{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Sustainability Annual Report 2025","provider_url":"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/2025","author_name":"sustainabilityadmin","author_url":"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/2025\/author\/sustainabilityadmin\/","title":"UC Davis - Sustainability Annual Report 2025","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kalHgnoA9s\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/2025\/locations\/uc-davis\/\">UC Davis<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/2025\/locations\/uc-davis\/embed\/#?secret=kalHgnoA9s\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;UC Davis&#8221; &#8212; Sustainability Annual Report 2025\" data-secret=\"kalHgnoA9s\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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The campus welcomed Eric O\u2019Brien as the new sustainability director and launched a forward-looking community-centered vision for a sustainable transportation plan. Unitrans completed the first phase of its electric bus transition \u2014 making a third of its fleet zero emission. FOOD UC Davis spent approximately $3.8 million on sustainable food and beverages this year, an 8% increase from the previous year. Dining Services increased spending on sustainable meat products for beef, chicken and fish through partnerships with Cream Co. Meat, Mary&#8217;s Chicken and Real Good Fish. Dining Services has been expanding spend with Clover Dairy organic milk products and Peet&#8217;s organic, Rainforest Alliance or Bird Friendly coffee. The student-run Coffee House has also increased sustainable spend on coffee with its new vendor, Pachamama Coffee Cooperative. Green building The UC Davis main campus constructed two new Gold-certified LEED buildings, Shasta Hall and Edwards Family Athletics Center, and one Silver-certified LEED building, Orchard Park Amenity Building. The main campus has 12 occupied all-electric buildings and two under construction. 11 Platinum, 33 Gold, 9 Silver and 1 Certified Healthy Vending Healthy vending is defined as meeting UC\u2019s&nbsp;Healthy Vending Guidelines. Data is from 2023\u201324. UC Davis spent $41,000 on healthy vending beverages, 6% of total vending beverage spend. The spend includes data from Pepsi and Canteen. The campus has its own vending machines offering fresh food, for which data tracking will begin next academic year. procurement The University reports on green spend, as defined in the&nbsp;Sustainable Procurement Guidelines, and reached out to suppliers for spend data in four product categories for this year\u2019s report. Green spend is defined as meeting preferred or minimum criteria&nbsp;in UC&#8217;s Sustainable Procurement Guidelines.Suppliers reporting: Electronics (10), Furniture (6), Cleaning supplies (5), Office supplies (4). UC Systemwide Spend Analytics category data provided by CalUSource. Sustainable Building &amp; Laboratory Operations Currently, eight labs are certified through the Green Workplace program, including one that proactively recertified to achieve the highest rating. Six more certifications are in progress. The program partnered with the UC Davis Organic Chemistry Teaching Labs program manager to secure a $12,000 Green Initiative Fund grant for a pilot nitrile glove recycling program, projected to divert waste from over 5,000 students annually. Additionally, a lab coat reuse program was launched, recovering and laundering coats for redistribution through the UC Davis Bookstore. Transportation The 2024 UC Davis Travel Survey showed a 5% increase in single-occupancy-vehicle use by employees while student rates remained consistent with the previous year. While the measurement for the campus travel survey captured one week of commuting patterns in October, a busy time on campus for employees and students, parking meter data throughout the entire academic year suggested a significant reduction of vehicle demand. Transit use went up 5% campuswide compared with 2023 as the campus bus system, Unitrans, returned to full pre-pandemic service. *Sustainable vehicles are defined as electric (zero-emission), plug-in hybrid or clean transportation fuel. Single-Use Plastics Phase-Out Complete Phase-out* Partial Phase-out Starting Soon *Complete phase-out of single-use plastics may include exemptions where reasonable alternatives to plastic do not exist. The campus signed a new pouring rights contract with Pepsi requiring roughly 80% of beverages to be provided in non-single-use plastic containers. A few items, such as Naked Juice and Gatorade, are unavailable in non-plastic containers. These items will be available in sustainable packaging by 2030. UC Davis is also partnering with Polycarbin to develop circular economy solutions for lab plastics, helping the campus recycle 638 pounds of lab plastics in fiscal year 2024\u201325. Awards UC Davis maintained a Gold rating in STARS 2.2. The report is valid until 2026. For the ninth year in a row the campus was recognized as the greenest campus in North America in the 2024 UI GreenMetric World University Rankings. A full list of awards is&nbsp;featured on the UC Office of the President\u2019s website. AASHE STARS Gold rating"}