Our Mission
We seek to push UCSC to bold action on the climate crisis, to build lasting partnerships among campus environmental groups, to energize climate and environmental justice conversation, and to nurture a new generation of climate leaders.
Our Priorities
DECARBONIZE, DISSOCIATE (from fossil fuels), EDUCATE, ACTIVATE!
Our Allies
We support the goals of the UC-wide UC Green New Deal (UC GND), the city of Santa Cruz student climate coalition Youth For Climate Justice (Y4CJ), and the campaign of the national student group Campus Climate Network for Fossil Free Degrees.
Join Us!
The UCSC Climate Coalition meets 1-2 pm on the second and fourth Sundays of every month that school's in session:
the first Sunday of each month, we meet at UCSC McHenry Library patio (or in the lobby if weather's inclement)
the second Sunday of each month, we meet by zoom -- please email ucscclimatecoalition@gmail.com for the link.
Fall term: Sunday Oct 13 McHenry; Sun Nov 3 zoom; Sun Nov 10. McHenry, Sun Nov 24 zoom, Dec 8 McHenry. All 1-2 pm
•For the zoom link, please email ucscclimatecoalition@gmail.com.
See our Instagram or our Google Calendar or the "Upcoming Events" tab above for more details!
2025 CA and Santa Cruz County Ballot Initiatives:
the UCSC Climate Coalition advises...
VOTE YES on California State Proposition 4
&
VOTE YES on Santa Cruz County Measure Q
The UCSC Climate Coalition supports
Statewide Proposition 4,
authorizing CA to issue $10 billion in bonds “to fund state and local parks, environmental protection projects, water infrastructure projects, energy projects, and flood protection projects.”
→ Yes on 4 website and instagram
--> CA voter’s guide (includes link to full text)
→ Impartial CA Legislative Analyst Office report
→ Ballotpedia (also pro-con, includes links to endorsements, opponents, etc)
→San Jose Mercury News article looking at pros and cons, pretty comprehensive
→ The only group to oppose Prop 4 is the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the group that back in the 1970s promoted Proposition 13 – the infamous measure that changed how property taxes were assessed and thereby gutted California’s public education system.
Santa Cruz County Measure Q:
the "water and wildfire protection act"
The UCSC Climate Coalition supports Yes on Q: Water & Wildfire Protection Act! This local measure tackles the threat of climate change and will make essential investments to protect natural water sources, reduce wildfire risks and improve parks and natural areas, as well as protect and enhance the health of the Monterey Bay and our beaches, forests and wildlife habitats. Please join us today and Vote YES on Q: Water & Wildfire Protection Act! Learn more: VoteYesonQ.com
→ This webpage and these files includes Measure Q background, endorsements, and FAQ.
→ SCC Elections Board’s impartial analysis of Measure Q
NO MORE BLOOD ON OUR HANDS: See how much (or little) UC and UCSC take global heating seriously and how student pressure has forced some progress. Demand that UC/UCSC stop supporting fossil fuel companies! We want Environmental Justice, Fossil-Free Degrees, and an electrified UCSC!
Please share these flyers and QRs!
Our new campaign: We Deserve Fossil Free Degrees!
And join the systemwide UC Green New Deal Coalition -- forming intra-UC campus partnerships and pressing the Regents and all campus chancellors for rapid decarbonization (of campus power systems), fossil fuel dissociation (end the fossil fuel industry's capture of universities!), and environmental justice!
Graphic by Bijan Ashianti-Eisemann
Please sign: UC-wide petition asking President Drake and the Regents to end fossil fuel corporations' infiltration of UC campuses
Want to understand better fossil fuel companies' capture of academia? You'll find the rationale for and data behind our petition here
Our primary campaign 2024-2025: Students deserve Fossil Free Degrees! End the fossil fuel industry's corporate capture of our universities, and lead on environmental justice!
Data and graphic by Jonah Henry.
Data compiled by Jonah Henry; graphic by Jazlyn Solano
Petition to the Chancellor's Committee for
Strategic Planning on Climate Change (SPCC)
If you would like to see UC Santa Cruz...
decarbonize campus power by 2030 (right now we power our campus primarily by burning methane in our cogeneration plant)
ban fossil fuel funding of faculty research
stop banking with dirty banks that fund the fossil fuel industry
expand climate education
create a more robust, sustainable on-campus transit system (more buses, electric buses, increased bike lane protection, and more)
THEN SIGN OUR PETITION TO THE CHANCELLOR'S COMMITTEE FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING ON CLIMATE CHANGE (SPCC)!
Our letter to the Chancellor and her team, which summarizes our 2/16/23 meeting and offers our response, is here.
