Member Campuses  |  Resources  |  Organizations  |  Issue Briefs

Foundation Staff:  Miriam Barnes

Member Campuses      link to campus issue profile and lead contact name with email address

• Berea College:  
• Centre College: Patrick Noltemeyer
• Davidson College:  Third Year Class
• DePauw University:
• Earlham College:  Jana Schroeder & Derric Watson
• Ferrum College:  Kate Hersey
• Lees-McRae College:  Selena Hilemon
• Lynchburg College: Bev Pfluger
• Oberlin College: Beth Blissman
• Spelman College: 
• Warren Wilson College: Debra Kiliru
• University of Alaska Anchorage
• Oxford College of Emory University
• Johnson State College

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Resources     training & educational resources  |  readings  |  websites, blogs, etc.

• Campus Climate Challenge
• Presidents Climate Commitment
  • Climate Report 5/28/09 Inside Higher Ed article
• iLoveMountains.org
• National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Program
• PIRGS (Toxic Free Communities issue)
• Sierra Club
• Student Conservation Association
• Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)
• Transition Towns
• SL in Rural Foodways and Sustainable Agriculture

  This article is an opinion piece by Howard Sacks on his involvement in a powerful service-learning program that has helped create a sustainable local food market (and therefore sustainable agriculture) in the community of Kenyon College, a private, liberal arts college in rural Ohio. The Chronicle gave me permission to provide the email discussion list with free access to the article through December 17, 2008, so give it a glance here:

  http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=bhyqz17mtflyryq0vydqdtcdtw85wmx6 

• SL in Urban Forestry and GIS

  The first story is a quick review of the educational (read service-learning) component of the MillionTreesNYC program. This program is working with University of Vermont GIS students to help the city meet its environmental goals by extensive, targeted tree-planting. Here's the blurb: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i13/13a00604.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

  and here's more about the program: http://www.milliontreesnyc.org/

• Article by Paul Loeb about link of personal consumer choices (an efficient furnace) with improving the environment and economy:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-loeb/saving-the-economy-one-fu_b_157377.html

• Northwest Earth Institute Discussion Guides: NWEI discussion course study guides are manuals for a self-facilitated course experience, taken informally by small groups in a home, at your workplace, your center of faith or, any place where people naturally gather.  There is no outside presenter or teacher of these discussion courses.  Rather, anyone can organize a group in their community with the role of facilitator rotating with each meeting. Our introductory higher education packet includes profiles for the more than 35 universities and college campuses that have piloted our discussion courses, as well as ideas for implementing our materials.

• Who Turned Out the Lights?  Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis  — An entertaining, accessible, and refreshingly nonpartisan take on energy and environment.

Regional & National Organizations  current or potential partner organizations

• National/International Non-Profit
  • 350.org: is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand.
  • Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
    • 6/25/09 — AASHE released a 356-page report that compiles campus news on sustainability in 2008. Among AASHE's findings are that, in the last year, more than 66 sustainability-focused academic programs were created, at least 13 sustainability-themed research centers were opened and plans for 33 more were announced, and more than 130 green buildings were planned, started, opened or awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. The Digest chronicles progress in the United States and Canada.
  • Campus Climate Change initiative: The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of Energy Action Coalition, a group of over 30 youth organisations throughout the United States (US) and Canada. The Challenge leverages the power of young people, through collective advocacy and action, to organise on college campuses and high schools across Canada and the US to establish 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools. The Challenge is working - through interpersonal communication, community organising, and online interactivity - to grow a generation-wide movement to stop global warming, by reducing the pollution from high schools and colleges down to zero, and to lead North America to a clean energy future.
  • Eco Teach: At EcoTeach, we provide ecology-oriented expeditions to Costa Rica for student groups, individuals, families and learners of all ages.
• Government
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment.
• Other Categories of Groups
  • Extension Offices: 
  • Farmer's Markets and Community Garden: 
  • Parks and Recreation offices (local, state, federal):
  • Public Works Departments and other relevant city offices
  • Science Departments
  • Watershed groups 

PolicyOptions.org Issue Briefs

• National Issue Brief
• Local Issue Brief(s)

From the group (not sure if this should be moved to policyoptions.pbwiki.com) 

• Policy Options Issue Brief: Local Foods
• Goal Statement: Fresh Local (and ideally organic) Food for All... (Campus, CP's, Public/Private Schools)
• Scope of the Problem: On av. food travels 1500 miles to our plate, thus contributing to our fossil fuel use, disconnect with food source, links to farmland preservation, mult-national corp. vs. local economies, preservation of cultural food traditions, etc. accessibility (economic)
• Past Policy:
• Current Policy:
• Policy/Program Models: Working w/ getting food stamp access @local farmer's markets, Local Fod coordinator position within campus food service, utilizing agriculture program to provide food directly to campus,
• Key Organizations/Individuals: Oberlin New Agrarian Center - City Fresh, Farmers Markets, Progressive G. Store Chains, Local Grocery Stores, Partner w/ local food banks, Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (marketing/advocacy group), Second Harvest (does reg. research on hunger issues), culinary Institute,  Kids Count, school garden project, Lynchburg Grows, sustainable seafood initiative, 4-H, Heiffer International,  FFA, Co-op ext.
• Glossary: Local - w/in 100-150 miles