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College of the Holy Cross (Sierra Student Coalition (SSC))
Campus Climate Challenge Events
They stayed visible on campus all year by holding events like Step It Up, participating in the Week of Action, screening films like An Inconvenient Truth, and selling t-shirts to support their group. They also held numerous meetings with their administration and gained significant media coverage in the on-campus paper. In the coming school year, Eco-Action looks forward to expanding the CFL exchange, participating in Focus the Nation, and pursuing a renewable energy purchase at their college.
Creighton University (Sierra Student Coalition (SSC))
Patrick Sechser, Anastasia Yanchilina and their group at Creighton University in Missouri succeeded in implementing small but significant changes at Creighton this year.
Green Events
The students held events that included a film festival, Step It Up rally, banner hanging, speaker events and tabling on campus. They also worked with other clubs like the Gay/Straight Alliance, Medical Students for Social Responsibility, Residence Life, UNO Environmental Club, Social Justice Club and the Atmospheric Science Society. Finally, they formed an Environmental activist club, got many articles in the student newspaper and succeeded in getting the environmental message out to a wider audience.
Northern Arizona University (Black Mesa Water Coalition)
Two of the key student leaders are Kim Smith who was a senator for the student council and Mike Madigan a graduate student with NAU who work on the sustainability report for NAU. They both help to organize the Southwest Climate Justice Summit in spring of 2007.
Screening of the Inconvenient Truth
The students also raised awareness by screening the “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Petition for Emission Reductions
Students got signatures on about 300 petitions in support of emission reduction for NAU and delivered them to the President’s Office on Earth Day 2007.
Reed College (Sierra Student Coalition (SSC))
There were several students involved with both of these successes, but the main SSC contact at Reed is graduating senior Christine Lewis, a long-time SSC leader. Christine helps to run the Green Board, a non-hierarchical group of environmentally concerned Reed students that works on issues like energy efficiency, composting, and general sustainability at Reed. Their strategy is largely an insider one – they have student representatives on the college’s sustainability committee, and have good relations with the administration. The students at Reed College in Portland, OR achieved two Challenge victories during the 2006-2007 school year.
Climate Challenge EventsThey also held a series of events throughout the school year that drew attention to the problem of climate change and the solutions that exist, including a screening of “Who Killed the Electric Car,” events for Earth Day and Step It Up, and “Canyon Day,” a Reed tradition that students used to draw attention to issues of preservation and sustainability in their community.
St. John's College (Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN))
Student Leaders – David Bronstein, Malcolm Cecil-Cockwell
Screenings of An Inconvenient Truth
Two screenings of An Inconvenient Truth were held with a total attendance of 130 people. After the screening, the audience of informed of SJC's Campus Climate Challenge group, ways they could get involved in the clean energy campaign and in addition to reducing their own carbon footprint. http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/04_06-49/CAN
University of Arkansas (Sierra Student Coalition (SSC))
Sustainability Awareness and Action Day
Led by Derek Linn, the UA SSC is pushing their University to become the most climate friendly school in the south. At “Wintergreen” the UA SSC sponsored a sustainability awareness and action day. With the support of half a dozen student groups, the event included concerts, discussions and presentations on the effects of global warming.
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse (Sierra Student Coalition (SSC))
Campus Climate Challenge Activities
To convince their administration to take this step, Carrie and the Challenge students held several creative events, including a “Phantom Biker” week (in which a caped and masked superhero distributed information about energy efficiency and sustainable transportation and prizes to students riding bikes on campus), a screening of An Inconvenient Truth, and a petition bearing the slogan “Green Up, Power Down!” The students’ efforts were stymied somewhat by an uncooperative technology manager, who claimed that his department had done testing that proved that leaving computers on standby over night saved more energy than turning them off completely would. Despite this setback, Carrie and the group were still able to convince dorm staff to do the right thing, and will continue their work to make the policy campus-wide.
Warren Wilson (Students United from a Global Social Environment (SURGE))
Warren Wilson has by far been a leader in campus sustainability initiatives in North Carolina.
Campus Climate Challenge Activities
Warren Wilson students have been active participates in the Campus Climate Challenge, attending the October 2006 Climate Summit, and leading the way in campus sustainability efforts for NC. Student leaders working with SURGE and the Challenge include Mandy Moore, Nina Otter, and Liina Laufer.
Whitman College (Sierra Student Coalition (SSC))
Campus Climate Challenge Events
At the same time that Brittany and other students were negotiating with the Office of Development, the Challenge students were holding an extraordinary number of events on campus, including hosting several speakers, screening films like “An Inconvenient Truth,” “Being Caribou,” and “Who Killed the Electric Car,” collecting a petition asking the college to go climate-neutral, and holding a “Do It In The Dark” party that drew 300 people (an impressive number anywhere, but especially at a 1400-student college!). They created so much on-campus buzz and momentum that they were able to pass several initiatives in their first semester, including this victory. Now, the Challenge group at Whitman is working to get their College’s President to sign the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC).