ASUC Sustainability Commission

The ASUC Sustainability Team (STeam) is a commission established in Fall 2005. As a team, we create and implement a variety of projects that help establish sustainable practices & promote environmental awareness on campus. There is no application to join The Sustainability Team is a commission of the ASUC, and one of the oldest commissions in the ASUC. We create and implement a variety of projects that help establish sustainable practices and promote environmental awareness on campus. Project committees within STeam work as a tight unit to accomplish their goals, and leadership capacity is shared equally. We meet all together once a week to update each other on the progress of our projects and brainstorm strategies for successful implementation. The team also spends time outside of meetings through our STeam Socials a few times per semester. Interested? Here are some of our current projects: Ethical Eats, one of our latest projects, centers around giving students access to sustainable restaurants. Our website grants sustainability ratings to local Berkeley eateries. This semester we are working toward creating a website to increase student awareness regarding restaurant sustainability, as well as to help restaurants work to become more sustainable. Another program STeam began is Environmental Justice and Education (EJ&E), where we teach a 5-week long curriculum that we create to elementary aged students in the area. This semester we are starting our Green Event Fund project, where we create and implement criteria through which we can fund other RSOs as they demonstrate how they are working to be more sustainable. This program will fund events, projects, printing, and anything else an RSO may need money in order to do more sustainably. Finally, STeam organizes Sunstock, a solar-powered music festival held on campus annually. STeam works hard year-round to prepare a venue, local lineup, sponsors, merchandise, and cuisine. Sunstock aims to unite students through music in an environmentally conscious way that brings light to improvements the music industry can make to be more sustainable. Our wide range of project niches displays how sustainability can be brought into all aspects of life and even combined with personal passions! We are always open to new ideas. The next project we work on could be yours! So come check us out at our meetings and initiate your own ideas. Follow our instagram, @asuc.steam for meeting time updates and come to any meeting, no application necessary.