Rocking at the Largest Campus in the Country « It’s Getting Hot In Here

With nearly 53,000 students enrolled at the Columbus campus, fall quarter is finally about to start at The Ohio State University. The involvement fair was today, and Free the Planet! OSU was rocking it.

At the end of the day, we collected over 500 new contacts through our 3 campaigns:

Students for Food Sovereignty, which is starting an organic student-run farm on campus

The Dogwood Alliance’s No Free Refills campaign, which is targeting Columbus-based Wendy’s for their irresponsible packaging polices

and of course Power Vote, which is the fall outreach effort of our Climate Campaign (we got 223 pledges signed today!)

About Mattie

Matt/Mattie Reitman got introduced to energy and climate work as an undergrad at Syracuse University, where he helped start a successful campaign to get the university to buy 20% clean renewable energy. At the time, this put SU amongst the top 25 renewables purchasers in the country. Mattie is focused on building the youth climate movement in Ohio, fighting proposed dirty energy facilities, and building campus-community solidarity. He has a degree in women's studies and sociology, and lives in Columbus, Ohio.