"UCSB student Chrissy Elles has been named the recipient of the Campus Progress award for Best Student Organizing of an Event.
Ellis, who is from Napa, spent her time last spring organizing an Alternative Spring Break that brought students from across California to learn and become active about climate change."
http://www.santaynezvalleyjournal.com/archive/6/28/2338/
Nolan Allen
Issue date: 3/13/08
"A bright, happy sun washes down on anti-death penalty picketers in Austin, Texas, while a soft breeze flows through anti-war Iraq Action Camp. A combination of the sun and wind shines on and blows through the students at the University of Southern California fighting to combat climate change."
http://media.www.thenichollsworth.com/media/storage/paper262/news/2008/03/13/Lagniappe/Alternative.Spring.Break.Party.Later.Save.The.World.Now-3267850.shtml
UCSB Students Host National Conference on Global Warming
Sunday, March 23, 2008
"While most of Isla Vista will resemble a ghost town during UCSB’s spring break next week, a dedicated group of students and environmental organizations will be sticking around for the first Global Warming Alternative Spring Break. Beginning Monday, March 24, the week long conference will include training sessions, workshops, and talks centered on the goal of solving the planet’s climate crisis."
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/mar/23/alternative-spring-break/
Students looking to narrow their college choices will soon have something new to consider alongside academics and campus life: A “Green Rating” makes its debut this summer in several of The Princeton Review’s popular college guides. Six-hundred college profiles will include a score reflecting factors such as building and transportation policies, food sources, recycling, and availability of environmental courses....For the full article, see:
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/07/08/now-%E2%80%98green%E2%80%99-report-cards-for-us-colleges/
If you have spent any time on a college campus recently, you will realize that "sustainability" is the academy's favorite new buzzword. There's the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE); a Sustainable Endowments Institute that publishes a College Sustainability Report Card; an Ivy Plus Sustainability Working Group, and another one for colleges in the Northeast. There are sustainability offices and officers at dozens of schools nationwide.
Long a hotbed of environmental activism, America's campuses are blooming green. Schools are committing to reducing their carbon dioxide emissions, they're funneling endowment money into renewable-energy investment funds, and students--the engine behind much of this growth--are pushing for more...
