Student Organization

Description

Association of Energy Engineers

Committed to helping the local community increase energy efficiency, utilize innovative energy service options, enhance environmental management programs, and improve equipment performance.

Clean Energy Coalition

A federation of multiple student organizations to promote clean energy sources; designed and ran Green Wars among JMU dormitories to reduce energy and water usage; winner of a $1,000 eco-grant from MTV in its 2006 national Break the Addiction Challenge.  Co-organized Recyclemania (http://www.recyclemaniacs.org/Index.htm) with JMU’s Facilities Management and placed in national competition.

EARTH (Environmental Awareness & Restoration Through our Help)

Focuses not only on education, but also on activism; by working on campus, local, state and national issues, members learn about topics that affect the world and explore how they can make a difference.

Environmental Business Club

Educates faculty, students, and staff about different environmental issues facing modern business; provides forum for new enviro-business ideas.

Environmental Management Club

Provides means for students to advance understandings of environmental management by interacting with professionals in environmental fields; addresses local issues through service and education.

Progress

Coalition of JMU and Harrisonburg residents to promote sustainability through civic engagement. 

Student Affiliates of the American Chemical
Society

See “Chemistry goes green”: http://www.jmu.edu/chemistry/TheBondSP2008.pdf