About
Creating a Culture of Sustainability
The Sustainability Office strives to foster a culture of diverse, equitable and inclusive sustainability at UCSC. We actively engage all campus community members through education, leadership development, and institutional change. We build interdisciplinary partnerships across departments to improve UCSC’s environmental performance, seeking to model the way for how large institutions can work collaboratively to solve some of the world’s biggest environmental and social justice challenges.
Institutionalize sustainability
Work proactively to support efforts across departments to integrate sustainability into the day-to-day operations of campus. Build bridges between operations, teaching and research to support UCSC as a living, learning laboratory in which students can learn and apply sustainability principles and techniques.
Centralize communication and successes
Create a central space for coordination of campus sustainability activities, educational initiatives, noteworthy campus achievements, reporting and national rankings.
Promote a culture of inclusive sustainability
Work to advance different cultural definitions of how to care for environmental spaces and human communities, promote social justice and anti-racism work, and advance multicultural inclusion in sustainability initiatives across campus.
Improve environmental performance
The Sustainability Office facilitates and manages UCSC’s Sustainability & Climate Action Plan and supports the campus to refine, track, and implement goals and benchmarks.
Read about our Sustainability & Climate Action Plan Goals below:
Goal 1
Build communities of care, resilience, and preparedness in the face of climate change
Goal 2
Decarbonize campus to build an equitable, accessible, and fossil-free future
Goal 3
Steward the water and land to support healthy social and environmental ecosystems.
Goal 4
Advance a circular economy in the consumption cycle.
