Co-Center Director: Savannah Jones (sbj2127@columbia.edu)

Co-Center Director: Nicole Xiao (nlx2000@columbia.edu)

This semester, the E&E Center hopes to continue a series of discussions with the administration in five areas of student sustainability concerns: building efficiency, water use, energy sourcing, divestment, and fossil fuel-free research. We will push for firm commitments from the administration and written responses to these five concerns. To do this, we will partake in research, various interviews, active actions (such as the March to End Fossil Fuels), and other forms of publicizing to get more students involved in these discussions. Our main goal is to include students in administrative processes that should have always been transparent, truthful, and accessible to all. Because of this, we are coordinating alongside faculty, staff, and other student “green groups” for these discussions and activities. Alongside this goal, the Center will also partake in research regarding the electrification of the University’s heating and cooling systems to better understand and articulate where our concerns for energy sourcing are really coming from and to confront the university with our answers.