Goals
- Convert remaining areas to reclaimed water from potable water as appropriate and as funding allows (on-going).
- Continue to incorporate bioswales and water infiltration into all projects on campus (on-going).
- Generate report on fuel and herbicide use by different management groups, in order to measure progress on conversion to reduced herbicide use and reduced local emissions.
- Complete conversion of low efficiency to high efficiency sprinkler heads (ongoing).
- Assess GHG sequestration potential of campus landscapes.
- Remove grass from bike path roundabouts to reduce water use (on-going).
- Assess the opportunities and constraints of integrating an ‘Edible Campus Program” on campus with consideration of integrated pest management issues (on-going).
- Seek ways to support the newly formed American Indian and indigenous Gardens Alliance (AIIGA), a student group through the office of student life within the framework of other best management practices for campus landscapes (on-going).
- Grounds and CCBER will work with CalPirg group on identifying goals for becoming a Bee Safe community.
- Convert 15 acres of random turf plots to non-turf (e.g. mulch) to conserve resources for unnecessary turf (34% reduction)
- Make Campus Flora and Tree inventory available to public via new App for My Tree Keeper
- Replace Nassella tenuissima at BREN and SSRB with natives or other sustainable plants