Students for Environmental Action

Events

Past Events

Movies On the Grass:
Sunday, September 14th, 8pm:
SEA is co-sponsoring the showing of King Corn. Come join us outside of Hale Library for a humorous look at corn production in the US.

April 21st - 22nd Several SEA members voluteered at the Green Festival in Chicago. Further information can be found here.

April 16th - 22nd EARTH WEEK! SEA, SGA, Flint Hills Sierra Club and Pathfinder sponsored Celebrate Earth Week! April 22nd was of course Earth Day.

April 14th 2007 National Day of Climate Action, SEA worked with Gamma Theta Upsilon to raise awareness at Open House about global warming. SEA also co-hosting a movie showing with the Flint Hills Sierra Club from 6:00pm to midnight at the UFM Multi-Purpose Room. The movies were:
-French Fries to Go
-Wind over Water
-Native Wind
-Earth to America
-SUV City
-Power Shift
-Out of Balance
-Bringing Down the Mountains
-Kilowatt Ours
-The True Cost of Food
-Range Wars
-The Vineyard Energy Project
-Storm in the Gulf
-Rising Waters

March 29th 2007 As part of the Season for Nonviolence, Medea Benjamin, representing Global Exchange, spoke at 8:00 PM in Union Station.

November 16th 2006 SEA hosted speaker Mike Caron from Lawrence's Save the Wakarusa Wetlands Campaign.

October 11th 2006SEA hosted "Dirty Coal or Clean Wind: You Decide," a lecture by Charles Benjamin from the Kansas Sierra Club. Information on topic

September 10th 2006SEA sponsored the showing of "The End of Suburbia" for the Movies on the Grass in the Coffman Commons in front of Hale Library. The turnout was stupendous!

April 19th 2006 SEA hosted our biannual environmental forum in the Flint Hills room in the Union. This year we had three speakers, two professors and one representative of the Land Institute, talk about various aspects of the prairie. Following the forum we had an Earth Week pub crawl! Press Release

February 10th 2006 After two grueling weeks of very intensive work, SEA did it! Friday February 10th we turned in our proposal to expand the shuttle system for the student bond surplus fund allocation. Read the product of our countless hours of work: Shuttle Expansion Proposal.  Despite an excellent proposal, the committee did not ask us back to formally present our proposal.

November 17th 2005 SEA hosted a guest speaker, Kevin Danaher, who gave a presentation on “Corporate Accountability and the Local Green Economy” in the Union Station. View his talk (1 1/2 hours length, Windows Media Player). Also see Kevin's latest project Here!

Dr. Kevin Danaher
April 21st 2005 SEA hosted a panel discussion on Wind Energy in the Kansas Flint Hills. Speakers included Lee Alision (Governor's office), Pete Ferrell (rancher and wind farm developer in Butler County), and Margee Stewart (owner of Running Bird ranch near the Konza Prairie). This program presented a variety of views on an important topic in Kansas. View the forum (1 1/2 hrs. length, Window Media Player).

SEA Wind Energy Forum
 

Need To Know Information

SEA COLLECTIVE BLOG - A dynamic forum for the collective sharing and discussing of environmental news both global and local. E-mail Kevin to get signed up to submit content yourself!

SEA Facebook Group

Welcome to the Students for Environmental Action website!

Students for Environmental Action is a student run organization at Kansas State University working to save and protect the environment. Find out more about us here!

If you would like to join our listserv to recieve info about the group and our meetings, just e-mail the webmaster Kate Glanville Here!      

Look What's Happening with SEA

Congratulations to SEA for winning best student organization in the 2008 Homecoming parade! It was a lot of fun, thanks to everyone who helped build the floats / came out to the parade. (Photos are posted on Facebook – to see them go to the Students for Environmental Action group.)

Football Gameday Recycling: "The SOONER you Recycle, the Better" was Saturday, 10/25. About the same amount was recycled as last time, which is good because there were less people. 23 people recycled the whole stadium in about an hour! Way to go!

Other Events SEA are Attending:

November 15: America Recycles Day: SEA and K-State will be involved this year.

November 15: K-State Gameday Recycling Please help out. E-mail Zack for detals.

Wednesday, November 19 – The Veg Pledge: – The Prairie Festival – First of all, if you haven't signed it, check it out and think about doing so.  It's just for one day!  Here's the petition where you can read about it:  http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/VegPledge2008/.  There is also a Facebook group you can "attend" and invite your friends to!  

For more detail on these events, come to SEA meeting every Tuesday nigths, 8pm in the K-State Union

SEA ran the first recycling program at the Wakarusa Music Festival in June of 2005! Click here to check out what we did or here to read an article about the recycling efforts.

Check out our page on the Wakarusa site here!

Wakarusa is just one example of the many exciting and ground breaking things SEA is doing. To find out what else we're working on click here!

SEA sells used notebooks at R & R Clothing and Costumes in Manhattan. R & R is located just north of Pat's Blue Ribbon on 12th St. Check them out when in Manhattan! (Open Mon-Sat Noon-7pm)

 

Last July SEA helped clean up the local Manhattan rivers. Check out what we did here!

There are many scholarships available for students who are interested in the environment

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SEA at MOG
SEA hosted Movies on the Grass featuring "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

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SEA group clean up of MOG

 

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