What is the Sustainability Resource Center?
How did the Sustainability Resource Center come to be?
How did the SSC come into being?
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An open space for the UCSD community with resources about sustainability (books, director office hours, opportunities for involvement in campaigns) to foster a culture of responsibility, collaboration and empowerment for campus sustainability. It is a place to institutionalize sustainability efforts on campus.
The space is shared by the SSC and the Sustainability Office. In 2007, a group of students created the Social and Environmental Sustainability Committee to foster discussions between different environmentally-focused organizations that address the many facets of sustainability. One year later, the students drafted the first proposal for the Sustainability Resource Center (SRC) and submitted it to administration.
That same year, the University Centers Advisory Board allocated space for the SRC and administration agreed to fund the construction of the space - and thus the SRC was born. These same students pitched the idea of a referendum to fund sustainability-minded projects on UCSD's campus (such as The Green Initiative Fund and the Student Sustainability Collective) that passed in January of 2009.
In November of 2009, the SRC opened its doors to UCSD's community with its inaugural group of SSC directors in place. June Reyes, Michelle Kizner, Fran Avendano, Jessica Wall, Chris Westling, Rishi Gosh and Yuki Murakami.
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