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Solar panels on top of UC Merced campus buildings

The first public research university achieves carbon neutrality

UC Merced
December 3, 2020

A landmark accomplishment for the campus, two years ahead of its goal.

Digitally rendered farming landscape

New engineering research center to focus on agriculture technology

UC Merced
August 5, 2020

UC Merced joins three other campuses to sustainably meet the challenge of boosting global food production by 70 percent by 2050.

UC Merced solar panels on the Science and Engineering building

UC is now the No. 1 university in the country for renewable electricity

UC Newsroom
May 20, 2019

UC leads universities across the country in the EPA's Green Power Partnership rankings.

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Are you part of the ‘Coolest UC Campus’?

UC Newsroom
March 28, 2019

Help your school win the title of ‘coolest’ by signing up for the April 1-26 Cool Campus Challenge.

CO2 floating in a cloud of smoke

How we can recycle CO2 to make eco-friendly concrete

September 27, 2018

UCLA researchers take aim at a surprisingly large source of greenhouse gas emissions: concrete.

UC Berkeley My Last Trash

UC’s #MyLastTrash campaign asks you to help push campuses toward zero waste

UC Newsroom
October 23, 2017

A new effort strives to transform habits and meet an ambitious 2020 goal.

New reports detail how to limit global warming, warn of ‘existential’ risk from not acting soon

UC Newsroom
September 19, 2017

Two new reports find that cutting CO2 emissions will not be enough to stop catastrophic global warming, but we have more tools at our disposal.

UC Berkeley cyborg bacteria

Cyborg bacteria turn into tiny, zero-waste solar panels

UC Berkeley
August 23, 2017

Chemists create a more efficient photosynthesis that can help produce green fuel.

Zero carbon conference UC Santa Barbara

How a (nearly) zero-carbon conference can be a better conference

UC Newsroom
July 19, 2017

Borrowing a page from Netflix can help slash university emissions by as much as a third.

UC Santa Barbara bikes sustainability

UC sustainability: Students and solar light the way forward

UC Newsroom
January 25, 2017

The 2016 UC Sustainability Report highlights the university's big steps in the right direction as well as the hurdles ahead.

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