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The Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) held their annual Earth Week programming from Monday, April 18 to Friday, April 22. This year’s theme was “Wildflowers: Resilience, Resistance, and Growth”. The week was advertised via social media, an email sent by Chancellor Carol Christ, word-of-mouth, and the Environmental Community slack space.
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Point Reyes National Seashore
A commonly overlooked consequence of rising sea levels due to the greenhouse gas effect is severe coastal erosion– a growing threat for California as most of our population lives in coastal cities. Studies show that 40% of California’s beaches are experiencing long-term (~120 years) erosion of -0.2m/year, while 66% are experiencing short-term (~25 years) erosion of -0.3m/year.
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Wild tomato varietal being grown in the Indigenous Community Learning Garden in September of 2021
Over the past few years, land acknowledgements have become commonplace at UC Berkeley. You may see them in email signatures, lecture slides, and introductions to webinars. All too often, once the slide is clicked through or the next guest speaker takes the stage, the land acknowledgment, or any further information regarding Indigenous land and sovereignty, is not brought up again…
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Audrey Williams, a Food Recovery Lead from the Basic Needs Center Food Pantry, assembles meals made from food donated by Cal Dining / Photo by Juliette Nast
With the increase in students on campus, comes an increase in the accumulation of food waste. Not only does food waste greatly contribute to the emittance of greenhouse gasses in landfills, it also loses its purpose as the discarded food can no longer be rerouted to feed those in need…
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Mount Diablo State Park in the summer of 2021 / Photo by Satchi Thockchom
It has been two years since California overcame its over seven year-long drought, only to digress to an even worse state of drought in 2021. While the state frequently receives low rainfall, this is a cause for concern because of rising temperatures stemming from climate change…
Read MoreClimate change, and the threat of wildfire that accompanies it, is often equated to a great, existential war between the extreme forces of nature and humanity. Much like wartime commendations of the men and women fighting on the frontlines, wildland firefighters are celebrated as the last line of defense on the wilderness frontier…
Illustration by Lia Keener
Nowhere is the impact of the years-long drought and system of dams seen as intensely on the native salmon populations of California. Rising water temperatures in California have wrought enormous damage on salmon populations; some 14,000 of the 16,000 Chinook salmon eggs died around the Sacramento area this year alone.
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Hafez making the plant-based Zaatar Wrap (photo by Sadie Radinsky)
It’s a brisk, overcast Autumn morning -- stiff legs peel reluctantly out of their beds, buses lurch to their stops, and Berkeley begins to bustle. Through the cold and cloudy hues, warmth pours out of the Berkeley Organic Market. Smells of baking pita bread and sounds of Yemeni dance music beckon passersby in…
Read MoreWithin 15 minutes, one can move from a loud, chaotic city to a quiet, scenic lake nestled in the Berkeley Hills. Lake Anza is a natural, spring-fed lake with a sandy beach found in Tilden Regional Park. Surrounded by trees that provide shade and excellent climbing opportunities, Lake Anza has a lot to offer…
Read MoreOn October 1st, residents along the Pacific coast down in southern California sensed the faint smell of petroleum. An oil spill was confirmed the following day, 5 miles off the coast of Newport and Huntington Beach. This environmental devastation equates to an estimated 144,000 gallons.
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Photo from the Anti-Cogen rally taken by Stella Moore
The UC Green New Deal Coalition (UC GND) — a democratically organized, grassroots organization — works to promote environmental justice and limit actions that contribute to the climate crisis on UC campuses. In hopes of actively advocating for the termination of the Cogeneration Plan, the UC GND organized a set of events for Climate Justice Week, including an Anti-Cogen rally on campus.
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Illustration by Lia Keener
From Monday, October 25 to Friday, October 29 the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) hosted Climate Justice Week to educate students about the intersectionality of social justice and climate change. SERC was founded in 2012 to serve as a center for the UC Berkeley student environmental and sustainability community.
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