Get Your Learn On

owlLast semester I took an independent study on climate change organizing. Basically, I got course credit for reading about, writing about and doing activism. Because my experience was so rewarding, I wanted to share a few notes with you. I want you to take your education into your own hands and learn the skills that will be useful to the work that lies ahead of us.

This document can be your springboard on to a great semester of meshing what you do outside of class with the knowledge and advice of your professors. After all, we should take advantage of the resources and advantages that we have as students.

Please check this out, develop your own independent study, and let us know how it goes! Has anyone else done something like this? We’d all love to hear how it went here.

Download Independent Study Example here

3 Responses to “Get Your Learn On”


  1. 1 Mattie Reitman Jan 5th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    Hell yeah Morgan, this is incredible, and I’ll make sure and point others to your post. I would love to see more stuff like this on the blog.

  2. 2 erinamelia Jan 6th, 2008 at 9:05 am

    This is fantastic. I organised an independent study for myself on Poverty and Human Rights (I interned at Urban Justice Center) but it never occurred to me to help others do the same thing. Really excellent stuff.

  3. 3 leslie Jan 17th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    This is a geat idea and I am going to try to do something along this line here in va. during my spring semester.

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About Morgan


Morgan is a wandering climate activist, a job well suited to the editorial board of this site. He organized at Williams College until his aprubt and unfortunate graduation in 2008. There, he was a Chinese major, student body co-president and one of the leaders of Thursday Night Group, the campus climate action group. Since graduating, in no particular order, Morgan has worked on a community energy efficiency campaign in western Mass, co-directed NH SPROG for the SSC and worked on Power Vote in Cleveland. He spent traveled in China, networking with youth climate activists and learning about the solar hot water business. He worked on Long Island for a solar and wind company doing home evaluations and sales. And he spent the better part of a year in DC at the Avaaz Action Factory causing trouble for a good cause.

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