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The Student Environmental Fund was created out of a campaign during the fall of 2008 to establish a Green Fee at Emory University. This campaign was started by Emory's Student Government Association with help from the Emory Environmental Alliance.
Emory's Student Government Association created a survey during this time that was distributed to the whole student body to gauge support for a green fee. Nearly 2,000 Emory students participated in taking the survey from every division of the university. Through it, the majority of Emory students indicated that they would be personally willing to give extra money with tuition to increase sustainability at Emory; however, the majority also opposed a new mandatory fee outright for every student.
Thus, Student Government Association leaders and campus administration responded by creating the Emory Student Environmental Fund. The fund is scheduled to be fully incorporated into the OPUS tuition payment process by the fall of 2010, thereby allowing students to easily make contributions via the tuition payment process.
Money raised by the Student Environmental Fund is housed in the Office of Sustainability Initiatives and is appropriated by a committee of students advised by the Campus Environmental Officer and the Director of Sustainability Initiatives. Student Environmental Fund money may be appropriated at the committee's discretion to any project from one of the following three categories:
(1) The purchase of or investment in clean renewable energy in the Southeastern United States;
(2) Student driven projects or services that produce measurable benefits to the environment;
(3) Student Government Association Revolving Green Fund* projects.
Student Environmental Fund projects must demonstrate that they are above and beyond those things Emory is already doing to preserve the environment, and thus, donations will not be offset by reduced spending on environmental preservation by other parts of the university.
To make a donation visit http://emorysef.kintera.org Emory students thank you for your contributions and support!
For questions and more information please contact Chloe Ekelem at cekelem@emory.edu or Ryan Jones at ryandrewjones@gmail.com.
*The Student Government Association's Revolving Green Fund is a project started fall 2008 to use SGA monies to do building retrofits on Emory's campus. As these retrofits save money through reduced energy consumption, the savings are returned to the Revolving Green Fund, whereby they are reinvested in new campus projects.
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