Affordable Housing and Homelessness // Carleton students are lobbying for the passage of the Housing Solutions Act by generating student postcards to their elected officials. They are organizing a sleep-out to raise awareness about homelessness issues on the mini-bald spot, implementing a campus kitchen, partnering with a student group that works with veterans, finding organizations that will be able to use the campus kitchen (meals on wheels, vets, etc), and prepping for the Housing Solutions Act Vigil at the State Capitol in April.

Detox Minnesota! // MPIRG students worked with the Northfield City Council to successfully pass a resolution through the Council supporting statewide legislation calling for a phase out of bisphenol-A and phthalates, two dangerous chemicals found in children's products.

Detox Forum speakers talk with Carleton MPIRG students.

Environment // Carleton is participated in the Dorm Wars, a challenge to pit dorms against one another in an effort to decrease energy usage and to raise awareness of energy conservation issues and waste reduction. MPIRG students are organizing an Environmental Racism Panel. Students attended Clean Energy Lobby Day and a Student Forum with Governor Pawlenty on March 3.

Student Contacts
Cristina Sainati sainatic@carleton.edu
Jill Rodde roddej@carleton.edu
Mikaela Hagen hagenm@carleton.edu
Matt Cole colem@carleton.edu
Kristina Taketomo taketomk@carleton.edu
Becky Canary-King canarykb@carleton.edu

Campus Organizer
Karmann Peters, extension 303, karmann@mpirg.org

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