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Social Norms
After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Campus Climate Challenge

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The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of Energy Action Coalition, a group of over 30 youth organisations throughout the United States (US) and Canada. The Challenge leverages the power of young people, through collective advocacy and action, to organise on college campuses and high schools across Canada and the US to establish 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools. The Challenge is working - through interpersonal communication, community organising, and online interactivity - to grow a generation-wide movement to stop global warming, by reducing the pollution from high schools and colleges down to zero, and to lead North America to a clean energy future.
Communication Strategies

The Challenge launched on October 19 2005 to commemorate Energy Independence Day with the release of "New Energy for Campuses" in partnership with the Apollo Alliance. Since then, the Challenge has organised eight joint international actions, a number of summits and meetings, a direct youth lobbying effort at the international climate talks in Montreal, a summer-long biodiesel bus tour to re-energise the Detroit automakers, and thousands of campus and local events.

The ClimateChallenge.org website includes: a link to the Climate Challenge weblog (blog); videos and photos from the youth climate movement; a link to "Its Getting Hot in Here", an online blog project supporting a global movement of youth researching and reporting on global warming and its effects in their countries, communities, and individual lives; a listing of member campus and community groups; a "newsroom" with links to articles relevant to climate change; and a resources directory that includes: links to wiki books; a calendar of Challenge events; a jobs board for posting jobs, fellowships, scholarships, internships, awards, mini/personal grants, and similar opportunities; and a listing of online discussion forums on climate change issues.

In January 2007, Energy Action, through the Campus Climate Challenge, organised "Rising to the Climate Challenge", a week of action with in-person events on nearly 600 campuses in 49 states and eight Canadian provinces which reached 50,000 students. For more information on the week of action, please click here.

Development Issues

Environment, Climate Change, Youth.

Partners

Americans for Informed Democracy, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Black Mesa Water Coalition, Brower New Leaders Initiative, California Student Sustainability Coalition, CALPIRG, Campus Progress, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Clean Air Cool Planet, Climate Campaign, Climate Crisis Coalition, ConnPIRG, CoPIRG, Dakota Resource Council, Earth Day Network, Energy Justice Network, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, Free The Planet, Global Exchange, Greenpeace Student Network, Indigenous Environmental Network, INPIRG, Kids Against Pollution, League of Conservation Voters Education Fund: Project Democracy, League of Young Voters, MarylandPIRG, MASSPIRG, MoPIRG, National Association of Environmental Law Societies, National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Program, Net Impact, NJPIRG, OhioPIRG, OSPIRG, Restoring Eden, RYSE, Sierra Student Coalition, Sierra Youth Coalition, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Student Environmental Action Coalition, Students United for a Responsible Global Environment, Sustainable Endowments Institute, SustainUS, Utah Clean Energy, WashPIRG, WISPIRG, Young People For (YP4), and Youth Environmental Network.

Sources

ClimateChallenge.org, retrieved May 22 2008; and dgCommunities: Water Resources Management posting from Anuradha Bhattacharjee, "The Campus Climate Challenge," May 13 2007.