Getting Started
- Campus Climate Challenge Planning Guide v2.0 - The complete guide to running a clean energy campaign on your campus.
- SSC High School Organizing Guide - The definitive guide to running a campus climate challenge campaign at your high school.
- New Energy For Campuses - This report details more than 30 universities around the US and Canada that have implemented a variety of emissions cutting programs.
- Earth Day Resources - Check out our tips for planning Earth Day events and actions.
- Event Planning Guide
- Challenge Event Ideas - This document includes many ideas for educational, visibility and action-oriented events for your clean energy campaign.
- SSC Save the Ales Guide - This St. Patrick's Day, throw a Save the Ales Party. It's easy, just use our guide!
- Congress on Campus Toolkit - The comprehensive guide to inviting your Congressperson to your campus.
- SSC Fossil Fools Day Guide - The SSC's guide to running a successful Fossil Fools Day event!
- Press Conference and Media Guide - A guide to planning a press conference or media event and getting the media to cover it!
- Sample Coalition Sign-on
- Recruitment Materials - Includes a information for scheduling class raps (faculty email, faculty call script, class rap scheduling form), sample class rap scripts, sample tabling rap and tabling tips. We also have a Sample Challenge Interest Postcard that you can customize for your campaign or use at your first tabling event.
- Visibility materials
- SSC Logo
- SSC Brochure
- SSC Summer Programs Brochure
- Challenge Poster #1
- Challenge Poster #2
- Challenge Poster #3
- Challenge Logo
- Challenge T-shirts! - The hottest t-shirts available, featuring the Campus Climate Challenge or It's Getting Hot In Here logo.
- Presidents Climate Commitment - A high-visibility effort to address global warming by garnering institutional commitments to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions, and to accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to re-stabilize the earth's climate. Presidents signing the Commitment are pledging to go carbon neutral by eliminating their campus' greenhouse gas emissions over time.
- ACUPCC sample campaign
- ACUPCC Implementation guide - So your school just signed the President's Climate Commitment? This guide will help you turn your school's commitment into action.
- MiddShift Climate Neutrality Toolkit
- Creating a Revolving Loan Fund
- Green Fees
- EPA Clean Energy Purchasing Guide
- Sample Policies:
- Sample Student Government Resolution - A well researched and footnoted resolution passed by the Michigan Student Assembly on February 6, 2007 in support of a campus clean energy policy.
Victories
SSC Victories: 2006-2008
CCC Victories: 1984-2006 - This spreadsheet details 115 initiatives to purchase clean energy at campuses across the country.
- State Network Guide - Coming soon!
- State Network Planning Template
- Summit Planning Guide - Coming soon!
- New Energy for Cities
- New Energy for States
- Coal Ad Watch - Get the facts behind the coal industry's massive $30 million deceptive advertising and public relations campaign on our public website, including clips from the television ads and the real truth about coal.
- Fact Sheet: Coal Questions and Answers
- Fact Sheet: Don't Let Coal Choke Our Future
- Testimony: Dr. James Hansen - Read testimony by Dr. James Hansen, a leading NASA climate scientist, on the state of the science on global warming, why we need to take immediate action and what we should do about coal.
- Sierra Club Energy Policy
- Presentation: Dirty Truth About Coal
- Report: Dirty Truth About Coal
- Website: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
- Fact Sheet: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Lays Waste to Appalachia
- Presentation: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
- Fact Sheet: Liquid Coal: A Bad Deal for Global Warming
Check out the Challenge Power Directory, Energy Action's one stop shop for resources related to energy and climate organizing on campus. If you're still lost, drop us an email.
