Project Description: CalSoChill will provide a functional off-grid mobile solar charging station for students to charge their electronics outdoors, encouraging students to spend more time outside. Its prototype serves to represent CalSoChill in a smaller and more affordable scale, while still maintaining the main purpose of the project: providing electricity outlets outside by using solar power.
TGIF Award: $525
Project Description: A life cycle assessment (LCA) will compare paper towels versus hand dryers in the dorms. Economics, waste generation, and carbon emissions will all be looked at in the LCA. First, data will be collected involving the current number of times people in the dorms dry their hands.
TGIF Award: $500
Project Description: The overall goal of the project is to investigate the extent to which urban farms can reduce air pollution in order to promote the implementation of urban farms locally and nationally. In addition, this project will aim to address public health concerns in respect to air pollution and the potential absorption of air pollutants in urban agriculture
TGIF Award: $1,992
Project Description: The Russell Tree Farm Restoration project will improve education opportunities and increase research access for undergraduate and graduate level students at UC Berkeley. Improving site conditions will increase classroom opportunities and expand areas available for research use.
TGIF Award: $2,000
Project Description: The Sustainable Algae Bioreactor Project will construct an environmentally-friendly and functioning algae biofuel reactor on the UC Berkeley campus to both promote and encourage the overall implementation of renewable energy to the student body.
TGIF Award: $1,700
Project Description: The Sustainable Algae Bioreactor Project will construct an environmentally-friendly and functioning algae biofuel reactor on the UC Berkeley campus to both promote and encourage the overall implementation of renewable energy to the student body.
TGIF Award: $1,700
Project Description:The Student Organic Gardening Association will create an educational program and curriculum that details the processes behind remediating contaminated soil. This curriculum will be implemented in workshops and during the spring 2014 DeCal ‘Intro to Organic Gardening’.
TGIF Award: $2,000
Project Description: The UC Berkeley Energy Office, WattTime, and CITRIS will collaborate to pilot a new method of reducing the carbon emissions due to electricity use by neighborhood electric vehicles (NEV).
TGIF Award: $2,000