Environment

Delve into Cal's cross-sector commitments to investigating some of the most critical issues of our time: climate change, clean energy, and sustainable futures. Also learn more about indigenous cultures and the vital role of such traditions in re-shaping contemporary ideologies of human-nature interactions.

Fall 2021 Schedule Archive: Arts + Design Thursdays

Fall 2021 Schedule
Arts+Design Thursdays: Creativity in Practice

Whether you’re searching for a unique gift by a local artist or you want to support those in need this holiday season, UC Berkeley has what you’re looking for — and everything in between. Stop by the Berkeley Art Studio’s pop-up shop for handcrafted ceramics or visit the campus’s thrift store ReUSE for gifts on a budget.

In 2015, as a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz, Juniper Harrower was planning to go back to Costa Rica, where she’d been working in the cloud forests to study patterns of forest regeneration. But then she learned something — something heart-wrenching — that would change the path of her research.

 

Walk along Telegraph Avenue near campus and you’ll stumble across public chess boards and vendors selling colorful jewelry. One of California’s most renowned streets, Telegraph Avenue could become an even more vibrant space for students, vendors and community members.

Officials are considering plans to redesign four busy streets near UC Berkeley. City leaders rejected an effort to add bus lanes to Telegraph more than a decade ago.

 

Four walls and a roof sounds pretty spectacular to many people who need housing, but in the United States today consumers expect and demand so much more.

From the sidewalks to the skies, with chalk art, poetry, songs, Origami, guided field trips and binoculars, birds will be celebrated this coming Sunday, Oct. 17, in Berkeley at the first-ever Berkeley Bird Festival. And UC Berkeley will be a prime spot for the public to take part.

 

Much of the Bay Area’s history exists out of sight. Or at least out of notice.  

Berkeley Journalism lecturer, students and alumni honored in 2021 Pulitzer Prizes

The work of a Berkeley Journalism lecturer, five students and two alumni was honored in the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes, in the Breaking News, National News and Public Service categories, Columbia University announced.

UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED) today (June 10) announced a transformative $5.3 million gift, from Berkeley alumnus Jon Stryker, that will fund a four-year fellowship program aimed at providing debt relief to more than 100 graduate students.