by John Avery, UNC-Charlotte student
The UNC Charlotte Student Government passed the UNCC S
tudent Green Initiative, which was drafted by the UNC Charlotte Earth Club, asking for a small increase in student fees that would go toward energy-efficient renovations and projects, as well as purchasing clean energy for the campus. According to the resolution, students will be allowed to vote in the Fall of ‘07 on whether or not they would be willing to pay for energy efficiency and clean energy, and if so, how much. Following the vote, a committee of faculty, staff, and students will be assembled to look into projects and figure out the best way to allocate the potential money. The UNC Charlotte Earth Club has spent the better part of the academic year working on a green initiative, distributing over 1,000 surveys to fellow students in order to gauge possible interest for a green fee while working with Student Government to draft the resolution. This should make UNC Charlotte the 3rd school in the UNC Public School System (UNC Chapel Hill and Appalachian State University are the other two) with a student-lead green initiative. Students at UNC-Greensboro are working on a similar initiative. I feel a system-wide initiative coming for all UNC system schools!
About Liz
While at the University of North Carolina, Liz led one of the first successful campus renewable energy campaigns in the southeast and won the Morris K. Udall scholarship in both 2002 & 2003. She organized the first Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference April 2-4, 2004, to engage other Southern schools beyond UNC in energy and climate work. In the summer of 2004 she became a co-founding member of Energy Action Coalition, which she has been actively involved with since then. She co-chaired the Energy Action Coalition Steering Committee for 2 years and is Executive Director of the Southern Energy Network, which works with students in the Southeast on clean energy and climate initiatives as part of Energy Action Coalition's Campus Climate Challenge. In late fall 2005, she attended the UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal and helped start www.itsgettinghotinhere.org . In 2008, she joined the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center (www.highlandercenter.org).
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Hi Everyone,
My name is David Shore and I am President of Eco C.A.T.S. We are a group of students at Western Carolina University who are promoting sustainability within our University. For those of you who don’t know, Western Carolina is part of the UNC system. My hope is that our school will be the fourth in this system to enact a “Green Fee”. This page has inspired me to start my efforts here on our own campus. My hope is that our entire UNC community will adopt this as well. If anyone has information about sustainability or more about the process of enact such a bill please look at our website and email us. Thank you all and keep up the good work.
-David Shore
Eco C.A.T.S. President
Yes!