Environmental Policy
Contact
Matt at
mrwatkin@purdue.edu
Our Environmental Policy team members lobby for
environmental policy that is sustainable at both the global
and local levels. We are responsible for communicating our
environmental concerns to those individuals who are in
leadership and decision making positions.
Goals:
We're expanding this semester by connecting to groups from
other colleges including IU, Earlham, DePauw, and Goshen,
among others. We're holding a lobby day at the State House
later this month or early in April. The policy group is
also holding a town hall meeting organized with Focus the
Nation during the week of Earth Day. This is part of an
effort to hold meetings in every congressional district
across the nation. Looking into the future I have ideas
about grassroots organizing throughout the campus, such as
using Facebook Causes and tabling to gather people for
rallies and such. A priority we want to push through is a
green fee for the university. We are doing this in tandem
with Earlham and IU, which also lack green
fees.
News
Town Hall
Meeting 4/20/09
Three different councils representatives spoke at our
meeting. Download the notes!
Powershift
'09
Three BGI members just got back from Powershift 09 in
Washington DC. It was an exciting and enlightening trip,
they learned a lot about climate change, renewable energy,
and how to organize activist groups. Powershift is a
gathering of 10,000 young people in Washington DC from
February 28-March 2 2009. The conference allows us to
demonstrate and educate ourselves through a series of
panels and workshops. We carpooled with some students from
the DePauw Environmental Policy Project and possibly with
some students from Ball State's Students for a Sustainable
Campus. Powershift is a great opportunity for us to get a
view on the issues facing our environment on a national
level. We can also network with student groups from other
states.
The agenda and more information
about the conference is available at their
website: http://www.powershift09.org/