Sustainability

By Gordon Wozniak

To achieve balance with our environment while preserving a high standard of living, Berkeley needs to practice smart growth and find practical ways to reduce our carbon footprint.

Berkeley has the potential to be the model green city in the United States. That's why meeting Berkeley's climate action goals should be a priority. I have avidly supported the city's Climate Action Plan by helping the Berkeley Student Cooperatives (BSC) secure matching funds to perform comprehensive energy audits on twenty coop residences and federal grant funds to implement the audit recommendations of a demonstration residence, by implementing recycling and composting programs at 13 Cal fraternities and all 12 sororities, by advocating the City to replace its tired fleet of vehicles with efficient hybrid cards and by continuing to fight for sensible solutions to make substantial progress towards our zero reduction waste goal by 2020. To reduce trash in our campus neighborhoods, I have helped implement joint University-City Game Day cleanups. To reduce the furniture and trash left by students leaving at the end of the spring semester, I helped implement a May Move-Out Program where debris boxes were provided in strategic locations for trash, old furniture, etc.