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We are proud of our solid track record of success. Three years ago, we circulated a petition asking President Levin to extend Yale's greenhouse gas reduction goals to 80 percent below 1990 levels by the 2050, organized educational displays for Earth Week, planned events for Step it Up and Focus the Nation, sent students to a conference on climate neutrality, and created a guide to sustainable living after Yale, called Green Graduates. The year before last, we organized for environmental justice in New Haven's North Hill neighborhood, testified in front of the New Haven Board of Alders in favor of a sustainable transportation policy, hosted a speaker from Forest Ethics, worked with the NAACP to sponsor a panel on environmental justice in New Haven, hosted an all-campus environmental dinner, and held a panel discussion on careers and climate change for Focus the Nation. Last year our projects centered around three themes: Environmental Education, the City of New Haven, and Campus Issues. Our Environmental Education group set up and taught a very successful environmental education program in New Haven public schools. Our New Haven group worked with the New Haven city government to encourage the use of "green" cleaning products, helped New Haven soup kitchens become more sustainable, and lobbied for environmental local legislation. Green Team, our campus group, organized "Water Week," a week of panels and film screenings devoted to water issues, created and sold notebooks made of reused paper, and worked with Yale College Council to create a committee on bike-sharing and a committee on green design in the new residential colleges. We also sent representatives to the spring 2009 Powershift Conference. NextGEN NextGEN is a global network organized by young adults concerned with issues of sustainability. Many solutions to the environmental problems we face are possible and are being developed and tested through the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). As a program of GEN, NextGEN is centered on three core pillars: inspiration, support and action. NextGEN offers opportunities for action through conferences, educational workshops, and direct experience in communities. An international support network develops connections among activists and encourages resource sharing. Our Goals • Create an international network to provide mutual support for each other in our efforts to ensure that we will have a world to inherit and that in turn, our children will have a future. • Increase youth participation in the ecovillage and sustainability movement • Facilitate training opportunities for the leaders of tomorrow as “sustainable practitioners” • Coordinate a lively and meaningful intergenerational dialogue within the Global Ecovillage Movement Who is NextGEN? We are a constantly expanding community. Born out of the Global Ecovillage Network’s tenth anniversary conference at Findhorn in 2005, NextGEN includes young activists from Asia, Africa, Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and Mexico. We welcome any and all youth who are committed to creating a more sustainable world and who wish to be part of a community that is striving towards that goal in a multitude of ways. |
For more information about getting involved, or about YSEC generally, please contact: cornelia.twining@yale.edu
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This website was created in 2009 by MJ Truong.
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