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How to get involved in the 'Cool it' project
COOL IT!
National Wildlife Federation
1400 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
DATE(S): Ongoing
PURPOSE: Cool It! is a student-led effort to slow global warming
-- beginning in your community. Man-made pollutants are wrapping
our planet in a blanket of gasses that doesn't allow the sun's
heat to escape. The outcome -- even in our lifetimes -- could be
an unprecedented rise in global temperatures. The results: oceans
inundating coastal cities worldwide, farms transformed into
dustbowls, food shortages and more wildlife species condemned to
extinction.
YOUR INVOLVEMENT: Become a part of COOL IT! by taking three
steps:
1. Get other campus leaders to join you in COOL IT! We're in this
world together and that means environmental organizations,
student government, Greeks, departmental clubs and others are
part of the solution, too.
2. Identify specific local opportunities for you to slow global
warming. SEt a goal for your campus to recycle 50 percent of all
cans, bottles and paper; plant trees; decrease your university's
energy consumption by a measurable figure; or get plastics out
of the dining hall. You till us the best way to make a real
difference on your campus -- in your community.
3. Once you've got people and ideas, join students nationwide in
becoming part of National Wildlife Federation's COOL IT! project.
BACKGROUND: Founded in February, 1936 by 1,500 delegates to the
first North American Wildlife Conference, the National Wildlife
Federation (NWF), with 5.1 million members and supporters, today
is the nation's largest conservation organization. Despite its
size, the Federation has never lost sight of its central mission:
to educate the public about the symptoms and the solutions to
environmental abuse and neglect.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
COOL IT!
National Wildlife Federation
1400 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-797-5435
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