University of California, Davis
EN-4: Outreach Materials and Publications

The Office of Sustainability sends a regular email newsletter featuring news, events, employment opportunities and other information related to campuswide sustainability.

The Office of Sustainability also has two Facebook pages, one on general sustainability and another on zero waste, an Instagram, a Twitter account, and a recently launched LinkedIn sustainability network group.

For more information, visit:

https://us11.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=6f069e1185b00ce75fc69c5f7&id=2b7a09bb1b

https://www.facebook.com/UCDavis.Sustainability/

https://www.facebook.com/ucdaviszw/

https://twitter.com/UCDavisSustain

https://www.instagram.com/ucdavis.sustainability/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/uc-davis-office-of-sustainability-network/

Student Housing includes building signage that highlights green building features in all LEED certified buildings. The signage is prominent and includes information on green building features in each LEED category.

The Brewery, Winery & Food Science Facility includes building signage that highlights green building features.

The Conference Center also includes signage that highlights green building features.

Student Housing and Dining Services dining facilities that have edible, surplus food recovered by the student-run Food Recovery Network have posted signs on the windows. Dining Commons are also certified by the Sacramento Area Sustainable Business Program, which is displayed on signage at Dining Commons entrances.

The Office of Sustainability created “Report Leaks” stickers and worked with a student sustainability club and Custodial Services to place the cling stickers near faucets in every bathroom on campus. The stickers give the phone number to report a leak so that reporting is encouraged and immediately actionable. The Office also created waste, recycle, and compost signage to highlight waste diversion stations around campus.

Facilities Energy and Engineering has a few A-Frames on campus that display information that allows students and staff to be directed to the TherMOOstat website. It lets student and staff know whether they are cold or warm on campus they can let us know. They also display information for the Trim the Waste website. It has the Trim The Waste mascot Joules the cow in the middle with a lighting around it and the website URL.

Most Arboretum exhibits feature interpretive signage identifying and explaining the importance of plants and animals in the collections. These signs often highlight the sustainability of the following collections: Mary Wattis Brown Garden of California Native Plants, Arboretum Teaching Nursery, and Arboretum GATEway Garden.

Some Arboretum signage explains the sustainability work around the Arboretum such as erosion control, stormwater retention, landscaping, and water conservation efforts. Seasonal signage is placed up during graduation to promote keeping glitter and other graduation related paraphernalia from being littered on the ground and ending up in the Arboretum Waterway.

The campus has utilized trees around campus to hold several informational signs. A series of tree tags provide information on specific tree species as well as benefits of the trees.

The Healthy Beverage Initiative created eye-catching signs that direct campus users to the nearest water refill stations.

Grounds also places signage in front of tree removal and other tree projects on campus to highlight that particular type of work.

For more information, visit the following websites:

Green Buildings in Student Housing:
https://housing.ucdavis.edu/sustainability/green-buildings/

Mary Wattis Brown Garden of California Native Plants: https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk1546/files/inline-files/mwb_exhibits.pdf

Arboretum Teaching Nursery: https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk1546/files/inline-files/teaching%20nursery.pdf

Arboretum Gateway Garden:
https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk1546/files/inline-files/GATEway%20Garden%20Exhibits.pdf

The Office of Sustainability maintains a self-guided sustainability field trip map, which includes both a walking and a biking tour of campus highlights.

In addition, the Facilities Energy & Engineering office provides guided tours with communications interns for an in-depth look at the energy related projects on campus. Participants also learn about how the campus uses energy and what they can do to save energy on campus.

Sustainability field trip map, print form: http://sustainability.ucdavis.edu/local_resources/docs/sustainability_tour_map.pdf.

Sustainability field trip map, interactive: http://campusmap.ucdavis.edu/sustainability/.

Facilities Energy & Engineering tours: https://facilities.ucdavis.edu/guided-walk-our-energy-projects

Student Housing and Dining Services curates a list of online tips that residents can take to be more sustainable, such as reduce and divert waste, save energy, and eat sustainably. These are comprehensive lists with a table of contents, intended for Residence Hall students and students living in Student Housing Apartments titled “Take Action in the Residence Halls” and “Take Action in Student Housing Apartment”.

Student Housing and Dining Services has an online guide for Resident Advisors, the Resident Eco-Advisor, to support sustainability through their job duties and living environments in the residence halls. It includes information such as a list of topics for sustainable resident programs and a green event planning checklist.

More than simple written guides, Student Housing and Dining Services facilitates learning through living the principles. The Environmental & Agricultural Sustainability Education (EASE) living-learning community is a first-year dorm for students interested in local, regional, and global issues relating to the environment and agriculture. Students are given the opportunity to participate in programs, activities, and events related to the environment, agriculture, and sustainability.

The “Sustainability Squad” is a group of first-year campus residents who engage their peers on sustainable living and campus sustainability efforts.

The Sustainable Living and Learning Communities strive to promote experiential learning by providing students with classes, research opportunities, internships, and volunteer work in a number of fields related to agricultural and environmental sustainability, technological innovation, and community building.

Energy and Engineering has an online website called Trim the Waste where residents can learn about how energy gets on to campus, the kinds of energy that is used, how they can contribute to saving energy, and pinpoint where they believe energy is being wasted.

The Resident Garden is a space for all on-campus residents to learn about edible plants, how they are grown and cared for, and how they can be prepared after harvesting. Located at the Segundo Resident Area between Bixby Hall and Segundo Dining Commons, the garden also offers opportunities for student leadership and community involvement. Residents can attend a workshop at the Resident Garden, participate in garden workdays, or adopt their own plot in the garden.

In addition, the UC Davis Arboretum website has a section on its website under “Learn” called “Sustainable Gardening Resources” that features A Sustainable Gardening Toolkit as well as sustainable planting plans including the Arboretum All-Stars, 100 trial-tested sustainable plants, suitable for the region.

For more information, visit the following websites:
Student Housing and Dining Services, “Take Action” guides:
https://housing.ucdavis.edu/sustainability/take-action-in-the-residence-halls/

https://housing.ucdavis.edu/sustainability/take-action-in-student-housing-apartments/

Environmental & Agricultural Sustainability Education (EASE):
https://housing.ucdavis.edu/academics/living-learning-communities/2019-20/#environmental-agricultural-sustainability

Sustainability Squad: https://housing.ucdavis.edu/sustainability/sustainability-squad/

Sustainable Living and Learning Communities: https://sllc.ucdavis.edu/

Trim the Waste: https://trimthewaste.ucdavis.edu

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

UC Davis Arboretum: https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/
Sustainable Gardening Toolkit: https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/sustainable-gardening-toolkit
Sustainable Planting Plans: https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/tags/planting-plans
Arboretum All-Stars: https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/arboretum-all-stars

“Dateline” is the UC Davis’ weekly employee email newsletter and includes articles on sustainability and the environment.

Strategic Communications has a comprehensive website on climate change, including information on the science, impacts, and solutions as well as news articles. The website also has a solutions-oriented blog, “What Can I Do About Climate Change.”

Transportation Services posts articles on their website which are then sent out periodically in a newsletter called “TAPS Connect” to all parking permit holders and registered sustainable commuters.

The National Center for Sustainable Transportation publishes quarterly newsletters to advertise sustainability webinars, conferences, research, and presentations.

Student Housing and Dining Services (SHDS) distributes a weekly email newsletter to all Student Housing residents called the Aggie Reader. Every Aggie Reader has a section devoted to sustainability news, events, facts, tips, etc. Any campus department may submit material for the Aggie Reader. SHDS Sustainability also creates a weekly sustainability and nutrition newsletter written by student staff. The newsletter includes upcoming sustainability and nutrition events and initiatives, sustainable living tips, and other campus sustainability opportunities. Subscribers include select campus partners, Resident Advisors, and residents that sign-up for the newsletter. The list-serve resets each year.

Student Housing and Dining Services maintains social media channels (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter) where regular sustainability messaging is included. They also maintain dedicated sustainability bulletin boards throughout the Residence Halls and Dining Commons, as well as Resident Advisor maintained sustainability bulletin boards on every residence hall floor. There are also LCD displays with sustainability initiatives and messaging in the Residence Halls and Dining Commons. The Dining Commons also have messaging about sustainability initiatives on napkin holder inserts.

Facilities Energy and Engineering has a newsletter that goes out once a month called What’s Watt with Joules the Cow. There are two versions of the newsletter, one for students and the other for staff members. They differ slightly based on the content that is sent out. Usually the newsletter contains a recap of the previous quarter or a project, current activity, trends, tips, highlights of staff/interns, green building information, reminders to use TherMOOstat and success stories, and blog posts.

Facilities Energy and Engineering provides several energy related outreach platforms and publications:

Facilities Energy and Engineering Blog: Posts cover topics of sustainability and projects/platforms
Instagram: Used to keep students of what is happening in our office and projects. As well as give tips for saving energy.
Twitter: Used to keep students of what is happening in our office and projects. As well as give tips for saving energy.
Newsletter: The newsletter highlights energy projects, staff members, student interns, and events or campaigns happening.

The Arboretum puts out a quarterly print newsletter, the Review, that often highlights sustainable measures being taken in the arboretum and encourages sustainable planting. The archives are located on the arboretum website.

The Arboretum regularly sends out The Leaflet, a digital newsletter, that often highlights the Arboretum’s sustainable practices, promotes sustainably-minded events, and encourages sustainable gardening.

The John Muir Institute of the Environment (JMIE) has a quarterly newsletter called Planet Matters, which includes a message from the director, highlights, events, news, job posts, and spotlights on JMIE fellows and staff.

The UC Davis Food Loss and Waste Collaborative is a first-of-its-kind, university-based research program focused on developing solutions to reduce losses throughout the entire food life-cycle. By leveraging the uniquely interdisciplinary landscape at UC Davis, the FLWC will help researchers better understand why and where food is wasted, and how to reduce waste across the global supply chain. The four areas of focus are: Measurement and Characterization, Supply Chain Management, Consumer Behavior and Food Recovery, Novel Food Waste Recovery and Recycling Solutions.

For more information, visit the following websites:

Dateline: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/environment

Climate Change website: climatechange.ucdavis.edu
What Can I do About Climate Change blog: https://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/what-can-i-do-about-climate-change/

National Center for Sustainable Transportation newsletters: https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/articles/newsletters

Aggie Reader newsletter: https://housing.ucdavis.edu/aggie-reader/subscribe/

Facilities Energy and Engineering social media links
https://www.instagram.com/ucdavisjoules/
https://twitter.com/UCDavisJoules

Arboretum quarterly print newsletter archives, The Review: https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/arboretum-review/2019

Arboretum social media links
https://www.facebook.com/UCDavisArboretum
https://www.instagram.com/ucdavis_arboretum/
https://twitter.com/ucd_arboretum

John Muir Institute of the Environment and Natural Reserves System
https://www.facebook.com/UCDavisJMIE/
https://twitter.com/home?status=/about/about-the-muir-institute/
https://naturalreserves.ucdavis.edu/
Bodega Blog https://bodegahead.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCDavisNaturalReserves/
Facebook Stebbins Cold Canyon: https://www.facebook.com/fosccr/
Instagram: ucdavisnaturalreserves
Twitter: @UCDavisReserves @UCDavisJMIE

UC Davis Food Loss and Waste Collaborative: https://foodwastecollaborative.ucdavis.edu/