University of California, Davis
EN-3: Student Life

Aggie Trading Post is a student-run organization providing a sustainable alternative to fast fashion. It encourages conscious consumption and creativity.

Art and the Oceans: Marine Conservation through Writing, Painting and Photography. This club brings together artists and scientists to help promote conservation and awareness of ocean biodiversity.

CalPIRG - Davis chapter (student-governed) CalPIRG is a grassroots public interest group that lobbies for issues that they believe are relevant to the general public. They mainly focus on higher education, clean energy, hunger and homelessness, forest protection, and voter registration.

Campus Center for the Environment promotes student involvement in campus sustainability efforts. CCE encourages environmental stewardship through workshops, open dialogue, and specific student led projects. It also encourages collaboration between environmental and sustainability fouced student groups and relevant departments on campus.

The Climate Reality Project Campus Corps at UC Davis (student-governed) is a chapter of the international Climate Reality Project, founded by former Vice President Al Gore. Its focus is on mobilizing the UC Davis community to reverse climate change through education. The organization is open to all students who are concerned about climate change regardless of major or political affiliation, and seeks to stimulate interdisciplinary conversations and climate action. This organization will also serve as a community for those worried about climate change and aggregate resources to swiftly act on the most pressing issue of our time.

The Dairy Science Club educates the student body and community about the practices and importance of dairy science and husbandry in order to better prepare students to become future leaders in the dairy industry.

The Davis Alt. Protein Project provides an inclusive space for multidisciplinary collaboration and networking among students interested in alternative protein foods. It strives to build a health, sustainable, and just food system by creating a vibrant and robust community for alternative protein research and innovation at UC Davis.

Davis Scuba is a student operated organization stationed at UC Davis. The club aims to promote interest and education relating to scuba diving, marine ecology and biology, ocean conservation, and environmental awareness.

Doctors without Borders of Davis has a purpose to raise awareness and knowledge about current global humanitarian issues, support Doctors without Borders advocacy campaigns, and encourage and support students in the pre-Health plan.

Engineers without Borders was established to help developing areas worldwide with their development needs, while involving and training internationally responsible students.

The Environmental Club at UC Davis (student-governed) aims to connect students with similar interests and help them stay informed about environmental issues. The club also encourages interaction with the local environment through outdoor activities and conservation service projects, as well as socials and guest speakers.

The Environmental Law Society provides a forum for law school students for environmental information and networking. The members attend community events, regional conferences, and discuss pending legislation. They network with the professional community for support, guidance, and information about environmental law. Students are encouraged to explore a variety of environmental and natural resource issues. ELS hosts an annual Environmental Law Conference where speakers and practitioners discuss current issues in environmental law. ELS also supports Environs, the Journal of Environmental Law and Policy at King Hall, and the Water Association of Law and Policy.

The Environmental Project is a student organization that builds a water treatment system for a competition but also builds knowledge, confidence, and friendships. Participants are exposed to the Environmental Engineering field (design, management, teamwork) and are judged on sustainability, treatment efficiency cost, and an oral presentation.

The Environmental Toxicology Club provides a place for students to get involved with the UC Davis Department of Environmental Toxicology.

Food Recovery Network at UC Davis is a local chapter of the nation-wide Food Recovery Network, and is made up of UC Davis students who want to help feed the community and reduce food waste. Members of this club deliver surplus unsold food from vendors to places that feed the local community and help spread awareness about food waste and hunger. Its mission is to fight food waste and combat food insecurity.

Formula Racing at UC Davis is a student design team that is challenged to design, build, and race high-performance, environmentally-conscious vehicles.

Girls’ Outdoor Adventure in Leadership and Science (GOALS) is a free summer science program for high school girls and gender-expansive youth to learn science hands-on while backpacking through Sequoia National Park. In a two-week immersive program led by UC Davis and National Park scientists, GOALS scholars learn how to design and conduct field-based scientific experiments while developing leadership and outdoor skills.

The Marine Science Club aims to connect and foster the interest for marine science within the Davis community.

Net Impact Davis (student-governed) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to fostering a network of business leaders who use the power of business to create a positive net social, environmental, and economic impact. Members are graduate students, typically from the Graduate School of Management, who are constantly searching for new and innovative approaches to socially responsible businesses that make a positive impact on the world.

The Net Impact undergraduate chapter at UC Davis aims to foster an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability in our community. During the course of an academic year, undergraduate student members will work to propose a local issue, develop a potential solution, test it in the local setting, and produce an analytical review of their work. The group supports social, cultural, and environmental entrepreneurship and help students get funding for their high-impact projects.

Physicians for Social Responsibility is motivated by the idea of “preventing what we cannot cure.” As such, it focuses on issues ranging from environmental toxins, nuclear war, and climate change to gun violence and healthcare for all.

Science Says is a group of young scientists looking for better ways to communicate sicence with the public and each other.

Sprout Up at UC Davis provides environmental education to 1st and 2nd graders. College student-instructors strive to promote sustainability throughout the community.

Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity, And Sustainability SEEDS (student-governed) SEEDS is a program of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). This club is about promoting ecological science in a number of ways, and encouraging underrepresented students to explore the field of ecology. SEEDS will help aid students in the transition from college to career by broadening students' perspectives with eco-trips and guest speakers.

Student Energy at UC Davis has a mission to build a community of student energy leaders, share cross-disciplinary knowledge about the energy system, and take action to accelerate the transition to a resilient, decarbonized, and equitable energy future.

Student Leadership in Green Infrastructure is a club with an interdisciplinary team of students focusing on the design of green infrastructure. They research and design real-life sites, some of which actually get implemented; the club has constructed several rain gardens on the campus. They also participate in design charrettes to practice design skills and compete in the EPA's annual Campus RainWorks Challenge during fall quarter.

Student Selfless Service provides service to the community through events and projects aimed toward giving back. Projects include environmental and community work.

Sunrise Davis is part of the national movement of young people dedicated to stopping the climate crisis and creating millions of good jobs in the process. It is the hub in Davis fighting for a new Green Deal.

Surf Club is a student-run organization to schedule surf trips and environmentally-friendly efforts. Its mission is to bring together a community of positive, water-minded individuals and strive for self-improvement.

The Zero Waste and Sustainability Club (student-governed) aims to help the UC Davis campus reach the zero-waste goal. Not only will this club focus on campus sustainability, but it will also aim to make our individual lives more sustainable on and off campus, and aim to change the unsustainable habits of the world outside of the UC Davis campus. The club will involve students in many hands on zero-waste campus projects that reduce and eliminate the campus waste from going into landfills, and other environmentally sustainable projects.

For more information, visit the following websites below.

General page for student organizations: https://aggielife.ucdavis.edu/organizations

Campus Center for the Environment: cce.ucdavis.edu
Climate Reality Project: http://climaterealityatucd.weebly.com/

Food Recovery Network: http://foodrecoverynetworkatucd.github.io/

Net Impact (graduate chapter): https://gsm.ucdavis.edu/club/net-impact

Net Impact (undergraduate chapter): http://www.netimpactdavis.com/

Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity, and Sustainability: http://davisseeds.weebly.com/

Resident Garden @ Segundo

Student Housing and Dining Services manages a garden space in the Segundo Housing area. It is a space for on-campus residents to learn about organic gardening, local produce, edible plants, how they are grown and cared for, and how they can be prepared after harvesting. The garden also provides opportunities for student leadership and community involvement. The space is managed by a part-time student staff members, and supported by resident volunteers and sustainability interns. During the academic year, the Resident Garden Coordinator hosts weekly open volunteer hours for on-campus residents to help with garden tasks such as weeding, watering, planting, and harvesting. Garden-centered workshops are also hosted for Student Housing residents. Residents can also apply to adopt a small plot in the garden to steward their own space. Participants are provided with mentorship from the Resident Garden Coordinator and access to tools.

Student Farm (run by Agricultural Sustainability Institute)

Since its inception in 1977, the Student Farm has served the UC Davis students and faculty, farmers, gardeners, school children and many others. Its unique program centers around three principles: A focus on sustainable agriculture principles and practices, an emphasis on in-field, experiential learning, The encouragement of student initiative, creativity and exploration. We have a 9 acre Market Garden that supports a CSA and sales to the Dining Services and Coffee House, and to the on-campus Farmers Market. We also have a one acre garden with vegetables, perennial fruit trees, native plants, herbs and flowers. We have an additional acre where food is being grown for donation to the student run Pantry and other organizations on campus. We are an example of one form of urban agriculture, in that we are a small farm that is on a campus that is integrated into the town. 21.5 acres of the Student Farm are certified organic.

Arboretum and Public Garden

The Arboretum and Public Garden includes the historic Arboretum, a 100-plus acre campus and regional amenity comprised of demonstration gardens and scientific collections.

For more information, visit the following websites below.

Resident Garden: https://ediblecampus.ucdavis.edu/gardens/resident-garden

Student Farm: https://asi.ucdavis.edu/programs/sf/our-farm

Arboretum gardens list: https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/places-to-see

Unitrans

Founded in 1968, Unitrans is a unit of ASUCD which operates the transit system serving the UC Davis campus and the entire City of Davis. Over 250 students are employed, filling all the operational positions (driver, supervisor, dispatcher, trainer), as well as numerous positions in maintenance, administration, and management. Service is provided on 49 buses fueled primarily by compressed natural gas, and most doubledecker buses using renewable diesel fuel. Over 23,000 passengers are carried each weekday, and over 4.0 million per year. Students gain tremendous experience relating to many aspects of sustainability in working at Unitrans. The entire enterprise is devoted to providing a more sustainable means of transporting thousands of people each day by using the bus instead of a car. They see directly the challenges in providing service that is convenient and accessible to the community. Maintenance staff is constantly looking at ways to save fuel and reduce use of materials. The ultimate sustainable statement is the commitment to transitioning the Unitrans bus fleet to 100% electric. Unitrans will be kicking off an infrastructure project to support 14 battery electric buses in Summer 2020 and is aggressively pursuing funding for these buses. Unitrans is also dedicated to the continued use of vintage buses which were first built in the 1940s/50s and have been converted to clean diesel or CNG -- allowing them to continue in service rather than having to buy an entirely new vehicle.

CoffeeHouse (CoHo)

The ASUCD Coffee House is a $4M, multi-platform, break-even operation staffed by 7 full-time and career employees, a handful of student managers, and over 400 student employees. There are eight different service platforms, including a bakery, pizza and wings servery, sushi and pho station, deli, tex-mex grill, build-to-order salad station and a home-style foods venue.

The Coffee House uses its purchasing power to support the companies, practices and ideals that help the local and global community. Coffee is organic, fair trade, and shade-grown, giving maximum benefit to the farmer and the land on which the coffee is grown and the Coffee House works to make organic and locally-grown fruits and vegetables available to customers whenever possible. In addition to making sustainability-conscious purchasing decisions, the Coffee House believes in the importance of educating its customers on the benefits of living a sustainable lifestyle. Local and organic food items are labeled accordingly, creating an awareness of the path that their food has taken and how the customer’s food selections can impact the global community. Each quarter the CoHo conducts waste audits to evaluate the efficiency of landfill diversion efforts for both consumer and behind-the-counter waste. Sustainability staff and interns at the CoHo help provide training and educational signage related to waste and food.

Aggie Reuse Store

The Aggie Reuse Store promotes sustainability and creative reuse by diverting materials from the landfill such as clothes, books, school & office supplies, and housewares, etc. and selling them at a low price to students. It holds workshops on environmental advocacy and issues to help the community move to more sustainable lifestyles, and on creative reuse to teach people how to repurpose items available in the store. Aggie Reuse serves as a resource where students and campus departments can donate their used goods. Its goal is to divert as much waste possible from the landfill and encourage others to reuse. Aggie ReStore was inspired by the work of Design professor emeritus Ann Savageau who collected campus and community waste for use by students in her sustainable design class. Professor Savageau found the amount of materials overwhelming but their creative reuse potential limitless. The graduate students that started the Aggie ReStore hoped that salvaging some of these items from the trash will benefit people affected by rising tuition and living costs while also supporting Professor Savageau’s original mission to spread environmental awareness through creative reuse.

The Pantry

The Pantry is a food bank for UC Davis students which aims to prevent students from having access to basic necessities, including food and toiletries, due to financial constraints. The Pantry also helps distribute some surplus food collected by the Food Recovery Network.

Student Farm

UC Davis Student Farm is an educational site that includes the Ecological Garden and Market Garden. The Ecological Garden brings in elementary or middle school students that learn about their food and UC Davis students and interns that learn how to maintain a garden, fruit trees, and chickens. In addition, beds in the Ecological Garden and Market Garden are used for a sustainably grown flower production business. Flowers are sold to events on campus and through a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscription program, which currently sells flowers to 15 subscribers at $12.50/week. The Market Garden has a certified organic CSA (community-supported agriculture) basket year-round for UC Davis students, staff, and faculty. Currently, 110 subscribers pay $23.50/week for a basket every week full of produce grown here at the Market Garden. The Market Garden has also sells produce to Dining Services, the student-run CoHo and through the UC Davis Farmers Market. In addition to providing delicious and local produce to the UC Davis community, the Market Garden allows for students and interns to learn about sustainable agriculture as they help harvest vegetables, set up irrigation, sow seeds, and transplant plants or glean produce to avert food loss and address student food insecurity.

Project Compost

Project Compost is a student-run organization under ASUCD that teaches people how to compost through regular workshops and tabling events. In addition, Project Compost offers a paid service to pick up a portion of the organic waste generated on campus, including kitchen scraps from the CoHo, fruit from pomology labs, and plant matter from greenhouses, and composts it on campus. Student volunteers help maintain the compost pile, and finished compost is used by local gardeners, such as those in the Domes, Experimental College gardens, or the Tri Co-ops.

For more information, visit the following websites below.

Unitrans: Unitrans.ucdavis.edu

Coffee House: Coffeehouse.ucdavis.edu/sustainability

Aggie Reuse Store: Aggiereuse.ucdavis.edu

The Pantry: Thepantry.ucdavis.edu

Project Compost: https://projectcompost.ucdavis.edu/

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF), a campus program hosted by the Office of Sustainability and supported by student fees, offers students the opportunity to develop and launch innovative sustainability projects on campus, and to have a greater impact on sustainability within the UC Davis campus and the immediate region. The Fund awards between $100,000 and $200,000 each academic year to projects that positively impact students through increasing educational opportunities, promoting environmental awareness, engaging in sustainability research, advocating for climate and environmental justice, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy and water efficiency, limiting the amount of waste created on campus, and encouraging healthier, more planet-friendly lifestyles.

TGIF funds are available to UC Davis students, faculty, and staff. Undergraduate students are encouraged to submit proposals. Staff, faculty, and graduate students may also submit proposals. To be considered, proposals must articulate the undergraduate student role in the project proposed for funding. Priority is currently given to projects that involve undergraduates and that are located on the central UC Davis campus. Projects awarded in 2017-18 involved students from 19 different majors.

Grant proposals are currently accepted three times a year. The proposals are evaluated by an annually appointed Grants Committee that includes students, faculty, and staff (students hold a majority).

For more information, visit the following website: TGIF.ucdavis.edu

Each year, through Environmental Law Society students organize a symposium which brings experts from around the region and the country to provide their perspective on important current issues. The 2019 symposium focused on the human-made law of waste management.

Student Housing and Dining Services (SHDS) offers sustainability tours of the Dining Commons to both the on-campus community and off-campus groups. Tours given have included for UC Davis International Education youth groups, and Nutrition Classes to students from several Universities in Japan.

SHDS Sustainability staff have also given guest lectures to share sustainability dining operations best practices and exploring how food operations can support sustainability through all stages of the food system, such as with the Food Service Systems Management Class (FSM 122) and to students from Nagoya University of Arts and Science visiting Dietetic Students.

SHDS and the Office of Sustainability have co-sponsored several waste related film screenings, including Just Eat It, focused on food waste, and STRAWS, focused on single-use plastic waste. After the STRAWS film screening, a diverse expert panel including representatives from the Student Disability Center, the City of Davis (which has a straw ordinance) and the student group Campus Center for the Environment answered questions from the audience.

Food Recovery Network has hosted a seminar series focused on food waste. This speaker series was hosted during Fall Quarter 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Edward Spang. Topics included food waste at both the community and governmental levels, food waste as it relates to business, and food waste policy. This seminar series was offered as a class that students could register for. It met once a week for one hour.

Food Waste, Date Labels, and Risk Preferences: An Experimental Exploration. Professor Norbert Wilson from Tufts University presented his work on several recent food waste projects. The presentation, titled "Food Waste, Date Labels, and Risk Preferences: An Experimental Exploration" focused on some economic issues, but was accessible and of interest to a multidisciplinary audience of those interested in food waste and loss.

Agricultural Sustainability Institute – Many events were held between 2017 through 2019, focused on sustainable agriculture and related topics. These include the following:
Elderberry Field Day
Russell Ranch Field Day
Building a Better World (with ASI Distinguished Speaker Jon Foley of Drawdown)
2019 IC-FOODS Conference
Book Talk & Signing for Grain by Grain
Annual Russell Ranch Field Day
Eating for Change
2017 IC-FOODS Conference
There’s Nothing More California than Ketchup!
Student Farm 40th Anniversary
Microbial Underpinnings of Soil Health Workshop
Webinar: CA’s New Healthy Soils Incentive Program
Film Screening: Peter Byck and the Soil Carbon Cowboys
CalCAN’s Climate and Agriculture Summit
Cycles: How Natural Resources Management and Food Justice Need Each Other
Film Screening: The Garden

Cross Cultural Center – Culture Days

The Culture Days program celebrates and recognizes the rich cultural traditions of the four historically underrepresented communities in higher education. The following quad events are organized and sponsored by the Cross Cultural Center:

Black Future Month and Black Joy Fest- This event was first started by students from the Black Student Union with the intent to celebrate themselves and to take a stand against the hxstorically and culturally exclusionary ideologies on campus. Every year marks a monumental step towards black empowerment and strengthening of families. The family reflects the resilience, diversity and openness of black culture.

La Gran Tardeada- La Gran Tardeada is a day long celebration for the Chicanx/Latinx community to come together for food, music and dance. Honoring old traditions and creating new ones, this day focuses on celebrating all intersectional identities and experiences within this beautiful community.

Powwow - Powwow, as practiced today, is a social gathering intended to provide the campus and local community a space to learn about, engage with, and celebrate the traditions and cultures of Indigenous peoples, and bring visibility to the vibrancy of Native American music, dance, and arts. 

Asian Pacific Cultural Week and Night Market- The night market was created to spark a revolution against the structures that reduce the Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) community to a monolithic entity, and to highlight their ability to come together, mobilize, and resist as a community with diverse experiences. It conveys traditional and modern aspects AAPI experiences s as well as provides a space to share resources, facilitate involvement, and inspire action within the AAPI community.

Center for Leadership Learning (institution-governed) CLL workshops cover a wide variety of leadership and professional development topics. Its Diversity Leadership Development Program and quarterly workshops are open to all undergraduate students. Program structure includes weekly meetings with sustained dialogue seminar topics that include “Inclusive Leadership Theory”, “Values and Ethics”, “Personal Identity”, “Intersectionality”, “Privilege”, “Power”, “Systemic Oppression”, “Allyship”, “Conflict Management”, “Emotional Self-Control”, “Humility”, and “Self-Care”.

The Office of Sustainability hosted a Sustainability Summit at the end of the academic year 2018-2019. This inaugural event honored the achievements of the university, awarded those who contribute to the campus's sustainability goals, and provided student programs and speakers an opportunity to present their accomplishments over the year.

For more information, visit the following websites below.

Agricultural Sustainability Institute events: https://asi.ucdavis.edu/news-events/events/archive

Cross Cultural Center, Culture Days: https://ccc.ucdavis.edu/culture-days

Center for Leadership Learning, Diversity Leadership Development Program: https://cll.ucdavis.edu/dldp

Sustainability Summit 2019: https://foa.ucdavis.edu/news/2019-campus-sustainability-summit-recap

“Be a CO2 Visionary” was an interactive art installation intended to help participants and observers visualize a metric tonne of CO2. Participants were challenged to create the largest bubbles possible to fill the interior of the art installation, which was made of clear plastic tubes. In addition, participants were provided handouts with tips on how to reduce their carbon footprint, and how to recreate the bubbles at home. The event was held as a one-day event in 2018 on the main campus quad.

Cool Campus Challenge Sustainability Sketchcrawl: A two-day event with renowned urban sketch artist Pete Scully. Participants sketched campus sustainability as a Cool Campus Challenge event and received points in the Challenge. Held on April 10 and April 12 in 2019.

UC Davis Campus Recreation: Outdoor Adventures (institution-governed) offers hiking, camping, backpacking, whitewater rafting and kayaking trips to spectacular natural areas in California and beyond. In addition, Outdoor Adventures offers comprehensive healthcare classes in CPR and first aid training. All aspects of the trips, from the carpools to get to the locations to the leave-no-trace practices used on the trail and at camp, enforce Outdoor Adventure’s strong dedication to the sustainable treatment of the environment. They teach participants about the importance of treating the environment with respect by staying on designated paths, cleaning up litter, and reducing noise pollution. Mostly, they get people outdoors that might not otherwise have the chance. Participants are able to see and experience the beauty of their environment, and in return, gain appreciation for these places and the motivation behind the sustainable practices needed to preserve them.

For more information, visit the following website: https://memorialunion.ucdavis.edu/outdoor-adventures

The First Year Experience Advising Coordinator for Student Housing and Dining Services developed and facilitated a first-year experience seminar titled “Environmental and Agricultural Sustainability Education” during Fall Quarter 2018. Participants explored the intersections of social justice, sustainability, and agriculture through a series of lectures and field trips to both on- and off-campus edible gardens/farms. Examples classes included a trip to the UC Davis Student Farm, UC Davis Resident Garden @ Segundo, and a presentation from sustainability staff on campus about campus sustainability efforts.

The MyLastTrash campaign focuses on regular themes around waste reduction for the entire campus. The first year of the campaign had monthly themes (e.g. plastics in February, paper in March, e-waste and social justice in April, labs in May, moveouts in June) and activities related to those themes. The second year of the campaign focused on quarterly themes: food waste in fall quarter, waste and climate change in winter quarter, and social justice in spring quarter with related events like the film screening of “Just Eat It”, a documentary about food waste. Subsequent years of the campaign have shifted the quarterly focus to motivate use of specific reusable items instead of their single-use counterparts (e.g. reusable bags, cups, straws, utensils, napkins) through pledges and incentives.

Global Affairs sponsored UN Millennium Fellows in 2018-19 for the advancement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. UC Davis was selected as one of 30 campuses across the world to support Millennium Fellows through the 2018–19 academic year, which gave 14 student leaders leadership and training opportunities and direct experience in advancing the SDGs—a collection of 17 goals that address global challenges—on campus. This work launched the inaugural Campus Global Theme: Food for Thought: Feeding Ourselves, Feeding the Planet.

The Campus Community Book Project (CCBP) promotes dialogue and builds community by encouraging diverse members of the campus and surrounding communities to read the same book and attend related events. The book project—a signature initiative out of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—advances the mission to improve both the campus climate and community relations, to foster diversity, and to promote equity and inclusiveness.

2018-2019 Campus Community Book Project- The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams

2017-2018 Campus Community Book Project- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

2016-2017 Campus Community Book Project- Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel

For more information, visit the following websites below.

Millennium Fellows: https://globalaffairs.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-millennium-fellows-creating-awareness-un-goals

Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: https://diversity.ucdavis.edu/office-diversity-equity-and-inclusion

Campus Community Book Project archives: https://ccbp.ucdavis.edu/archive

Student Housing and Dining Services has a learning-living community for ‘Environmental and Agricultural Sustainability Education’ in the on-campus residence halls that provides opportunities for students to engage in activities related to the theme, as well as a seminar.

In addition, Student Housing and Dining Services shifts the focus of sustainable education from on-campus sustainability at the beginning of the year, to living sustainably off-campus during the final quarter of the year. This includes topics like how to stop with zero waste principles in mind.

Office of Sustainability:

Zero Waste Coordinator (2) Two student coordinators work part time year round to support the Zero Waste Program on campus through education, outreach, audits, research and analysis. They also provide operational support through special waste pickups.

Green Workplace Coordinator (1) One student coordinator works part time year round to maintain the Green Workplace Program in certifying green labs and offices on campus and related programs such as the International Freezer Challenge.

Greenhouse Gas Inventory Analyst (1) One student analyst works part time during the academic year and up to 30 hours during the summer to support the Office of Sustainability in creating the campus greenhouse gas inventory.

Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellows (3) Three student fellows work part time during the academic year to promote the Carbon Neutrality Initiative through engagement efforts such as tabling, workshops, social media, and special events, or through research projects

Student Housing and Dining Services:

Sustainability Peer Educators (4 students, employed during academic year, paid). SPES are employed part time during the academic school year. Their responsibilities include: peer-to-peer sustainability education with residents through tabling, workshops, and other programs and competitions, such as the annual Energy & Water Challenge; create content for social media; write content for weekly sustainability and nutrition newsletter; maintain sustainability bulletin boards in the Residence Halls and Dining Commons; and collaborate with the other student sustainability staff on campus.

Resident Garden Coordinator (1 student, employed year-round, paid). The Resident Garden Coordinator oversees the Resident Garden @ Segundo and coordinates garden maintenance and planting plans. They also develop and facilitate garden-focused educational programs for Student Housing residents.

Zero Waste Coordinator (4 students, employed during academic year, paid). Zero Waste Coordinators support zero waste goals through waste audits, zero waste events and waste reduction and diversion training and education with students and staff.

Sustainability Student Assistant (2 students, employed year-round, paid)

Part-time during the academic year with the option of full time during winter and summer break. Duties include assisting the Sustainability Manager with waste diversion strategies, sustainable purchasing tracking, water meter readings, updating spreadsheets quarterly for waste, energy & water, and LEED documentation for Student Housing projects. Duties including assisting the Sustainability Specialist with marketing and communications materials content development, engagement program data entry and analysis, and support for waste diversion programs during move-in and move-out.

Sustainability Interns (3-7 students per quarter, employed during academic year, volunteer unpaid position). Volunteers help support programs and initiatives across the SPE, Zero Waste, and Resident Garden teams, including waste audits, tabling, workshops, and garden volunteer hours. Interns also complete a project of their choice and present to the team at the end of the quarter.

Student Farm:

Up to 23 students work at the Student Farm each year as Lead Student Farmers. In this role, they mentor students interning for credit and help with farm and garden planning and managing.

Arboretum:

The Arboretum has up to 26 student coordinators who work 300 hours each, every year, leading the Learning by Leading projects and helping engage student interns. Projects include habitat enhancement and vegetation management on the Putah Creek Riparian Reserve, actively managing invasive weeds, planting local native plants to improve habitat, maintaining the trail network for public access, designing and planting sustainable gardens, conducting community outreach, working in the nursery, as well as data collection for future project implementation.

Facilities Energy and Engineering:

Facilities Energy and Engineering provides part time student employment opportunities for up to 5 students working on green building certifications and up to 8 engineering students (2 graduate and 6 undergraduate students).

Aggie Surplus:

Aggie Surplus employs a team of 6-7 students working part-time during the academic year and up to 20 hours during the summer, who assist with daily store management through inventory and sales of the surplus items that are diverted from landfill for reuse.