Otherwise, I doubt that last year’s renewable energy initiative would have passed with over two-thirds of the vote in the student body election. Or that nearly four hundred individual students, plus a unanimous Student Body Senate, would have given their support to the Sustainability Commitment Greenboard drafted.

Colleges can’t end climate change on their own, but they can be part of the solution. As the President says, Reed isn’t a “social justice institution,” and I doubt that it ever becomes one. The question is whether we’re willing to take responsibility for what we ourselves do, or pass it off as someone else’s problem. I think we should try for the former, and I’m confident most Reedies agree.

Sasha, we’re counting on you to head up the alumni campaign! I know how lucrative the job of climate organizing can be …maybe you could lend us some seed money?

I’m so glad to see that this campaign is going strong.

Here at the University of Oregon, we at least have a plan, but it is woefully incomplete.

We need to get our creative jusices flowing too!!

Keep stepping up the student action!