Dear Colleagues,
As part of the Carbon Neutrality Initiative and our efforts to wipe out UC’s carbon footprint by 2025, all ten University of California campuses are participating in the 2019 Cool Campus Challenge (CCC). This friendly 4-week challenge is designed to educate and motivate the University community to take simple energy-saving, waste-reducing, and sustainability-focused actions to lower their carbon footprint. The Challenge runs from April 1 through 26.
In the Challenge, UC students, faculty, and staff earn points by taking actions that lower carbon emissions at work, at school, at home and when traveling. Each of the actions in the online tool contains information about how that activity helps reduce emissions. The campus whose participants earn the most points will be named the “Coolest UC Campus.” There are also prizes for the campus with the greatest percentage of its population participating, and for the health system that earns the most points.
Throughout April, numerous events and activities surrounding the CCC are planned to take place on each campus. Participants will also receive weekly e-mails about their campus’ status and new opportunities to earn points, and there will be weekly videos and social media posts (follow the stories and post using #CoolCampusChallenge).
Join me today in representing the UCSF community and reducing our carbon footprint. Please sign-up to participate in the Cool Campus Challenge and consider joining as a team. You can start logging your actions beginning today, when Challenge officially opens.
Thank you in advance for your support!
Sincerely,
Paul Jenny
Senior Vice Chancellor
Finance and Administration