New Projects:
We are working with the administration to better UT's coal contract and consumption.
We are also working with the administration on green dining and about UT getting green roofs.
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Focus the Nation is a major new educational initiative on global warming.
This workshop will provide you with an opportunity to help build a national
conversation about stabilizing the world's climate and moving towards a hopeful,
clean-energy future.
Focus the Nation, which was officially launched at a similar NE workshop at Middlebury,
Vermont in September, is an educational initiative helping the American public to
collaboratively discuss and act upon the theme of "Stabilizing the Climate in the 21st
Century." The leaders of this initiative will be coordinated teams of faculty,
students, and staff at thousands of colleges, universities and high schools across
the nation. From their bases at diverse educational institutions, these teams will
closely collaborate with a wide range of neighboring religious, civic and business organizations.
Focus the Nation will culminate with national symposia that will be held simultaneously on thousands
of campuses across the country in January of 2008. As they will occur early in the 2008 political
primary season, these symposia will provide participants an opportunity to engage political
candidates from across the country and at all levels of government in non-partisan,
campus-based discussions of climate solutions, thereby laying the groundwork for a truly national
dialogue on clean-energy policy options for the next decade.
In order to begin to design and execute this ambitious initiative, there was a one-day Southeastern
US launch workshop for Focus the Nation, which occured on November 18 (Saturday) at the University of
the South in Sewanee, TN. During this participatory workshop, the Focus the Nation concept was
presented, and faculty, students and staff discussed how to build leadership of Focus the Nation
on their campuses, in their communities, and throughout the Southeast. Noted author Mike Tidwell was the
keynote speaker of this workshop.
Who should get involved with planning the Focus the Nation event? All university, college, high school and middle school faculty,
students and staff concerned about global warming; concerned citizens are also welcome to help.
As educators ourselves, we strongly believe that Focus the Nation will be a rich opportunity to help
lead and catalyze a process which indeed will focus the nation around a non-partisan, reasoned,
campus-led discussion about the scientific, economic, political, philosophic, aesthetic and moral
dimensions of this essential 21st century issue.
For more information, please visit
www.focusthenation.org
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The
Make Orange Green campaign is a comprehensive program that
promotes and coordinates environmental stewardship activities at the University
of Tennessee. For questions or suggestions please email
environment@utk.edu.
Visit the Make Orange Green website at
Make Orange Green
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UT's Environmental Policy Statement
The Committee on the Campus Environment's proposal.
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Click on the link to learn more about UT's Clean Energy Initiative.
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The Native Plant Garden is maintained by students. If you're interested in helping out with it, contact
Dr. McKinney at
mmckinney@utk.edu
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Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference was held at UT April 7-9.
