AS Clubs Categorically : Environmental
Against Civilization
We believe the institution of civilization, with its cities, agriculture, and technology, is the basis of the most destructive cultures. To face the full impact of civilization requires acknowledging that it is inherently oppressive and destructive. Cities demand the importation of resources, which are ultimately obtained through violence. Agriculture takes more than it gives to the land, turning diverse ecosystems into monocultures and living soil to desert. Technology requires exploitation of the natural world and condenses power into fewer and fewer hands. Industrial civilization in particular, with its machinery, engines, and oil-based production, has further accelerated the speed of the devastation.
We draw on environmentalism, feminism, deep ecology, spirituality, anarchy, indigenous lifeways, anti-oppression politics, peak oil and collapse theories, and past struggles for justice for our analysis and our inspiration. We are open to challenging our thinking and ourselves. We recognize that though the dominant culture threatens us all, it also gives privileges to some at the expense of others, and whether industrial culture continues or is stopped, the impact on people will differ.
Contact Person: Cameron Murphey;
425-652-2673; againstcivilization@gmail.com or murpcam@gmail.com
Bellingham Emerging Green Builders (EGB)
Bellingham Emerging Green Builders is our local student committee of the US Green Building Council's Cascadia chapter Emerging Green Builders group. It is the Bellingham EGB's intent to educate and promote awareness of the Green building movement and specifically the current industry standard for Green building, the LEED rating system. We will do this by integrating students and young professionals and providing a supportive opportunity for development through our involvement with the USGBC and our local chapter network at the Cascadia office located in Seattle. An Emerging Green Builder is an individual in school or within five years of graduation. This club is open to anyone interested in becoming more involved in Green building from any discipline of study or practice.
Contact Person: Noe Penney;
bellinghamegb@gmail.com or penneyn@students.wwu.edu
Conservation Northwest - WWU Chapter
The focus of this club is to collaborate with Conservation Northwest, a local non-profit organization, in advocating for the protection of the remaining wild areas in the Pacific Northwest. This includes old growth forests and other wildlife habitat.
Contact Person: Ryan Lazzeri;
503-434-7688; lazzerr@students.wwu.edu
Engineers Without Borders - WWU Chapter
Engineers Without Borders is a non-profit humanitarian organization establsihed to partner with communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students.
Contact Person: Miranda Savory;
ewb.wwu@gmail.com or miranda_savory@yahoo.com
Huxley Student Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA) Chapter
The purpose of this chapter is to promote environmental related concerns/topics through interacting with the professional community. Our goals are to provide real world experience and opportunities in the environmental field while creating a network of individuals that share a common interest.
Contact Person: Devin Mounts & Nick Galvin;
wwuawma@gmail.com or mountsd@students.wwu.edu
LEAD (Learning, Environment, Action, Discovery)
Linking Western Washington University, Whatcom County schools, environmental organizations and government agencies to encourage community-based environmental restoration education and service-learning for the benefit of our community.
Contact Person: Kimberly Adank and Alyssa Firkus;
360-650-2133; lead@wwu.edu
Website: http://www.wwu.edu/lead
neoTribalism
To connect individuals and groups with the opportunity to learn, build, and participate in communal living lifestyles that strive towards sustainable, diverse, and holistic practices.
Contact Person: Rhys Faler;
970-209-6186; wwu@neotribalism.net or rhys@neotribalism.net
Website: http://wwu.neotribalism.net
Powershift Climate Action
Founded by students who attended the 2009 Powershift West Conference, we are a group committed to educating students about global climate change. We also focus on fostering the participation of students in action that can affect local, national, and global policy decisions.
Contact Person: Collin Stackhouse;
907-347-9318; stackhc@students.wwu.edu
Students for Renewable Energy
Our mission is to bring sustainable energy to Western's campus through education, conservation, energy construction projects and conscious energy selection.
Contact Person: Erika Redzinak;
253-590-7278; sre.wwu@gmail.com
Website: http://www.westernsre.org
Students for Sustainable Food
To facilitate a campus wide movement towards getting more nutritious choices, local foods and organic foods into all dining areas of the WWU campus. Provide students with an integrated, passionate education about the opportunities in sustainable food systems, agriculture and food security from the local to international level.
Contact Person: Alyson Simeone;
509-680-2983; ssf.wwu@gmail.com or simeona@students.wwu.edu
Surf Rider
A non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enhancement of the world's waves and beaches through conservation, activism, education and research.
Contact Person: Skyler Mavor;
406-579-9510; armadaskier175@gmail.com or surfrider.wwu@gmail.com