Monday, March 24, 2014

Penn State Zero

Jon Brockopp and Sylvia Neely from PAIPL have gotten involved in a new initiative - Penn State Zero.

Reposting from the blog "Spring Creek Homesteading":

A group of five faculty members including Brockopp (History and Religious Studies), Neely (History, retired), Ray Najjar (Meteorology), Andy Lau (Engineering Design) and Leland Glenna (Rural Sociology)  began meeting monthly in October 2013 to discuss two key questions:
  1. “Why isn’t Penn State’s president a signatory to the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment?”
  2. “How can our small committee get more faculty and administrators interested in and educated about climate change so that they can influence the president to sign on?”
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