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Rachel Barge
- 23, Female
- Oakland, CA
- United States
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Profile Information
- Wild Gift Affiliation:
- Recipient
- Year of Wild Gift Award:
- 2008-09
- Current Address:
- 470 59th St
Oakland, CA 94609
- Phone Number:
- 949-533-0133
- Email Address:
- rachelcbarge@gmail.com
- Conservation/Sustainability Areas of Interest:
- Clean Energy Investment
Youth Energy Movement
Sustainable, Local Food Systems
Sustainable Transportation
- Current Work Title:
- Director - Campus INpower Project
- Current Work Website:
- http://www.campusINpower.org
- Current Work Mission and Description:
- The Campus INpower program is dedicated to training hundreds of student organizers at universities across the nation to establish large-scale campus sustainability funds, while helping connect these actions to a federal clean energy investment agenda. Our trainings offer cutting-edge portfolios of 7 different funding mechanisms, project ideas and training resources for initiatives such as energy efficiency, clean transportation, and the development of energy-related curricula. Campus INpower is committed to forwarding a new paradigm of student organizing which recognizes and embodies the essential role of students as thought-leaders, decision-makers and change-makers on their campus and in the world. Our goal is to inspire and empower a new generation of young leaders to transform their campuses into centers of clean energy innovation.
- Mentoring Expertise Offered:
- I founded an environmental leadership / mentoring organization at UC Berkeley called the Sustainability Team, which provides leadership opportunities to students through the implementation of sustainability projects on campus. The organization grew from 12 to 60 students under my 2 years as director, and is now the central environmental group at Cal. Older students mentor new students as they enter the environmental movement; together, we founded the first local, organic, student-run, cooperative produce stand on campus, among many other projects.
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Campus InPower has FIRST Campus Green Fee Success: Congrats UCSD!!!
Hooray! Campus InPower had its first official success today, with the passage of "The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF)" at UC San Diego. TGIF was lumped into a larger fee campaign called "Better Faster Stronger", which raised fees roughly $20 per quarter to support a variety of initiatives, from diversity training to student groups to sustainabil… Continue
Posted on February 9, 2009 at 2:16am — 2 Comments
The Green Bubble Bursts
The Green Bubble Bursts
Amid the energy crisis, Democrats are losing the high ground on the
environment to a GOP that is pushing oil drilling.
By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
September 30, 2008
As the election enters its endgame, Democrats and their environmental allies
face a political challenge they could hardly have imagined just a few months
ago. America's growing dependence on fossil fuels, once viewed as a
Democratic trump card held alongside the Iraq war and th… Continue
Amid the energy crisis, Democrats are losing the high ground on the
environment to a GOP that is pushing oil drilling.
By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
September 30, 2008
As the election enters its endgame, Democrats and their environmental allies
face a political challenge they could hardly have imagined just a few months
ago. America's growing dependence on fossil fuels, once viewed as a
Democratic trump card held alongside the Iraq war and th… Continue
Posted on September 30, 2008 at 6:35pm —
GLAMPING!? Ewww...
Eco-elitism at its finest: Glamping. Or, for us non-word-compacting individuals, glamorous camping.
Here's the NY times article about it:
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Camping? Yes. Roughing It? Not Quite.
By JENNIFER CONLIN
Published: September 14, 2008
IF the eco-friendly idea of falling asleep under the stars and roasting marshmallows around a campfire appeals to you, but the reality of pitching a tent and sleeping on bumpy ground does not, glamping, the new term being used for… Continue
Here's the NY times article about it:
______________________________________
Camping? Yes. Roughing It? Not Quite.
By JENNIFER CONLIN
Published: September 14, 2008
IF the eco-friendly idea of falling asleep under the stars and roasting marshmallows around a campfire appeals to you, but the reality of pitching a tent and sleeping on bumpy ground does not, glamping, the new term being used for… Continue
Posted on September 17, 2008 at 2:04am — 3 Comments
A Different Look at Deep Ecology
I thought folks might be interested in this blog post written by my co-worker at Breakthrough Institute. I don't have much experience with Deep Ecology but I know we'll be discussing it in depth on our trip, so that's why her post stuck out to me. Feel free to leave comments! Here's the article her post was referencing too.
http://breakthroughgen.org/2008/07/15/the-nihilism-of-deep-ecology/
http://spot.colorado.ed… Continue
http://breakthroughgen.org/2008/07/15/the-nihilism-of-deep-ecology/
http://spot.colorado.ed… Continue
Posted on July 21, 2008 at 5:43pm — 1 Comment
Comment Wall (8 comments)
- At 10:13am on May 6, 2009,
Elyssa Serrilli said… - thanks so much for starting campus in power! i've been wondering for about a year now if implementing a revolving fund would work for funding sustainability projects done by an AmeriCorps work crew... but really know nothing about how to start or run one. i'm psyched to check out the tool kit and learn more about this funding mechanism :)
- At 12:13pm on October 31, 2008,
Lauren Baumann said… - Hi Rachel,
How are you? I'm getting excited for GreenBuild! I am working on putting together a meet up for the Wild gift folks during the conference, since there will be quite a contingent of us there. Right now I am thinking that it might work best to all meet up after the conference ends on Friday the 21st after the final keynote for lunch. The keynote ends at 1, so we could all head out together after that and have some time to catch up and talk about our experience at the conference. Would that work for you? Let me know!
See you soon,
Lauren
- At 5:47pm on September 30, 2008,
Pete Land said… - thought you might be interested in this, ms. in-charge:
http://www.greenreportcard.org/
- At 2:22pm on September 22, 2008,
Rachel Barge said… - maracuja - passion fruit!
- At 2:22pm on September 22, 2008,
Pete Land said…
- that is an interesting reaction to cake.
- At 3:17pm on May 9, 2008,
Bob Jonas said… - Welcome, Rachel. I look forward to working with you this summer.
- At 7:25pm on May 8, 2008,
Pete Land said…
- hello again, rachel! FYI, you can change your WG affiliation from "applicant" to "recipient" by clicking "edit" at the bottom of the "about me" box on your profile page. also, please join the "leaders" group (by clicking the Groups tab at the top of the page).
thanks!
- At 7:07pm on May 8, 2008,
Joshua Marcus Greenberg said… - hi rachel,
your projects sound great...there are so many kids on so many college campuses that could do much good by doing just little bit more (from what i could tell working on campus the last 4 years). anyways, hello. i look forward to sharing some ideas in idaho. sincerely, joshua
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