Climate Action Content

Understanding Climate Change on Tribal Allotment Lands

Malia Reiss — June 24, 2024 - 10:37am

A ΢��Ƶ project is working to help Tribal nations build climate resilience on Indian allotment lands, with funding from a California Climate Action grant.

7 Inspiring Climate Change Solutions

Katherine E Kerlin — April 22, 2024 - 9:06am

Plastic made from cheese whey? Growing food with pistachio shells? Wildfire-proof housing? Seven inspiring ΢��Ƶ research projects seek climate solutions for California and beyond.

Climate Poetry in Wooly Motion

Katherine E Kerlin — April 16, 2024 - 12:40pm

In what organizers call “a creative process akin to poetry magnets, but with a wooly twist,” the ΢��Ƶ Sheepmowers team is joining forces with the Big Shift campus construction project to create “Sheep Shift Climate Poetry” on April 24 to 26.

Campus and community members are invited to submit climate-change inspired words today through April 21.

California Climate Action Grants Awarded to 4 ΢��Ƶ Projects

Katherine E Kerlin — August 23, 2023 - 5:16pm

UC awards four ΢��Ƶ projects with California Climate Action Grants. They'll focus on solar energy, urban streams, health impacts of wildfires and landscape resilience for California Indian Allotment lands.

Why Climate Doomsday-ism Doesn’t Work

Katherine E Kerlin — August 17, 2022 - 9:12am

Terms like “apocalyptic” are ineffective and potentially damaging when describing climate science. We need to tell stories about solutions—in the same story, if possible—and be careful about the language we use and its impact.

Community Barn Mural Raises Climate Consciousness

Katherine E Kerlin — March 18, 2022 - 3:57pm

A barn facing Road 102 between Davis and Woodland will soon carry a colorful message for climate action. Community members of all ages and experience levels are encouraged to come out Saturday, March 26, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., grab a paintbrush and become muralists for a day to help create it.

΢��Ƶ Plans for a Fossil-Free Future

Katherine E Kerlin — January 12, 2022 - 10:42am

΢��Ƶ, recently ranked number one most sustainable university in the nation and fifth in the world (UI GreenMetric), seeks to further strengthen its recognition as a leader in sustainability and environmental stewardship, by proposing a plan to end fossil fuel use in its operations.

Committing to a Better Planet

Katherine E Kerlin — May 05, 2021 - 1:33pm

΢��Ƶ reaffirmed its commitment to a better planet by joining global leaders on recent statements calling for actions on sustainability, equality, equitable economic growth and climate change.

The UN

In the first, the university joined 58 signatories in a statement calling for action on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which global governments committed to achieving by 2030.