On this page you can explore the ESSC's member and ex-officio organizations! For more information on how these organizations work together within the ESSC, visit our Organizational Structure page.
Don't see your organization? Learn more about how you or your organization can get involved.
Member Organizations
- ASUCD Environmental Policy and Planning Commission
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Website: eppc.ucdavis.edu | Contact Info: eppc@asucd.ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @asucd.eppc | Facebook: @eppc.asucd | LinkedIn
Spring Quarter Meeting Info: Wednesdays 5:00-6:00pm (Zoom link)
Contact eppc@asucd.ucdavis.edu at least 24 hours before attending a meeting for scheduling purposes!
Spring Quarter Activities:
EPPC is working on creating a new Fair Trade Committee, holding sustainability-based webinars throughout the quarter, having a week of environmentally-focused activities in honor of Earth Day (starting April 19th!), and facilitating the ASUCD Sustainability Audit. - ASUCD Campus Center for the Environment
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Instagram: @ucdcce | Facebook: @ucdcce
Spring Quarter Meeting Info: TBD
Spring Quarter Activities:
- ASUCD Student Sustainability Career Fair
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Contact Info: sscf@asucd.ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @asucd.sscf
Spring Quarter Meeting Info: Contact sscf@asucd.ucdavis.edu if you're interested in attending a meeting!
Spring Quarter Activities:
SSCF will be starting an Advisor Tips series, Environmental Field Facts series, and a Career Tips series on our Instagram that will be posted throughout Spring Quarter. We’re also planning a resume and cover letter workshop with the UCD Internship and Career Center (ICC) that will focus on environmental/sustainable careers, and are planning to promote several other environmentally-focused career events put on by the ICC. - Association of Environmental Professionals UCD
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Website: epm.ucdavis.edu/aep-uc-davis | Contact Info: bhadury@ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @aepatucdavis | Facebook: @aepatucdavis
Spring Quarter Meeting Info: TBD
Spring Quarter Activities:
- Climate Reality Project
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Website: climaterealityatucd.weebly.com | Contact Info: mkphelps@ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @climaterealityatucd | Facebook: @climaterealityatucd
Spring Quarter Meeting Info: Saturdays from 12pm-1pm | Zoom link
Spring Quarter Activities:
Week 2: Vices and Virtues (track your trash) Challenge with Zero Waste and Sustainability Club
Week 3: Climate Story Art Challenge | Saturday, April 17th at 3pm PT Triweekly CAFE (Climate Action, Fun, and Education): Climate Story Art Jam
Week 4: Meeting with Zero Waste and Sustainability Club (time and day TBA).
Week 5: Earth Month Social with the Zero Waste and Sustainability Club at UC Davis (time and day TBA)
Week 6: Saturday, April 17th at 3pm PT Triweekly CAFE (Climate Action, Fun, and Education): Climate Justice
Week 7: Decarbonize UC Letters to the Editor Townhall (time and day TBA)
Week 8: Climate Career Panel (time and day TBA)
Week 9: Saturday, April 17th at 3pm PT Triweekly CAFE (Climate Action, Fun, and Education): Casual climate community chat!
Week 10: Good luck on finals! - Environmental Law Society
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Website: students.law.ucdavis.edu/els | Contact Info: lmurvihill@ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @elskinghall | Facebook: @ucdavislawels
Spring Quarter Activities: - Hard Tech Campus
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Hard Tech Campus is an organization focused on the development of sustainability projects into products, with a focus on projects that utilize technological advancements in either hardware or software to achieve one of the following target areas, with respect to UN Sustainability Goals 2 and 9 (Industrial change), 2, 3, and 6 (Health, hunger, clean water, sanitation), 7 and 11 (Products for consumers), and 14 and 15 (Environmental clean-up).
Website: www.hardtechfund.com/htc | Contact Info: smsandeep@ucdavis.edu
Facebook: @hardtechcampus
Spring Quarter Meeting Info: TBD
Spring Quarter Activities: - Net Impact Davis
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Website: www.netimpactdavis.com | Contact Info: sttsai@ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @netimpactdavis | Facebook: @netimpactdavis
Spring Quarter Meeting Info: Saturdays at 5pm | Meeting ID: 985 7719 4325 | Passcode: 560996
Spring Quarter Activities:
We are working in collaboration with Aggies Grow Veggies to produce a series of garden-related podcasts to inform and entertain people interested in learning how to garden.
We are seeking a new leadership team for the next academic year. Training will be provided and a year's Net Impact chapter fees have been covered. Our chapter is a part of a global Net Impact community of over 300 interdisciplinary Chapters and 100,000 Members worldwide. We serve as an accelerator for students and professionals to pursue positive social and environmental change around the world. If you or a person you know is interested in obtaining a leadership position at Net Impact Davis, apply using this link. Preferred applications due March 25, rolling applications after. - Strategies for Ecology, Education, Diversity, and Sustainability
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Website: davisseeds.wordpress.com | Contact Info: scperry@ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @davisseeds | Facebook: Davis SEEDS
Spring Quarter Meeting Info: TBD
Spring Quarter Activities:
- Sustainable Environmental Design Club
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Contact Info: appalmer@ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @ucdsedclub
Spring Quarter Meeting Info: Mondays at 5pm | Contact appalmer@ucdavis.edu for meeting Zoom link
Spring Quarter Activities:
Posters featuring BIPOC designers for Hunt Hall, virtual socials, officer elections, biweekly newsletters, potential internship/resume workshop - Zero Waste and Sustainability Club
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Website: zerowasteucd.wixsite.com/website | Contact Info: zerowasteclubucd@gmail.com
Instagram: @zerowasteclubucd | Facebook: @ucdzerowasteclub | LinkedIn
Spring Quarter Meeting Info: Varies, check out their social media!
Spring Quarter Activities:🟢 WEEK 1 • Earth Month Kickoff & the History of Earth Day
ARTICLE • Read about the history of Earth Day to educate yourself on the movement’s history and purpose
GIVEAWAY • Look out for an announcement about our Earth Month campaign giveaway: win zero waste stickers and a Zero Waste and Sustainability Club merch t-shirt made from recycled garments and produced by @btgthemovement @_blacktogrey
IG TAKEOVER • Activist Mariah Padilla will be taking over the ZWS Club’s Instagram to talk about her environmental justice journey, intersectional environmentalism, and privilege in outdoor spaces
🔵 WEEK 2 • Vices & Virtues Plastics Challenge
CHALLENGE • Join us in tracking your plastic waste for one week, while also making note of every time you say no to single-use plastic by using a reusable alternative. Our Davis Recycling Guide may help you in determining which of your plastic waste is recyclable and what belongs in the landfill
ARTICLE • Check out the ZWS website for an overview of our club officers’ experiences tracking their plastic waste for one week
GIVEAWAY • Participating in this week-long challenge will qualify you to enter our giveaway! Fill out this Google Form to submit your name to our giveaway
IG TAKEOVER • Founding club member Malia Helms will be taking over the ZWS Club’s Instagram to talk about her environmental journey, food waste, and her career at CalRecycle
🟢 WEEK 3 • Climate Story Art Challenge
CHALLENGE • Get creative with us in telling your individual climate story through art. We all have different passions when it comes to sustainability, and expressing our journey to becoming environmentally conscious is a great way to reflect on what drives us – and on what’s at stake. Draw a picture, make a collage, write a poem, or utilize any other desired art form to create an art piece that narrates your personal climate story
ARTICLE • Check out the ZWS website to gather inspiration from the club officer’s climate stories in collaboration with @climaterealityatucd
GIVEAWAY • Climate Story art submissions via this Google Form will count as an extra entry towards our giveaway!
🔵 WEEK 4 • Earth Day Meeting
CHALLENGE • Submissions from the Vices & Virtues Plastic Challenge and the Climate Story Art Challenge will be featured on the Zero Waste and Sustainability Club Instagram
MEETING • Celebrate Earth Day with the ZWS Club and @climaterealityatucd at our General Meeting, where giveaway winners will be announced!
🟢 WEEK 5 • Earth Month Wrap Up Social
SOCIAL • We will be hosting a social in collaboration with @climaterealityatucd to reflect on Earth Day 2021 and talk about the most pressing climate issues affecting our world today
Ex-Officio Organizations
- Carbon Neutrality Initiative
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Website: Coming soon! | Contact Info: arlarman@ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @ucdavis.sustainability
Spring Quarter Activities: - The Green Initiative Fund
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Website: tgif.ucdavis.edu | Contact Info: tgif@ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @tgifatucdavis | Facebook: @tgif.ucdavis | Twitter
Spring Quarter Activities:
TGIF will be accepting grant applications from April 29 to May 31 for the spring grant cycle! Applications will be evaluated on a first-come, first-served basis. TGIF is also undergoing a renewal referendum during spring quarter. - Student Housing and Dining Services
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Website: housing.ucdavis.edu/sustainability | Contact Info: shds.sustainability@ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @ucdavishousing | Facebook: @ucdavishousing
Spring Quarter Activities:
Earth Day Kahoot Trivia Night with the Office of Sustainability on April 15th at 6pm -- details here! Open to all of the UC Davis campus community!
Earth Day Art Contest and Sustainable Campus Scavenger Hunt for SHDS residents.
SHDS Sustainability is hiring! 7 positions open, applications due on April 18th:
-Sustainability Peer Educator - Handshake Job ID # 4516905
-Resident Garden Coordinator - Handshake Job ID #4517054
-Sustainability Education & Outreach Student Assistant – Handshake Job ID # 4517184
Supporting Bodies
- UC Davis Office of Sustainability
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The Office of Sustainability develops, leads, and coordinates sustainability efforts throughout the UC Davis campus. Staff members create strategies and plans to improve campus operations, work to implement the UC Office of the President's sustainability policy, establish sustainability metrics for UC Davis, work with faculty and students on project-based learning and learning-by-leading opportunities, build institutional capacity for sustainability on- and off-campus, and inspire the community to work toward a sustainable future.
Website: Coming soon! | Contact Info: sustainability@ucdavis.edu
Instagram: @ucdavis.sustainability
Sustainability Staff Office Hours
Spring Quarter Activities:
Sustainability Summit on Friday, May 21, 2021 from 10 to 11:30 am.
UC Davis Sustainability Champion Award Nominations 2021 - Deadline May 2, 2021 Midnight Submit your nomination! - The Associated Students, University of California Davis (ASUCD)
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Website: asucd.ucdavis.edu | Contact Info
Instagram: @ASUCDofficial | Facebook: @ASUCDofficial | Twitter: @ASUCDofficial | LinkedIn