Students rally against global warming

activism - Pacific group is pushing county officials to sign national pledge to cut emissions

The Forest Grove News-Times, Nov 14, 2007, Updated Oct 30, 2009 (3 Reader comments)

By Nick Engelfried

For the News-Times

A group of Pacific University students wishes that the county where they go school was cooler.

That’s why earlier this month they joined a nationwide effort to draw attention to climate change, bringing a a guitar, petitions and a six-foot-long banner to downtown Hillsboro, asking Washington County officials to “Cut Greenhouse Emissions 80% by 2050.”

It was all part of Step It Up 2007, an effort to get local elected officials focused on finding solutions to global warming.

Students for Environmental Activism, a group based on Pacific’s Forest Grove campus, organized the Nov. 3 event outside the Washington County Administrative Building.

They positioned themselves on a busy street corner next to the county building, drawing curious looks from motorists waiting at the stoplight.

The Forest Grove contingent was joined by members of Washington County Peak Oil, a group advocating development of alternative energy sources, and others who learned about the rally from the Step It Up 2007 web site.

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