Committees Campus Environmental Issues Committee Macalester College

    

MacCARES - Partner Index


Index

Alliance for Sustainability
- Sustainabile living and business activity and "the natural step" framework

AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) 
- Servicing and coordinating sustainability in higher education

Campus Climate Challenge
- The national campus effort to reach cabon neutrality and use higher education as a model for society

Campus Wars - MacCARES Page
- Competition among MN colleges to conserve energy in electricity and heating

Church World Service
- Humanitarian and global resource issues faith based non-profit

Clean Energy Minnesota
- MN coalition of non-prof working on sustainable energy systems policy in the current MN session

Clean Water Action Alliance
- Global warming, renewable energy and fossil fuel pollution issues

C-BED (Community Based Energy Development)
- rural development advocacy group promoting community energy development and community access to transmission (Mac's possible big wind turbine)

CERTs (Clean Energy Resource Teams)
- Statewide citizen's networks devoping community led energy projects (outside Twin Cities metro area)

CURE (Clean up the river environment)
- Upper MN river basin sustainable development especially renewable energy and stopping coal expansion

Congregations Caring for Creation
- Multi-faith alliance for sustainability in congregations across MN

Energy Action Coalition
- The umbrella coalition working with the youth climate movement coordinating organizational efforts to facilitate youth engagement and support campus climate and energy campaigns

Focus the Nation
- National Action on Global Warming at Colleges in January 2008

Fresh Energy
- One of the leadin MN energy policy non-profit organisation (developed and helps lead re-amp)

Global Exchange
- International human rights and resource and energy justice organisation

Global Warming 101
- Education and citizen action non-profit established by polar explorer Will Steger

GWAT (Global Warming Action Team)
- MN Catholic archdioces group

The Green Insitute
- Minneapolis eco-enterprise focused on green building and sustainable development

Institute for Local Self-reliance
- policy group promoting localism and community based economics

It's getting hot in here
- Global youth climate movement blog

Labor and Sustainability
- Coalition rebuilding the Blue-Green Alliance with the Union of Auto Workers at Ford and the Climate crisis coalition of the Twin Cities

Mac Groveland Community Council: Environment Committee
- Sustainability in the Mac Groveland Community

Minnesota Center for Energy and the Environment
- Advocacy around energy and homeowner conservation

The Minnesota Project
- Focus group on energy efficiency and agricultural energy systems (connected to the midwest ag energy network)

MPIRG (Minnesota Public Interest Research Group) - Mac Chapter
- Minnesota progressive youth organisation which also focuses on the environment (campus wars and renewable energy rally mar 2006)

Neighborhood Energy Connection
- Saint Paul home energy and community energy advocate (Mac's hour car)

North Star Sierra Club
- MN branch of the sierra club working on many enviromental issues including energy

Rainforest Action Network
- Works to pressure global corporations through investors condumers, communities, labor and compeditors to promote sustainiblilty and community rights

RE-AMP (Renewable energy alignment mapping coalition)
- 6 state coalition of non-profit energy group working for 80% reduction in carbon use from the electrical sector by 2030

Sierra Student Coalition
- Youth networking branch of the sierra club, currenty focused on the CCC and staffing MN college energy coalition efforts -prof help
 

Sustainable Endowments Institute
- Using University endowments to promote sustainability

Windustry
- Wind energy advocacy and community transmission issues

WeCAN (World Energy Community Action Network)
- Comprehensive community energy solutions



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