Education

In Justin's Words

This series highlights the most important people involved with the Alliance's Green Campus Program: our interns! The program employs more than 75 university and college students across California to implement energy efficiency projects at their campuses. See the entire In Their Words series.

This series highlights the most important people involved with the Alliance's Green Campus Program: our interns! The program employs more than 75 university and college students across California to implement energy efficiency projects at their campuses. See the entire In Their Words series.

Dear Friends,

Congress has just returned from a two-week recess for Spring Break, so we’re taking a hiatus from our usual policy talk until next week – when we expect BIG NEWS from our Honorary Chair, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. Stay tuned for another note from me on this very exciting and important news from Capitol Hill.  But, in the meantime, I take this opportunity to tell you about some of the great and important work the Alliance is doing beyond the policy front:

More than four-fifths of the college student interns who participate in the Alliance’s Green Campus Program go on to get jobs that support sustainability. In fact, 83% of Green Campus graduates currently hold a “green job,” defined as work that contributes substantially to preserving or restoring environmental quality.  Furthermore, 98% of Green Campus alumni continue to support sustainability after graduating from the program.

At the Alliance, we’re always finding ways to save energy. But on Earth Day, we get to do it along with people around the world taking action to advance sustainability.

For the 41^st annual Earth Day, the Alliance took part in a variety of activities.

What’s a green high school student to do about energy waste? Just ask David Fischer, a student at West Branch High School in Iowa who helped his school save energy with efficiency, and a little help from his classmates. 

“We noticed significant energy waste in our school and we decided that something had to be done to fix it,” Fischer said. 

March 22, 2011 — On the surface, they are an unlikely pair: Kimberly Lam, a junior at UC Berkeley, and Vitaliy Soloviy, who lives half the world away in Lviv, Ukraine. But they have one thing in common: they are both students of energy efficiency.