Enviromental Student Groups

Create and implement projects that address campus environmental problems, establish sustainable practices on campus, and raise sustainability awareness to students, faculty, and staff.

Berkeley Dashboard provides building performance data in an accessible and effective form via the Internet, and has the ability to compare energy usage across time periods and buildings. The Building Energy Dashboard can inform the campus community about the buildings they inhabit, educating users about energy efficiency on a personal and effective scale. The GBRC hopes that providing access to real-time data may inspire buildings, departments, and dormitories to set goals and/or establish competitions to reduce energy usage.

BOAA is an ASUC-sponsored student organization on the UC Berkeley campus. We have weekly meetings to enjoy great food and discuss animal rights issues. Over the years, we've had many amazing events and campaigns (including Thanksliving, Meatout, Prop 2). As always, we are constantly looking for more activists (new or old) to lend a helping hand! You don't have to be vegan or vegetarian to join, just bring your compassion for animals and an open mind. Even the smallest deed makes a difference.

The main purpose of Roots and Shoots is to actively develop awareness and foster communications about three main elements: animals, the environment, and the human community. As such, the grass-roots program emphasizes community, peace, and equality.

The mission of the Berkeley Student Food Collective is to provide fresh, local, healthy, environmentally sustainable, and ethically produced food at affordable prices to the Berkeley campus and greater community. The Collective seeks to educate students about nutrition and food systems, empower new leaders, and train youth to work in and manage a sustainable business. Through inclusive, democratic decision-making, we will operate a cooperative café and market that promotes community-building and environmental stewardship.

The Environmental Law Society is an organization of student activists at Boalt dedicated to environmental protection, education, and social justice. ELS provides opportunities for Boalt law students to gain hands-on legal experience with established environmental organizations in the community, to discuss local, national and international issues with prominent environmental attorneys, and to learn to appreciate and protect nature.

Building Sustainability is a group of students working in collaboration with staff and faculty at UC Berkeley to generate a culture of sustainability by focusing on changes in building infrastructure and education.

To make an impact in local and global environmental and health issues through service learning, action, and education. Collaborating with Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC) to ensure
that university funds are used in a socially and environmentally
responsible manner.

Environmental and consumer watchdog group with activities such as Affordable higher education, Zero Emissions, and Hunger and Homelessness education week.

CRSSO exists to facilitate a community among CRS majors and supplement educational activities. Some of CRSSO’s major activities include sponsoring a mentor system for ESPM 90 and holding monthly potlucks

ESWB, the UC Berkeley college chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World, an ASUC recognized student group funded by TGIF and partnering with Engineers Without Borders.We are interested in engineering issues surrounding appropriate technologies in development

To have UC Berkeley undergraduates conducting outreach to Bay Area high school and middle school students. The program is also intended to lay a foundation for future inclusion of environmental science as a high school mandatory science requirement.

To provide a forum for students interested in the environmental sciences

Provides a living and learning environment for students interested in social, economic and scientific issues affecting our Earth's urban, rural and global environment. It brings together students and faculty to explore issues around environmental change, natural resources, sustainable environments, and environmental leadership

To save energy on university campuses through a student-led campaign to identify and reduce energy waste through improvements in energy use behaviors, student purchasing decisions and operations changes; to build student awareness about the relationship between energy efficiency and the environment and the need to use energy efficiently; and strengthen academic learning by facilitating the incorporation of Green Campus activities into students' academic plans.

Student involvement in the environment through hands-on, outdoor volunteer opportunities in collaboration with five local citizens’ groups, Cal Corps Public Service Center supports community based projects that create and restore people-friendly, bio-diverse green spaces in Berkeley neighborhoods.

Greening the Greeks is an ASUC initiative which aims to make Cal's Greek community more sustainable by working closely with fraternity and sorority Sustainability Chair representatives. We developed a recycling initiative for fraternities by purchasing recycling bins that chapters could use within their houses to facilitate separation of recyclable materials and reduce the waste stream. For future initiatives, we hope to help fraternities begin composting, sponsor a reusable bag campaign for sororities, and develop a red-cup recycling campaign.

Provide environmentally minded students at the Goldman School of Public Policy, or those interested in environmental policy, a forum to discuss issues of interest. To this end, the group will plan networking events and educational events, host social functions, organize community activism and more.

The Residential Sustainability Program (RSP), a student-run program in the campus residence halls, is a dedicated group of coordinators and volunteers who aim to promote sustainable living habits through peer education. To raise awareness about environmental concerns, we promote waste diversion, water conservation, energy efficiency, consumption reduction, and overall responsible living.

ReUSE is a UC Berkeley program that functions to foster the spirit of reusing materials rather than throwing them away. In today's disposable consumer society, it's hard to reuse things without a system in place, so ReUSE tries to create that system by making spaces on campus where students, faculty and staff can freely exchange reusable goods.

To engage underrepresented students and minorities in ecology through graduate-undergraduate mentorships, field trips, community outreach, and special events!

Strawberry Creek is a major landscape feature of UCB and was one of the primary reasons the site was chosen in 1860 as the location for the campus. Are you interested in helping to restore the Natural Areas of campus to a more inviting and native state?

The primary objective of SAFE is to provide students from diverse backgrounds with an open forum on fire ecology through which research can be shared, networks formed and funding and information resources can be accessed.

To manage the UCB Student Garden and to provide information and resources for students interested in organic gardening. It also sponsors classes and educational events.

The Students for a Greener Berkeley will promote and implement environmental practices and policies on campus that will increase sustainability in all aspects of campus operations. In order to achieve this goal we are working with campus administration, staff, and faculty, in addition to graduate and undergraduate students.

Students for Energy and Environmental Development (SEED) develops and
teaches K-12 curriculum about traditional and alternative energy sources,
efficiency, and conservation. Ways to get involved include teaching,
curriculum development, website development, fundraising, etc. Time
commitments range from a few hours a semester to a few hours a week.

We are an activist organization dedicated to educating ourselves and our community about social justice and economic equality. Our goal is to understand the societal forces that create poverty, war, and environmental destruction and to organize in communities outside the student milieu. Ultimately we intend to create a sustainable and just world.

Terrene Synergetics is the University’s first undergraduate think tank striving to adopt a synergetic approach in researching and understanding the relationships between the human population and natural resources with an emphasis on the renewable energy, clean-tech, and power industries. Regular analyses of the data will fuel ‘high altitude’ discussion of the industries’ trends and effects on policy, emerging markets, developing economies and poverty alleviation.

The Berkeley Project will build a legacy of service and a strong, sustainable partnership between the students of Cal and the city and residents of Berkeley. To this end, the Berkeley Project's foremost endeavor is to host an annual event during which thousands from the Cal campus unite on one day and work to positively impact the community through a network of service projects in and around the City of Berkeley.

To help coordinate efforts of environmental student organizations (broadly defined); serve as forum for discussion and research.

A self-sustaining materials exchange website where students, staff, faculty, and departments can communicate directly with one another to swap reusable materials. Anyone with a Berkeley.edu e-mail address can register to exchange materials. All types of things can be exchanged like furniture, appliances, office supplies, clothes, and book--plus everything is FREE! And by exchanging materials within the campus, you divert materials from landfills. Reductions in carbon emissions,deforestation, resource use, and money disposal all result from extending the lifecycle of materials.

SAFE is a group of UC Berkeley students who catalyze honest discussion of a truly sustainable food system. They bring this discussion onto campus, and into the community via panels, speakers, events and workshops. Their intention is to be inclusive, productive and impassioned on behalf of their common goals of agricultural sustainability, ecological integrity, healthful human nutrition and vibrant rural economies.