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Created: Dec 04, 2008
Updated: Nov 12, 2009
Membership: Invitation Only
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Student Environmental Action Coalition SEAC
(a.k.a.: SEEK)
( Non Governmental Organization )
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Areas of Focus [Edit]
Mountaintop Removal | Social Justice Education | Traditional Culture | Women's Empowerment | Renewable Energy | Environmental Health | Environmental Justice | Environmental Monitoring | Greenhouse Gases | Fair Trade | Indigenous Rights | Gender Equality | Democracy and Civil Society | Rights and Equality of LGBT | Water Pollution | Cancer | Leadership Training | Ethnic Equality | Distributive and Economic Justice | Peace and Peace Building | Democratic Participation | Sustainable Communities | Water Quality and Health | Affordable Housing | Fundraising | Energy Policy | Land Use Policy | Public Health | Indigenous Peoples and Cultures | Youth-led Organizations | Climate Change | Climate Justice | Journalism and the Press | Natural Heritage Conservation | Arts Activism
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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.
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.
