UCSB has a rich environmental culture. Students engage with many on-campus organizations that are affiliated with environmental justice, environmentalism, and/or sustainability. Below is a list of some of those organizations.
Advocacy for All Animals (AAA)
We aim to bring together UCSB students who are passionate about Health, Environment, and Animal Rights through advocacy, outreach, and education.
Associated Students Bike Committee
Website: https://bikes.as.ucsb.edu/
Email: bikecomm@as.ucsb.edu
The AS Bike Committee is a unique component of the Associated Students community; it is a place where passionate advocacy for bicycle safety and a clear voice for consideration of bicycles in campus planning have come together. We fund bike improvements on campus, and participate in social and outreach events throughout the year with our $2.96 per student per quarter lock-in fee.
Associated Students Bike Shop
Website: https://bikeshop.as.ucsb.edu/
Email: bikeshop@as.ucsb.edu
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 Coastal Fund
Website: https://coastalfund.as.ucsb.edu/ Facebook
Email: coastalfund@as.ucsb.edu
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.
Associated Students Commission On Student Well-Being (COSWB)
Website: https://coswb.as.ucsb.edu/ Instagram
Email: as-coswb-cochair1@ucsb.edu, as-coswb-cochair2@ucsb.edu
The Associated Students Commission on Student Well Being (COSWB) is committed to the general well being of UCSB undergraduates, with a particular emphasis on physical, mental, and nutritional well-being. Its purpose is to increase awareness, educate, advocate, and serve as a reference point for student social services. COSWB creates programs that provide a positive and comfortable environment for everyone on campus in order to stay true to our values of appreciating and preserving student well-being. Some events we host include, but are not limited to our Free Fitness Series, Meditation Sessions, Food Demos, Movie Screenings, Positive Psychology Workshops, and Guest Lectures.
Associated Students Community Affairs Board (CAB)
Website: https://cab.as.ucsb.edu/
Email: cab@as.ucsb.edu
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. CAB works to bring UCSB and the community together in a meaningful way.
Associated Students Department of Public Worms
Website: https://worms.as.ucsb.edu/ Facebook
Email: asdpw@as.ucsb.edu
The Associated Students Department of Public Worms turns food waste into compost to be used to grow fresh produce for fellow students at the University of California Santa Barbara, thus creating a closed-loop food system on campus. We practice and promote sustainable agricultural techniques while educating the community about the importance of composting and gardening.
Associated Students Environmental Affairs Board (EAB)
Website: https://eab.as.ucsb.edu/ Facebook Instagram
Email: eab@as.ucsb.edu
The Environmental Affairs Board (EAB) strives to protect, preserve and enhance the natural environment, principally at UCSB and its surrounding communities, but also broadly. EAB focuses on sustainability within ecology, agriculture, energy, climate change, health, the economy, and environmental justice and racism, as such issues have a direct relation to the environment. EAB coordinates with other groups to promote environmental awareness throughout the University and the surrounding communities, as well as at the state, national and global level.
Associated Students Environmental Justice Alliance (EJA)
Instagram
Email: environmentaljustice@as.ucsb.edu
The Environmental Justice Alliance's mission is to amplify the awareness of and action towards environmental justice. This Alliance serves UC Santa Barbara and local communities by maintaining respectful interactions, by collaborating with organizations and communities, and by raising attention towards local, national, and global environmental injustices. The Alliance encourages intersectional awareness and inclusion with the environmental movement and other related movements by prioritizing the safety, experiences, and viewpoints of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and people of diverse gender and sexual identities in its decisions, events, and activities.
Associated Students Food Bank
Website: https://foodbank.as.ucsb.edu/
Email: asfoodbank@as.ucsb.edu
The AS Food Bank is an on-campus pantry service that aims to both alleviate hunger and resolve the systemic issue of food insecurity within our student community. Eligible students can visit on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays to collect a variety of food items, free of charge. Recently, the Food Bank incorporated refrigeration to their pantry and food collection services in order to provide a larger range of fresh, healthy produce.
Beyond finalizing the renovations, the committee is dedicated to working on an outreach campaign to ensure students are aware of the resources available to them. Our core team is comprised of individuals knowledgeable about food security. We’re always willing to collaborate with organizations that want to help provide students with resources for leading a healthy, sustainable lifestyle.
Associated Students Human Rights Board
Facebook
Email: hrbcochair@as.ucsb.edu
The Human Rights Board of Associated Students serves as a forum centered on facilitating and amplifying the interaction of students groups – both within UCSB and our greater community. The Board recognizes their mission of inclusively by creating forum that encourages, advocates, and promotes respectful and honest communication regarding the education and awareness of basic human rights principles.
Associated Students Recycling
Website: https://recycling.as.ucsb.edu/
Email: recycling@as.ucsb.edu
Our mission is to reduce waste at UCSB both through direct collection and through education and information sharing. We believe that true environmental progress requires direct, hands-on action and personal responsibility, not just ideals and slogans. We, therefore, are deeply committed to the day-to-day recycling, composting, and electronic waste collection services that have helped make UCSB a state and national leader in waste reduction. At the same time, we recognize that teaching students and staff how to recycle, compost, and reduce waste can have a huge impact both on and off-campus, and is the only way to achieve lasting change. Recycling and composting are great ways to decrease not only the amount of waste being sent to landfills every day, but also to reduce the need to harvest new materials from environmentally destructive processes like mining and timber collection. E-waste is another concern that AS Recycling addresses, as more and more electronic devices are replaced and discarded. All e-waste from a UC campus is recycled with the strongest environmental standards. We value our campus and community, and are committed to a goal of zero waste at UCSB!
Associated Students Zero Waste Committee
Website: https://zerowaste.as.ucsb.edu/
Email: zerowaste@as.ucsb.edu
The Zero Waste Committee is comprised of a group of students determined dedicated to designing and implementing projects to help UCSB achieve the UC-wide Zero Waste goal by 2020. We collaborate with other environmental groups on campus to increase public awareness through events. We work with various entities on campus to help eliminate sources of waste and encourage zero waste habits.