coal i t ion Convening & Dinner ( free)
followed by a nighttime music concert. Thank you to the
student coordi-nators at UC Berkeley and
passionate individuals who
made the weekend a success!
From April 26-28th, UC Berkeley became a hub for student sustainability innovation when it
hosted the Spring 2013 California Student Sus-tainability Convergence.
Hundreds of students
across the state gathered on our campus to discuss
the latest challenges, devel-opments, and solutions to improving green awareness
and action among students.
Keynote speakers Crystal Lameman, Hunter Lovins, and Garth Lenz
commenced the conver-gence by sharing their insights on diverse range
of topics, from environ-mental consulting to eco
-photojournalism.
Along with intensive panel discussions and
workshops in Dwinelle, students also enjoyed dinner on Memorial Glade
Berkeley Hosts the Spr ing 2013 Cal i forn ia Student Susta inabi l i ty Convergence
VOLUME 40 May 2013
Article & Photo by Nik Crain
When: New time! Monday, June 3, 2013 from 6pm-9pm.
Where: Ed Roberts Campus in South Central Berkeley, at the Ashby BART Station. 3075 Adeline St (between Tremont and Woolsey Sts).
Accessible by the #12 and #49 AC Transit bus-es.
Cost: Free
RSVP: By Monday, May 27, 2013. Email Leah or call 510-548-2220 x235
cycling community. This award confirms that we're on the right track, and motivates us to
continue making improvements.”
Thanks to the many programs and services that have helped make our campus so bicycle-
friendly. Don’t forget to ride your bike on Thursday, May 9 – the Bay Area’s 18th an-
nual Bike to Work Day!
The League of American Bicyclists has recog-
nized UC Berkeley has as one of nation’s top
Bicycle Friendly Universities (BFU)! The BFU
program recognizes higher
education institutions for
promoting and providing
bicycle-friendly campus for
students, staff and visitors.
UC Berkeley was one of
only eight universities recognized in California,
and one of fifty-eight nationwide.
“It's a great honor to receive this award from the League,” said Greg Haet, Chair of
the Campus Bicycle Committee at Berke-ley. “The number of students, faculty, and staff coming to the campus by bicycle con-
tinues to increase, and we're working hard to make Cal a better place for our growing
Berkeley Recognized for being a Bicyc le Fr iendly Campus
Make sure to keep your bicycle in top condi-tion with these valuable resources to stay safe
on your daily transit.
Do you need a quick tune up on your bike? The installment of UC Berkeley’s second fix-it-
yourself bike repair station is ready for use out-side Moffitt Library.
Along with the station near the Energy Biosci-
ences Building near the campus’ west entrance,
the central Moffitt station includes air pumps, tools, and instructions to
make basic adjustments and repairs. It is free and available for the entire campus community.