Rising to the Challenge

Are you a student?

Are you Native?

Are you concerned for our Mother Earth?

Well then join the Campus Climate Challenge campaign!!!!

Campus Climate Challenge is a nation-wide campaign engaging students from all backgrounds to address global warming and climate change. Global warming and climate change will affect everyone but it will affect us Native folk more! This we where we come in, Black Mesa Water Coalition is working with Southwest Native students (K-college) on global warming awareness and steps schools can take to reduce carbon emissions on their campuses.

Interested in making a difference?

BMWC Campus Climate Challenge Coordinator
Black Mesa Water Coalition

 Chelsea Chee
 chelsea.rc@gmail.com
 (928) 213-5909 or (928) 556-3138



Access the Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Toolkit:


Check out Campus Climate Challenge on the web:
www.campusclimatechallenge.org

Power Shift 2009 Indigenous Keynote Speakers:
Video footage of Keynote speakers, Clayton Thomas-Muller (Indigenous Environmental Network), Wahleah Johns (BMWC) and Enei Begaye (BMWC)

-The Clayton Thomas-Muller speech is now available here:
youtube powershift09

-The Enei and Wahleah speech is available here:
youTube PowerShift09

Upcoming Events

Look what we have done

  • January 17-19, 2009: "Power Shift to Navajo Green Jobs Youth Summit Window Rock, AZ.

  • February 27-March 2, 2009: "National Power Shift 2009 Washington, DC.

    More information to come.

  • April 18, 19, 20, 2008: 2nd Southwest Climate Justice Summit
    Diné College, Tsaile Campus, One Circle Dr. Route 12 Tsaile, AZ

  • November 2-5, 2007: Power Shift 2007 @ University of Maryland, Washington D.C.

    Took a delegation of 17 native people (youth, students, and adults) to participate in the first-ever national youth summit on climate change. We were apart of thousands of youth who got together to solve the climate crisis by attending workshops and panels, listening to speakers and good music, and educating on Capitol Hill.

  • May 2007: Featured in Vanity Fair’s "The Green Issue"

    BMWC's Wahleah Johns and IEN's Jihan Gearon were photographed on page 261!!! Young beautiful women working to Save Our Mother Earth!!! Click on magazine image to view photo.

  • March 30 – April 1, 2007: Southwest Climate Justice Summit

    Students and community members from across the Southwest participated in the first Southwest Climate Justice Summit. The summit focused on energy, global warming, and the power of students and young people to help stop the climate crisis by organizing both on and off campus for clean energy solutions.

BMWC Campus Climate Challenge Coordinator
Black Mesa Water Coalition
 1823 North Center Street,
 Suite #204 Flagstaff, AZ 86004
 chelsea.rc@gmail.com
 (928) 213-5909 or (928) 556-3138

http://www.campusclimatechallenge.org
http://www.blackmesawatercoalition.org
 

Glossary

Global Warming: The progressive gradual rise of the Earth's average surface temperature thought to be caused in part by increased concentrations of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) in the atmosphere.

Climate Change: Refers to changes in long-term trends in the average climate, such as changes in average temperatures. In IPCC usage, climate change refers to any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity. In UNFCCC usage, climate change refers to a change in climate that is attributable directly or indirectly to human activity that alters atmospheric composition.

Visit links to learn more and how to get involved!
www.campusclimatechallenge.org or www.itsgettinghotinhere.org