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SUSTAINABILITYUniversity of California (UC), a national leader in sustainability, haspledged to become carbon neutral by 2025, becoming the first majoruniversity to accomplish this achievement. Global climate disruptionis impacting the planet in ways never experienced in human history.UCSB's culture of environmental sustainability remains a drivingforce for continuous improvement, and we seek to build uponprevious conservation efforts by providing accurate, real-timebuilding energy and water monitoring to facilitate the nextgeneration of conservation campaigns at UCSB.At UCSB, we think globally and act locally. Our successful efforts toprocure green electricity, reduce reliance on natural gas, decreasepotable water use and achieve higher LEED certifications have madeus a leader in the field.Clean Power ProgramIn 2015, UC was officially designated as a California Energy ServiceProvider, giving UC the ability to buy and sell in the wholesale powermarket. In 2020, when the world was grappling with COVID, UCSBhad the opportunity to join the UC Clean Power Program and is nowthe third largest member in the UC system as measured by annualpower use. The Clean Power Program electricity generation portfolioconsists primarily of wind and solar power with a small amount ofhydropower and nuclear which results in electricity use on our maincampus being carbon free. Reduction in Natural Gas UseAs of July 2019, new buildings being constructed at UCSB aredesigned without the use of natural gas for heating and hot watergeneration and relying instead on electricity. We continue to look for opportunities to build out our chilled and hot water systems tominimize the need for natural gas to heat campus buildings.Recycled WaterOver 90% of our landscape irrigation uses recycled water. Not onlyare we saving valuable potable drinking water, but recycled water isan unstressed water source in our community and is provided to theUniversity in partnership with Goleta Sanitary District and GoletaWater District.On a typical year, our campus uses approximately 80,000 hundredcubic feet (HCF) of recycled water for our irrigation systems and inBren Hall with its dual-plumbed toilets. This equates to water thatwould fill 80 Olympic-sized swimming pools! These waterconservation efforts are helping both locally and regionally duringthis extreme drought. LEEDThe UC Sustainable Practices Policy requires that all new UCbuildings achieve a US Green Building Council Leadership in Energy& Environmental Design (LEED) %u201cSilver%u201d certification at a minimum.The four levels of LEED certification, from lowest to highest, areCertified, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Since adding over six megawattsof onsite solar power beginning in 2016, all eligible campus buildingprojects have achieved a LEED Platinum rating, including the mostrecently certified building on the UCSB campus, Henley Hall.We are honored and committed to weave sustainability into all ourefforts to make UCSB a world-class facility to learn, live and work notjust for today but for generations to come.