Telegraph Green: The Next Least Generation
Sponsor: UC Berkeley Real Estate Services
TGIF Grant: $10,990
Project Theme: Waste Reduction
Project Description: The Telegraph Green project is focused on reducing food-service waste from quick serve restaurants on and near campus, building increased awareness of the scope of the quick serve waste problem, and possible solutions.
Project Goals: Track one: to understand how the commercial district that most directly serves UC Berkeley undergraduate students could become truly zero waste, eliminating waste from food service for quick serve foods; Track two: expanding educational events and social media organizing within the district and among students, building awareness to reduce food-related waste from quick serve businesses.