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After the College Sustainability Report Card ranked CU among the top 15 sustainable colleges of 2010, the CU Environmental Center has been working on and developing a new project: the Energy and Climate Revolving Fund.

A small crowd of students, faculty and community members gathered at Old Main auditorium Thursday morning to hear Gov. Bill Ritter and CU Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson speak about the commitment of the state and the university to environmental issues and sustainability.

Colorado officials are planning dramatic change to the problem of global warming. Politicians, energy executives and students all converged on CU Monday night at the Center for Energy and Environmental Security’s presentation entitled “The Global Energy Crisis- Colorado’s Response.

The CU Law School hosted the first national climate change conference this weekend in the Wittemyer Courtroom of the Wolf Law Building. The conference was a success with over 150 people in the audience. The conference featured 12 speakers from all over the country that have a prominent voice in finding solutions for environmental injustices that effect poor communities and communities of color.

The CU Law School and Natural Resources Law Center will sponsor the first-ever National Climate Change Conference this week to examine the legal, economic and social effects of climate change on people in America and worldwide. The conference, which will be held on March 16 and 17 in the Wolf Law Building, will feature leaders in environmental justice from across the nation, including Colorado Congressman Mark Udall and National Wildlife Federation chair Jerome Ringo.

Believe it or not, diversity rates on the CU campus have increased. While some feel the university is doing as much as possible to increase diversity rates, others feel the university is not doing enough. The Office of Diversity and Equity was established in 1998 to present a strategic plan for diversity.

The University of Colorado Student Union ratified a resolution Thursday night to commit the campus to climate neutrality.

The bill was passed unanimously, and it dedicates CU to a state of existence that emits no net release of greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming and climate change.

The Environmental Center is asking CU students, staff and faculty members to be Climate Heroes by taking part in the CU Wind Challenge 1000.

The challenge asks for 1000 CU students, staff or faculty members to purchase Renewable Energy Credits (REC’s) in order to offset carbon emissions from campus.

Students on the CU campus deal with the police on almost a daily basis. The CU Police Department deals with everything from giving out nuisance party tickets to directing traffic on campus. But to many students, police officers are seen merely as the authority figures who come in to break up a party or stop a demonstration.

This Thursday the International Film Series will screen Al Gore’s summer movie “An Inconvenient Truth” twice in Muenzinger Auditorium at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.

A discussion panel will immediately follow the 7 p.m. screening with speakers from the City of Boulder Climate Action Plan, CoPIRG and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research.