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Illinois Student Environmental Coalition |
ISEC unites student environmental organizations that are committed to improving environmental practices at colleges and universities by facilitating the exchange of resources and ideas. |
| John A. Logan College |
| Location: Carbondale, Illinois | |
| Number of current members: 20 | |
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About
Our goals are several and include educating the general student population about environmental issues, promoting sustainable practices on campus and as individuals, promoting social justice, volunteering on campus and in the broader community, and combating apathy by engaging students in discussion and events.
Recent Activities
Coming soon!
Past events & guest speakers
Judy Wicks Local Living Economies: Green, Fair and Fun (www.whitedogcafe.com), owner/founder of Philadelphia's 24-year-old White Dog Cafe, is a national leader in the local, living economies movement. Co-founder/co-chair of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, and president of White Dog Community Enterprises (a nonprofit dedicated to building a local living economy in the Philadelphia region), Judy has won numerous awards, including the James Beard Foundation's Humanitarian of the Year and the Living Economy Award from Business Ethics Magazine.
Van Jones Toward a Green Growth Alliance: Birthing a New Politics (www.ellabakercenter.org), an activist working to combine solutions to social inequality and environmental destruction, founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which promotes alternatives to violence and incarceration, in 1996. He has won many honors including a Reebok Human Rights Award and an Ashoka Fellowship, and has served on the boards of many groups, including: the National Apollo Alliance, Social Ventures Network, Rainforest Action Network and Bioneers. The City of Oakland has adopted the Ella Baker Center's "Green Jobs Corps" proposal, and Van is pushing to create the first-ever Green Enterprise Zone in Oakland.
Biomimicry: Emulating Life's Genius and Grace Janine Benyus is a natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including her latest - Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. In Biomimicry, she names an emerging discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's designs and processes (e.g., solar cells that mimic leaves, agriculture that models a prairie, businesses that run like redwood forests).
Judith F. Baca The Interactive Digital Mural: A Tool for Social Reconciliation from the Local to the Global (www.sparcmurals.org), a world-renowned painter and muralist, community arts pioneer, scholar and educator, has been teaching art in the UC system (including at UCLA) for 20 years. She was the founder of the first City of Los Angeles Mural Program in 1974, which evolved into the now legendary 30-year community arts organization known as the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in 1976. She continues to serves as SPARC's artistic director and focuses her artistic energy in the UCLA/SPARC Cesar Chavez Digital/Mural Lab
John Abrams is the cofounder and CEO of South Mountain Company, a 32-year-old employee owned design/build and renewable energy company on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (winner of Business Ethics magazine's 2005 National Award for Workplace Democracy).
Contact Information
Group Leader: Mary O'Hara
Contact Email: maryohara@mchsi.com
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