Green Course - Students for the Environment
Green Course is Israel's largest volunteer
organization for the Environment, committed to promoting environmental
awareness and training the environmental leaders of the future.
Green Course, the only
nation-wide student environmental organization in Israel, was founded
under the auspices of the Society for the Preservation of Nature (SPNI)
in 1997. We now have over 6,000 volunteer students in 26 chapters in
universities and colleges across Israel, including 1000 new members
this year. All of the leading academic institutions in Israel now
actively provide organizational resources for Green Course chapters
(e.g. Hebrew University, the universities of Tel Aviv, Bar-Ilan and
Haifa, Weizman Institute).
Celebrating 10 Years!!!
For Green Course volunteers and alumni this has been a special year as
we celebrated 10 years of activities and achievements. In light of
current issues, Green Course rallied for Clean Air in Haifa, Jerusalem
and Tel-Aviv; over 400 citizens, children and youth expressed their
wish for clean air as well as their support for Green Course's
activities.
October 2007
Embarking on a new academic year Green Course is expanding its scope of
activities and outreach; we are excited to open new chapters in the
Ohalo College and the Open University of Israel, bringing the total
number of chapters across Israel to 27 (including our Alumni Chapter).
Our strategic challenge this year will be to leverage the increasing
environmental awareness in the public and media into actual change of
policy.
Our Challenges for this Year
- Increasing pressure against building a new Coal Power Plant in Ashkelon
- Promoting a solar power plant in the Negev
- Clean Air Act - campaign for clean air
- Alternatives for the power plant in Ashkelon
- Promoting public transportation
- Ramat Hovav Industrial Zone - decreasing pollution
- Kinneret - promoting enforcement of access
- Shfdan - promoting alternative for polluting refinery
- Eilat Beaches - securing water quality
- Necessity for a change in the energy policy of Israel
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