As a broad reaching organization, EAB\u00a0addresses many issues from\u00a0Fossil Fuel Divestment<\/a> to Sustainable Foods education. EAB engaged a wide range of\u00a0students across many interest areas. It\u00a0engaged students with their immediate\u00a0surroundings and community through volunteer work in Isla Vista and the greater Santa\u00a0Barbara area, while also involving students in matters on a state and national level,\u00a0with trips to conferences such as Power Shift<\/a> and the bi\u2010annual California State Sustainability Convergences<\/a> to\u00a0name a couple. EAB’s\u00a0goal was to let students find their place in the organization\u00a0by providing\u00a0numerous opportunities for involvement at many different levels. Through these efforts it\u00a0educated and empowered students so they are able to stand up for the\u00a0environment, and continue the long legacy of sustainability and activism that lives on\u00a0our campus.\u00a0Below are detailed major accomplishments from our 2013\u20102014 school year.<\/p>\n EAB\u00a0worked with PACES<\/a> (Program for the Assessment and Certification for the Environment and Sustainability) to certify 3 BCCs, CAB<\/a>, IVTU<\/a>, and Coastal Fund<\/a>, as sustainable\u00a0organizations.<\/p>\n Each group is assessed based on office practices as well as a purchasing of\u00a0food and swag for the organization. As part of these efforts, EAB\u00a0hosted the first annual waste\u2010free All Hall Ball. More about the Green Bill? Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n EAB provided funding to the AS\u00a0Zero Waste Committee<\/a> for the purchase of new waste bins for\u00a0AS office spaces. The new bins are\u00a0more uniform, have more comprehensive signage\u00a0and increase the proper disposal of waste in the spaces they are being installed.<\/p>\n EAB worked to raise awareness across campus about the drought currently gripping\u00a0California. Efforts included creating a fact sheet about where our water comes from,\u00a0what the current levels are, and easy tips to help students cut their water use. EAB\u00a0also collaborated with Housing and Residential Services<\/a> to facilitate a residence hall\u00a0wide water saving competition. EAB tabled to let residents know about the event, and\u00a0created visuals to post around residence halls with information about how to\u00a0conserve.<\/p>\n These initiatives included an Associated Students Fracking Resolution to go along with the successful\u00a0countywide petition to get an initiative to ban fracking on the\u00a0November ballot and a\u00a0California wide call for a moratorium on fracking within the state.\u00a0A resolution has been drafted to bring to ASUCSB senate to let\u00a0Governor Brown know that the students of UCSB do not want fracking or other unconventional oil\u00a0extraction techniques used in the state. The resolution went\u00a0before the AS Senate.<\/p>\n In conjunction with Zero Waste Committee<\/a>, EAB started a compostable plate and\u00a0utensil service in AS allowing AS groups to easily purchase compostable goods at low\u00a0prices on campus. This service is just one of\u00a0many steps to make adherence to the\u00a0Green Bill easier.<\/p>\n Students painted EAB’s bike cart to promote its use. The bike cart is now more commonly used\u00a0to transport tabling supplies and other materials for events as an alternative to\u00a0motor\u2010driven vehicles. The bike cart can be checked out by anyone or any other\u00a0organizations to transport their supplies around campus and Isla Vista.<\/p>\n EAB organized\u00a0an education day for students to come and learn about fossil fuel divestment\u00a0and what that means in the UC system.<\/p>\n Lauren Dykman, a Green Bill consultant wrote a comprehensive guide to help AS groups\u00a0abide by the Green Bill. It includes the names of companies endorsed by the green\u00a0bill, as well as links to websites to order sustainable \u201cswag\u201d. It will be available online\u00a0this summer.<\/p>\n EAB held a day of action dressed as ghosts of a Fossil Future on Halloween to haunt the\u00a0campus and warn of the terror ahead if the school keeps its ties to the fossil fuel\u00a0industry. The action raised awareness about climate justice among peers and university administrators.<\/p>\n EAB hosted\u00a0workshops for students to build their own container gardens. These workshops educated students about food deserts and gave them the resources to\u00a0grow sustainable foods in their own dorms\/apartments.<\/p>\n Environmental Justice Chair Sukayna Ibrahim, along with one general member created\u00a0and hosted a workshop at the S.C.O.R.E.<\/a> (Student Commission on Racial Equality) Facing Race Conference to address and educate\u00a0about the inaccessibility to fresh and healthy food in low income and communities of\u00a0color. The workshop was followed by a discussion about addressing these issues.<\/p>\n EAB selected 15 lucky student leaders from various campus organizations to attend a\u00a0four\u2010day Power Shift<\/a> conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after an application process open to\u00a0the entire UCSB student population. Campus organizations represented by attendees\u00a0included CalPIRG<\/a>, Zero Waste Committee<\/a>, Human Rights Board<\/a>, AS Recycling<\/a> and many\u00a0more. Along with 6,000 other young activists from across the US, students attended\u00a0workshops and keynote speeches including those given by Bill McKibben<\/a>, 350.org<\/a>\u00a0founder, Tom Steyer, environmental philanthropist, and Michael Brune, executive\u00a0director of the Sierra Club<\/a>. The focus of Power Shift was the shifting of our reliance on\u00a0dirty energy sources to cleaner alternatives and shifting power from corporations\u00a0to citizens, while encouraging the intersectionality of issues within the youth climate\u00a0movement. Students were exposed to new perspectives and networking opportunities\u00a0with inspirational young people from the US and abroad. The conference attendance\u00a0was made possible by generous contributions from CAB and Finance Board, as students\u00a0were only responsible for the cost of food and public transportation in Pittsburgh, all\u00a0other costs (airfare, lodging, registration) were covered so that the trip was an\u00a0accessible opportunity for all students, regardless of income.<\/p>\n EAB sent\u00a0Kori Lay, Statewide Affairs Coordinator, to the Fossil Fuel Divestment\u00a0Convergence<\/a> in San Francisco to connect with students from across the country and\u00a0learn from frontline community members and activists about fossil fuel divestment and\u00a0how students can play a role in the fight for climate justice. More about the Fossil Fuel Divestment campaign? Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n EAB sent five students from UCSB to CSU Humboldt for the California Student Sustainability\u00a0Coalition\u2019s Fall Convergence<\/a>. It was\u00a0an opportunity for students from all over the state\u00a0to come together to learn and share ideas and strategies for creating sustainable\u00a0communities.<\/p>\n EAB co\u2010sponsored a group of 15 volunteers to do restoration work on Anacapa Island\u00a0through Channel Islands Restoration<\/a>. Restoration included planting native species,\u00a0watering, caring for, and putting shade shields on new plants; and removing ice plant.<\/p>\n EAB gathered a news article and 3 template letters and printed them out for EAB general\u00a0members\u2019 use by letter\u2010writing working groups. They also hosted\u00a0three letter\u2010writing working\u00a0groups, during which 9 UCSB students crafted hand\u2010written letters to President Obama! They then provided students with paper, pens, envelopes, President Obama\u2019s address, and stamps.<\/p>\n To continue to engage students about the Keystone XL Pipeline<\/a>, we worked on a time\u00a0capsule to capture the sentiments of students. This project was multimedia and\u00a0invited general members to draw pictures, write letters and include anything they felt\u00a0portrayed their feelings about Keystone XL and extraction methods. Over 15 general\u00a0members contributed to the finished time capsule.<\/p>\n Four EAB members participated in a vigil and march against Keystone XL in downtown\u00a0Santa Barbara, in collaboration with 350.org Santa Barbara<\/a> and other Santa Barbara\u00a0county residents. The intention of this event was to promote awareness about\u00a0Keystone XL and demonstrate peacefully how opposed Santa Barbara county residents\u00a0are to Keystone XL. This event was part of a show of solidarity with other counties\u00a0and states throughout the nation, occuring the same week as a mass student protest in\u00a0Washington, DC at which\u00a0over 400 students were arrested at the White House.<\/p>\n In collaboration with the local group Santa Barbara County Water Guardians<\/a>, members\u00a0collected signatures for a petition to get an initiative to prevent the development of\u00a0any new Hydraulic Fracturing, Acidizing or Cyclic Steam Injection wells in Santa\u00a0Barbara County onto the November ballot. In the course of three weeks 20,000 signatures were gather from all across\u00a0Santa Barbara County reaching numbers well above those needed for the initiative to be included.<\/p>\n EAB\u00a0was required to add some new officers after the year was underway. They\u00a0recruited Gabby Schaid and Katy Blackburn as Social Chairs and Jennifer Suh as Campus Affairs Coordinator. All of them\u00a0were invaluable members of the EAB\u00a0team.<\/p>\n EAB partnered with the UCSB\u2019s Orfalea Children\u2019s Center<\/a> and the UCSB Greenhouse and\u00a0Garden Project to teach preschool children hands on gardening classes. These classes\u00a0taught basic gardening skills and sustainable food education to multiple classrooms. EAB\u00a0volunteers helped lead the classes and enjoyed working with\u00a0the children.<\/p>\n EAB worked with other organizations to provide an event every day for the entire\u00a0week leading up to the IV Earth Day Festival. Each event was Dr. Seuss themed and\u00a0was related to the environment in some way. A hike, Earth hour, documentary\u00a0screenings, an adopt\u2010a\u2010block cleanup, and tree planting were among the week\u2019s\u00a0events.<\/p>\n EAB hosted this as an event during Earth Week, where we encouraged the campus to\u00a0turn off all or half of their lights for an hour, which was Wednesday of Earth Week at\u00a07:00 PM. EAB members reached out to campus groups who meet on Wednesdays at 7:00 PM as well\u00a0as to buildings and or rooms such as the MCC, residence halls, and the SRB and encouraged them to turn off their\u00a0lights with them. EAB\u2019s weekly general meeting was outdoors at Friendship court, where they\u00a0\u00a0used no electricity and made announcements with posters rather than with their\u00a0usual PowerPoint and projector.<\/p>\n This event, hosted by EAB, took place on April 26th from 1\u20107pm in People\u2019s Park. The\u00a0purpose of this event was to bring the community together to celebrate all that the\u00a0Earth has done for us and to educate the community on how we\u00a0can live more\u00a0sustainably. The event included\u00a030 vendors, 7 bands, yoga, face painting, dancing,\u00a0screen printing, and much more. The event, as well as Earth Week, was Dr. Seuss\u00a0themed, showing guests that no matter how old you are, you can still make a change.<\/p>\n Students led a bike ride and bus ride to SB Earth Day in downtown Santa Barbara to get UCSB\u00a0students involved. EAB had\u00a0a booth at the festival at which they\u00a0invited passersby to add to\u00a0a paper mache globe made of re\u2010used scraps of paper on which passersby wrote what they\u00a0love about the Earth. It was an opportunity to engage\u00a0alumni and community members and educate them\u00a0about EAB\u2019s activities, campaigns, and opportunities.<\/p>\n EAB provided compostable goods for the RHA’s All Hall Ball program, making the event zero\u00a0waste for the first time. EAB is\u00a0now working on getting the RHA it’s\u00a0own store of compostable\u00a0goods so future events can be zero waste as well.<\/p>\n This is an EAB event where students get the opportunity to cook in a sustainable foods\u00a0competition. The\u00a0event has reached an attendance of over 150 students with\u00a030\u00a0students volunteering to cook. Attendees were also given\u00a0recipes for tasty sustainable meals. Green\u00a0Chef promotes the use of local sustainable foods resources by students whenever possible.<\/p>\n EAB provided many volunteers during the weekends of Halloween and Deltopia to pick up\u00a0trash from the streets of Isla Vista. Together with other volunteers, EAB\u00a0got Isla Vista\u00a0back to its usual cleanliness within one day.<\/p>\n EAB held multiple beach cleanups throughout the year to promote clean beaches, healthy\u00a0marine wildlife, and clean waters.<\/p>\n Volunteers worked in association with Goleta Valley Beautiful<\/a> to plant three\u00a0replacement Sycamore trees around the UCSB lagoon.<\/p>\n Volunteers worked in association with Goleta Valley Beautiful to deliver six free fruit\u00a0and shade trees to veterans in Goleta and Santa Barbara. Basic care for the trees was\u00a0explained and a few were planted in veterans\u2019 yards.<\/p>\n Volunteers worked in association with Goleta Valley Beautiful to conduct standard tree\u00a0root pruning on 30 trees in the Devereux Nursery.<\/p>\n EAB rented the Hub to host the first meeting of the year. Around 100 students came to enjoy free and local food from the Isla Vista Co\u2010Op<\/a> and to learn about EAB and its\u00a0goals for the year.<\/p>\n The Environmental Justice mixer promoted the communication and collaboration\u00a0between student organizations addressing environmental and\u00a0social justice issues. The event highlighted the intersectionalities between the social justice\u00a0and environmental movement. Leaders from a number of different campus groups\u00a0were brought together along with interested students and a couple of older Isla Vista\u00a0community members.<\/p>\n In May EAB provided funding for a conference hosted by the International Institute for Climate\u00a0Action<\/a> and Theory. The group is comprised of UCSB faculty and graduate and undergraduate\u00a0students. The conference helped disseminate information collected by a\u00a0research group that attended the COP 19 Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland.<\/p>\n Nine students organized the California Student Sustainability Coalition\u2019s Spring\u00a0Convergence at UCSB. Over 400 people were in attendance from across\u00a0the state. Students produced the\u00a0three day event filled with keynote speakers, student led\u00a0workshops, and panelists from across the country to talk about creating coalitions and promoting\u00a0sustainability.<\/p>\n \u25cf Fossil Free UC<\/p>\n \u25cf CSSC Planning<\/p>\n \u25cf Drought Awareness<\/p>\n \u25cf Green Bill<\/p>\n \u25cf Powershift Planning<\/p>\n \u25cf Letter Writing to Obama<\/p>\n \u25cf Earth Day Planning<\/p>\n \u25cf Keystone XL Time Capsule<\/p>\n \u25cf Environmental Justice Mixer<\/p>\n \u25cf Oil Well Stimulation: Fracking, Acidization, Cyclic Steam Injection<\/p>\n \u25cf Bike Cart Beautification<\/p>\n![\"Print\"](\"https:\/\/flashback.as.ucsb.edu\/2013-14\/files\/2013\/12\/grass_web_1000x2881.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nCampus Projects<\/h2>\n
Green Bill Certifications<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nWaste Bins<\/h3>\n
Drought Awareness Campaign<\/h3>\n
Compostable Goods Program<\/h3>\n
Bike Cart Beautification<\/h3>\n
Education and Awareness<\/h2>\n
Fossil Free Education Day<\/h3>\n
Sustainable Party\/Event Planner<\/h3>\n
Fossil Fuel Haunting<\/h3>\n
Urban Gardening Workshops<\/h3>\n
Food Deserts Workshop<\/h3>\n
EAB Abroad<\/h2>\n
Power Shift<\/h3>\n
Fossil Fuel Divestment Convergence<\/h3>\n
California State Sustainability Convergence (CSSC): Humboldt<\/h3>\n
Channel Islands Restoration Project on Anacapa Island<\/h3>\n
Political Action<\/h2>\n
Letters to President Obama Asking Him to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline Project Proposal<\/h3>\n
Keystone XL Time Capsule<\/h3>\n
Vigil and March Against Keystone XL<\/h3>\n
The Healthy Air and Water Initiative to Ban Fracking<\/h3>\n
Community Building & Enhancement<\/h2>\n
Mid\u2010year officer additions<\/h3>\n
Orfalea Children’s Center<\/h3>\n
Earth Week<\/h3>\n
Earth Hour<\/h3>\n
IV Earth Day Festival<\/h3>\n
SB Earth Day Festival<\/h3>\n
Compostable Goods with\u00a0the Residence Hall Association (RHA)<\/h3>\n
Green Chef Cooking Competition<\/h3>\n
Halloween and Deltopia Clean Up<\/h3>\n
Beach Clean Ups<\/h3>\n
Tree Planting at Lagoon<\/h3>\n
Trees for Veterans<\/h3>\n
Tree Root Pruning<\/h3>\n
Outreach to Students<\/h2>\n
October Kick Off Meeting<\/h3>\n
Environmental Justice Mixer<\/h3>\n
Reimagining Climate Justice Conference<\/h3>\n
CSSC at UCSB: Coalitions, Connections for Change<\/h3>\n
EAB’s Committees and Working Groups<\/h2>\n
Officers<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
Scroll over our names to know more about us!<\/h2>\n
![\"Rebecca-done\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/Rebecca-done.jpg\")
<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n![\"kai\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/kai.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"mackie_website](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/mackie_website-photo-size.jpg\")
<\/a>Mackie Forgey<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"tayler\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/tayler.jpg\")
<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"alex\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/alex.jpg\")
<\/a>Alexandra Ballinger \u00a0<\/strong>Treasurer<\/td>\n![\"kori\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/kori.jpg\")
<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Kori Lay \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Statewide Affairs<\/td>\n![\"katy\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/katy.jpg\")
<\/a>Katy Blackburn<\/strong>![\"gabby\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/gabby.jpg\")
<\/a>\u00a0 Gabrielle Schnaid \u00a0<\/strong>Social Events \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Coordinator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n![\"jennifer](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/jennifer-suh.jpg\")
<\/a>Jennifer Suh \u00a0<\/strong>Campus Affairs Coordinator<\/td>\n![\"heather\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/heather.jpg\")
<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Heather Vest \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Earth Day \u00a0 Coordinator<\/td>\n![\"mantha\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/mantha.jpg\")
<\/a>Mantha Carr<\/strong>![\"sukayna_webiste](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/sukayna_webiste-photo-size.jpg\")
<\/a>Sukayna Ibrahim<\/strong>![\"lauren_webiste](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/lauren_webiste-photo-size.jpg\")
<\/a>Lauren Dykman<\/strong>![\"ben_webiste](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/ben_webiste-photo-size.jpg\")
<\/a>Ben Liddie<\/strong>![\"adrian\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/adrian.jpg\")
<\/a>Adrian Gabriel<\/strong>![\"emily_webiste](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/emily_webiste-photo-size.jpg\")
<\/a>Emily Lytle<\/strong>![\"risa_webiste](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/risa_webiste-photo-size.jpg\")
<\/a>Risa Jensen<\/strong>![\"Chelsee-done\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/Chelsee-done.jpg\")
<\/a>Chelsee Lee<\/strong>![\"karina_website](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/karina_website-photo-size.jpg\")
<\/a>Karina Paonessa<\/strong>![\"isabelle\"](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/isabelle.jpg\")
<\/a>Isabelle Geczy<\/strong>![\"shelby_website](\"https:\/\/eab.as.ucsb.edu\/files\/2011\/11\/shelby_website-photo-size.jpg\")
<\/a>Shelby Skougard \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Student Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"