Affiliates
Promotes the art and science of planning, protects the legacy of our state’s natural environment, promotes sustainable development objectives through comprehensive planning for economic development, social and environmental objectives.
Students with an interest in birds gather and speak about their experiences. Activities include bird watching, trips to wildlife parks and local bird breeders, and other recreational activities in nature.
The Bike Barn is a repair facility where the students, faculty, and staff of the university can come and fix their bikes or have repairs done for them.
An organization interested in the promotion and distribution of biodiesel fuel.
A student run group that performs community service at various locations around UC Davis, specifically cleaning up and restoring public parks. We do simple acts of community service to make a profound difference in Davis.
This club is for anyone with an interest in plants. Most meetings feature a guest speaker who is knowledgeable in a particular botanical or environmental field. There are exploratory field trips over spring and winter breaks.
Organizes college students to solve some of the world’s most pressing public interest problems. Works on issues like environmental protection, consumer protection, and hunger and homelessness.
Unite and empower the California community to collaborate and help transform ourselves and our institutions based on our inherent social, economic, and ecological responsibilities.
Complimenta the various interests and focuses of the CRD with speakers, discussions, field trips, readings and service work. It will be driven by the interests of the members and by the trends and movements of the larger community development field.
The Cool Davis Initiative works extensively with the City of Davis, local businesses, community organizations, and local residents to inspire and empower the Davis community to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Launched in 2010, the Initiative’s goal is to engage 75% of the community in pursuing a low carbon lifestyle within 5 years.
Provides a public DIY shop where folks share tools, skills, and knowledge about bike maintenance and repair. The goal is to empower confident and committed cyclists through education and community building, and to encourage more cyclists by making bikes and bike maintenance, fun, safe and accessible for everyone.
The organization promotes a lot of activism and social justice causes. Promotes respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility, sustainability, and more values.
Promotes sustainability and increases environmental-consciousness within the UC Davis Greek community. Aims at cost-effective ways to make events more sustainable and environmentally friendly, as well as fundraisers, service projects and joint-efforts with similar clubs on campus.
An international non-profit organization dedicated to fostering a network of business leaders who use the power of business to create a positive net social, environmental, and economic impact. Constantly searching for new and innovative approaches to socially responsible business that make a positive impact on the world.
Devoted to providing Real Food to UC Davis students at an affordable cost. Real Food is environmentally-friendly, socially-just, and nourishing to the consumer.
The Veg Council is a group of first-year students and transfers, who are vegan, vegetarian, and omnivores that get together to discuss the vegan and vegetarian options in the dining rooms. These students and employees help taste-test new potential products and recipes for the vegan program, and also audit their experience being vegan or vegetarian in each of the dining rooms.
The Domes, (AKA Baggins End Innovative Housing), is an on-campus cooperative housing. Promotes and exemplifies a lifestyle that incorporates organic agriculture and permaculture, low-impact construction, energy efficiency, alternative forms of waste management and the general reduction of our ecological footprint. The goal is to encourage creativity, inspiration, initiative, personal growth and diversity while structuring our community as an accessible educational resource for each other.
EcoFood Corps student sustainability interns work within the UC Davis Dining Services Department of Sustainability and Nutrition to engage students, dining guests and dining services employees about food system sustainability and UC Davis Dining Services sustainability efforts.
Students form action research teams in partnership with guest lecturers, faculty, administration, and community members to implement tangible change. Such experiential learning inspires participants to internalize the concept of sustainability, and carry it in practice beyond academia into a greater society.
Merging with The Botany and Environmental Horticulture Club. See above
A semi-annual journal edited and published by the School of Law at UC Davis, Environs publishes contributions exploring environmental law and policy issues.
ELS provides a forum for environmental information and networking. The members attend community events, regional conferences, and discuss pending legislation. ELS networks with the professional community for support, guidance, and information about the environmental practice arena. Students are encouraged to explore their interests in a variety of environmental and natural resource issues.
A legislative commission that researches environmental issues affecting the campus and student lifestyles. EPPC also enforces and writes environmental legislation that is designed to make the campus more eco-friendly and more aware of the impact individuals and the student body as a whole is having on the local and global environment.
Encourages students to be active in their environment through outdoor activities like clean-ups and hiking, and conservation efforts and serves to familiarize students with the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and faculty.
A social and educational organization sponsored by the Department of Environmental Toxicology at UC Davis. In addition to meetings and social and service activities, the club sponsors events for students to learn about environmental toxicology and interact with faculty and alums. The club also provides a forum for students to learn about job and internship opportunities and participate in career development workshops.
Founded in 1966 at UCD as part of a movement of Experimental Colleges on university campuses to bring alternative voices to the University culture. Strive to provide a forum for learning and an outlet for individuals to share their interests and skills in an informal, cooperative setting. There are courses every quarter and there is access to a community garden and a library.
FARM is an alternative form of non-violent protest, reclaiming public space to build community, providing services for under served and transient populations and/or rehabilitating toxic land.
A program designed to encourage UC Davis affiliates who commute to campus to choose an alternative to driving alone (i.e., carpool, vanpool, bike, walk, bus, and train)
The institute supports innovation and discovery aimed at solving real-world environmental problems. The faculty are committed to strengthening the scientific foundation for environmental decision making through collective entrepreneurship, a team-oriented approach that recognizes the complexities of environmental problems and the societal context in which they occur.
Public affairs radio show on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis, California, focusing on environmental, health, social justice and agriculture-related issues in the local and national community.
Outdoor Adventures has spent more than 35 years helping the UC Davis community enjoy the outdoors. California offers some of the most spectacular natural areas in the world, from Yosemite, to Mt. Lassen, to Point Reyes, to the American and Klamath Rivers, Outdoor Adventures can take you there. Offering a range of diverse hiking, whitewater, and kayaking opportunities, Outdoor Adventures also features a friendly student staff, a helpful resource center of books and maps, comprehensive first aid training, and a rental center stocked with top quality equipment.
Project Compost is a student-run, student-funded unit of the Associated Students of the University of California, Davis (ASUCD). Volunteer opportunities are always available. Most volunteers go on compost runs and collect food matter from pick-up sites on campus, help with giving workshops, tabling, making educational material, and much more. There are also internships.
Committed to the delivery of effective, courteous, innovative, and responsive waste reduction and recycling services to the UCD Campus. Encourages the facilitation of recycling between the various campus units, other universities and colleges and local, state, and federal agencies to reach current and future goals. The 4 R’s are: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rebuy.
The Real Food Challenge serves as both a campaign and a network. The campaign is to increase the procurement of real food on college and university campuses, with the national goal of 20% real food by 2020. By leveraging their purchasing power we can catalyze the transformation of the larger food system. The network offers a chance for students and their allies to make connections, learn from one another, and grow the movement.
A group of volunteer students, faculty, and staff, and eaten by anyone. Situated just outside the research labs, classroom buildings and offices, the PES salad bowl is an exquisite model of small scale food growing. It serves as an outdoor classroom, posting written placards and pictures.
Focused on enhancing environmental education in local elementary schools where college students serve as a vital link between the University and the community by making campus resources available to elementary school teachers.
The mission is to diversify and advance the ecology profession through opportunities that stimulate and nurture the interest of underrepresented students to not only participate in ecology, but to lead. Promotes an ecology profession with wide representation to ensure environmental understanding and a sustainable future for all, often hands-on experiences.
The purpose is to carry on the responsibility of empowering and equipping our generations with the political, educational, economic consciousness and media resources adequate to address the propelling issues that have continuously plagued and staggered consituents of their diverse Nations.
The Davis Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB Davis) is dedicated to the promotion of conservation-related education, practice, and policy.
Focuses on sustainable agriculture principles and practices, emphasizes in-field, experiential learning, and encourages student initiative, creativity, and exploration.
Works to engage the campus and larger community in a socially just and ecologically balanced approach to agriculture.
Positive Impact provides sustainability programs and resources to students living in the Residence Halls. The program employs three Sustainability Interns and a small group of Resident Advisors that have sustainability education as their specialty assignment.
Comprises the Student Farm, the EC Garden, Baggins End Innovative Student Housing (the Domes), the Tri Co-ops or On Campus Co-ops and Project Compost. These areas of campus grow organic food for the campus and greater community as well as serve as physical locations for all kinds of social and technological research, experimentation, and development of more sustainable lifestyles.
The Tri-Cooperatives are a social experiment known as a Community. The Tri-Co-ops are not self-sustaining, but community members do hold sustainability in high regard, growing all the food in their gardens organically and offsetting their energy consumption with solar panels. Plans to institute a solar hot water system are currently in the works as well.
Goals include raising awareness among UC students about their university’s role in producing nuclear weapons; building a mass movement among UC students to demilitarize their university through grassroots education and outreach, with a mind to multicultural, intergenerational, and class diversity concerns; nurturing leadership qualities and skills among students; and supporting individuals, organizations, and activities that strive for a just, compassionate, and sustainable global society.
The mission is to create a community driven festival of education, music, and art; also to develop a conscious community that will go out into the world after the festival and encourage values such as frugality and ecological sustainability.
Dedicated to increasing networking amongst wildlife professionals and current students, keeping informed about recent developments within the wildlife field, and participating in educational activities and field trips.
Focuses toward increasing the level of knowledge about medicine in the outdoors for wilderness users, guides, EMTs, pre-health students or anyone who goes into remote areas where they are responsible for the well-being of other people.
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