UC Berkeley's Haas Business School achieves the trifecta with TRUE, LEED and WELL Certifications, becoming the Greenest Academic Building in the country and winning a Best Practice Award at the 2019 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference.
Kevin & Connie Chou Hall: Achieving TRUE Certification
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- Environmental Leader - UC Berkeley Building Earns TRUE Zero Waste Platinum Certification (2019)
- American School and University Magazine - UC Berkeley facility claims title of nation's "greenest academic building" (2019)
- Berkeley News - Chou Hall is the nation’s greenest academic building (2019)
- Building Design + Construction - This is the country’s greenest academic building (2019)
Waste Awareness
- Berkeley News - UC Berkeley staff strive for normalcy amidst pandemic
- Daily Californian - Catalyst for change: Zero Waste October encourages students to rethink how they consume (2019)
- Daily Californian - ‘An audacious goal’: UC Berkeley struggles to achieve zero waste (2019)
- Daily Californian - Happy Earth Day! How to actually reach zero waste by 2020 (2019)
- Daily Californian - Students should stop treating recycling as the solution (2019)
- Daily Californian - UC Berkeley needs to work towards zero waste by 2020 (2019)
- Northern California Recycling Council - Chou Hall – Greenbuilding It Up (2018)
- Daily Californian - UC Berkeley community hosts events for ‘Zero Waste October’ (2018)
- Daily Californian - PSA: Updated solar compactors around campus (2018)
- Daily Californian - Time to face the waste: What UC Berkeley and local organizations are doing to minimize landfill waste (2018)
- Daily Californian - Here’s why your compost and recycling is ending up in landfills (2018)
- Recycle Across America
- NBC News - In a world filled with plastic, how do you live without it? (2019)
Zero Waste in Athletics
- California selected as overall winner of Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge for 2018-19 basketball season (2019)
- Bears Repeat as Zero Waste Bowl Winners (2018)
- PAC-12 - Pac-12 and Green Sports Alliance name basketball season Zero Waste Bowl winners (2017)
- Green Sports Alliance Announces Winner of the Spring 2017 Pac-12 Road to Zero Waste Challenge: UC Berkeley (2017)
- University Of California, Berkeley Wins The 2016 Pac-12 Road To Zero Waste Challenge; University Of Colorado-Boulder Runner-Up
- PAC-12 - Pac-12 and Green Sports Alliance name Zero Waste Bowl winners (2017)
- Green Sports Alliance - UC Berkeley Wins Inaugural Green Sports Alliance Pac-12 Zero Waste Challenge (2015)
- Berkeley News - Cal wins Pac-12 zero-waste basketball contest (again) (2016)
- Berkeley Sustainability & Energy - Cal Defending Titles in Recyclemania Game Day and Pac 12 Road to Zero Waste (2016)
UC Zero Waste Goals
Kevin & Connie Chou Hall: Attempting TRUE Certification
- Architectural Record - Continuing Education: Zero Waste (2018)
- The Daily Cal - Chou Hall set to become first zero-waste business school building (2018)
- Northern California Recycling Association - Chou Hall – Greenbuilding It Up (2018)
- Berkeley Haas News - Chou Hall on track to be first “Zero Waste” business school building (2018)