Congratulations to our 2 graduating green campus interns, Desirae Early and Vi Do.

Desirae has been with the green campus program for 4 years and has been a great asset to the team ever since green campus started in 2004, our team lead for this year, main coordinator for the ER 199 course, and many other projects. She graduated with a major in Environmental Economics and Policy and a minor in Conservation Resource Studies. She has accepted a job with Pacific Gas and Electric and will be working as an Associate Project Manager under the Customer Energy Efficiency Division working on Target Markets on programs in Universities/Schools, Retail, and Hospitality.

Vi has been with the green campus program for 2 years and has also been a great team member, heading up the successful fume hood campaign and many other successful projects. She graduated with a double major in Economics and Political Science. She has accepted a job in San Fransisco as an economic consultant.

Congratulations to our successful program coordinators, Vi and Desirae, we will miss you both and hope the best of luck in the future!

The Berkeley Green Campus program was awarded 2nd place for the Bears Breaking Boundaries Energy and Environmental Innovation, recieving a grant for $4000 to keep the green campus projects up and running for the next academic year!

For more information on other winners go to contest.berkeley.edu

Also, UC Berkeley Green Campus team was award the Oski Award for Sustainability for the “greenest” sustainability student group

Great job team!

The Berkeley Green Campus program was a proud recipient of this years 2008 Chancellors Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS) Green Fund Grant! The grant money will be used to keep the green campus program’s various projects for the upcoming 2008-2009 academic semester.

For more information, about other green fund grant recipients and the 2008 CACS summit go to the UC Berkeley news page.