<p>A few friends and I created an Environmental Club at my school late last year, so we only had time for one meeting. I'm going to pioneer our way through the beginning of next year up to elections and all - I have experience with that already, so I'm not worried about it.</p>
<p>But what do you guys do in your environmental clubs on a weekly basis? Do you discuss environmental issues? Raise money and donate? Volunteer? Political lobbying? Competitions?</p>
<p>I just don't want to seem like I'm trying too hard. Other clubs can do all kinds of things because they've established their credibility already.</p>
<p>I'm not in ours, but ours goes to the bahamas every other year. They go to this place where there's not a lot of modern conveinces and they do "enviornmental" things I guess.</p>
<p>But what do you do on a weekly basis? At each meeting do you just discuss ways to improve the recycling situation in your community or something?</p>
<p>I wasn't able to get involved with ours this year, but it holds fundraisers, like selling candy canes in december and having bake sales and such to raise money to donate to NGOs. In my school, it was just created this year, so more stuff might develop in later years, but from what I can see there hasn't been much done as of yet (my friend is the secretary).</p>
<p>Hehe, I did that already. No course, though :(.</p>
<p>Actually, we should definitely petition for one. We have an Oceanography/Meteorology sophomore year course for those who don't get into Chemistry, and AP Enviro would be the logical next step...</p>
<p>My school's environmental club takes out the recycle bins in every class room. Maybe 1-2 times a year they have a drive. They stand out by a special carpool parking lot by my school and give candy on some days to kids because they carpool. I don't have the time to be on it, so I'm a vegetarian (saves way more water that way) and recycle whenever I can.</p>
<p>My old school's (I dropped out) environmental club recycles, holds fundraisers, and plants trees and all the other typical but not outstanding stuff IIRC. I looked at it as I care about the environment but ultimately didn't join because I favor a more another approach for environmental protection and didn't want to get into conflict or anything (that and a schedule with science team).</p>
<p>Answering the topic question, I used to be an environmentalist but my study of astronomy has made me realize that the Earth is ultimately doomed (I am a vegetarian and am very down-to-earth with resource consumption). I definitely am for stricter regulations on pollutants and on preserving biodiversity but as I realize that the Earth will not last indefinitely, protecting the Earth's environment will ultimately become a lost cause due to the Sun's eventual evolution to a red giant so our goal is to bring biodiversity elsewhere by then. We should celebrate biodiversity, not necessarily the Earth.</p>
<p>Environmental Club is so much fun at my school! We sit around in the early morning once a week and complain about how no one cares about the environment... Sometimes we even make signs that say "Save the Earth: Recycle!" </p>
<p>About once a year we go clean a highway.</p>
<p>And we have an annual camping trip up in the north woods.</p>
<p>Our crowning acheivement this year was to get solar panels put on the roof.</p>
<p>I was thinking of cleaning local parks and highways. And I've already suggested that we buy recycling bins for every classroom and collect them every Friday or something and drive them (two minutes away!) to the local recycling center.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for these ideas. Anybody else? :)</p>
<p>Ok.... I don't know if you are into endangered species or not but WWF (world wildlife fund) has a thing for kids ( and there's a section for like college students too) called pennies for planets. This year all the money is going to the big cats conservation efforts.</p>
<p>At our school we had a recycling race during "earth week". Crazy competition between dorms (you could do between grades).</p>