Campus Voices for Food + Climate Sustainability

CalFresh is a state funded program that provides benefits to low-income state residents in buying groceries every month. People that benefit from this program are eligible to receive up to $192 per month for groceries.

In this post James Lande, a UC Santa Cruz undergraduate and Produce Pop-up coordinator, gives us the inside scoop on an exciting student-led initiative: The Food Systems Working Group (FSWG), anchored within the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) provides a space for the stu...

When I hear the word environmentalism, I think of the mainstream (white, male-dominated) narrative that is associated with visiting National Parks and the great outdoors, and signing the World Wildlife Fund's petitions to save rare species on the planet.

Over the summer of 2017, a collaboration between SunPower and UC Riverside resulted in 9,600 new solar panels to cover the largest parking lots on campus. With the installation of these solar panels, UCR is now creating more on-site renewable energy than any other UC campus, except for UC Davis.

Food insecurity is defined as the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways [1]. Food insecurity is pervasive in the United States, with almost 1/6 of U.S.