Climate Neutrality Initiative

Global warming is all over the news right now, but almost no one is talking about solutions — even though we have everything we need right now to solve the problem. We already have cars that can get over 100 miles per gallon. We already have the technology to get most of our energy from wind and solar power. All we need now is the leadership to make it happen. That’s where students come in. This is our problem, and it’s up to us to solve it, starting right here on campus, right now. That’s why we’ve joined the Campus Climate Challenge, along with over 300 other universities and high schools across the U.S. and Canada. We’re working to get all of our electricity from clean sources like wind and solar power, transforming the way our dorms and classrooms use energy, and educating ourselves and our fellow students about real solutions to global warming. It’s going to take hard work, but we are committed to making it happen. By 2008, over 1,000 universities will have taken the Challenge.

Here at Oberlin Ohio PIRG is building a coalition with other groups to work on pieces of this effort.  It is our goal to educate 75% of the student body this semester on not just global warming but more importantly on its solutions.  It’s through educating our future leaders that we will force current politicians to act now and soon we will become politicians that will take action and create change.