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Alumni Letter Campaign
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Environmental Classes
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Events
| Upcoming Events (Click for more info) |
| Gather signatures before screening of "Who Killed the Electric Car?" | January 15, 2007 5:15 p.m. at Cubberly Auditorium |
| Writing letters to Alumni | Ongoing |
| Screening of An Inconvenient Truth | During the week of January 29 to February 4. If you're interested in helping to plan this event, please email lffinch@pacbell.net |
| Recent Events |
| Meeting with Faculty Senate Chair Sheri Sheppard | Monday, Nov. 6 at 12 p.m. Terman Engineering |
| Attending Faculty Senate meeting to see Sustainability Working Group presentation | Thursday, Nov. 9 at 3:15 p.m. Law School 190 (Sign-up required) |
| Meeting with Therese Brekke | Friday, Nov. 10 at 10 a.m. 655 Serra Street, Conference Room B |
| Getting petition signatures with the Raging Grannies | Tuesday, Nov. 14 and Wednesday, Nov. 15 from 12-1 p.m. at White Plaza |
| Meeting with Gold Standard carbon credit company to talk about carbon credit purchasing in the case that Stanford finally aims for climate neutrality | Friday, December 1 at 10:00 am, Tresidder Student Union |
| Focus the Nation Northwest Region Organizing Workshop | Saturday, Dec 10 at Lewis and Clark College |
| Collecting petition signatures and publicizing the campaign | As often as possible! |
Articles & News
Stanford Daily
Proposition 87 Fails (11/8/06)
Op-Ed: Vote for a Sustainable California (10/31/06)
International
Budgets Falling in Race to Fight Global Warming (10/30/06) The New York Times
The Cost of an Overheated Planet (12/12/06) The New York Times
Documents & Files
Climate Crew Report 2005-06 (Download)
Report detailing Stanford University's energy and transportation landscapes, and actions taken by other schools, local/state governments and corporations. Proposes that the University establish an emissions reduction plan.
One-Sheet (Download)
One-page sheet with details about the Climate Campaign's goals and what Stanford might gain by taking action.
Contacts (feel free to add yourself)
Related Efforts
See what Other Schools are doing
| Focus the Nation | 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." www.focusthenation.org The effort fits right in with and expands upon what we're doing here at Stanford already. If you're interested in working with Focus the Nation at Stanford, email lfinzer@stanford.edu.
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| World View of Global Warming | Beautiful pictures that document the environmental and human rights disaster of climate change. Very powerful images if you're looking for publicity tools.http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/ Let's make sure these images get out there!
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| Campus Climate Challenge | They're sponsoring our screening of An Inconvenient Truth this winter: "The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of more than 30 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Challenge unites young people to organize on college campuses and high schools to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools."http://climatechallenge.org/
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Relevant Books
| Book | Author |
| Natural Capitalism | Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins |
| Cradle to Cradle | Will McDonough and Michael Braungaur |
| Biomimicry | Janine M. Benyus |
| The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid | C.K. Prahalad |
| Sustainable Architecture | Will McDonough |
| The End of Poverty | Jeffrey Sachs |
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