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Take a Spring 2015 SERC DeCal
SERC is offering 3 DeCals for spring 2015:
1) Cooperative Enterprise for a Resilient Future
2) Extreme Energy Extraction in the 21st Century
3) The Zero Waste Movement
Details here.
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SERC Blog is Looking for Student Journalists
The Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) Blog is looking for students to join its journalism, photography and video production team for the Spring 2015 semester. The first informational meeting will be held on Monday, February 2nd at 6:30PM in 221 Wheeler Hall.
For more information, click here.
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Get Funded!
The Green Initiative Fund Spring Grants
Apply by 1/30/15 or 2/20/15.
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Give Your Input-
Strawberry Creek Trash Level Survey
For the past year, the Office of Environment, Health and Safety has collected data on the amount of pollutants entering Strawberry Creek within the boundaries of the campus. Now EH&S is looking for recommended solutions in an effort to reduce trash levels and promote higher water quality standards.
Lend your voice by taking this survey.
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Join SERC at
the March for REAL Climate Leadership
February 7, 2015
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Join the 2015 Earth Week Planning Committee
The Student Environmental Resource Center is starting to organize planning efforts for Earth Week 2015!
Please sign up on this form if you are interested in helping to plan the week's events and activities.
Meetings will be held weekly on Tuesdays from 12pm-1pm in Hearst Gym 102. Drop-ins are welcome and it is okay if you cannot make every meeting! Those who sign-up will be added to the Earth Week 2015 Planning Committee communication list. The first meeting will be Tuesday, January 27th at 12pm.
Last's year Earth Week was successful because of UC Berkeley's student efforts. Let's keep that spirit alive for 2015!
Questions? Contact serc@berkeley.edu.
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Want to Get Published at UC Berkeley? Submit your Art or Writing to Words of the Watershed Journal!
As a journal of local environmental writing and art, WoW accepts a variety of creative, academic, and journalistic pieces such as (but not limited to): poetry, short stories, opinion pieces, paintings, and photographs. Your work should explore the relationship between humans and the earth, ideally within the “local” context of Berkeley and the Bay Area. Visit our website at to see our first issue, some writing/thinking prompts, and our workshop schedule.
Email your submission to wordsofthewatershed@gmail.com with “Submission” in the subject title. WoW will accept submissions on a rolling basis, but the final deadline is January 29, 2015. (Deadline has been extended.)
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Volunteer to do Traffic Counts around Berkeley High School
The Transportation Working Group of the Berkeley Climate Action Coalition is working on strategies for encouraging safe, sustainable, shared and active transit to Berkeley High School, and we hope to do a traffic count to document existing conditions/current modes of transit. People interested in traffic calming around Berkeley High and downtown Berkeley area, and/or in transportation issues in general are especially encouraged to volunteer! We will supply instructions and paper checklist for volunteers to record counts of car drop offs and bicycle traffic around the perimeter of BHS. Coffee and pastries will be available.
The requested volunteer time is 7:50 am until 8:40 am.The dates selected for counts are: Feb 10, Feb 11, Feb. 18, Feb 26 and a make-up date of Mar 3 if one of the other dates needs to be cancelled. Volunteers who can commit to all of those dates are preferred, but if you can commit to at least 2 dates, please follow up! Anyone who is able to volunteer should contact Marjorie Alvord at malvord@mindspring.com.
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