Dr. Dan: Sign the President’s Climate Commitment!

Over the past week I’ve had the privilege of doing intensive on-the-ground work with folks around Ohio. Lots and lots of tabling :0)

Of particular mention was some work I did Friday with the University of Dayton Sustainability Club. We were tabling in the Kennedy student center, gathering petition signatures to get Dr. Dan (President of UD) to join nearly 600 other schools in signing the President’s Climate Commitment.

In the process of getting over 80 petition signatures that day, President Dan happened to walk by our table. Sustainability Club President Ken Farrell, with his cat-like reflexes and movement-inspiring wisdom, was quick to engage the Dr. in a conversation with our petition sheets as a backdrop. And voila, the President wants to meet with us to discuss his interests in committing to a long-term sustainability plan.

Be like Ken and seize those moments. They’re few and they’re precious!

About Mattie

Mattie is a member of the Ohio Student Environmental Coalition's Steering Committee, an organization he founded at Power Shift 07. He is proud to support a growing statewide network of student groups working for a clean, safe, and just future for all. Mattie originally got involved as a Syracuse University student who saw a pressing need for climate action, later as an Energy Justice Network intern who began to realize the human impacts of coal, and finally as an OSEC organizer committed to building an economy and climate worth fighting for. He also has a degree in women's studies and sociology, is a founding member of the Mountain Justice Spring Break Planning Collective and an intentional community in Columbus, and is the convener of the Energy Action Coalition's Anti-Oppression working group.