Researchers find that over a 15-year period, a small percentage of industrial facilities emit the majority of toxic pollution
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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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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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Known for its commitment all things sustainability, UCSB's latest eco accolade concerns its innovative, 'remarkable' efforts to conserve water. The public plaudit from Earth Day Networkgave especially high praise to the UCSB Water Action Plan — an... -
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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A network of undergraduate ecology and conservation biology classes at eight universities across the country compiled data on invasive plants in U.S. National Wildlife Refuges and performed an analysis to determine which factors promote or inhibit... -
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.
