SERC Hand-out: Who and What is SERC?

1. 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.
$6
per 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 BREAK
This 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 BLOG
220+
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 ATHLETICS
has 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.
CHESC
SERC 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.