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Graphic: Cool Campus Challenge stamp
Graphic: Cool Campus Challenge stamp

Be true to your cool, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, let鈥檚 all step up for 新澳门六合彩内幕信息鈥檚 Cool Campus Challenge!

It's on as of today (Oct. 6), giving our campus a green, blue and golden opportunity to show the rest of the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 system why we score so high in Sierra magazine鈥檚 鈥淐ool School鈥 ratings of campus sustainability.

Now, in the , 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 is asking students, staff and faculty to learn and to showcase for others how each of us can help 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 achieve its ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2025.

From now until Dec. 10, we'll be trading our C atoms for CCC points in this fun, friendly competition with our sister campuses, the Office of the President and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

You'll get 100 points just for signing up 鈥 and it only takes a minute or two. Get your colleagues to join, too, and form a team if you like. Everyone starts out as a 鈥渕inion,鈥 headed up the points ladder to 鈥済uru.鈥

Each week, the Cool Campus Challenge will highlight an important sustainability theme, from food waste to lighting to transportation. To earn points for 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, you'll make pledges and take actions to directly reduce greenhouse gas emissions or increase awareness about climate disruption.

You鈥檒l receive weekly emails alerting you to the theme of that week鈥檚 challenge, and giving you an opportunity to consider and try actions to reduce electricity, thermal and fuel use. These activities could be as simple as turning off the lights when you leave the room, or taking public transportation 鈥 things you may already be doing!

Show us, your friends, and your colleagues your progress by uploading photos and stories to your personal challenge page. You鈥檙e also encouraged to spread the word via your own social media accounts (please use the hashtag #新澳门六合彩内幕信息ool), and with posters and logos and more 鈥 all available in this .

新澳门六合彩内幕信息 President Janet Napolitano released a letter and today asking everyone in the university system to join her in the Cool Campus Challenge.

鈥淥ur campuses already lead the world in so many ways,鈥 she wrote. 鈥淣ow, we are tackling another ambitious challenge: striving to become the first university system in the country to eliminate our carbon footprint.

鈥淕iven the urgency to act on climate change, it鈥檚 a daring but worthy goal. But we will only succeed by working together.鈥

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