“Trash wheel” in Panama captures plastic in rivers before it reaches ocean; project advised by Benioff Oceans team
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The campus marks two decades of focused sustainability efforts by highlighting major achievements -
Study of environmental impacts of beverage sales, consumption offers insights into emerging initiatives -
Researchers find that over a 15-year period, a small percentage of industrial facilities emit the majority of toxic pollution -
Scholar’s book explores how utilities and fossil fuel companies fought to weaken clean energy policies -
UC Santa Barbara scholar’s book explores new territory at the intersection of video games and the environment -
The campus achieves elite platinum designation as a Bike Friendly University -
Acclaimed book of creative nonfiction about sea level rise is selected for UCSB Reads 2020 -
The Central Coast Sustainability Summit aims to spark solutions and partnerships around environmental challenges -
Scholar’s new book provides a guide for bringing ecological benefits into economic considerations -
UC Santa Barbara again named among top-performing institutions in 2019 Sustainable Campus Index -
Music scholar’s essay collection explores the nexus of environmental and cultural sustainability -
The Green Initiative Fund awards $190,000 in grants for campus-based sustainability projects -
Simone Pulver, current Faculty Sustainability Champion, aims to grow change-makers with Environmental Leadership Incubator -
Benioff Ocean Initiative launches a new effort to stop plastic waste from entering the ocean -
Gift from Wendy Schmidt launches fellowship program to promote research aimed at solving environmental problems -
An interdisciplinary public conference on campus examines positive and negative implications of plastics -
Symposium will kick off a global public history project on migration and environmental justice -
A new website promises to further connect the environmental science community across campus -
Alumni, donors Kim and Jack Johnson help UC Santa Barbara break ground on its student farm, culminating years of effort -
First public trail to open at North Campus Open Space, providing safer routes to schools and other destinations -
With 600 bikes expected for fall, campus ramps up its new bikeshare program -
Gift from author T.A. Barron establishes endowed fund for environmental leadership in the humanities -
UCSB named among top-performing institutions in three key categories in the 2018 Sustainable Campus Index -
The Green Initiative Fund supports an array of environmental projects aimed at making campus more sustainable -
UCSB hosts 16th California Higher Education Sustainability Conference -
Conference at UCSB brings together academics, activists to discuss the future of environmental activism -
UCSB goes all-in on systemwide efforts to cut waste through education, communication -
Cycads — hearty, massive plants that date to the Mesozoic Era — boost teaching and sustainability on campus -
UCSB breaks ground on its collaborative wetland and habitat restoration effort at North Campus Open Space -
UCSB earns gold in the leading sustainability assessment program for colleges and universities -
UCSB computer scientist Chandra Krintz has moved closer to her goal of enabling smarter, more sustainable farming through technology -
Gift from the TomKat Foundation, established by Tom Steyer and Kathryn Taylor, launches Carbon Neutrality Project led by UCSB -
UCSB Sustainability’s The Green Initiative Fund supports campus environmental projects -
4th Annual UCSB Environment Politics Conference to focus on interdisciplinary approach to solving Earth’s problems -
UCSB LabRATS program takes sustainability into science labs, saving water, waste and energy -
Offering a new and “nearly carbon-free” model, UCSB’s Environmental Humanities Initiative hosts a virtual academic conference -
New English course examines climate change debate by analyzing popular narratives on all sides of the argument. -
A 10-week, UC-wide contest launching today aims to motivate staff, faculty and students to reduce their carbon footprint -
Campus Sustainability Champion Ken Hiltner is putting his award to work with the Environmental Humanities Initiative -
UCSB wins three Best Practice Awards in the California higher education sustainability competition -
UCSB has been ranked No. 3 in Princeton Review’s list of the Top 50 Green Colleges — and No. 1 among public universities -
What do the Aleutian Canadian goose, the Western gray wolf and the American crocodile have in common?
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Managing the material infrastructure of information technology -
Ever the eco-trendsetter, UCSB notches up another honor, being named third among “Top 50 Green Schools” -
As part of its ongoing partnership in the UC Global Food Initiative, UCSB hosts meeting about growing ties to local farmers -
Sustainability practitioners from across the region convened at UCSB for 4th annual summit -
More than $184,000 is granted to 14 planned projects meant to bolster sustainability and greening efforts across campus -
Unconventional gas and oil has become one of the most passionately debated questions of our time.
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Campus recognized as national trendsetter for water conservation; cited for student-driven, UC-first Water Action Plan. -
The relationship between land simplification — the conversion of natural habitat to cropland — and insecticide use is important in determining land use policy. New findings show that the correlation between the two varies from year to year, making... -
A series of short films produced by students in Blue Horizons, the nine-week summer program for environmental media at UC Santa Barbara's Carsey-Wolf Center, will screen on Friday, August 23, in the campus's Pollock Theater.
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Studying invasive plants through an NCEAS distributed seminar helped to fill a hole in collective ecology knowledge -
What do stormwater management, whale migration, and inner peace have in common? They're the subjects of a few of the newest interpretive signs around the UC Santa Barbara campus.
