{"id":40,"date":"2020-09-30T20:44:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T20:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/?post_type=location&p=40"},"modified":"2023-05-18T13:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T13:07:12","slug":"uc-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"location","link":"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/2021\/locations\/uc-berkeley\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This past year, Berkeley remained focused on marking progress and emerging from the pandemic with plans for a more sustainable and inclusive campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motivated to find solutions to drought and enable green building, Berkeley developed a comprehensive water resilience plan identifying the opportunity for an on-site wastewater treatment plant to provide up to 30% of the campus water. On-site solar<\/a> installations are now underway, adding 3.6 megawatts of renewable power with batteries and a microgrid for resiliency. Additionally, Berkeley launched the Clean Energy Campus initiative<\/a>, kickstarting an intensive decarbonization plan to electrify the campus. <\/p>\n\n\n

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In its 2021 Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) submission, UC Berkeley earned a Platinum rating<\/a>, securing the seventh spot out of 674 universities. STARS revealed a host of accomplishments, including 50% of Berkeley\u2019s courses<\/a> having a sustainability focus and 95% of the landscape being organically managed. In its 17th year, the Chancellor\u2019s Advisory Committee on Sustainability<\/a> honored six graduating seniors<\/a> as changemakers in ending plastic pollution, creating plant-forward menus and notably for advancing environmental justice. Student leaders were recognized by the city\u2019s mayor with a proclamation<\/a> for spurring 2,500 community members to take donated furniture home and diverting 200,000 pounds of waste during the Cal Move Out event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While on-campus activities and population were limited, Berkeley\u2019s essential workers sustainably supported campus buildings, labs, and dining and residence halls that mostly remained operational. Energy use was only slightly reduced during the year as a result, but carbon emissions from the commute, air travel, water use and waste were reduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Faculty, Hired in Clusters, to Address Global Issues, Equity Justice<\/a><\/h3>\n

Five new faculty members at UC Berkeley this fall hail from disparate U.S. states, academic disciplines and personal backgrounds. But they\u2019re already forming a team partnered around one critical global issue \u2014 climate equity and environmental justice \u2014 as part of six interdisciplinary faculty \u201ccluster hires\u201d underway on campus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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In Calculating the Social Cost of Methane, Equity Matters<\/a><\/h3>\n

What is the cost of one ton of a greenhouse gas? When a climate-warming gas such as carbon dioxide or methane is emitted into the atmosphere, its impacts may be felt years and even decades into the future \u2014 in the form of rising sea levels, changes in agricultural productivity or more extreme weather events, […]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n