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Highlight on Bianca, our Outgoing Program Assistant

October 8, 2025 by Sara Leaverton

Bianca discovered the Ecology Center during her junior year of high school, while researching internships in the summer. She had always enjoyed spending time outdoors and hiking, so she was interested in environmental organizations. The Ecology Center seemed like a logical fit. Bianca began as a participant in the Youth Environmental Academy (YEA), built her… Read more »

Big Soda Advertising and Educational Interventions in the Virtual Space

May 3, 2021 by Ecology Center

Over the past four years, Ecology Center has been reinvesting grant funding from soda tax dollars into initiatives aimed at raising awareness at Berkeley High School about health equity and the growing cases of type 2 diabetes among young people, with an outsized impact on Latinx and African-American youth. By partnering with teachers, administrators, and… Read more »

Berkeley High Freshmen Start School Year with Free Water Bottles Thanks to Soda Tax

September 1, 2016 by Ecology Center

[Press Release] As classes start this week, 700 students entering Berkeley High are going to school with free, stainless steel, reusable water bottles. Made by the Chico-based company Klean Kanteen, the water bottles were distributed at freshman orientation by Youth Scholars from the Ecology Center’s Youth Environmental Academy. This water bottle giveaway was funded by… Read more »

Film Night? A Taste of Movies in the Ecology Center Library

August 26, 2016 by Ecology Center

By Nerine Ortiz-Pon, Ecology Center Youth Intern Within the Ecology Center, there is a section dedicated to films that are available to loan out – a mini-library. As long as you are a current member, you may borrow the movies you want to watch for two weeks, with a five at a time limit. I… Read more »