what is serc?
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150+ students attended the Expo to learn about involvement oppor-
tunities like sustainability student leadership posi-tions, internships, events, funding, and initiatives from 30+ organizations.
MISSION The Student Environmental
Resource Center (SERC) cultivates a collaborative space to strengthen the collective effectiveness of the
sustainability community, and provides resources for students to actualize their visions of a more equitable, socially just, and resilient future.
$6per student
per semester
initiatives active educationstudent discourse
student leadership
educational travel
student activism
UC Berkeley’s Campus Green Fund provides grant funding for student, staff, and faculty proj-ects that support campus sustainability efforts. In 2016, UC Berkeley students voted to re-new the TGIF fee for another ten years, renewing in 2017 at an $8.00 per se-mester student fee.
Solar Spring Break is an annual partner-ship between UC Berkeley and GRID Alter-natives that gives students the opportunity to spend their Spring Break installing solar panels for low-income households.
$2 million across 160 projects and 246 internships since 2008
THE GREEN INITATIVE FUND
SOLAR SPRING BREAKThis year...
an 11-student team installed a 3.03 kW-AC
system... diverting 67 tons of greenhouse gas
emissions...
FILM SERIES
SERC NEWSLETTER // SOCIAL MEDIA
March for REAL Climate Leadership Recruited 40 students to participate.
More than 800 pledges signed and Klean Kanteens dis-tributed to students, staff, and faculty during 2015-2016.
which is equivalent to the planting of
1,574 trees!
SERC BLOG220+
blog pieces written by student contributors since Fall 2013
SERC DECALS
SERC DECAL FELLOWSHIP
SERC student staff facilitate a variety of sustain-ability-focused DeCals, aka for-academic credit, student-taught courses.
15 courses offered
since Spring 2013
15 DeCals have completed the SERC DeCal Fel-lowship since the program’s launch in fall 2015.
3 Career Expos, 11 Networking Events, and 3 Career Workshops since spring 2013.
CAREER SERIES
SERC sponsors this UC Berkeley undergraduate journal of local environmental writing, art, and photography.
WORDS OF THE WATERSHED JOURNAL
1,600+ subscribers to
bi-weekly newsletter
1,800+followers to SERC
Facebook page
Nature Village launched a partnership with Imperfect Produce to sell Community Sup-ported Agriculture boxes to University Village residents and address food insecurity and food waste issues. These CSA boxes are sold for $12 each and feed a household of 3-4 people for a week.
NATURE VILLAGE SUSTAINABLE FAMILY LIVING
ZERO WASTE RESEARCH CENTER
SUSTAINABLE ATHLETICShas helped UC Berkeley win 1st place for RecycleMania Game three years in a row- 2013, 2014, and 2015, win 1st place in the 2015 and 2016 GSA Pac-12 Zero Waste Basketball Chal-lenges, and win 2nd place in Inau-gural GSA Pac-12 Zero Waste Foot-ball Challenge.
researches and implements upstream strategies for achieving a Zero Waste campus by 2020 via the Plastic Disclosure Project, the Envi-ronmentally Preferred Products (EPP) guidelines and Road Shows, Bulk Bins, campus lab waste analysis, and Refills Not Landfills pledge and mug distribution.
REFILLS NOT LANDFILLS
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
EARTH WEEK
SERC advises 45+ en-vironmental and sustainability stu-dent organizations who collectively participate in an environmental leadership coalition, ECO.
SERC has planned an average of 30 events and programs per annual Earth Week since 2014.
SUSTAINABILITY INVOLVEMENT EXPO
EQUITABLE & INCLUSIVE FOOD PROGRAMMING
SERC led a delegation of seventeen UC Berke-ley students to the 2015 Bioneers Conference.
SERC has co-hosted 16 film screenings since Fall 2013, including 3 SF Green Film Festival screenings.
SERC is a partner on the 2015 Equity &
Inclusion Inno-vation Grant
“Building Equitable and Inclu-sive Food Systems at UC Berke-ley”.
BIONEERS
AASHE 13 UC Berkeley delegates presented in a to-tal of 14 sessions during the 2015 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Edu-cation (AASHE) Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
CHESCSERC led a delegation of two career staff and eight student leaders to the 2015 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference.
3 editions published since Spring 2014
NorCal Climate Mobilization Recruited 30 students to participate.