UC Davis Sustainability Initiatives
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Sid England, assistant vice chancellor for environmental stewardship at UC Davis, talks about possibilities and challenges related to clean energy, green buildings, transportation, operations, recycling and waste management. England particularly addresses the climate-change planning that the university is doing, including the development of an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions.
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