This past weekend students converged from all over the state for the Cali Campus Climate Challenge Summit at UC Berkeley! California is the 12th largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world; we wanted to facilitate communication and collaboration between groups on different campuses to train and build a unified youth activist network. Organizers with Global Exchange, CalPIRG, Rainforest Action Network, California Student Sustainability Coalition, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative and Environment California all worked together to make this happen! We had Michael Gelobter, the former executive director of Redefining Progress open it up and then had a full weekend of skills building workshops and shared information with each other about other sustainability efforts on campuses –such as foods systems, electronic waste, converting waste vegetable oil into biodeisel, clean energy, transportation policies, endowments and investing, etc. We had an advocate from Environment California came to discuss AB32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and then together we created this blog’s very icon and took a photo, which we will send to Governor Schwarzenegger along with hand-written letters urging him to strongly enforce the law. A student from UC Santa Barbara announced the upcoming 6th Annual UC/CSU/CC Sustainability Conference, we held an alliance-building session with some Theatre of the Oppressed exercises, and even my former Geography professor came to teach the scientific basics of climate change.
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