Students Use Civil Rights Tactics o Combat Global Warming

The article below from ABC News would make the leaders of the
past civil rights movement proud in that their strategies for
accomplishing and overcoming issues are still very potent tools.



At Middlebury College in eco-friendly Vermont, forward-thinking students convinced an austere board of trustees that one of the biggest threats to the college — and to the world — is global warming.

Armed with research and a portfolio of options, the students were a powerful voice in the college's decision to invest $11 million in a biomass plant — one that is fueled by wood chips, grass pellets and a self-sustaining willow forest.

By 2012, the college will be "carbon neutral" — producing all of its own clean energy locally. Long known for its progressive outlook, Middlebury is now at the forefront of the student "climate change" movement.

"This is a learning community and when the students became the consultants, it turned the project on its head," said Nan Jenks-Jay, dean of environmental affairs, who chaired the student-faculty carbon reduction committee. "They had the most knowledge."

Global warming is cool — so trendy, in fact, that concepts like carbon offsetting and carbon neutrality are growing in popularity on college campuses, fueled by new student activism that looks a lot like the old civil rights movement.

Carbon offsets are the new recycling. Like war bonds during World War II, they allow an American household or an institution to invest in a noble cause — new technologies to combat global warming.


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