UCLA SAR

Hello and thank you to everyone who came and participated in final presentations last week!

To all of our stakeholders: thank you for supporting our students and their ambitions to make the UCLA campus a model for sustainability in every facet to create an environment that is resilient, zero-waste, carbon neutral, conscious of its purchasing power, and supportive of its students basic needs, and more.

To all of our students: thank you for your hard work over the last two quarters. Thank you for your passion, your perseverance, and the countless hours you have all put into bettering your campus, your environment, and your world. It has truly been an amazing experience to watch all of you grow and accomplish so much in such a short time. Every single member of our program this year has blossomed as a leader and has developed the necessary toolset for creating positive change wherever you go. We can’t wait to see all that you accomplish during your time as students and beyond the UCLA campus.

To learn more about our work, please check our site for each team’s project page, blog post updates, and press releases over the past two quarters at the link below, and check back after finals week to view each team’s midterm and final report.
Applications for SAR 2019-2020 will be released during Fall Quarter—stay tuned and good luck!
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/sar/our-work/

HAGS and thank you to Katz for the photos!

Come learn about our projects and celebrate two quarters of hard work and fantastic achievements with us at the SAR 2019 Final Presentations this Thursday from 4-6pm in the IPAM Auditorium! See the attached flier for more details. For a taste of what's to come, you can find out more about each team here: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/sar/our-work/ And read detailed posts about each team’s progress on their blogs here: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/sar/news-and-events.

Congrats to all of our winners at the Green Gala Awards yesterday!!!! Here are the nominees and the awards they received:

Our Co-Director, Elias Platte-Bermeo, for the Sustainability Leader Award

Our Faculty Advisor, Carl Maida, for the Sustainability Research and Engagement Award

Our Sustainable Purchasing Team for Sustainability Research Project of the Year

Our Green Games Stakeholder, Kayla Shirey, for the Sustainability Advocate Award

We are incredibly lucky to have so many passionate and talented individuals and change makers in our midst. Thank you for all of your hard work💚💚💚 We can’t wait to see all that you accomplish in the future.

If you’re interested in learning more about these inspiring people and the projects that they’ve worked on, please join us at the SAR 2019 Final Presentations next Thursday from 4-6pm in the IPAM Auditorium! See the attached flier for more details.

We'd love to share two fantastic opportunities to come meet some of our teams and participate in their projects!

YRL Waste Audit: the Zero Waste team is conducting its second YRL waste audit this Thursday! Sign up to help them out here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLCi_Aa_Lvvwjs47URbnRz7JCVVBcCigJJmIDc7zMnJcJPGg/viewform

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Basic Needs Focus Group: The Basic Needs team is doing focus groups with the general UCLA population about student needs and campus resources. Spread the word and help them get participants for this Friday and next Wednesday! Anyone interested should RSVP by completing the Pre-Screening Tool in the link below. See the attached flyer for more info!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYmwUT99Mx_gsjUSYeFZi_bzqncuEAUk_s1ajsg--4wq_Kmg/viewform

UCLA SAR

Meet the Sustainable Purchasing Team! Their goal is to improve the sustainability and ethicality of UCLA’s promotional product supply chain. Such products include sunglasses, toys, and other “freebies”, which often become single-use items destined for a landfill.

To find out about the assessments they've made throughout the year and how the team has collaborated with vital on-campus stakeholders and vendors to improve UCLA's promotional product supply chain, check out their blog here:

https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/news/sustainable-purchasing-blog-post-may-17-2019/

Come say hi in Dickson Court until 2pm!

Be sure to check out our teams and their blogs on the SAR website—and to come by Dickson Court next Monday, April 22, 2019 at 10 AM – 2 PM to talk to them about their projects in person at the Earth Day Fair!

You can find out more about each team here:
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/sar/our-work/

And read detailed posts about each team’s progress on their blogs here:
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/sar/news-and-events/

Learn more about UCLA's Earth Month, including events like the Earth Day Fair here at:
https://www.facebook.com/earthmonthUCLA/

Meet the Food Justice and Basic Needs Team! Their objective is to make basic needs resources more accessible to students on the UCLA campus by improving communications strategies that direct students to the resources they need.

“Students need to be students, and should not have to take so much time and energy to find the hidden gems of aid here on campus. Our SAR team aims to lower the stress levels of students here at UCLA by giving them a simple way to access the care they need. Overall, we want resources to be more accessible and helpful.”

Check out their team page and keep up with their progress on their student blog at:
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/project/sar-food-justice-and-basic-needs-team/

Ever wondered how NOT to park a Bird on campus?

Meet the SAR Transportation Team! They'll let you know!

Read more about the Transportation Team and campus Bird Law on their blog at: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/news/transportation-blog-post-march-1-2019/

For more exciting updates on the Transportation Team’s progress over the next two quarters, be sure to visit their team page at:
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/project/sar-transportation-team/

To learn about our other SAR Teams and their progress, you can find all of our work and SAR student blog posts on the IoES Sustainability Action Research website.

Our Work: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/sar/our-work/

Our Student Blog Posts: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/sar/news-and-events/

Meet the SAR Zero Waste Team!

The Zero Waste team is conducting research on the use of educational signage and outreach campaigns to increase waste diversion at Young Research Library (YRL) with the intention of beginning the process to implementing a permanent zero-waste system in the library.

A recent waste audit, conducted week ten of the quarter system when library use rises as students study for their finals, revealed that 85% of 600 lbs of waste in the waste stream was divertable meaning it could have been composted or recycled.

Last week, the team conducted their own waste audit at YRL, and found that 78.7% of the waste they sorted could have been diverted from landfill.

You can read more about the Zero Waste Team and their waste audit at:
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/news/zero-waste-blog-post-february-22-2019/

For more exciting updates on the Zero Waste Team’s progress over the next two quarters, be sure to visit their team page at:
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/project/sar-zero-waste-team/

To learn about our other SAR Teams and their progress, you can find all of our work and SAR student blog posts on the IoES Sustainability Action Research website.

Our Work: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/sar/our-work/

Our Student Blog Posts: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/sar/news-and-events/