Our Crowdfunding Groups
A part of the Berkeley environmental community for over a decade and with 70+ members, our goals are to center environmental justice on campus and in the environmental community through education, engagement, and advocacy.
Environmentalism is intricately and explicitly linked to social, racial, political, and economic justice and we will ensure that the office work centers around this intersectionality. We strive to uplift and empower student-driven community action to counter the many injustices UC Berkeley as an institution continues to perpetuate.
You will be supporting our grassroots activism work related to enacting a university-wide Green New Deal, ending unsustainable partnerships on campus, divesting from Mauna Kea's Thirty Meter Telescope, and developing student leadership and environmental education opportunities. Our advocacy has led to more student appointments on campus decision-making committees and state funding of $249 million dollars to decarbonize UC Berkeley.
Why Donate?/Budget Breakdown:
The Eco-Office will spend funds as follows:
The money we raise through crowdfunding will be specifically allocated towards paying our senior staff!
Our 8 departments work hard to promote the office goals on campus. They are as follows:
The Eco-Community Development Department works to engage and support the environmental community in collaboration with the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC). The department focuses on diversifying and expanding recruitment and retention of the environmental community through our mentorship program and professional development resources. In addition, the department works to cultivate an internal culture centered on holistic wellness and addressing climate anxiety, providing spaces and resources to empower our community to take care of our mental health.
The Environmental Justice (EJ) Campaigns department focuses on two main campaigns, which are Reject Rausser and UC Divest Thirty Meter Telescope (Divest TMT). The department plans and hosts teach-ins for the campus community, reaches out to and builds solidarity relationships with other organizations, and organizes action and next steps for individuals and the environmental community as a collective to take. The department centers itself around environmental and social justice, ensuring that student, Indigenous, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ voices are heard and elevated in larger campus conversations.
The Environmental Education Department creates a comprehensive environmental justice curriculum for student organizations and students in collaboration with the SERC Environmental Justice Team. The Department also works to institutionalize climate and environmental justice education through the development of environmental justice trainings for registered student organizations (RSOs) and the creation of a university-wide climate literacy requirement. This work entails environmental justice research, creating and presenting a curriculum, and connecting with campus administration to establish institutional support for future work. This department is critical to ensure that the environmental community and beyond have a baseline understanding of environmental justice and its intersectionality to better center our community’s intentions and projects.
The Department of Legislative Affairs develops ASUC* bills for the Office, which are formal resolutions from the ASUC* Senate to take a stance on issues and signal support to communities. The department meets with student organizations, leaders, and other ASUC* officials to conduct extensive political research and explore potential bills.
The UC Green New Deal Department will continue the work of organizing a UC Green New deal: a systemic transformation of the University of California to reverse the ongoing privatization, austerity, and profit-driven course of the UC. Instead, the UC GND envisions a system that centers sustainability, equity, and justice for people and the environment. The UC Green New Deal recognizes the inherent interconnectedness of the UC’s unsustainable environmental impact and its inequitable and unjust treatment of students and workers, and seeks to address environmental degradation, social inequality, and the climate crisis on an institutional level. The GND holds the institution accountable for its commitments to fossil fuel divestment, electrification, and other climate crisis mitigation efforts. In recent years, the UC GND team finished writing a cross-campus policy, advocated for full electrification of UC Berkeley’s energy system, and organized a climate strike on Sproul Plaza.
The Pour Out Pepsi department demands the University cut ties with PepsiCo — a company that does not reflect student’s values in community health, sustainability, and environmental justice. PepsiCo actively markets low-nutritional quality products to vulnerable populations and is detrimental to the environment as one of the world’s largest producers of single-use plastic. After a 10-year pouring rights contract with PepsiCo, controlling nearly 80% of food and beverages sold on campus and unsubstantial funds, students in the Pour out Pepsi Dept have the opportunity to advocate for a reimagined campus food system.
The External Engagement and Partnerships department acts as the outward-facing arm of the ASUC* Eco-Office, streamlining access for the broader environmental community to campus administration. To do so, the team partners with other environmental organizations on campus focused on issues not housed in the Eco-Office (ex: food systems, waste, energy, corporate sustainability, etc). This helps us define environmental issues on campus to create the broader climate strike vision and asks from the administration.
Our Social Media & Graphics department expands the Office’s social media presence and engagement on Instagram and Facebook by targets set by data-based decisions. They achieve this by posting informative graphics about on and off-campus environmental work to create an aesthetic feed. We emphasize partnerships formed/strengthened with other departments and student organizations.
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Contact Information:
Instagram: @asucecooffice
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ecooffice2023_24
Email: amishra@asuc.org
*Titles for identification purposes only
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A collection of our favorite songs used to prepare for protests, art builds, and everything else advocacy-based.
Receive a personalized digital thank you card with notes from our entire Senior Staff
Receive a collection of seeds to start your own garden!
Receive a personalized thank you video from the entire Eco Office (60+ associates)
Attend our environmental community end of the year celebration where we reflect on our achievements and celebrate graduating seniors! (Available only to those in the Bay Area)
Receive a collection of seeds in a sown-by-hand pouch!
