Staff & Faculty
This is how many full time staff members are in the Office of Sustainability.
How much is 3?
This building certification is the leading sustainability standard for the construction and maintenance of campus buildings.
What is LEED?
This practice reduces waste that is generated by campus occupants by keeping these items out of the landfill.
What is recycling?
This is the integration of environmental stewardship, social equity, and economic viability for the regeneration of the Earth's resources.
What is sustainability?
These are the days that you can volunteer for the UC Merced Garden.
When are Tuesdays and Fridays?
This is how many partners the Office of Sustainability has.
How much is too many to count?
This design approach in campus buildings uses natural sunlight in place of additional interior lighting.
What is daylighting?
This common material can be recycled endlessly without losing quality.
What is glass?
This the newest pilot program by the office of sustainability.
What is the Living Lab?
This is how long UC Merced has had a campus garden.
When was 2006?
This is who the Office of Sustainability's partners are.
What is every department on campus?
This mode of transportation, intends to shift commuting habits from passenger vehicles, has long-term storage locations on campus.
What is bicycling?
These containers must be empty, clean, and dry before recycling to avoid contamination.
What are plastic bottles and containers?
This is UC Merced's largest challenge for the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative goals.
What is Decarbonization?
These are the plants we grow at the UC Merced Garden.
What are dill, cabbage, red cabbage, lettuce, sage, mint, etc...?
This is where our Assistant Director of Sustainability was born.
What is Sri Lanka?
This process brings together campus stakeholders to discuss a building project before its designed.
What is the integrative process?
These household items require special drop-off locations because they contain hazardous materials like lithium.
What are batteries?
This is UC Merced's ranking for our sustainable practices.
What is Princeton Review's #7 ranked.
This is the Instagram for the UC Merced Garden.
What is @ucm_garden?
This is our Director of Sustainability's favorite football team.
Who are the Lions?
This building process encourages use of products and materials that have environmentally, economically, and socially preferable impacts.
What is an Environmental Product Declaration?
This UC Merced campus location separates and bundles one of the campus waste streams that includes paper, plastic, cardboard, and metals.
What is the recycling center?
This is the amount of buildings that are LEED certified on the UC Merced campus.
How many are all of them?
This is the name of the Garden Director at UC Merced.
Who is DeEtte?