November 2012

UCSC Sustainability Office

Change Makers

Simply Committed

A team of UCSC students competing in Project Green Challenge ranked among the top twenty of participants for their engagement with daily challenges that encouraged sustainable behavior change. One student was so motivated by the challenge that she became vegetarian. Think about sustainability in your own life »

ENVISIONING A SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS

Bluprint breakout session

Visions and goals for campus sustainability are being sought from students, staff, and faculty at UCSC for the creation of the 2013 Blueprint for a Sustainable Campus and the 2013-16 Campus Sustainability Plan. If you have ideas you want to share, or you want to learn more about current visions for the future of our campus, please get involved by attending an upcoming planning session. Share your ideas »

SUSTAINABILITY PROFILE

Michael Isaacson photoThis month's profile features Professor Michael Isaacson, Narinder Singh Kapany professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, whose research program Sustainable Engineering and Ecological Design (SEED) recently received a five-year $4.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund clean energy research and educational programs. Read the interview »

UC Santa Cruz

NEWS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Efforts and ideas from across campus.

What's going on »

GREENING YOUR LIFESTYLE

Tip #7: Ridesharing and Transportation -

How are you getting home for Thanksgiving?

Share, save, reduce »

INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS

What are other campuses doing? 

DePauw's free bikes »

EVENTS and MEETINGS

11/3: Stevenson Garden work day
11/6: Amazonian Society chocolate tasting
11/14: Blueprint breakout session 

See all upcoming events »


OPPORTUNITIES

Opportunity is knocking all over campus. Get involved! 

Intern, work, volunteer »

Contests & funding » 

Classes & community »