Boston University
ER-T2-1: Student Group

Boston University currently has 19 campus community groups related to sustainability of which three are directly focused on sustainability. The Environmental Student Organization strives to raise environmental awareness and create beneficial environmental change on campus as well as in the surrounding Boston community through outreach campaigns and community service. The BU Energy Club is a broad-based group consisting of graduates, gndergrads, alumni and professors that serves as a link between scientists and engineers, entrepreneurs and business-persons, and aspiring policy-makers & government officials at Boston University and other schools in the Greater Boston Area. They aim to synthesize energy-related ideas from a multi-disciplinary stream of educational and professional sources to advance understanding of energy and it’s role within society, industry, technology and policy through empirical, objective energy related education and outreach. The US Green Building Council Student Group (USGBC Students)recruits, connects and equips the next generation of green building leaders by empowering them to transform their campuses, communities and careers. USGBC Students at Boston University allows both graduate and undergraduate students to contribute to BU’s mission to encourage sustainable construction and renovation building projects. Members also get great benefits such as reduced student rates for LEED AP certification, networking and career support, seminars, and campaign resources.

1. The BU Environmental Coalition formed in January 2012 as a means of organizing the many sustainability-related groups and events on campus through the Student Union. 2. The Environmental Student Organization celebrated the second annual World Water Day at BU in March, 2012. 3. BU Energy Club held an open discussion in February, 2012 titled: "The Problems of the Future of Energy: An Introduction into the Energy Problem." 4. BU Branch Out has participated in numerous environmentally focused community service events since the group’s creation in 2012, such as volunteering at the Boston Nature Center and the New England Aquarium.

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