EcoAction on America Recycles Day 2006.
Founded in 1991, EcoAction is the premier environmental student group at Georgetown University. Our goals are to educate the campus community on environmental issues; to, by our example, promote a clear understanding of humanity’s dependence on and responsibilities to its environment; to work to directly improve the environment, both locally and nationally, and to provide a forum for students interested in actively pursuing environmental goals. We also seek to promote more sustainable lifestyles among the Georgetown community (students, faculty, and staff), to incorporate stewardship for the environment into the ethos of the university. As proud Hoyas and proud environmentalists, we encourage our peers to bleed blue, wear gray, and (of course) think green. We, through our direct engagement in issues from recycling to renewables and conservation to climate change, seek to make such eco-thoughts into eco-actions. Some of EcoAction’s most recent successes include a Renewable Georgetown, a grassroots campaign for renewable energy that led to the creation of the campus’s sustainability action committee and the university’s engagement in research with other DC schools into renewables. We also recently placed #10 in waste reduction for the 2008 Recyclemania competition and worked on a campaign to reduce plastic bag use in the dining hall. Looking ahead, we seek to start a plastic bag recycling program and expand general recycling efforts, expand the composting program, continue an initiative for biodiesel, work toward better energy efficiency and conservation, and become even more politically active–taking advantage of our place in the nation’s capital.
