Clean Energy Rally photos!

We had a great clean energy rally on Thursday at 12:30 in front of the Central Heating Plant on Fee Lane. Thank you everyone who came out and a special thank you to our speakers: Professor Maurice Manning and Senior Terrence Ellison!

In case you missed it check out some of the photos below!

Check out some coverage of Coal Free Campus Rallies across the country:

Penn State

University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, movie of the rally

University of Minnesota

University of North Dakota

SUNY Binghamton

Green Potluck and Pumpkin Carving Update!

Thanks everyone who made it out for the Green Potluck and Pumpkin Carving event on October 28th! We had a great time and collected a bunch more signature petitions and photo petitions. In case you didn’t get a chance to make it, check out some more photos and the flier we distributed!

Coal Free IU at Bloomington 350

Check out some of our photos from Bloomington 350~

(You can find more on our photo website!)

Green Potluck Slideshow in the IDS!

Thanks again to everyone who made it out to the Green Potluck! We had a really great time eating locally donated foods, carving pumpkins and taking some photo and video petitions. The IDS came out to cover our event and took some really great photos, check them out here or below:

Photo credit: Thomas Miller, IDS

(Note: click on the pictures above to advance!)

 

National Day of Action: Photo Petition Drive–another HUGE SUCCESS!

On Tuesday, Sept 29 we held a National Day of Action Photo Petition drive outside of Ballantine Hall from 10am–3pm. Thanks to everyone who came out! In a few hours we were able to collect over 300 photograph petitions for our campaign. This was an action that was part of the National Day of Action with events happening across the country. On Tuesday over 2,400 photo petitions were taken and will be sent to the EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and the White House.

Find your photo on our website: http://coalfreeiu.shutterfly.com/

One of our coordinators, James McClatchie, even made it into the second page of the IDS yesterday!!

If you missed us look out for more photo petition events next week. (More information to follow.)

Sept 16 Press Conference: Official Report Release

On September 16th, a group of students representing Coal Free IU gathered outside the Central Heating Plant to announce the official launch of the Coal Free Campus Campaign. We talked about the importance of moving IU beyond coal because of its environmental impacts and contributions to global warming CO2 emissions, as well as public health concerns.

The launch included the presentation of a new report by the Sierra Club: Moving Campuses Beyond Coal.

Check out some of our coverage: IDS, Herald Times, WFIU, and WFHB!

This nationally coordinated launch happened at the 11 universities highlighted in the Sierra Club’s report including: Oregon State University, University of Minnesota, University of Missouri, University of North Carolina, University of North Dakota, State University of New York-Binghamton, Ohio University, Pennsylvania State University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Here is some of their coverage: New York Times, The Salt Lake Tribune in Boulder, and The Collegian at Penn State.