In The News
5.6.08
UC Davis Creates iTunes U Site
Video clips on energy, green buildings and transportation are just some of the offerings available on UC Davis' just-launched iTunes U site that features free access to audio and video files on campus news, faculty research, interviews, music, athletics and academic courses. The Apple ... [ More
5.2.08
Google Maps Public Transit in College Town of Davis
It just got even easier for people to use public transit to get around the college town of Davis, Calif. Riders of Unitrans, the student-run bus system that serves UC Davis and the city of Davis, ... [ More
3.21.08
Bicyclists map areas for improvement
By Dave Jones
As much as bicycles rule the road at UC Davis, the fact remains that sometimes cyclists can "feel like the peanut butter in a sandwich." In other words, squished between cars ... [ More ]
3.14.08
Dateline UC Davis
Talking 'zero' trash at Aggie Stadium
Aggie Stadium is in the process of becoming a zero-waste stadium. In 2007, UC Davis officially opened the 10,700-seat multi-use stadium, home to the football and women's lacrosse teams. In that ... [ More ]
3.14.08
Dateline UC Davis
Range of savings in rebate program
Some of them hold sea squirts and bacterial colonies and plastic bags full of apple tissue. Others hold tuna sandwiches, soft drinks and frozen meals. They are freestanding refrigerators and ... [ More ]
12.20.2007
Expert Weighs in on New Federal CAFE Standards, EPA Waiver Denial
Dateline UC Davis
UC Davis auto fuels authority Daniel Sperling says that despite years of automakers "kicking and screaming" about the new mileage standards that Congress set this week, the industry should be able ... [ More ]
12.14.2007
GreenStop leads off new exhibits for winter
Dateline UC Davis
New designs for self-sustainable roadside rest stops are due to go on display in the Design Museum's second eco-exhibition of 2007-08, which opened Jan. 3 and continues through March 9...[ More ]
12.14.2007
Work begins on new 'green' MBA building
Dateline UC Davis
Wielding golden shovels, prominent business leaders joined MBA students, faculty and alumni on Dec. 7 to break ground on a $34.5 million Graduate School of Management building and conference center ... [ More ]
11.17.07
UC is "cool"
Sierra Magazine recently named the UC system one of America's Top 10 "coolest" schools for its work on global warming and noted UC Davis' sustainability efforts ... [ More ]
10.16.07
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: 'Zero Waste' Policy Takes Effect for New Stadium at Davis
The University of California at Davis is, to be sure, a pretty crunchy, enviro-conscious place. And now university officials are trying to encourage environmental awareness among football and lacrosse fans ... [ More ]
08.31.07
Greener Parking Lots; New Elms for America
UC Davis and the USDA Forest Service's Center for Urban Forest Research are collaborating on two new research programs on the Davis campus. One is a test of an "engineered" soil for parking lots; the other is a study of a new, disease-resistant breed of elm tree ... [ More ]
June 2007
How air pollution affects the quality of life
UC Davis scientists Anthony Wexler and Kent Pinkerton talk about how air pollution can make us sick and what we can do to clean up our air. [ More ]
06.08.07
Shopping for a seat
Who says old and abandoned shopping carts need to go to the landfill. Third-year design student Tao Pang turned this one into a chair for his Environmental Consciousness class, taught by Professor ... [ More ]
06.01.07
Classroom connections
A large UC Davis team recently taught global warming to nearly every junior high science class in Davis. The project was organized by soil microbiologist Kate Scow, professor in the Department of ... [ More ]
5.4.07
Campus recognized for efforts in tracking greenhouse emissions
UC Davis is officially a Climate Action Leader, as declared by the California Climate Action Registry. With the designation, UC Davis' carbon dioxide emissions tally for the year 2005 is now ... [More]
5.4.07
Sustainability Summit warily eyes climate change
Focus the Nation founder Eban Goodstein addressed UC Davis students, faculty and staff last week about his effort to mobilize millions of people in the fight against global warming. "We really ... [More]