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Student Sustainability Forum
Emory's Student Sustainability Forum is a group of student leaders from sustainability-related organizations, student publications, and student governmental associations. Members of the Forum are from Emory College and the professional schools. The Office of Sustainability Initiatives hosts quarterly meetings for these student sustainability leaders to share experiences of their efforts in working towards a more sustainable Emory. Within these informal dialogues, students learn about the exciting work of fellow green groups. The Forum is also a chance for organizations to find intersections in missions where they can collaborate.
To learn more about the Sustainability Forum, please call 404-727-9916 and request to be added to the LearnLink conference "Sustainability Forum."
Emory Environmental Alliance
Emory Environmental Alliance (EEA) is a student led undergraduate environmental organization that works closely with Emory and the Office of Sustainability Initiatives to affect institutional change. Club members initiate projects, organize events and legislative education days, educate fellow students, and attend student conferences all over the country. Projects aim to encompass both social and environmental issues. For more information, LearnLink "Emory Environmental Alliance."
Slow Food Emory
Slow Food Emory is part of an international movement to promote good, clean, and fair food. These three simple words represent multiple dimensions of food, including sustainable agriculture, preserving biodiversity, producing food without the use of harmful chemicals, ensuring a fair wage for producers and laborers, and allowing equal access to this food that we cherish. Slow Food Emory works to promote these values on campus through eating and cooking together, discussing food access and production issues, educating peers to think critically about their food and its origins, and other activities that reconnect us with the pleasure of eating and the unquantifiable value of food. For more information, please visit the Slow Food Emory conference (Public Conferences --> Student Groups --> Activism/Support), or contact Alleyne Ross.
SEED House
SEED stands for The Student Experiment in Ecological Design (SEED) House. The idea is to incorporate life style and technological changes in order to decrease the environmental waste of the house and those who inhabit it in many different ways. The theme is designed to educate and excite people about the environment and how we can best adapt to a new wave of awareness. Some of the goals include: indoor and outdoor composting; reusing sink and shower water for flushing the toilet; reduced toilet flushing, taking shorter showers; turning as many lights off as often as possible; volunteering at GAIA gardens and maintaining a plot at a local community or school garden; learning to eat locally, organically, and seasonally; recycling/reusing everything possible; unplugging electrical items when not in use (i.e. toaster, lamps, phone chargers, computers); using only fluorescent light bulbs, etc. For more information on the SEED House visit www.emory.edu/HOUSING/UNDERGRAD/asbury.html or call Residence Life & Housing at 404.727.4144.
Emory Conservation Organization
Emory Conservation Organization (ECO) aims to raise awareness among Emory students as well as members of the Atlanta community regarding the loss of biodiversity worldwide and to promote conservation of the delicate and complex ecosystems that sustain life on earth. Through education, action and service, ECO contributes to the protection of at risk species and their habitats. For more information, please contact Kate Cummings.
Outdoor Emory Organization
With a membership of well over 400 students, Outdoor Emory Organization (OEO) is Emory University's largest student-run organization and one of the largest and most active outdoors organizations in the country. In addition to their successful Adventure Orientation program for incoming freshmen and weekend trips around the Southeast, OEO has explored North America, from the Grand Canyon to Baja Mexico, from the Boundary Waters to Lake Tahoe. OEO typically sends out between one and four trips a weekend, ranging from backpacking to caving to skydiving to surfing to skiing to paddling. Over longer breaks, OEO sends trips across the country to places like the Grand Canyon, Lake Tahoe, Utah, Baja, and Wyoming. OEO meets during the academic year every Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. in Harland Cinema (at the Dobbs University Center). For more information, email OEO or visit http://www.students.emory.edu/OEO.
Generation Response
Generation Response is officially "Emory's Environmental/Humanitarian magazine." Generation Response gives Emory students a voice on local, national, and international humanitarian and environmental issues. Writers shed light on the people and organizations at Emory and in the greater Atlanta area that are making a positive difference in response to issues. In doing so, the students hopes to connect Emory to Atlanta and act as a sort of mutualistic sustainable forum, in which we give sustainable Atlanta organizations publicity to the Emory community and in turn Emory students can seek out these organizations to get involved. The ultimate goal of Generation Response is to encourage Emory students to get involved in making a positive difference in the world. It's about reaching out, so that this generation can respond and take responsibility for our future. To get involved or for more information, please contact Lauren Borrelli.
Hybrid Vigor
Hybrid Vigor is Emory's popular science magazine providing science news to "not just science students." Hybrid Vigor examines a wide-range of issues, including a strong focus on covers sustainability-related topics. To get involved or for more information, please contact Esther Yang.
Green Bean Coffee
The Green Bean Coffee Cart is committed to nurturing the community and environment while maintaining a practical and profitable business. Student employees are involved in the evolution of business practices and provide a fuel of creativity. The Green Bean is a not-for-profit organization, with any profits of the business directed to fund student and university projects and initiatives. The Green Bean aims to be a long-lasting and community- friendly campus resource, both for great tasting coffee and tea and sustainability education. The Green Bean sells coffee from Cafe Campesino, a fair trade and organic coffee roaster in Americus, Georgia, in addition to fair trade and organic tea, hot cocoa, and pastries. The Green Bean Coffee Cart is located outside Cannon Chapel under the archway and is open from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, including information about catering, please email greenbeancoffee@learnlink.emory.edu.
Emory Dining Green Team
The Emory Dining Green Team is the Emory-focused arm of Slow Foods Emory, with the purpose of reducing food wastage and education at Emoy. The Green Team works to increase sustainability through Emory Dining by urging initiatives that will educate students on the impact of food waste by such programs as Weight the Waste, as well as large scale marketing to increase awareness of the issues present. The Green Team also focuses on actually changing the system of how Emory Dining utilizes the food and water waste by reducing and recycling what is possible, all with the ultimate goal of creating a community at Emory that acknowledges and appreciates the different aspects of food related sustainability. For more information please contact Julie Shaffer, Emory Dining Sustainable Food Education Coordinator.
Culinary Club
The club’s interest in food and feeding people goes beyond the epicurean pleasure of eating or cooking food to exploring and examining food as it journeys from the farm to the table. The Culinary Club promotes the use of local, sustainable, and seasonal ingredients. They use the kitchen as another opportunity to educate students about healthy food choices. The club also strives to study the culture of food. For more information please email Julie Shaffer.
Net Impact
Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire, educate, and equip individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world. Net Impact members are current and emerging leaders in CSR, social entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, international development, and environmental sustainability who are actively improving the world. For more information please email Sandra Dube.
Greeks Go Green
Greeks Go Green was founded by Emory alum Nicolai Lundy in the Fall of 2006. The organization helps promote sustainability initiatives within Fraternity and Sorority Life and around campus. For more information please contact Lauren Borrelli.
MetroVision
MetroVision is a community outreach organization that tutors juveniles at the MetroVision juvenile detention center in Atlanta at least once a week. The group's goal is to motivate juvenile offenders to become successful once they are released back into the community by allowing them to express their creativity and by making them aware of societal issues that they have the opportunity to impact. For more information, please LearnLink "Metrovision."
Students Implementing Nourishment in Communities (SINC)
SINC aims to eradicate poverty by engaging students and empowering communities. Through innovative social entrepreneurship, SINC works alongside international developing communities to implement sustainable development projects. SINC is not the leader or manager of the projects, but rather resource and catalyst for communities to uproot themselves out of the cycle of poverty. To get involved or for more information, please contact Melissa Mair.
Emory Undergraduate Global Health Organization
EUGHO (Emory Undergraduate Global Health Organization) serves to provide information and opportunities for student action concerning international health issues. EUGHO tries to enlighten students on graduate opportunities in the field of global health that reach beyond the obvious public health school options. EUGHO participates in volunteer opportunities both on and off campus with EGHO, Emory's graduate school global health organization. These activities include Quilt on the Quad, World AIDS day, Medshare International, health walks, and educational trips to the CDC and the Carter Center. For more information, please contact www.students.emory.edu/eugho
Emory Global Health Organization
The Emory Global Health Organization is a student organization based at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH). The group seeks to engage in issues of global health outside the classroom by organizing community service events, advocacy campaigns and networking opportunities. Membership is open to the entire Emory University student body, as well as faculty, staff and alumni. For more information, please email eghomail@gmail.com.
Rollins Environmental Health Action Committee (REHAC)
REHAC's mission is to encourage students to make environmentally friendly decisions in their daily lives and raise awareness about environmental justice issues in our community and around the world. REHAC provides free coffee every week to students who bring their own mug to school, hosts fundraisers for natural disaster relief efforts, encourages students to use alternative transportation, hosts socials to talk about environmental issues, and participate in art projects to decorate stairwells to encourage students, staff and faculty to take the stairs. REHAC also screens films on environmental issues and volunteers with alternative transit organizations and environmental justice organizations.
For more information about how to get involved, please email Becky Tsang.
Environmental Law Society
The Environmental Law Society seeks to provide information and to take an active role in the legal dimensions of environmental interests. The group participates in hikes, hosts a Sustainability Week and occasionally invites speakers. For more information please contact please email Kathleen Oprea.
Wilderness Medical Society
The Emory Wilderness Medicine Society aims to educate medical students in wilderness medicine techniques while simultaneously providing an outlet for outdoor activities, practice of medicine where definitive care is more than one hour away, and often days to weeks away. The practice of wilderness medicine is defined by difficult patient access, limited equipment, and environmental extremes. The Wilderness Medical society hosts lunch time talks from physicians regarding wilderness medicine, attends regional wilderness medicine conferences, and participates in occasional weekend kayaking/canoeing/rafting/cycling/caving trips. For more information about how to get involved, please email Kevin Little.
Good Samaritan Clinic Outreach
The Good Samaritan Health Center is a medical clinic in downtown Atlanta that provides comprehensive health care for Atlanta's working poor and homeless. On one Saturday each month, medical and physician assistant students and faculty members from Emory host a free clinic at the Good Samaritan Health Center. For more information, please email the clinic at info@goodsamatlanta.org.
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