**UPDATE: The Board of Regents approved the proposal to install 3 wind turbines at the new UNT stadium. The turbines are expected to be up this spring and will help power the stadium and Eagle Point campus!**
The University of North Texas, like most of our nation’s universities, relies heavily on coal-generated power for its electricity. It’s not one of the 60+ schools with their own campus coal plants, but still get nearly half of its electricity from a Texas coal plant. That’s bad news for our climate and the health of communities in this state that already has dangerously high levels of air pollution from power plants.
So, like students on more than 50 campuses they’ve teamed up with 
the Campuses Beyond Coal campaign to do something about it and push the university to switch to 100% clean energy, starting now. Today, as their Board of Regents meets and deliberates on a proposal to install three wind turbines at the site of their new LEED Gold stadium, the Sierra Student Coalition group has set up more than 1,500 handmade paper pinwheels to represent the clean, safe and prosperous energy future they envision.
Over the next couple weeks students at more than 50 campuses are doing the same as part of the Sierra Student Coalition’s National Action for a Clean Energy Future. After their campus events students are shipping their pinwheels to Washington, D.C. where a group of local youth will be setting up demonstrations around the city. The demos will represent the voices of young people from Oregon to Illinois to Georgia who all want to see their campuses and our nation move to clean energy solutions. You still have time to join the action and plan an event for November 18th at your school to draw attention to your community’s coal dependence and potential to switch to clean, innovative and safe energy solutions. Sign-up to join this visionary, bright action for our future!
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