It’s Getting Hot In Here

Today, the Sustainable Endowments Institute released a new report:

Building a Clean Energy Future: The Role of Students and University Endowments (850kb PDF)

The report is one outcome of the Building a Clean Energy Future conference held earlier this year.

The conference brought together students and other representatives of 30 colleges, universities and nonprofits at United Nations Foundation in Washington, DC.

Morning speakers included Senator Tim Wirth (President, United Nations Foundations), Mindy Lubber (President, Ceres), Aimée Christensen (now with Google.org), and me (Mark Orlowski).

The afternoon was highlighted by great presentation from Billy Parish (Energy Action), Liz Veazey (Southern Alliance for Clean Energy), Sam Arons (University of California, Berkeley) and David Byer (Vermont Law School). The afternoon also included a lively discussion about strategy and direction of future efforts in mobilizing student efforts towards sustainable investing of university endowment money.

The highlight of the day was clearly the group doing the It’s Getting Hot in Here dance. If you’d like to learn the dance at home, check out the instructional photos below. If there is enough interest, I may post the the audio that goes along with these photos.

For all the details on the conference, download the full report in PDF or check out the brief summary.