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New York Student Sustainability Coalition is  coordinating action in New York State for environmental, social, and economic sustainability, and serving as a communication network between educational institutions.

Guiding Principles:
-Sustainability, meeting the needs of the current generation without compromising the next generations.
1)      Environmental
a.      Stewardship of resources
b.      Conservation
c.      Preservation
d.      Bio-centrism

2)      Social
a.      Communication
b.      Educational
c.      Equity
d.      Environmental Justice (anti-oppression) principles

3)      Economic
a.      Corporate Responsibility
b.      Internalize externalities
c.      Accountability
d.      Balance of economics and sustainability
e.      Economic Incentives
f.       Green Jobs
g.      Just transition
h.      Sustainability Economy

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Help build schools in developing countries!

BwB has built 230 schools around the world since 1992. In addition to facilitating the building of schools, BwB also provides adult literacy and numeracy education through a Community Education Program. Together, the schools and Community Education Program provide children and their families access to the benefits of education, including literacy, health education, improved farming techniques, and perhaps most importantly, a sense of dignity and empowerment.

Currently, BwB is building schools in Haiti, Nepal, Nicaragua, Malawi and Mali, including 12 schools built in 2007 in partnership with Millennium Promise. This partnership will expand in 2008 - BwB and Millennium Promise will build 32 new schools in Mali and nearby Senegal.

Visit www.buildingwithbooks.org to find out how you can help change lives!

The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of more than 30 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Challenge leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses and high schools across Canada and the U.S. to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools. The Challenge is growing a generation-wide movement to stop global warming, by reducing the pollution from our high schools and colleges down to zero, and leading our society to a clean energy future.

We call on our leaders to follow these guiding principles as they make decisions that will determine our future:

1. A just climate policy must be scientifically based – The US must enact mandatory caps on greenhouse gas pollution that ensures the peak and decline of global carbon emissions before 2015 towards a minimum of 80% emissions reductions below 1990 levels before mid-century in order to avoid a climate catastrophe.
2. An ambitious plan to revolutionize our energy, agriculture and transportation systems with measurable targets is essential.  We must immediately shift all federal funding and subsidies away from dirty energy towards research and implementation of clean technologies.
3. A just climate and energy policy cannot rely on any forms of dirty energy such as so-called “clean coal” or nuclear power.  We must recognize the disproportionate impact of global warming and dirty energy on low-income, people of color and indigenous communities and ensure a just transition that improves and supports their physical, social and economic health.
4. We must prioritize major reductions in total energy use.  Cost-effective energy conservation and efficiency measures can cut energy demand by more than half.  All of our remaining energy needs, including transportation, can be met by zero-emission renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.  No combination of "alternative" fuels (from corn, coal or otherwise) can replace our oil addiction.  Highly efficient, zero-emission electric cars and plug-in hybrids can be fueled up with wind-powered electricity more cheaply and conveniently than we can fill up with oil, biofuels or hydrogen.
5. The development of a just climate and energy policy must include all stakeholders, not just business, government, and large environmental groups. Because every American, no matter their age or economic status, will be affected by climate change, it is crucial that a broad and diverse group, including communities that are disproportionately impacted by the energy industry, have seats at the table as this policy is crafted. As the generation that will inherit the impact of the decisions we make today, young people must be given a particularly important seat at the table.

Then, circulate the petition to your peers on-campus and in your community so that they can tell the FDA that enough is ENOUGH! We need to provide access to emergency contraception for women under the age of 18!

And, here's another thing you can do today: Advocates for Youth and Choice USA urge you to Take Action! Call or visit your local pharmacies and ask if they stock Plan B. It's easy!

Just say "Hello, I'm wondering if you have Plan B in stock".

Then let us know what happened! Together, we can use this information to educate other people in your community. You can report back using one of the following methods:

Call or visit your local pharmacies today and make sure they stock Plan B, the only dedicated brand of EC.

In America, where 95% of the annual 800,000 teenage pregnancies are unintended and quality reproductive services for young women are often limited, young activists like you must take action to make emergency contraception more widely available.

Remember - it's important to make EC your priority! Call your local pharmacy today!