The National Wildlife Federation has made its new study, Generation E: Students Leading for a Sustainable, Clean Energy Future, available for free download.
The study reviews the unprecedented role that college students are playing in sustainability programs on campuses nationwide.
“Generation E” stands for the three “E’s” of sustainability: ecology, sustainable economics, and social equity,” said Julian Keniry, Senior Director of Campus and Community Leadership, for National Wildlife Federation. “and it also stands for a tremendous amount of energy and excitement on college campuses today. The values of sustainability define and unite the current generation like no other issue of our time.”
The report highlights 165 campus examples in 46 states, covering 35 categories of student effort. “In more than 20 years of supporting student environmental leaders, we’ve never seen this extraordinary degree of student engagement and creativity around sustainability at every level,” said Keniry. “Our findings demolish the myth that students are apathetic or sitting on the sidelines. Their voices are rising up in ways we haven’t heard since the civil rights or the peace movements of the ‘60s and ‘70s, but the irony is, we are finding that most campus educators and leaders at the state and federal levels aren’t really listening.”
Published prior to the major international climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark, Generation E is a timely exploration of how young people in college today are responding to the challenge of climate change and the need to shift to a sustainable, clean energy future.
“The good news,” said Julian Keniry, “is that Generation E illustrates the myriad reasons why there is a strong basis for faith in the ability of U.S. higher education to confront global warming and to model social, economic and ecological sustainability. College students today are leading in unprecedented ways, helping create campus communities that are repositories for hope and innovation for the larger society.”
Download Generation E: Students Leading for a Sustainable, Clean Energy Future
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