Clark Sustainability Initiative

Welcome to Clark Sustainability Initiative

Check out the Meeting Minutes from past meetings to see what we're up to!

Upcoming Events/Announcements:

Welcome Back!

To see a calendar of Upcoming CSI events and meetings, click here
Next Meeting: Wednesday, October 15, 8:30 PM, Persky Conference Room (2nd floor of the UC)
Weekly break-out group meetings! Feel free to join in on any of these awesome projects at the following times:

Thursdays, Dorm vs Dorm Sustainability Competition: 12 PM, UC Student Lounge
Fridays, Sustainability Revolving Loan Fund: 10:30 AM ARTichoke Food Co-op
Fridays, Power Vote: 1 PM, UC Student Lounge
Saturdays, CSI Weekly Potlucks! 6 PM, Dana Commons, 2nd floor

Friday, October 17th-Worcester Green Jobs Coalition Pot Luck 5pm at Stone Soup on King St
Saturday. October 18th-MAPS Network meeting in Boston
Monday, October 20th-Dorm vs Dorm commences
Wednesday, October 22nd- Campus Sustainabilty Day
Friday, October 24th-BIKE EVENT!
Saturday, October 25th- CSI Tabling at Political Action Party 7-9pm
Friday, October 24th-Sunday, October 26th-Bioneers By the Bay conference in New Bedford
Tuesday, October 28th-Energy Efficiency Workshop @ Worcester State?

About Our Group:

Current Campaigns:

Power Vote

a national non-partisan effort spearheaded by the Energy Action Coalition, seeks to elevate the issue of climate change in the 2008 election by mobilizing one million young “climate voters.” To do this, the Energy Action Coalition and its more than forty partner organizations are organizing young people across the United States to pledge their vote "for clean and just energy.”
to get involved in the campaign at Clark, contact Callista Perry at CPerry@clarku.edu
We are now starting class raps to get more pledges! Click here for Class Raps 101, Materials, and a sample rap

Clark Sustainability Revolving Fund - Starting a fund at Clark to support and sustain energy efficiency, clean energy, and other sustainability projects on campus

To read more about revolving funds click here
to get involved in the campaign at Clark, contact Ashley Trull at AsTrull@clarku.edu

Dorm VS Dorm Sustainability Competition

To get involved in this campaign contact Dave Schmidt at DSchmidt@clarku.edu

Bike Sharing Program
Massachusetts Power Shift - The state network of climate activists
Working with CUES Task Force on campus
Difficult Dialogues

Recent Events & Accomplishments:

10 CSI members attended Massachusetts Power Shift (MAPS) April 11-14th
CSI & Difficult Dialogues event: The Climate Movement: Diverse Actions, Unified Goals, what a great event!
Fossil Fools Day Rally: Tuesday, April 1st

See Photos

World Water Day Event: "Think Outside the Bottle", Thursday, March 27, Red Square, 11-3pm (coordinated event with Water Watch and CAN Coke)

See Photos

Thursday, January 31: Focus The Nation & ClimatasticFOCUS
Friday, Nov 30: Energy Bill Call-in Day! More info
Sunday, Dec 2: MYCA Meeting in Boston
Saturday, Dec 8: International Day of Climate Action
November 2-5, 2007: 45 Clark students attended Power Shift, the first-ever national youth climate summit! More info
Friday, September 28, 2007: We "did it in the dark" at our Do It in the Dark party on the green
June 2007 - President Bassett signed the American Colleges and Universities President's Climate Commitment pledging that Clark will develop a plan to become climate neutral over the next few years! Yay! Great job everyone!
March 14, 2007 - Referendum added to the StudCo Special Election on April 3rd, 2007!!
April 3, 2007 - Referenda got HUGE majority vote on the Special Election! Way to go CSI!
April 9-12, 207 - Signed up over 300 students for Choose Clean Energy program at housing lottery nights
April 14, 2007 - Step It Up! It was a major success! CSI had a table at the event

To learn more:

About the Group - (for top-secret, members-only contact page, click here!)
Our Past Campaigns - (for our main campaign, "A Climate Neutral Clark," click here!)
Events
Resources
The Science Behind Global Warming (right-click to open in a new window / tab)

To get involved:

Meetings are Wednesdays at 8:30 pm in the Persky Conference Room (2nd floor of UC)

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