Next SECS Meeting This Wednesday at 6:30! 🌱

Happy Monday, SECSgoers! Mad props to everyone who braved the treacherous icy wastelands of campus today – remember, ice and easy does it!

We are officially accepting applications for our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer position! The deadline to submit this interest form is 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, January 30th. Any interested applicants are welcome to attend the SECS board meeting this Sunday at 5pm in the Natural History Building Core. Apply today!

Our wonderful working groups are back in the thick of things this week. As always, bring a computer!

Action will be making a presentation for the Fossil Free Illinois Coalition building call.

Media will be making graphics for Action Week and working on the first steps of an ecobrick art project!

Education will continue working out the logistics of upcoming workshops for Action Week.

UIS Fossil Free Addendum will focus on different poster materials to increase engagement with the addendum and with other likeminded campus RSOs.

Solidarity Gardens will get started on ideas for the upcoming semester.

Our next meeting is Wednesday, January 23rd, at 6:30 p.m. at the Channing Murray Foundation (1209 W. Oregon Street).

Show up on Wednesday! Go green or go HOME!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Come to Illinois Enactus info night tomorrow, Tuesday, January 23rd from 7-8:30pm in Natural History Building Room 2079!

Are you a freshman/sophomore/junior looking to gain real work experience, build a social venture, find a tight-knit community, or address environmental/social issues in Champaign? Illinois Enactus is a social entrepreneurship organization at UIUC working towards the creation of sustainable enterprises that will address local environmental and social inequalities. 

Illinois Enactus has projects that range from reducing language barriers for local Q’anjob’al-speaking immigrants to tackling gender gaps within the healthcare field, while also endeavoring to explore innovation and technology in environmental topics with sustainability within fashion, paper-recycling, and water consumption-focused projects. 

Their spring recruitment schedule is as follows:
In-person Information Night: Tuesday, January 23rd at Natural History Building Room 2079 from 7-8:30pm
Virtual Information Night:  Sunday, January 28th on Zoom from 5pm-6pm
Application Due Date: Wednesday, January 31st at 11:59pm CST (link to application)

Fill out this interest form to stay updated and for reminders about the rest of the recruitment process! Feel free to reach out to [email protected]m with any questions.

Fill Out a Survey to Support a Sustainability Ged Ed!

Want to support sustainability education on campus? Illinois Student Council is collaborating with iSEE to push for the creation of a sustainability general education subcategory. This would not add any additional required courses, but would support professors who include sustainability curriculum in their courses. To show the administration that students want this we created a brief survey and are hoping to get as many responses as possible. Respond here!

For any questions, contact Hunter Farnham at [email protected]

Submit a sustainability short film!

Submit a short film centered around the concept of sustainability here by March 15th! The screening will be sometime in April.

Attend a media training with the Campus Climate Network!
On Sunday, January 28th, from 1-2pm Central, attend a virtual training focusing on press and media training. This training includes building relationships with journalists, making pitches, and more! Register here.

Visit TORIIS and take action!

TORIIS.earth is an organization that makes transparent the University of Illinois Systems inves tments and visualizes this data through an environmental lens. Throughout TORIIS, you can explore in depth the University of Illinois Systems’ investments, understand the scope and impact of its investments in the fossil fuel industry, and take action by signing the open letter requesting fossil fuel divestment from the University of Illinois.

Sign this petition!
Go here to sign a petition calling on President Biden and the Department of Energy to stop the construction of over 20 new liquified natural gas export facilities that would produce the same amount of emissions as 675 coal-fired power plants. Just one of these 20 facilities, known as CP2, would cause 20 times as much carbon pollution as Alaska’s Willow Project.

Listen to the SECS talk!
Listen here to our sustainability-focused podcast, the SECS talk! The most recent episode’s guest is Lina Avalos, a student at UIUC and an environmental justice advocate from the Southeast side of Chicago.

Sign the petition to save Weaver Park!

Weaver Park is a natural landscape in east Urbana that is currently at risk of being converted into soccer and baseball fields. To protect this park with inherent value, sign this petition.

If you’ve read this far, give some consideration to clicking right here for this week’s Down Under-themed surprise. Come again!

Contact Us!
President — Danika Ford (she/her)
[email protected]
Vice President — Rudy LaFave (he/him)
[email protected]
Treasurer — Averhy Sanborn (she/her)
[email protected]
Secretary — Julia San Miguel (she/her)
[email protected]
Action Coordinator — Trey McCallister (he/him)
[email protected]
Education Officer — Claire Sullivan (she/her)
[email protected]
Media Officer — Sophia Beem (she/her)
[email protected]
Community Chair — Joya Weissman (she/her)
[email protected]
Land Management Chair — Liam Henry (he/him)
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Outreach Coordinator — Izzy Wilder (she/her)
[email protected]

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