Climate Scoop

Our campus is pleased to announce that two UC Santa Barbara professors’ offset projects were selected for funding through the Carbon Neutrality Initiative: John Bowers’ Unite to Light solar lantern project and Sangwon Suh’s Adopt a Cookstove project.

UC Santa Barbara staff, faculty, and students are ditching their single-occupancy vehicles and using alternative forms of transportation to make their daily commutes to campus.

In mid-September, a short opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times announced a shift that has for years felt both just around the corner and impossibly far off--the UC system is divesting from fossil fuels.

Whether it is for fitness, fun, the environment, or the cost savings, everybody should try to bike to work more and turn “Bike to Work Week” into “Bike to Work Year.”

Whether it is for fitness, fun, the environment, or the cost savings, everybody should try to bike to work more and turn “Bike to Work Week” into “Bike to Work Year.”

With the goal of replacing 1 million traditional bulbs with more energy efficient LED bulbs, UC is working towards its goal of achieving operational carbon neutrality by 2025, while also helping to reduce California’s carbon footprint.

An event at Arlington Theatre commemorated the 50th anniversary of what is now known as the dawn of the modern environmental movement.