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EMA: The Environmental Management Association*

Mission: EMA's goal is to encourage environmental stewardship, promote careers in environmental management, and assist in career development by sponsoring workshops, presentations, and activities which provide students with relevant information, skills and networking opportunities.

Email: iuema@indiana.edu
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~iuema/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=138589567768&ref=search&sid=1363320088.2451271732..1

SDA: The Sustainable Development Association*

Mission: The Sustainable Development Association aims to serve as a resource for prospective students navigating the sustainable development concentration at IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), inform concentration members about career opportunities and field expansion, connect the SPEA community with other sustainability efforts on campus and in Bloomington, and create a forum for discussing policy in the field of sustainable development.

Email: speasda@indiana.edu
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=105068978918

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American Cetacean Society Student Coalition*

The American Cetacean Society Student Coalition(ACSSC) is a chapter of the national organization, The American Cetacean Society(ACS). ACS is a 501 (c) (3) non profit grassroots organization dedicated to the protection of whales, dolphins, porpoises their habitats through public education, conservation acts, and research grants. ACSSC believes activism takes on many forms and diversity in practices should be embraced. ACS has a strong commitment to research that helps protect cetaceans; ACSSC believes that research with ethical implications can serve as a tool in activism and advocacy. ACSSC would like to provide a resource as an organization for students on campus use as an outlet for directed research related to causes that impact cetacean welfare and rights.

ACSSC understands the fragile state of the world's marine ecosystems due to anthropogenic causes and all of human life's dependence upon healthy oceans. This understanding is the root of all of ACSSC's campaigns, education, research, and activism in marine stewardship. Being landlocked does not render the IUB community helpless, ACSSC hopes to instill a sense of hope and empowerment in the community to create future leaders in marine conservation stewardship.

General Email: jswilik@umail.iu.edu
Website: http://www.acsonline.org/

B.E.A.T.S.: Bringing Environmental Affiars To Students (BEATS)*

B.E.A.T.S. is an organization whose goals center around bringing awareness and educating IU students on environmental issues both locally and globally, while also serving the community through environmental conservation efforts of its members. Indiana currently ranks 49th in the US in its environmental conservation efforts. Even on the IU campus buildings can be seen spewing SO2 and CO2 into the very air we breath. Our goals for 2011 include raising environmental issues in both the IU governing body and the Indiana state government, while also help keep Bloomington's land and air clean and beautiful.

General Email: paulluhrsen@yahoo.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_216728458366849

CCIU: Caving Club at IU*

The purpose of the Indiana University Caving Club is to encourage IU students, faculty, staff and members of the local community to learn about and explore caves and other karst features of Indiana; to advocate the conservation of natural resources associated with caves and karst; and to promote safe and responsible exploration of caves.

General Email: cparks@indiana.edu
Facebook: http://www.indiana.edu/~iusc/

Coal Free IU*

Coal Free IU is a campaign that launched in the Fall of 2009 to help transition Indiana University-Bloomington away from coal to 100% clean and renewable energy sources. This is part of a national campaign officially sponsored by the Sierra Student Coalition and Sierra Club on over 30 university campuses to shut down or replace campus-based coal plants and end our schools' dependence on the coal-generated electricity which they purchase.

Young people are organizing coast-to-coast and already making their campuses model institutions with efficiency, renewable energy and more. Now it's time to finish the job and demand an end to dirty, dangerous and outdated coal. To read more about some of the universities involved and campuses that have successfully transitioned beyond coal, check out our report: Moving Campuses Beyond Coal.

General Email: coalfreeiu@gmail.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/coalfreeiu/

DU IU: Ducks Unlimited*

Ducks Unlimited conserves, restores and manages wetlands and associated habitats for North America's waterfowl. These habitats also benefit other wildlife and people.

General Email: mrlocke@indiana.edu

IUFPA: Forest Protection Alliance*

This organization works closely with the Indiana Forest Alliance (IFA) to protect our State and National Forests from clear cutting, biomass incinerators, politicians, and other threats. This group realizes that the sole proprietors of these forests are not the government, but the people. As well as playing an active role in stopping these practices, we educate ourselves about the forests and ecosystems around us in order to educate the local population, and help others already in the fight. Opportunities for hands-on work, political negotiation, education from those in the field, organizing events, and good ol' activism in all of its complexities are abundant.

General Email: zwendell@umail.iu.edu

IUGEB: Global Environmental Brigades at IU*

Environmental Brigades are one-week experiences abroad that include hands-on work alongside community members to promote environmentally sustainable development. Environmental Brigades currently operates in Panama, each with a specific emphasis that enriches other Brigade programs in the region.

In Panama, Environmental Brigades complement Business, Law, and Architecture Brigades by focusing on socio-economic challenges linked to resource depletion, while implementing environmentally sustainable strategies for development. Projects include reforestation, rainforest preservation, energy-efficient design, eco-tourism and organic agriculture extension. Volunteers work in a variety of landscapes, ranging from virgin rainforests to urban beaches, each presenting different challenges for the survival of native species and future generations.

An important feature of the brigade is the ability to leave behind both immediate and long-term impacts. After each brigade, you leave knowing you left both immediate support (the trees you planted, the service you provided) and long-term support (the education workshop you conducted, the study you set up). Brigades also build on each other, continuing projects through successive phases, year after year.

General Email: sprodhan@indiana.edu
Wesite: http://iugeb.weebly.com/

Greening Cream and Crimson*

Greening Cream and Crimson looks to increase sustainable practices and environmental awareness for Indiana University's Athletic Department. Members will work directly with, and serve as the working group for, the Indiana University Office of Sustainability's Greening IU Athletics intern.

By working directly with the Greening IU Athletics intern, Greening Cream and Crimson aims to aid the current intern in endeavors that he or she takes on while interning for the Office of Sustainability. Members will be involved in the development and execution of environmental practices that the Athletic Department at Indiana University participates in.

General Email: gcc@indiana.edu
Website: http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/ot/greeningIU.html

Hilltop Garden and Nature Center*

Hilltop Garden and Nature Center began as the dream of the late Barbara Schalucha, a faculty member in the Biology Department at Indiana University. Then IU-President, Herman B Wells, set aside a tract of land in what had been an alfalfa field on the far east side of campus.

The public is welcome to several events throughout the year, including the Daffodil Show in April; the Spring Plant Sale in May; the Annual Summer Garden Walk in June (sponsored by the Bloomington Garden Club) and the Fall Bulb Sale and Great Pumpkin Party in October.

Through its display gardens and educational opportunities, Hilltop strives to fulfill its mission – to foster a lifelong love of gardening and respect for the earth.

General Email: hilltop@indiana.edu

Repower IU: Repower America of Indiana University*

Founded by Al Gore, Repower America is dedicated to revitalizing our economy, strengthening our national security and solving the climate crisis through clean energy. The Repower America campaign is a growing nationwide grassroots campaign of more than 2 million people dedicated to persuading our leaders to support solutions to the climate crisis and a transition to a clean energy economy. This group (Repower IU) is for students, alumni, faculty, and staff members of Indiana University who promote and support the efforts of Repower America.

Email: tuholski.mike@gmail.com
Website: http://repoweramerica.org/

Slow Foods at Indiana University*

Slow Foods at IU aims to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. We do this by hosting weekly potlucks where members each bring a dish made from local and/or organic ingredients. We also have sporadic field trips to local food dispensaries such as the farmers market.

Email: elliplun@indiana.edu

SPROUTS: Students Producing Organics Under the Sun*

Mission: SPROUTS' mission is to bring IU students and other Bloomington residents together to learn about the process of organic food production. Whether your dream is to grow modest amounts of non-toxic food for your own table, or larger amounts for local, regional, or national distribution, our sustainable student organization will help you achieve it. In this way, we are the change we wish to see and, we cultivate the land to cultivate ourselves and each other.

Email: SPROUTS@indiana.edu
Website: https://www.indiana.edu/~ sustain/Clearinghouse/Students_Producing_Organics_under_the_Sun_(SPROUTS).html

SSC: Student Sustainability Council*

The Student Sustainability Council (SSC) brings together representatives of many student organizations (currently 18) to advance issues of sustainability on the IUB campus. We work together to reduce the negative effects of the University on the natural environment, promote social and economic justice, and engage the Indiana University student body in these issues.

Member organizations of the SSC include undergraduate and graduate student organizations as well as student government bodies. Some members focus principally on sustainability related issues, while others have broader missions. All groups recognize the importance of sustainability and work together to make IU a cleaner, healthier, happier place to live, learn, and work.

Email: stehopki@umail.iu.edu
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~iubssc/

ViS: Volunteers in Sustainability*

IU Volunteers in Sustainability is an umbrella organization, coordinating environmentally oriented volunteer activities on the IU campus and facilitating communication between student and community environmental groups. The groups below are involved in sustainability efforts on campus and in the community. This information is provided to help foster communication and collaboration between organizations. We encourage interested individuals to contact these organizations directly.

General Email: vsustain@indiana.edu
Website: www.indiana.edu/~sustain/VIS/index.html

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GGG: Greeks Go Green

Mission: The purpose of the organization, Greeks Go Green, is to provide awareness and facilitate the move to a more environmentally friendly Greek community. Greeks Go Green will distribute information to the Greek community on ways to become more sustainable, as well as assist in getting all Greek houses recycling programs. Above all, Greeks Go Green wants to set an example for the campus as a whole.

General Email: ggg@indiana.edu
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~ggg/

RHA: Residence Halls Association*

Mission: Indiana's Residence Halls Association is committed to developing and maintaining a safe, respectful and productive student environment, and to empowering this community of students and protect its interests while contributing to the greater community of IU and beyond. To do this, RHA provides leadership opportunities, programs and social interaction in an academic environment, is an active channel of communication that creates proactive solutions while effectively representing our residents to the university, and exposes the student community to diverse, new ideas and experiences in order to improve and preserve residents’ quality of life. This includes environmentalist and sustainability-themed goals and initiatives.

General Email: rha@indiana.edu
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/iurhawebsite/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IndianaRHA

Collins E-Force*

E-Force is the student environmentalism group within Indiana University’s Collins Living Learning Center. E-Force holds meetings twice a month, about environmental happenings within Collins and the community. Once month, E-Force puts on environmental programs such as film-viewings, speakers, and field trips. They work with other environmental groups around campus and the Bloomington community such as the Volunteers in Sustainability and the RHA Directors of Environmentalism. E-Force is in charge of recycling around Collins and runs a student recycling program.

General Email: eatons@indiana.edu
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~llc

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H2H: Hoosier to Hoosier Community Sale

Hoosier to Hoosier (H2H) is a reuse program that aims 1) to divert reusable items from the landfill during student move-out, 2) to prevent additional resource consumption by selling collected items to students and community members in order 3) to raise funds for local charities and other organizations. Hoosier to Hoosier is a partnership between the United Way of Monroe County, Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County, City of Bloomington, IU Athletics, IU Office of Sustainability, and IU Residential Programs and Services.

General Email: h2h@indiana.edu
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~h2h

INPIRG: Indiana Public Interest Research Group*

Throughout the 1970s, and now since 1997, students who have been involved with their INPIRG campus chapter have not only learned how to investigate a problem and come up with a practical solution. We've also learned how to convince the media and decision-makers to pay attention and take action. In other words, through INPIRG we gain an educational experience in democratic citizenship. In addition, we get a chance to face up to society's big problems, take action, and win concrete changes that improve the quality of our lives.

General Email: info@inpirg.org
Website: https://www.inpirg.org/iu

Student Sustainability Council Affiliates

APO: Alpha Phi Omega National*

Mission: Alpha Phi Omega is a National Service Fraternity -- college students gathered together in an organization based on fraternalism and founded on the principles of Leadership, Friendship and Service. Its aim is to further the freedom that is our national, educational and intellectual heritage. APO, specifically the Mu Chapter at Indiana University Bloomington, is open to any IUB student who would like to join. Given that they do not have a house, members of social fraternities and sororities are welcome as well as anyone who lives in a residence hall or off-campus. APO has partnered with IU’s Volunteers in Sustainability (ViS) on various sustainability-oriented community service projects, including helping out with a trash audit that documented all of the trash put in dumpsters around campus that could actually be recycled (about 50%).

General Email: apo@indiana.edu
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~apo/

VSB: Volunteer Students Bureau*

Mission: VSB continues to be a significant liaison for community service between Indiana University and the local agencies within the City of Bloomington.

The main purpose of VSB is to provide students at Indiana University with outlets for engaging in community service. The organization plans several large-scale events during the course of the year, including the Children’s Holiday Wish Program, Halloween Haunted House, Easter Egg Hun for Kids, Senior Citizens’ Prom, , and the Kids Mania Science Fair. VSB also volunteers at several large-scale events in the community such as Homeward Bound: Indiana’s 5K Walk to Provide Housing and Fight Homelessness, IU Mini, and Relay for Life.

General Email: vsb@indiana.edu
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~vsb/

IUSA: IU Student Association*

Mission: The IU Student Association is a congregation of Indiana University students that work to protect student rights, enrich student life, and improve Indiana University. Students join together to voice common concerns, hopes, grievances, and most importantly, to take action to realize an even stronger University.

IUSA Sustainability Representatives: Skylar Edwards, Ian Kaelble, Drew Morales, Alex Luboff, Matt Edwards

General Email: iusa@indiana.edu
Website: http://iusa.indiana.edu/