Student Group Pushes Green Platform
September 5th, 2009 | by Clay Gump | Published in Environment, Politics | 6 Comments
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A student based group called UMD for Clean Energy is spearheading a campaign called Green for College Park where they plan to become very actively involved in the upcoming City elections to push forward clean energy policies.
Our campaign is to influence city politics by pushing a green platform with a clean energy policy that will set up an energy efficiency loan fund. This would be a pool of money that would be loaned out at a very low interest rate to finance energy efficiency upgrades and home improvements for residents of College Park.
There are challenges in getting students involved in City politics and UMD for Clean Energy seems to recognize this and is taking steps to ensure a high student turnout this fall.
Traditionally, there has been poor collaboration between students, residents of College Park, and the City Council. We want to break this trend by reaching out to the civic and community associations in College Park,
RTCP applauds this groups efforts at both improving the planet but also the Student/Resident relationship. We look forward to keeping up with their progress and working towards a better College Park for all.
September 5th, 2009 at 9:00 pm (#)
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September 6th, 2009 at 7:33 pm (#)
Are those cups recyclable?
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September 10th, 2009 at 11:59 am (#)
The “The Flower of College Park” has spawned in University Park. There are numerous current examples near my curb.
See many photos in of the FCP in its native habitat – http://www.flickr.com/groups/703861@N24/
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September 10th, 2009 at 7:03 pm (#)
PGCist,
Love the flickr group. I’d love to write up a post about the problem of those cups and any possible suggestions for curtailing their use. Any suggestions? Mind if I use a few of your pics on the post?
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March 10th, 2010 at 12:57 pm (#)
[...] In our blitz, we got co-authored guest posts in Maryland Politics Blog (#1 progressive blog in MD), Rethink College Park (most popular College Park blog), interviewed on Just Up the Pike (popular Montgomery County blog), [...]
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July 22nd, 2010 at 4:23 pm (#)
[...] statewide blogs covering Maryland politics. They were able to post to Maryland Politics Blog and Rethink College Park, and more. Next the campaign reached out to national climate and environmental politics blogs. [...]
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