Greenpeace

    If you weren’t on last night’s Greenpeace Student Network Conference Call, you sure missed out on a whole bunch of exciting news. Too bad for you, of course. But not too too bad for you because I’m going to fill you in right now. Straight from the field, I’m stoked to report that students throughout the Network are campaigning like crazy!  An example: Jenna at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey is hard at work on the Green my Apple campaign. She went to see the director of computer services and presented the campaign. Lo and behold, the director was impressed with the campaign (and, I’m sure, with Jenna herself!) and wrote a very strong letter about the campaign to the Apple representative at Stockton College. Jenna is working on contacting the director of computer services to see if she’s received a letter back from Apple. Emily at Stanford, also working on the Green My Apple campaign, has put up Green My Apple displays on the apples in the dining halls (very clever, no?). Additionally, she has talked to at the head of Stanford’s Academic Computing, who put her in touch with the school’s Apple sales representative. The Apple representative has told Emily that she’d be “pleased to meet” with her, and may even go so far as to set up a meeting between Emily and Apple’s environmental people. Right now, Emily is putting together a packet to send to the Apple people. Way to go, Jenna and Emily! Way to go, everyone!
    One more update from the call: there’s currently a competition to see who can recruit the most students for the Greenpeace Organizing Term. There are prizes (t-shirts) for every 5 people you get to apply, and the Grand prize is an all-expense paid by Greenpeace climb training or boat training in Washington, DC or San Francisco! Contact Diana, diana.silbergeld@sfo.greenpeace.org for more information.