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To bring together the best and most creative social entrepreneurs at UCSB
To cultivate successful applications to the Big Ideas Contest
To network with UCSB’s entrepreneurial communities
To host speaker events with successful and admirable social innovators
To start projects for a smarter future

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The purpose of BSSC is to connect the Bren students to sustainability events and groups in the greater UCSB and Santa Barbara Community.

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Civil Robotics is designing a new firefighting robot to increase the efficiency of fire preventative measures and minimize the risks to firefighters when combating forest fires. The robot will be a 4 x 6 x 2.5ft fully autonomous car with fan-like cutter blades allowing it to cut through brush and other flammable material. With the rate and extremity of wildfires in California rapidly rising due to climate change, it is becoming increasingly important to have a safe, effective, and efficient way to control them Civil Robotics' robot aims to achieve this.

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This is UC Santa Barbara’s official class group! It is a space for you to connect with other students from your year, engage in conversations about student life, ask questions, share concerns, engage in campus programming, and learn about co-curricular activities.

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This is UC Santa Barbara’s official class group! It is a space for you to connect with other students from your year, engage in conversations about student life, ask questions, share concerns, engage in campus programming, and learn about co-curricular activities.

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This is UC Santa Barbara’s official class group! It is a space for you to connect with other students from your year, engage in conversations about student life, ask questions, share concerns, engage in campus programming, and learn about co-curricular activities.

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This is UC Santa Barbara’s official class group! It is a space for you to connect with other students from your year, engage in conversations about student life, ask questions, share concerns, engage in campus programming, and learn about co-curricular activities.

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1. To promote companies in private and public sectors to understand and act on their connections with the natural world. As a group, we will analyze some real-life problems (public or private) and come up with suggestions we feel fit the issue we are facing. After a careful analysis, we will construct a report that will contain our environmental suggestions as well as designs that fit our recommendation (marketing campaign, website redesigning, ect...). Those reports may or may not be sent to the company we have decided to analyze. As such, Clean Consulting will not “provide” consulting services, nor will it sign contracts with parties outside of UCSB.
2. To evaluate companies’ current practices and encourage the use of most sustainable strategies. For this, the Clean Consulting team will meet with mentors and professionals that have the experience to consult us on our work. In more detail, our team will look over energy use (water and electricity) and waste management strategies of the company/department being studied. From this data, the analyst team of Clean Consulting will be able to generate an environmental audit. Business strategies will also be analyzed. After looking at our findings, we will look at the best practices in the industry and finalize a report with all of our suggestions for our client. Some “green” marketing suggestions can also be made if the client has an opportunity to expand its services/products to “green” consumers.
3. To make companies aware of their corporate social responsibility and the growing presence of sustainability in the professional sphere.
4. To encourage student involvement in the sustainability field and help them gain experience and connections. We aim to collaborate with companies in the environmental consulting industry (or sustainability) to train the members of Clean Consulting; our “partner” company would act as a mentor, giving us advice and teaching us how to create environmental audits, reports, etc...

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Members of Clean Consulting at UCSB will benefit from experience in business, consulting, and sustainability practices, as well as connections. We aim for our members to work with our "partner" businesses to help them with sustainability and corporate social responsibility while being mentored by those experienced in the field.

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CCE is a collaborative student organization with the mission to help the university to invest collectively in renewable energy.

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The mission of this organization is to provide its members opportunities to gain broader insight into the engineering profession by sponsoring meetings which will bring practicing engineers to the campus, arranging field trips to research and engineering establishments, sponsoring student projects of engineering interest, and participating in local SAE Section activities. It shall also be the purpose of this organization to encourage good fellowship among engineering students and their teachers.

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Students who hold a valid, unexpired SAE Student Membership may join this organization and enjoy voting privileges in UCSBSAE. Faculty and staff members who hold a valid, unexpired SAE Membership may join this organization and enjoy voting privileges in UCSBSAE.

Students, faculty, and staff members who do not have a current SAE membership will be admitted as associate members and will not enjoy voting privileges.

The only difference between a full member and an associate member shall be the privilege to vote on items and in officer elections; associate members shall be entitled to actively participate in meetings and join committees and teams.

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The purpose of the FWF chapter at UCSB is to promote knowledge of the FWF organization and scholarship grants available to students who have lost a parent that was part of the ocean community. The FWF chapter at UCSB is the first school chapter started with the FWF organization to help get college aged kids involved in its mission. FWF's stated mission on their website is: Our mission is to help the children of fallen watermen get the college educations their parents would want them to have. This is open to anybody who has made the ocean part of their lives...not just sponsored athletes. The goal of FWF is to ensure that 95% of the donations go directly to pay for the college tuitions for the children of fallen watermen and women.

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The FWF chapter at UCSB will allow students to connect with one another, raise awareness of the FWF scholarships to those who have lost a parent that was part of the ocean community, help organize fundraisers, participate in beach clean ups, and give back to the ocean community along the coast of California!

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Goleta Coast Audubon Society is UCSB's birdwatching and conservation club. We are a registered campus organization at UCSB and an official campus chapter of the National Audubon Society. We are comprised of both undergraduate and graduate students, and we organize birding walks, conservation projects, and advocacy initiatives. Our mission is to protect wildlife and the habitat it needs to thrive, while engaging and educating students and the public on science and conservation issues pertaining to birds.

We generally post our meetings on Shoreline, but the best way to find out about upcoming events is to join our email listserv. We also have a very active Slack channel with several messages per day. To join our listserv and Slack channel, please send us an email at goletacoastaudubon@gmail.com. We'd love to meet you. We're always looking for people who want to learn about birds and get involved in the organization.

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To institutionalize and promote sustainable practices and ideals within the Greek community through advancing discussion, facilitating collaboration, and achieving short-term and long-term projects.

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provide a space to have a garden

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Learning to grow food, growing food, physical exercise, a break from school

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The organization's mission is to bring together diverse groups of people passionate about effecting change with respect to Animal Rights, Health, and Environment through advocacy, education & outreach.
We meet every Monday at 8:00 PM PST on zoom, join at the link below! We welcome anyone who cares about animals, health and/or the planet.
If you'd like to get into contact with us, please email us at hearclubuscb@gmail.com


Zoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81675492509?pwd=RStJYUdtUnlnS3Q5OFFNNFZaRWRBZz09

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To provide residents in Isla Vista with a free composting service that encourages sustainable food practices, educates community members, and supports local gardens.

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The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s ocean, waves and beaches, for all people, through a powerful activist network.

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The organization's purpose is to promote the intersection between the community, the environment and fashion. More specifically we aim to:
-To eliminate the stigma surrounding second hand shopping by providing a positive experience with thrifting in the community.
-To encourage originality and creativity in order to inspire conscious shopping habits.
-To promote environmental consciousness of students and community members in Isla Vista by giving them a platform to directly participate in the cause.
-To strengthen community involvement by recognizing the specific needs of the diverse mix of community members, especially the houseless and low-income residents.

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Our mission is to promote wildlife-based stewardship among students by educating them about wildlife and environmental issues, by working on projects in the field, by exploring local natural habitats, and by inspiring individuals to enhance their ecological responsibility.

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The project, "UMMA Swim and Surf" invites children from low income families to learn the basics of swimming, self rescue and ultimately the basics of surfing at no cost. The UMMA Swim and Surf project will educate young people about keeping our beaches clean, coastal ecology and environmentalism. We hope to inspire another generation of young persons to be stewards of our coastal environment. UMMA Swim and Surf will help to enhance feelings of self worth, healthy living, and safety. Studies have shown that children of color, ages 5-19 are five and a half times more likely to become a victim of drowning than their counterparts from the community at large. With COVID-19 and Civil Disturbances around the nation, now more than ever, well meaning people feel a responsibility to do something to heal our communities, through acts of selfless service. UMMA, the word for community in Arabic captures this intent. A small grassroots program like USAS, will hardly solve the challenges of racism, or bigotry that we face as a nation, but as a great man once said, "Just because we can't do everything, doesn't mean we don't have a responsibility to do something." This program sends a message that if we really care about the issues of our time, we should roll up our sleeves and get to work, even if those efforts are small.

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Your Children’s Trees works to keep our urban forests healthy by
planting and caring for trees in public areas such as schools and
parks.

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