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While the pandemic caused a major shift in daily campus operations, UC Davis quickly responded to the new needs of the campus and local community by launching Workplace Reimagined<\/a> and working with the City of Davis to offer COVID-19 testing and vaccinations with Healthy Davis Together<\/a>. The Causeway Connection<\/a> offered free transportation to COVID-19 vaccination appointments<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UC Davis sustainability engagement continued throughout the pandemic with the Green Home Office program<\/a>,  a seminar on student leadership for climate change, a new Sustainability website<\/a>, awareness-building events for the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals<\/a> and the inaugural UC Davis Voluntary University Review<\/a> process. The campus continued taking steps toward sustainability goals by introducing new waste bins (increasing access to composting<\/a>), adding waste compactors to student housing and dining facilities (reducing solid waste pickups), supporting the cultivation of a resilient urban tree canopy through a student-planted tree trial test site<\/a> and securing full funding for 14 Unitrans-operated electric buses<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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UC Davis saw only modest reductions in energy use, considering that only a third of the regular campus population actively worked and studied on campus. UC Davis\u2019s ongoing programs around lab research and animal and human patient care contributed to steady energy and water use. UC Davis did have a decline in overall waste production and single-occupancy-vehicle commuters due to an increase in telecommuting and a smaller on-campus population. The quieter campus aided the construction work for the Big Shift<\/a>, a project to replace gas-powered steam heating as part of the campus\u2019s carbon neutrality efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Decarbonizing California Transportation by 2045<\/a><\/h3>\n

UC Davis transportation and policy experts released a report to the California Environmental Protection Agency evaluating a path to a carbon neutral transportation system for California that connects health, equity and environmental justice benefits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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Rethinking Wildfire: Cultural Burning and the Art of Not Fighting Fire<\/a><\/h3>\n

UC Davis students and faculty partnered with regional tribes to participate in cultural burns \u2014 a tool used by Native people to renew plants and watersheds \u2014 and learn about their connection to climate justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n