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Activists enlighten U on solar panels

City looks to speed up NJ rail line project

NJPIRG commencement welcomes new members

Council values NJPIRG's educational significance

Council improves quad plaza, endorses NJPIRG

NJPIRG puts hunger awareness on table

Students stand up for U.S. health care reform

Groups weatherize houses to save energy

Rutgers volunteers offer audits with bright ideas about energy efficiency

House passes act to frame affordable college loans
 

Campaigns of 2010!

Global Warming Solutions – Global warming is the crisis of our generation but we’re ready to solve it. We’ll educate the public about solutions to global warming by spotlighting those solutions in action – from the Livingston solar field to the Cape May wind project to local green businesses to Rutgers professors’ research on clean energy. We’ll also make sure we keep doing our part here on campus by organizing an energy-saving Dorm Competition.

Energy Service Corps – We’re in an energy crisis. Our current energy use is wasteful, inefficient, and comes from dirty sources that cause global warming. We’ll be working to promote energy efficiency in New Brunswick through community education, K-12 education, doing energy audits, and weatherizing homes.

Hunger and Homelessness – We live in the richest country in the world, but 35 million Americans don’t know where they’ll get their next meals. We’ll organize a huge Hunger Clean-Up to mobilize funds and volunteer power to assist agencies fighting hunger and homelessness in New Brunswick and abroad, and we’ll dispel the myths about hunger and homelessness in order to build the long-term support to end poverty in America.

21st Century Transportation – We need a transportation system that gets us around more efficiently with less pollution, by using mass transit and high-speed rail. We’ll raise the profile of this issue with media attention and we’ll generate the public support to stand up to the road-builders and developers, in order to build support for a 21st-century transportation future.

Affordable Health Care – Our current health care system is broken. As Congress decides on its final version of the health care bill, we need to stand up to insurance and drug companies and show that Rutgers students support real reform that cuts cost and makes health care reliable.

Mile Run Brook – The Raritan River provides drinking water for 1.2 million New Jersey Residents, but the Mile Run Brook is the former site of a chemical manufacturing plant that leaks toxins into the water and feeds into the Raritan. We’ll put pressure on the company to clean up the site and organize community clean-ups to shine more spotlight on the issue.

Bottled Water – Bottled water creates a ton of waste, uses a ton of oil in its production, and isn’t actually any cleaner than tap water. We’re launching a new campaign to educate the campus about this problem, and to start working with Rutgers on how the university can cancel its bottled water contracts.