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UCSB Ecological Coalition (E-Coalition)
Over 30 Student Organizations to choose from...
The Ecological Coalition (a.k.a. the "E-Coalition"), is a network for campus-based environmental, ecological, and sustainability-oriented groups.
There is a huge array of environmentally-minded organizations at UCSB. And although each one is very different in its size and scope, in one way or another, all of the clubs seek to make our campus, our community, and in turn our planet, a healthier and happier place to live.
The E-Coalition serves to coordinate the efforts of member groups, ease communication, provide updates on various campaigns, gather extra volunteers for projects or events, and generate publicity and recognition through the joining of forces.
Associated Students B.I.K.E.S. (Bicycle Improvements Keep Everyone Safe)
Associated Students Bike Shop
Associated Students Community Affairs Board (CAB)
Associated Students Environmental Affairs Board (EAB)
Associated Students Recycling
Bren Student Sustainability Committee (BSSC)
California Student Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG)
Campus Democrats
ChillaVista
Coastal Fund (Renamed from Shoreline Preservation Fund)
Department of Public Worms (DPW)
Students for Ellison Hall Sustainability
Energy Forum - UCSB
Energy Club @ UCSB
Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
Excursion Club
Feel Good SB
FoodStuff UCSB
Green Campus Program
The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF)
Green Innovations
Greenhouse and Garden Project
Isla Vista Adopt-A-Block
Isla Vista Composting Coalition
IV Community Relations Commission (IVCRC)
IV Food Co-op
IV Tenants Union (IVTU)
KCSB-FM 91.9 (Sustainable World Radio and Video)
LabRATS (Laboratory Research and Technical Staff)
NORML (The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws)
Santa Barbara Student Housing Co-op (SBSHC)
Coastal Fund (Previously Known as Shoreline Preservation Fund)
Isla Vista Surfrider Foundation (IV Surfrider)
UC Nuclear Free
UCSB Sustainability Internship Program
Sustainable News Beat
Ecological Coalition
Sustainability News Beat
VIVO! (Vegan Interest, Vegan Outreach)
Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE)
Associated Students B.I.K.E.S.
(Bicycle Improvements Keep Everyone Safe)
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Website: http://as.ucsb.edu/bikes/ Meeting time: TBA Location: AS Conference Room |
Liz Lovelock (chair) (774)722-1163 bikes@as.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? "BIKES is an active bicycle system advocate, and works to increase student, staff, faculty, and administration awareness of and involvement with bicycle system issues in and around UCSB. We also fund bike improvements on campus, and participate in social and outreach events throughout the year with our $1.50 per student per quarter lock-in fee."
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Campaigns/Projects:
- West Campus Bike Path Campaign: Improving the Bike Path from Isla Vista to Coal Oil Point Reserve and beach location.
- Ongoing safety outreach to biking on campus.
- Development of campus policy for bike system maintenance and new pathways.
- Ongoing assessment of bike rack usage and locations of bike rack improvements.
Associated Students Bike Shop
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Website: http://www.as.ucsb.edu/asbs/ Hours: Monday through Thursday 11am-5pm, Fridays 11am-3pm Location: Trailer #324 on campus |
David Salmon (staff) (805) 893-3610 bikeshop@as.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? Serving the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of UCSB since 1974, the Associated Students Bike Shop is a student-funded non-profit organization dedicated to education, service, and safety. We have everything needed to get your bike running safely and smoothly. You bring your ID card, your bike, your time, and an inclination to learn. We provide the tools and the advice. Anything else you need, we offer at the lowest possible prices.
Associated Students Community Affairs Board (CAB)
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Website: http://www.as.ucsb.edu/cab/ Meeting Time: Tuesday, 5pm Location: The GSA lounge, MCC |
Ruth Granados (805) 893-4296 cab@as.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? The AS/UCSB Community Affairs Board (CAB), UCSB’s Volunteer Action Center, is dedicated to enhancing the educational experience of all UCSB Students by providing information and easy access to community service work.
Associated Students Environmental Affairs Board (EAB)
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Website: http://www.UCSBeab.com Meeting Time: Every Tuesday 7pm Location: GSA Lounge, upstairs Multicultural Center |
Anthony Tong (Co-Chair) anthonytong@umail.ucsb.edu 562-682-7286 Maile Smith (Co-Chair) maile_smith@umail.ucsb.edu 510-710-1368 |
Who are we? The Environmental Affairs Board is the central student environmental action group at the University of California Santa Barbara. We provide a gathering point for all students interested in discovering their niche in the fight to preserve our planet for generations to come. We promote change through local, community oriented action, broader legislative and political action, and community building through social activities.
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Weekly Volunteer Events:
- Environmental Education at Isla Vista Elementary
- Isla Vista Adopt-A-Block
- Eliminate Cigarette Butts!
- Recylemania- working group under the PCC
- Environmental General Education Requirement
- Increase use of Sustainable Foods
- Encourage the Dining Commons to go Trayless! (Without Cafeteria Trays, students tend to waste a lot less food, by taking smaller portions and there is less water and energy spent in washing trays.)
Campaigns/Projects:
Associated Students Recycling
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Website: http://www.as.ucsb.edu/asr/ Meeting Time: Mondays TBA Location: GSA Lounge: Upstairs Multicultural Center |
Ryan Kintz (805) 893-7765 recycling@as.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? Since the program's inception in 1992, AS Recycling, with the help of the Department of Conservation, has purchased over 75 state-of-the-art recycling clusters made from 100% post-consumer plastic. These Clusters which capture most of the outdoor recyclables on campus, have brought the UCSB community closer to its goal of recycling virtually all recyclable materials generated on campus. The collection of recyclables, which utilizes student workers and tricycles with attached carts, has proven enormously effective in reducing the amount of waste produced on our campus.
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Campaigns/Projects:
- Techno Trash – Improving Electronic Waste Recycling at UCSB
- Eucalyptus Grove – Compost and garden demonstration projects
- Department of Public Worms – DPW just joined AS Recycling to become one group. Learn more about DPW below
- Green Awards – Competition between UCSB Departments’ to see who is most “Green”
- Route Riders – Internship Program where students take out the recycling from all the clusters of bins outside (a.k.a. Berthas) on bikes!
Bren Student Sustainability Committee (BSSC)
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Website: http://fiesta.bren.ucsb.edu/~bssc/what.htm Meeting Time: email candersen@bren.ucsb.edu Location: Usually in Bren 1510 or 1520. Contact org before attending. |
President: Caitlin Andersen candersen@bren.ucsb.edu Staff Advisor: Jeff Kirby Kirby@bren.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? The mission of BSSC is: To continuously improve the environmental performance of the Bren School and its students. The BSSC is made up of a diverse set of people who all have an interest in sustainability and in improving Bren, the UCSB campus, and our community. Membership is made up of mostly Bren School students.
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Campaigns/Projects:
- LEED EB at Bren - We are aiming to get Bren the Platinum certification for existing buildings under the LEED program.
- RE-campaign - an educational campaign aimed to remind everyone to REDUCE and then REUSE before they RECYCLE.
- Other projects at Bren - worm composting in the student kitchen, cell phone recycling, battery recycling, and ink cartridge recycling
CalPIRG - California Student Public Interest Research Group
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Website: http://www.calpirgstudents.org/ Location: 3rd Floor UCen Meeting Time: Mondays 7:00pm |
(805)893-8319 Kallie Dixon Co-Chair kallie@umail.ucsb.edu 925-858-2563 Christine Williams Co-Chair cwilliams@umail.ucsb.edu 650-269-8507 |
Who are we? For 25 years, students who have been involved with their CALPIRG campus chapter have not only learned how to investigate a problem and come up with a practical solution. We've also learned how to convince the media and decision-makers to pay attention and take action. In other words, through CALPIRG we gain an educational experience in democratic citizenship. In addition, we get a chance to face up to society's big problems, take action, and win concrete changes that improve the quality of our lives.
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Campaigns/Projects:
- Global Warming Solutions
- Hunger and Homelessness
- Affordable Textbooks
- Save the Oceans
- College Success
- *Recent Success: Yes on Prop 1A, High Speed Rail
Campus Democrats
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Website: http://www.ucsbdems.org Meeting Time: Tuesdays 8:00pm Location: Graduate Students Lounge (GSA). Come and enjoy free pizza! |
Chrissy Elles (President) caelles@umail.ucsb.edu 707-363-8782 |
Who are we? Campus Dems is a great gateway to the political arena! Whether you're interested in a Congressional office internship or just want free pizza, Campus Dems is for you! Our goal is to promote the ideals and concerns of the candidates and issues of the Democratic Party, register and motivate our fellow students to vote, and have fun in the process.
ChillaVista
| Website: http://chillavistaiv.org/index.html |
Liz Budda thelizbudda@gmail.com |
Who are we? The scope of ChillaVista goes beyond just a one-day festival in Isla Vista. It is a movement. It is a representation of a new form of thinking, one that highlights social justice, equality, awareness, and sustainability.
Coastal Fund (Renamed from: Shoreline Preservation Fund)
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Website: http://www.coastalfund.org |
Scott Bull 805-893-5166 scotb@as.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? The Coastal Fund is a student initiative to enhance the UCSB campus coastline. The Coastal Fund provides funds to the local community to enhance, protect, and restore the shoreline through preservation, education, open access, research, and restoration.
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Key funded projects that are underway this year are:
- Renovations of IV beach stairways
- Naples Coalition to trains dozens of student on how to submit public comments and give testimony at public hearings to oppose development of the Gaviota Coast
- Three student film will be created on local coastal issues
- New class on the History of Surfing in the History department
Department of Public Worms
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Location: Perfect Park |
Ryan Kintz (805) 893-7765 recycling@as.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? Associated Students Department of Public Worms (ASDPW) is large-scale composting program within the Isla Vista community. Student coordinators provide weekly organic waste collection for eateries in the Isla Vista community, sanitarily transforming the organic waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer while spreading ecological literacy through public outreach and education.
Associated Students Department of Public Worms is a part of Associated Students Recycling
Ellison Hall Sustainability Committee
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Website: http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/ellison-hall.php Meeting Time: Open meetings; Tuesdays 12:30-1:30pm Ellison Hall 3626B |
Eli Krispi 805-893-2003 krispi@umail.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? The Ellison Hall Sustainability Committee is made up of faculty, staff, and students who work and study in Ellison Hall. This includes the departments of Sociology, Communications, Political Science, Film Studies and Geography as well as ICESS.
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Campaigns:
- Phelps-Ellison Energy Competition
- Get Energized! http://www.getenergized.org/
- Zero Waste; One Step Ahead of the Game – Keep Ellison Hall one step ahead of the UC Policy on Sustainable Practices by reaching zero waste by 2012.
Energy Club @ UCSB
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Website: TBA Meeting Time: Contact us for next meeting time |
Phyllis Sladek UCSBEnergyClub@gmail.com |
Who are we? A new student organization devoted to education and dialog on energy issues.
Energy Forum - UCSB
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Website: http://www.energyforumucsb.com Meeting Time: Open meetings; contact us for next meeting time |
Brooke Bullen energyforumucsb@gmail.com |
Who are we? The Energy Forum (EF) is a new campus group created by and for students interested in fact-based energy discussions and informed innovation.
Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
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Website: http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~ewb-ucsb/ Meeting Time: Monthly general meetings posted via listserv, contact membership coordinator to join listserv |
Lukmaan Bawazar, Membership Coordinator lukmaan@gmail.com 806-637-9897 Campus office: MBL 3123 Campus phone: x3416 |
Who are we? The mission of Engineers Without Borders - USA (EWB-USA) is to partner with disadvantaged communities to improve their quality of life through implementation of environmentally and economically sustainable engineering projects, while developing internationally responsible engineering students.
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Campaigns:
- Kenya Project: New project still in planning stages involving plumbing/wastewater management/lighting for an AIDS clinic
- Mexico: New Project involving water quantity and quality/wastewater management/economic development
- Wind Energy Research Local Project: initiating a Wind Power Pilot Project that will research and install one (or more) small wind turbine(s) to quantify and use the wind energy available in the Santa Barbara region.
- Mali: Design of Jatropha Bean presses to make Mali Fuels in collaboration with the Mali Folk Center
- Peru Project: Ongoing project involving slow sand filtration/chlorination/sanitation education/follow-up
- Lighting Research Group: Developing new lighting solutions for our projects and planning future projects
- Books For Africa: Quarterly Book Drive
- Baja House Building: A short term project in conjunction with a non-profit in Baja
Excursion Club
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Website: http://www.excursionclubucsb.org/ Meeting Time: Tuesdays at 7pm Location: Broida Hall 1610 |
Gus Tolley, Director and Trip Leader 530-218-2037 gustolley@gmail.com |
Who are we? To enjoy outdoor activities such as: hiking, backpacking, camping, surfing, rock climbing, skydiving, mountaineering, kayaking, snowboarding, skiing, and much more. Seeing as we love to enjoy the great outdoors as much as possible, it only makes sense that we are also involved with protecting it.
Feel Good SB
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Website: www.feelgoodworld.org www.thp.org Meeting Time: TBA Location: TBA |
Herschel Colbert herschel.colbert@gmail.com |
Who we are? FeelGood was started in 2004 at UT Austin with an idealistic, almost guerilla mindset. Two students took some loafs of bread and one kind of cheese and just set up some George Forman grills on campus, the intent to give the money raised to hunger. 5 years and 21 campuses later, we met you. Of course a lot of exciting things happened between now and then, but the basic premise remained the same: to provide a delicious and quality panini-style grilled cheese (and sans cheese for our vegan friends) for "free." We charge only what makes the students "feel good" because they know all their donation is going to sustainable methods in ending poverty/world hunger.
FoodStuff UCSB
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Website: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?sid=da4e5a330b3e85a8ebad71a2f609f696&gid=49982363892 Meeting Time: TBA Location: TBA |
Jennifer Reichardt jjreichardt@gmail.com and foodstuffucsb@gmail.com |
Who are we? A UCSB organization composed of empowered youth dedicated to issues of food, sustainability, and social justice.
Our main goals include working with the Dining Commons to get local, fair, sustainable, and organic food in the dining commons working with The Real Food Challenge, organizing a farmer's market on campus, and learning and discussing different events and initiatives pertaining to sustainable food, agriculture, and social justice on campus and in the community
Green Campus Program
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Website: |
Clay Carlson 415-497-1171 claytonhcarlson@gmail.com |
Who are we? Through Green Campus, students are working to save energy on campuses by building general campus awareness, incorporating energy conservation and efficiency into course curricula, and implementing projects targeting energy use, student purchasing decisions, and operational changes.
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Campaigns:
- Take the Stairs Campaign, (posting informative signs by elevators to motive building users to take the stairs.)
- Green Dorm Energy Competition
- Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS) Partnership
The Green Initiative Fund
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Website: http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/tgif |
Jill Richardson, Grant Manager (805) 893-8367 jill.richardson@vcadmin.ucsb.edu Mark Sentenac, Chair (480)600-5974 msent@umail.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) was created by students in the spring of 2006 with a charge to “reduce the University's impact on the environment.” Students voted with an overwhelming majority to pay $2.60 per quarter, contributing approximately $182,000 a year towards TGIF. Any student, staff, or faculty member of the University community can submit a project proposal to the TGIF Grants Making Committee. The committee is comprised of four undergraduates, two graduates, one staff, and one faculty member.
Learn more about the most recently funded TGIF Projects
Green Innovations
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Website: Location: |
Aaron Wdowin awdowin@bren.ucsb.edu |
Who we are? Green Innovations is a student run group that strives to provide a forum for students interested in new technologies, methods and ideas regarding environmental problem solving and eco-entrepreneurship. We want to coordinate communication and interaction between students from the Bren school, Chemistry, Engineering, and Marine Science fields with successful professionals from the community. Anyone is welcome who is passionate about the environment and wants to network and innovate with students from other fields who share similar interests.
Greenhouse and Garden Project
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Website: http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/ghgp/ Location: Behind Harder Stadium |
Alan Sechman asechman@umail.ucsb.edu ghgpucsb@gmail.com Phone: 925-639-8115 |
Who are we? The Greenhouse and Garden Project is an enjoyable and educational organization at UCSB that welcomes students, faculty, and staff to maintain their own plot to garden on. Many students live in apartments that do not allow anywhere to plant a garden, which is what makes the GHGP so unique. We currently have over fifty members, each with their own plot(s) and full access to the greenhouse. With potlucks and meetings once per quarter, it gives members a chance to interact with other gardeners, help with the upkeep of the whole garden/greenhouse, and discuss current issues.
Isla Vista Adopt-A-Block
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Website: http://ivparks.org/adopt%20a%20block/adopt.html Location: 961 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista |
Lisa Do 626-200-5440 |
Who are we? The Adopt-A-Block Program, started in 1996, aims to help keep the streets of Isla Vista clean by including the local community in regular clean-up efforts. Removing litter from our streets not only keeps IV beautiful, it also reduces the amount of trash on our beaches and in the ocean. The AAB Program organizes individual, group and community clean ups.
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Campaigns/Projects:
- Regular Street Clean-ups and volunteer opportunities
- Pre-Halloween and extensive post Halloween cleanup
- Large community Give and Clean-Up project annually during Move-Out (late spring quarter)
IV Community Relations Commission
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Website: http://as.ucsb.edu/ivcrc/ Meetings: Tuesday at 8pm at the Isla Vista Tenants Union Office (6550 Pardall Unit B, above Grafikart) |
Liz Buda (chair)
thelizbuda@gmail.com ivcrc.requests@gmail.com |
Who are we? Isla Vista Community Relations Committee is responsible for the education of the campus and student communities regarding issues within Santa Barbara County and Isla Vista that have an effect on students. Such issues may include but are not limited to: safety, police/community relations, landlord/tenant relations, emergency and other vehicle access in Isla Vista, parking, and County and University funding for programs and services in Isla Vista.
IV Composting Coalition
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Website: None of yet Meetings: TBA contact Eli if you are interested |
Eli Krispi Krispi@umail.ucsb.edu |
The Composting Coalition, a collaborative effort of the Ellison Hall Sustainability Committee, A.S. Recycling, and The Bren School Sustainability Committee, aims to form a community of students and community members involved in composting. Each week we meet at one of the different composting sites of our coalition partners and get to learn new skills such as how to go through worm castings, how to keep worms happy, hot composting and building a worm bin. We also work with a wide range of compost systems from home and apartment sized bins to four and five foot long bins. The Coalition has taken hints from composting community experts and often offers field trips and more intensive workshops.
IV Food Coop
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Website: http://www.islavistafood.coop/ Location: 6575 Seville Road, Isla Vista |
Melissa Cohen (Store Manager) (805)968-1401 marketing@islavistafood.coop |
Who are we? We're a member owned natural foods store that is open to the public. We have a great selection of organic produce grown locally here in the Santa Barbara area as well as a full assortment of bulk foods, environmentally friendly cleaning products, specialty foods (such as raw and wheat free), vitamins, supplements, herbs, beer and wine and anything else one could ask of a natural foods grocery store. Our prices are low and anyone can become a member. So stop by and check us out.
IV Tenants Union
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Website: http://www.ivtu.org Meeting Time: Thursdays 5:30pm Location: IVTU office (above Grafikart) |
Hillary Kelger (805)968-6704 ivtenantsunion@gmail.com ivtu.chairperson@gmail.com |
Who are we? The Isla Vista Tenants Union (IVTU) is an organization serving the interests of Isla Vista tenants. We recognize the diversity of our community, and we strive to meet the different needs of our members while uniting our common interests as tenants. We educate tenants on their rights and responsibilities, and we act as a resource when problems occur. We believe people should live without the suffering that arises from discrimination, retaliation, or neglect. We reach out to property managers, the University, elected officials, local groups and individuals to realize our vision and address pressing tenant issues. In providing a service to the tenants of Isla Vista, we also hope to build a united, educated, and proactive community.
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Campaigns/Projects:
- Security Deposit Campaign: Some major IV management companies are assessing some security deposit fees that we feel are questionable (and have been rejected by SB Small Claims Court), and this campaign is to inform tenants and to work toward the removal of these fees.
- Workshops- Beginning Winter Quarter, we will be holding monthly workshops on several important housing related topics--topics include signing a lease, security deposit, repairs, evictions, and more.
KCSB-FM 91.9
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Website: http://www.kcsb.org/ Location: Offices under Storke Tower (805) 893-3757 |
Who are we? As a non-commercial, educational FM station broadcasting for the public interest, KCSB enters into no commercial contracts which allow access to the airwaves and it strives to provide programming substantially different from that carried by commercial broadcast media. It is also designed to be educational for both programmers and listeners. At 9am every Friday, you can hear “Sustainable World Radio” at 91.9FM.
LabRATS (Laboratory Research and Technical Staff)
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Website: http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/LARS/ Meeting Times: Tuesdays 3:30pm Location: Ellison 1835 |
Laboratory Assessments: Marites 619-804-1680 marites@umail.ucsb.edu Green Chemistry: Sonam Gill 1-408-608-7595 Sonam_gill@umail.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? The Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS) program at UCSB connects laboratory managers, students, career staff and faculty with each other and with operations staff. We increase resource efficiency and quality of research while using practices that leave the smallest environmental footprint possible. We create a culture of collaboration that values sustainable practices as a top priority in laboratory settings.
Learn about LabRATS current campaigns
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Campaigns/Projects:
- Laboratory Assessments: This comprehensive evaluation of laboratory practices works with researchers to make labs efficient and low-impact.
- Surplus Equipment: We are evaluating supply and demand for high value used apparatus and facilitating administration and incentives (a.k.a. money) for transfers.
- Recycling: This year we are joining RecycleMania and launching a new recycling education program in laboratory buildings.
- Green Chemistry Initiative: Rethinking how chemicals are used at UCSB
- Surplus Chemicals: We joined EH&S to set up and promote the exchange of clean surplus chemicals instead of sending them to waste.
- Mercury Thermometer Exchange: Also, in conjunction with EH&S, we received a grant to exchange spirit thermometers for mercury models to avoid health and clean-up impacts.
- Campus Network: This list serve aims to connect researchers in every science department to facilitate the exchange of technical ideas, equipment needs, and surpluses.
- Hoods Off and Shut the Sash!: Reducing the energy use of fume hoods
- Efficient Appliances: Initiated by Labs21, we work with energy managers and researchers in a nationwide effort to promote, test, and manufacture efficient apparatus.
- Bulb-free: We initiated a program with Facilities and Maintenance to remove unneeded fluorescent bulbs in older buildings and to mark the fixtures to promote targeted lighting.
NORML (The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws)
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Website: http://www.normlucsb.org Meeting Time: Wednesdays 7:30pm Location: North Hall 1006 |
Joseph Michaels 818.359.2018 jrmichaels@gmail.com |
Who are we? NORML has a mission to move public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by adults is no longer subject to penalty. They lobby to repeal laws against the personal and industrial use of hemp, a plant with potential to be manufactured into more than 25,000 environmentally friendly products.
SB Student Housing Coop
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Website: http://www.sbcoop.org/ Margaret Prest, Executive director (805) 685-6964 margaret@sbcoop.org |
Tony Serrano, Membership Coordinator (805)685-6964 tony@sbcoop.org |
Who are we? The purpose of the Santa Barbara Student Housing Co-op (SBSHC) is to provide low rent co-op housing regardless of gender, race, social, political, or religious affiliation, and thereby influencing the community to eliminate prejudice and discrimination in the community. SBSHC strives to engage in continuous educational programs that further the principles of cooperation through mutual, self-help living at a minimal cost. The Co-op is run by a member-majority Board of Directors that meets approximately once a month. E-coalition members should contact the current board president if they'd like to be on the meeting agenda.
Isla Vista Surfrider Foundation (IV Surfrider)
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Website: http://www.surfrider.org/islavista Meeting Time: Wednesday 8pm Location: GSA lounge in MCC |
Oliver Vining 831-566-9325 ivsurfrider@gmail.com olli_v@umail.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's oceans, waves and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research and education. While there are over 70 chapters all over the U.S., IV Surfrider is the only college chapter in existence.
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Campaigns/Projects:
- Save Naples - Naples is a stretch of pristine Gaviota coast just north of Goleta on the 101. It is being threatened by a major development. We are assisting Naples Coalition to protect it. SaveNaples.org. Campus/Surfrider Naples rep. is Jamie Creason
- Concert for the Coast - A day of Music, Beer, Fun, Awareness and Conservation. This takes place in early May in Anisq'Oyo' park. All proceeds go towards the Naples Coalition
- Beach Clean-Ups - Cleaning up the Isla Vista and Goleta Beaches
- Blue Water Task Force - Wanna know what the water quality is at our local beaches? Thanks to funding by SPF you can. Help take water samples and monitor ocean bacteria levels.
- SB Surfrider - Support them in their efforts and assist at their events and activities
- SB Channel Keepers - Support them in there efforts to protect and restore SB channel and its watersheds. Creek Walks, Creek Sampling, Eel Grass Restoration
- Community outreach - Educate the community, especially the youth (elementary and middle school) about the ocean environment, and plan ocean centric events for them to be involved. Get people to care about our oceans.
- Guest Speakers - Have experts and organization leaders speak about relevant and important issues regarding our environment and what we can do. Informative and Opportunity creating.
- Surf Movie Premiers - Get a first look at the biggest and best surf movies. Prizes and Music before movies. All proceeds go toward protection of our coast.
- Isla Vista Triathlon Challenge - Run along the beach, Paddle out to the kelp bed, Ride your cruiser down DP! All proceeds go to Coastal conservation.
- Surf/Camping trips - Got to go appreciate and enjoy our Oceans all over and More...K85"
UC Nuclear Free
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Nick Robinson (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation intern) (310) 351-6301 nrobinson@napf.org |
Steve Stormoen (NAPF staff) Office: (805) 956-3443 Cell: (805) 284-691 sstormoen@napf.org |
Who are we? UC Nuclear Free is a part of the Coalition to Demilitarize the UC, which was founded in 2002 to provide a framework for collaboration among the campus and community organizations working to challenge the UC’s involvement in the design, research, testing and production of nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
UCSB Sustainability Internship Program
| Website: http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/ |
Katie Maynard (Staff) 805-893-2003 kmaynard@geog.ucsb.edu |
Sustainability News Beat
| Website: www.sustainability.ucsb.edu/newsletter |
Taylor Orr, Print Media (408) 461-0451 taylor_orr@umail.ucsb.edu Arturo Morales Film Media 562-472-5180 gordyshorty@msn.com |
Write and collects articles for the http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/newsletter website and Sustainability News Beat monthly newsletter.
Create short videos for youtube and Current TV on campus sustainability.
Ecological Coalition
| http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/student |
Antonia Hernandez Ecoalition.ucsb@gmail.com 714-422-4565 |
The UCSB Ecological Coalition (a.k.a. the "E-Coalition"), is a network for campus-based environmental, ecological, and sustainability-oriented groups.
The E-Coalition serves to coordinate the efforts of member groups, eases communication, provides updates on various campaigns, and helps gather extra volunteers for projects or events.
VIVO! (Vegan Interest and Vegan Outreach)
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Facebook: http://ucsb.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2212126845 Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/vivosb Meeting Times: TBD Location: IV Food Co-op (6575 Seville Road) |
Mika Yukimura 310-755-4149 mon.nom.est@gmail.com |
Who are we? Vegan Interest, Vegan Outreach (VIVO!) is a UCSB campus group dedicated to working toward community development and social justice causes, both locally and globally. We organize potlucks, film screenings, and classes on veganism, parties, and campaigns in and around the UCSB community.
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Campaigns:
- Recent Success! Prop 2
Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE)
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Website: www.wise.ucsb.edu Meeting Time: Wednesday 12:00pm Location: GSA Lounge, MCC |
wise@lsmail.ucsb.edu |
Who are we? Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE), a non-profit organization, was founded in Spring 2001 to promote equal opportunity for women and girls in science and engineering and improve their scientific and career advancement. WiSE encourages the participation of all science/engineering undergraduates, graduates, researchers, faculty, and professionals in the Santa Barbara area.
WiSE also hosts weekly coffee hour meetings with special guests (bring your own mug!), undergraduate mentoring events, outreach activities, social events, plus any ideas suggested by members.
