Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Website: https://www.sustainability.ucsb.edu/cert
Email: snamboodiri@ucsb.edu
CERT at UCSB aims to provide free training and certifications to students in preparation for emergency and disaster situations. We seek to provide free educational resources and classes to students, empowering them to protect themselves and our campus environment. We work with the Campus Emergency Manager to hold free quarterly classes, offering volunteer hours on top of the certifications.
Edible Campus Program
Website: https://sicr.sa.ucsb.edu/projects/edible-campus-program Facebook Instagram
Email: kcmaynard@ucsb.edu
The Edible Campus Project aims to address local food insecurity by repurposing underutilized spaces for food production, turning waste into food, and engaging students as growers and producers. This project empowers the campus community, especially students, to be responsible stewards and leaders of our food system. We train students in practices that address social, economic, and environmental aspects of sustainability and help them to reclaim their personal connection to the land and their food.
LabRATS (Laboratory Resources, Advocates, and Teamwork for Sustainability)
Website: https://www.sustainability.ucsb.edu/labrats
Email: jewel.persad@ucsb.edu
The Laboratory Resources, Advocates, and Teamwork for Sustainability (LabRATS) Program at UCSB assists researchers on campus in reducing their impact on the environment while also improving safety, encouraging good laboratory management practices, and promoting communication and resource sharing. Our program is uniquely prepared to adapt campus recycling, energy management, and sustainability practices to the unusual materials used and processes implemented in laboratories.
Program for the Assessment and Certification of the Environment and Sustainability (PACES)
Website: https://www.sustainability.ucsb.edu/paces
Email: kcmaynard@ucsb.edu
PACES recognizes leadership in campus sustainability and assists departments, event coordinators and sports teams in identifying new opportunities where they can further reduce their impact on the environment. We focus on empowering individuals to make changes towards sustainability and engage their direct community, whether that be department members, event coordinators and attendees, or athletic teammates, to do the same. PACES offers departments an office assessment, climate and sustainability action plan write up, and presentation for department members. A similar consultation service is offered to athletic teams. We also work with event coordinators to reduce costs and implement sustainable practices in efforts to certify them as Green Events. Participants in PACES receive advice regarding energy usage, waste disposal/reduction practices, office health, sustainable procurement, transportation, and more.
The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF)
Website: https://www.sustainability.ucsb.edu/tgif
Email: jewel.persad@ucsb.edu
The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) provides funding for projects which “green” our campus and reduce the University’s impact on the environment. TGIF allocates funds to projects that increase the amount of renewable energy used on campus, increase energy efficiency, and reduce the amount of waste created (GHGs) by our University. Portions of the fund will support education initiatives, student aid (via return to aid), and internships. TGIF is administered through a student-majority governance board. TGIF was the first green fee in the UC system. It was created by students in the spring of 2006 with a charge to “reduce the University’s impact on the environment.” Students voted with an overwhelming majority to pay $3.47 per quarter, contributing approximately $170,000 a year towards TGIF. The same fee was renewed in the spring of 2010, 2014, and 2018 for another four years each.