The Campaign for UC Santa Barbara

Educating

UCSB Sustainability Highlights

Developing solutions for a sustainable world

Employing solution-centered, interdisciplinary teaching and research, we are developing a deeper understanding of the natural and human forces shaping the environment. We are creating new and effective approaches to environmental stewardship and the search for renewable and sustainable energy sources.

  • Global Sustainability
  • Energy Independence
  • Eco-Entrepreneurship
  • Environmental Media
  • Understanding the Environment in History and Culture
Success Stories
The golf course in the background will be restored
UCSB and The Trust for Public Land Partner to Restore Wetlands
Aiming to restore and preserve the wetlands on the upper Devereux Slough — which 50 years ago was filled with topsoil to make way for a golf course — UC Santa Barbara and The Trust for Public Land are teaming to return Ocean Meadows Golf Course to its natural state. The project will ultimately open to the public an expanse of land extending some three miles along the Elwood Devereux coast in Goleta by connecting several existing preserved properties. PRESS RELEASE
The campus has more thant seven miles of paved bike paths
Engaged Students on an Engaged Campus
UC Santa Barbara was named to the 2011 "Green College Honor Roll" by the Princeton Review, and was named a Bicycle-Friendly Business Gold Award winner by the League of American Bicyclists. The campus is home to the most LEED-certified buildings in the UC system, all new construction aims to meet LEED Silver standards, and Bren Hall is the first building in the nation to receive two LEED Platinum certifications. The Associated Students Environmental Affairs Board led a successful campaign for "trayless dining" in the campus dining halls, reducing food waste by 54 percent overall, and instituted a pilot food-composting project. Students attended the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and in 2010 hosted the biannual conference of the California Student Sustainability Coalition.