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

This year, the E&E Center hopes to pursue a partnership with NYC as a student representative group for their OneNYC 2050 program. OneNYC is a long-term strategy and Green New Deal emphasizing community involvement and advocacy in combating the climate crisis, achieving environmental and economic equity, and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

As a backup plan, the Center will also look into developing lesson plans for the New Student Orientation Program (NSOP), ultimately creating a sustainability component that is required but engaging and entertaining. Currently, there are no required sustainability components and only offers one EcoReps sponsored “Green Tour.” Ultimately, we want to educate students on their personal responsibility to a healthy environment while at Columbia, but also emphasizing and putting eyes on the Columbia administration and local governments by highlighting their shortcomings and successes in climate programming, energy projects, and overall decarbonization.