Students, staff, and faculty are taking action every day at UCSB in an effort to create a better future locally and globally.  Their stories are inspirational for our campus and our neighbors and are a record of our progress towards sustainability.  Guest contributors are helping us tell UCSB’s story through articles, featured in our newsletter, that highlight new and interesting accounts of what’s going on at the UCSB campus.

Climate Scoop Spring 2019 Edition
Climate 2019 Sustainability Edition:

University of California, CSU and SCE Launch Clean Energy Optimization Pilot

Bike to Work Year

Sustainability Scoop Spring 2019 Edition
Spring 2019 Sustainability Edition:

Market Solutions for Environmental Issues: Breaking the Mold and Addressing Social Equity

Past for a Future

UC Santa Barbara Is Getting Greener

Meet the Sustainability Interns

Climate Scoop Winter 2019 Edition
Winter 2019 Climate Edition:

Know the Numbers: UC Santa Barbara Launches Online Campus Energy Dashboard

My Experience at the “50 Years After the Santa Barbara Oil Spill” Event

The Million LED Challenge Has Come to UCSB!

Sustainability Scoop Winter 2019 Edition
Winter 2019 Edition:

Is the Practice of Recycling Headed for the Dump?

Rising to the Occasion: CCBER Tackles Surging Sea Levels

Climate Scoop Fall 2018 Edition
Fall 2018 Edition:

Meet the Bonnie Reiss Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellows (2018-2019)

SRB Certified LEED Platinum

Sustainability Scoop Fall 2018 Edition
Fall 2018 Edition:

The “Shepherd” of Sustainability: Bruce Tiffney and His Work With the Chancellor’s Sustainability Committee

A Whole New World: The ‘Blue Revolution’ of the 21st Century

The Miramar Food Pantry: A New Resource in the Fight Against Food Insecurity

Climate Scoop Spring 2018 Edition
Spring 2018 Edition:

Meet the Bonnie Reiss Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellows (2017-2018)

My Experience in LEED Living Lab

Ponytails for Climate Change: Professor John Foran’s Climate Justice Work

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) Announces This Years’ Selected Projects

Spring 2018 Edition
Spring 2018 Edition:

New Surfliner Train Service & UCSB’s Goleta Train Station Shuttle Vanpool 

Blue Sky Science in the Deep Blue Sea: A Holistic Approach to an Important Mollusk

Looking At the World Through Other Eyes

2018 Staff Sustainability Recognition Award Recipient

Winter 2018 Edition
Winter 2018 Edition:

Third Time’s the Charm: Bren Hall’s Third LEED Platinum Certification Makes History

The Brazilian Cash Cow: How Cattle Ranching is Outsizing the Rubber Industry in Amazonia

Water Legislation in California: Deeper than Citizen Engagement 

Fall 2017 Edition
Fall 2017 Edition:

Resolving Food Waste on Campus

Does Travel Increase with Uber and Lyft?

TGIF – Call for Proposals

Spring 2017 Edition
Spring 2017 Edition:

UCSB Recreation Center Launches Hydroponic Program

Edible Campus Program Releases Conceptual Farm Design

TGIF 2016-17 Funding Cycle: Another year of great projects

Bio-Based Oils Come to Campus

Winter 2017 Edition

Intense South American Monsoons

Testing the Toxicity of Nanomaterials

Conversations on Climate Justice

Fall 2016 Edition
Catching up with the Carbon Neutrality Initiative

Veganism in the West 

Restoring UCSB

Nine Tips to Reduce your Environmental Impact this Thanksgiving Holiday

Spring 2016 Edition
TGIF 2015-16 Funding Cycle: Another year of great projects

Lessons about conservation from the Indigenous Ainu of Japan

Gridlock challenges–but doesn’t upend environmental policy

Staff Sustainability Award honors UCEN Dining Staff Member John Lazarus

Winter 2016 Edition
A Year in Review: UCSB finds sustainability success as 2015 comes to a close

Ecological justice is social justice too

Making the case that a market could fight climate change

Oil spills, El Niño, and sea stars. Lessons learned from Carol Blanchette

Fall 2015 Edition
Milton Love

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

University of California’s Cool Campus Challenge, a catalyst for carbon neutrality

UCSB moves forward with new, ambitious water conservation goals

Spring 2015 Edition
Without Water

The Green Way Forward: Reducing Plastic Waste with UCSB Hydration Stations

TGIF: Another Year of Great Projects Funded

UCSB Student Resource Building: Optimizing Efficiency and Student Well-Being

Our Origins of Environmentalism

Fall 2014 Edition

 The Buzz Around Food Justice

DR. Kevin Lafferty: Our Parasite Advocate

Gaucho Farmer’s Market

Renewable Energy Initiative Solar Array on PS-22

Previous Addition

Recent Editions:

Innovative Research on Solar Cells Provides an Opportunity for a more Durable, Accessible, & Affordable Solar Panel—May 2013

A Plausible Revolution in Green Chemistry—January 2013

Food for Thought: How UCSB’s Compost Program is Reducing Campus Waste—February 2013

Global Warming and Plant Phenology—March 2013

Twenty Years of Alternative Fuels: From Fleets to Prime Time—April 2013

Innovative Research on Solar Cells Provides an Opportunity for a more Durable, Accessible, & Affordable Solar Panel—May 2013