Campus Climate Neutral: Changing The Campus Climate
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Changing the Campus Climate
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To get involved with Campus Climate Neutral, contact the Executive Director of the National Association of Environmental Law Societies ("NAELS"), Dan Worth, at dworth_99@yahoo.com. For more information, visit the Campus Climate Neutral website at http://www.naels.org/projects/ccn/index.htm.
Imagine the potential of more than two hundred student task forces made up of professors, graduate students, and undergrads at major U.S. universities working thousands of hours on projects to reduce campus greenhouse gas emissions through for credit independent studies.
Campus Climate Neutral ("CCN") will be a campaign to aggressively reduce the climate footprint of U.S. colleges and universities by working with students, faculty, administrators, and campus greening professional groups to run greenhouse gas audits, create climate neutral action plans, work with schools to implement reductions, and eventually push for climate friendly investment of endowments. In the process, CCN will increase climate-related academic offerings, educate and train the campus community on climate issues, and mobilize the more than fifteen million students on today's campuses in support of public interest climate solutions.
Today's students can follow in the footsteps of graduate students who, in the late 1960s, led bottom-up efforts to create new fields of study - including African American studies, and women's studies - and to inspire new social movements - including civil rights, free speech, and an end to the Viet Nam war. In addition, students can use the current climate crisis to engage key campus decision makers and ensure that our institutions of higher learning become the moral and technological leaders in the campaign to address climate change, the laboratories for the technologies and management processes to neutralize emissions of greenhouse gases ("GHGs"), and the breeding grounds for future climate-conscious world leaders, professionals, and citizens.
In order to make this campaign effective, students and professors will need to make themselves experts on the law, policy, economics, framing, and science of climate change as well as campus greening strategies and technologies.
Appoint a point person to work on CCN efforts and contact Dan Worth, dworth_99@yahoo.com
If you are a student interested in working on a CCN project for credit, or a professor interested in supervising a CCN research project, NAELS can help you develop an independent study or research paper proposal, and connect you to resources to begin your work.
On or around October 22, 2005, NAELS will work with its student groups and other students and professionals around the country to run a series Climate Action Summits.
