WiserEarth Key Students
For students using WiserEarth to network their cause
This group provides a place for students have discussions and brainstorm strategies about using WiserEarth as a tool for their cause. Student communities are their own unique networks, and this group is a place for students to get together, compare notes, and make connections with other students who are using WiserEarth as a web-space to coordinate on the g ...learn more
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Created: Jan 23, 2008
Updated: Oct 21, 2009
Membership: Open To Apply
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Student Environmental Action Coalition SEAC Syracuse University
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SEAC - pronounced "seek," as in "seeking" - is a grassroots coalition of
student and youth environmental groups, working together to protect
our planet and our future. Through this united effort, thousands of
youth have translated their concern into action by sharing resources,
building coalitions, and challenging the limited mainstream definition
of environmental issues.
SEAC's history began in the spring of 1988, when students from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill placed a notice in
Greenpeace Magazine asking to hear from student environmentalists
interested in forming a network. Since then, through campaigns,
conferences and a lot of hard work, SEAC has grown to hundreds of
junior high school, high school college, and community groups
throughout the United States and Canada.
As SEAC and the movement has grown, so has the list of success stories:
* In the first six years of SEAC, SEAC groups started recycling
programs at over 200 high schools and college campuses across the
country.
* In the spring of 1994, SEAC activists forced Pitt and Michigan State
to withdraw from the Mt. Graham telescope project in Arizona, which
threatens endangered red squirrel habitat and sacred Apache land.
* New York SEAC united over 120 schools in 1992 to stop the
construction of Hydro Quebec II, a dam in Canada that threatened to
flood an area the size of Connecticut and destroy the homeland of the
indigenous Cree Nation.
* Before the 1992 Earth Summit, SEAC co-founded an international
network to articulate the voice of youth to this historic meeting. The
network grew to include over 65 countries.
student and youth environmental groups, working together to protect
our planet and our future. Through this united effort, thousands of
youth have translated their concern into action by sharing resources,
building coalitions, and challenging the limited mainstream definition
of environmental issues.
SEAC's history began in the spring of 1988, when students from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill placed a notice in
Greenpeace Magazine asking to hear from student environmentalists
interested in forming a network. Since then, through campaigns,
conferences and a lot of hard work, SEAC has grown to hundreds of
junior high school, high school college, and community groups
throughout the United States and Canada.
As SEAC and the movement has grown, so has the list of success stories:
* In the first six years of SEAC, SEAC groups started recycling
programs at over 200 high schools and college campuses across the
country.
* In the spring of 1994, SEAC activists forced Pitt and Michigan State
to withdraw from the Mt. Graham telescope project in Arizona, which
threatens endangered red squirrel habitat and sacred Apache land.
* New York SEAC united over 120 schools in 1992 to stop the
construction of Hydro Quebec II, a dam in Canada that threatened to
flood an area the size of Connecticut and destroy the homeland of the
indigenous Cree Nation.
* Before the 1992 Earth Summit, SEAC co-founded an international
network to articulate the voice of youth to this historic meeting. The
network grew to include over 65 countries.