- Passion for sustainability, environmental protection, and playing an active role in the climate crisis
- Student in any accredited college
- Actively pursuing any degree (AA, BA, BS, graduate) and any major (all are welcome!)
- IDEAL: community/campus involvement, leadership experience, graphic design/social media skills
Our planet.
Our colleges.
Our voices.
Our mission is to empower students to sustainably better the world around them, starting on their very own college campuses, and evolve into the next generation of environmental leaders.
We do this by providing students the education, resources, trainings, and opportunities to be a part of the change-making process at colleges, where students are uniquely situated to make change. Together, we work to systematically implement sustainable initiatives in every aspect of university administration, including curriculum, dining, energy, student life, and long-term planning.
We value representation, collaboration, creativity, equity, and individual leadership.
Everyone is welcome and valued in our movement: students, university staff, industry professionals, and other student groups.
Research, analysis, collaboration, outreach, and passion are at the forefront of our work.
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Learn more about the program requirements, duties, and benefits.
- Work a minimum of 3-4 virtual hours per week
- Attend weekly meetings with their campus ambassador team or initiative committee to discuss updates, progress, next steps, etc.
- Be able to complete self-led work, including research, outreach, and proposal writing
- Be able to work collaboratively in areas such as research, outreach, and proposal writing
- Attend monthly meetings with all other ambassadors and members of the administrative team
- Attend quarterly conferences with ambassadors from across the country and the world, where they will be witness to presentations from global sustainability professionals and opportunities for professional development and networking
- Employment as a faculty member (e.g., professor, department coordinator, sustainability director) at any 2-4 year university in any country
- Interest in helping guide students in navigating the environmental decision-making process at your school/schools in general
- Passion for advancing sustainable initiatives on campus
- Help start an ambassador chapter at your school
- Ability to meet for one hour with other faculty advisors and GCP team every other week
- Ability to help lead weekly 30-minute meetings with your campus chapter
- Email hadley@usgreenchamber.com with any questions and to apply
Our team utilizes two unique models as we seek to push universities towards change and bring key stakeholders together.
TCA: Transparency, Commitment, Action
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Universities must let the public hold them accountable for their sustainability efforts, or lack thereof, so that there can be continual bettering of even the best of existing protocols and initiatives.
Considering insight from students, academics, and climate professionals, universities must then make concrete commitments to do better. Examples are committing to reach net zero emissions by 2030 and creating a comprehensive Climate Plan with both short-term and long-term strategies and goals.
Long-term commitments achieve nothing if there is no real-time progress. The time is now.
BAM: Boldly Align and Mobilize
Click to learn more about each component of BAM, as created by Dr. Glenn Hallam..
…set high expectations for other organizations and their leaders, striving to influence universities, cities and large consumers of energy.
…other climate leaders. We all need to be working together and focused on driving real change, whether we’re part of Climate Reality, Sunrise Movement, University Climate Ambassadors, or a green team. Let’s challenge other leaders to think bigger and sooner for the planet.
…a movement — not just a team, but a powerful wave, capable of disrupting organizations if they continue to drag their feet.
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