Fall Luncheon
"UC Riverside Campus Sustainability Initiatives"
Fortino Morales, UCR's Sustainability Officer
Friday, September 23, 2022 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
In person event, $25 per person
Fortino Morales III is the Sustainability Officer at the University of California, Riverside campus which is located on Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseno, and Serrano native lands. He received his B.S. in Environmental Sciences and his Masters of Public Policy from UC Riverside. As an undergraduate he helped start a student-run green fund and a community garden called the R’Garden. He served as the founding staff Director of the R’Garden for 6 years, and worked to raise awareness around food systems issues like
food insecurity on and off campus. The R’Garden grew from a quarter acre to now nearly 8 acres serving 40,000 pounds of fresh produce to the students and community annually. Now in the Office of Sustainability, he leads a team of dedicated staff and students working to implement sustainability initiatives on a campus that is situated in one of the state’s most environmentally and socially impacted Census Tract’s according to CalEnviroScreen 3.0 (90-95%).
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