Global Warning

In an effort to motivate and educate fellow Holy Cross students to think and talk about global environmental issues, Eco-Action is joining 570 schools in the United States and Canada in a week of action (Jan. 29 to Feb. 2) to demand solutions that end the world’s addiction to fossil fuels and build toward a clean energy future.

Eco-Action, a Holy Cross student organization dedicated to the promotion of conservation through education and local action, will host screenings of An Inconvenient Truth, the acclaimed documentary featuring former Vice President Al Gore crossing the country educating Americans about global warming. The events will take place on Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. in Hogan Crossroads and Feb. 1 at 3 and 6 p.m. in Hogan, Room 519. Discussions will follow each screening of the movie.

The week of action is organized by the Campus Climate Challenge, a project of the Energy Action Coalition. The Campus Climate Challenge unites young people to organize on college campuses and high schools to win 100 percent clean energy policies at their schools. Energy Action Coalition is a network of 41 organizations from across the United States and Canada, founded and led by youth to help support and strengthen the student and youth clean energy movement in the United States and Canada.

Last semester, Eco-Action encouraged more than 100 Holy Cross students to switch from incandescent bulbs to ones that have earned the government’s Energy Star label, part of national challenge called “Change a Light, Change the World,” sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Eco-Action co-chair Lauren Stillwell ’07 believes that there is a lot more to be done on campus.

“We need clean and renewable energy to be purchased or produced on campus, and policies that advocate greater efficiency, she says. “Therefore, we are joining with students from around the country during the week of action to demand real solutions to stop global warming.”

The 570 schools involved in the week of action represent 49 states and eight Canadian provinces.

Learn more about the Climate Week of Action.