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.

New Impact

Enlighten and serve JMU faculty, students and staff and to impact local and global communities through activities related to environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and social entrepreneurship. Contact Carol Hamilton at cfe@jmu.edu or visit http://www.jmu.edu/cob/cfe/Netimpact.shtml for more information.

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. 

Psychologists for Sustainability

Promotes education, awareness, and action regarding environmental issues and sustainability within the psychology major and throughout the JMU community. For more information contact the faculty advisor, Dr. Pam Gibson (gibsonpr@jmu.edu), or visit http://psyc.jmu.edu/ug/people/student_orgs.htm

Student Affiliates of the American Chemical
Society

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