Overview

Create an environmental corps of college students to lead research and action on climate change. This would range from promoting greenhouse gas reduction pledges by their
respective colleges and universities to undertaking action beyond their institutions.

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    News

    Eban Goodstein, Project Director of Focus the Nation and Professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, gave a talk at Yale F&ES, September 19, 2006 entitled “Seen An Inconvenient Truth? Now What? Climate Stabilization in the 21st Century” The presentation podcast, which includes news and information about the Focus the Nation project will be available here soon.

    Related Initiatives

    • Climate Campaign - The Climate Campaign is a youth-led coalition that brings together student groups, local organizations, and major environmental networks throughout the Northeast. Founded in 2003, the Climate Campaign is now active on over 125 campuses in 9 states (Maine through New Jersey and Pennsylvania). The Climate Campaign aims to reduce the Northeast’s contributions to global climate change by: 1) Fostering student leadership on climate change, 2) Leading effective campus and state/regional greenhouse gas emissions reductions campaigns, 3) Supporting the initiatives of other groups and facilitating new collaborations between our partner organizations.
    • Energy Action, a network of college organizers, has been formed and is making impressive progress, so the recommendation should include a plan to evaluate this and other college-level initiatives, with an expectation that they may be augmented and further coordinated with one another in lieu of creating a new corps.
    • Focus the Nation is a major educational initiative that is coordinating teams of faculty, students and staff at over a thousand colleges, universities and high schools in the United States, to collaboratively engage in a nationwide, interdisciplinary discussion centered around the theme of “Stabilizing the Climate in the 21st Century”.The project will culminate January 31, 2008, in the form of one-day, national symposia held simultaneously on campuses across the country.
    • Yale Office of Sustainability

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