Ohio students are ready for action after the Ohio Student Environmental Coalition winter training retreat. Over 30 student leaders from nine different colleges converged at Kenyon College for a weekend full of trainings for organizers, leadership development, and state networking.  Many colleges including Ohio State University, Ohio University, the University of Cincinnati, Oberlin College, Wooster, and Kenyon are ready to tackle big polluters with effective organizing tools learned over the weekend.

SWARTHMORE, PA — On campuses across the country, students are writing a new chapter in the youth environmental justice movement. The last five years of student organizing have won huge victories. “Sustainability” is on the tip of every college administrator’s tongue, and 674 institutions have signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment to long-term carbon neutrality. Colleges have taken real leadership in the fight for climate justice.

Students in Maryland know offshore wind works. For their families, who have to pay energy bills in an increasingly volatile market. For their friends, some of whom are the 1-5 children suffering from asthma fed by the 31 fossil fuel plants in Maryland. For their future, as jobs leave while increasingly dangerous storms threaten the coastal state. Maryland youth know offshore wind works!

And right now, students in Maryland are ready to go to work for their future and make a local, clean energy economy a reality!