Upcoming Events
Previous Adventures
(1/31/2025) Outdoors Club and EEEP collaborated to put together a hike at O-Hill in Charlottesville to reconnect with nature during a busy semester and discuss environmental policy
Previous Meetings
February 2025 General Body Meeting (1/21/2025)
- Meeting with Office of Sustainability
- Ev and Jackie met w Emily Irvine (Office of Sustainability in C’ville)
- Emily is going to send us her monthly report that she also sends to City Council
- Hoping to do some kind of “ambassador program” to connect UVA students with City
- Office of Sustainability also does workshops on sustainability in Cville that we would like to try to co-sponsor this spring
- Research Tasks
- Environmental Policy 101 Page
- Sustainability groups in Cville and UVA
- Uplift groups doing similar work (Sofia volunteered)
- Cville 100 Event Recap
- Climate/sustainability organizations in Charlottesville and at UVA met last Thursday and discussed our various missions
- Going to forward their deets our to our listserv, will also be a good starting point for our website page on other orgs
- Potential outreach to: Profit with Purpose and Citizens Climate Lobby
November 2024 General Body Meeting (1/15/2024)
- (Passed) Kelsie Hove elected Outreach Chair after Evelyn Lepsch stepped down
January 2025 General Body Meeting (1/24/2025)
- EEEP x ODC hike next Friday (1/31) at 3:30 in front of Slaughter rec center
- Outreach to various major/minor email lists
- Specifically: Systems engineering, civil engineering, environmental science, global sustainability, public policy, and ETP
- Website expansion to include:
- Environmental Policy 101 (i.e. national-scale basics)
- Things were doing (place for meeting times, future events, etc.)
- Tabling on the lawn (maybe?)
November 2024 General Body Meeting (1/15/2024)
- (Passed) Kelsie Hove elected Outreach Chair after Evelyn Lepsch stepped down
November 2024 General Body Meeting (11/15/2024)
- Short info session: What does environmental policy look like after the election?
- Research plans for the future
- Maybe add history of Charlottesville based in environment
- What is environmental racism
- Environmental behaviors/living sustainably
- Maybe some of the recent legislation from like the last 10 years or something?
- Maybe like summaries of cool articles about sustainability or something
- Outreach plans?
- (Passed) Kelsie Hove elected Outreach Chair after Evelyn Lepsch stepped down
October 2024 General Body Meeting (10/18/2024)
- Tabling for election related EP education
- Research team and website updates
- Should we add stuff to eeep.site about like, “why should you care about environmental policy”
- Place to maybe blog(?) about environmental politics in general, maybe add research about C’ville too
September 2024 General Body Meeting (9/18/2024)
- CIO status: approved!
- Outreach:
- Flyers, etc for October meeting
- Lawn Tabling?
- Discussed possibility of adding committee for reaching out to Sustainability Office at UVA and in Charlottesville to see if we can sit in on meetings or if there’s a way for us to be deeper in the know
- Discussed establishing committee for reaching out to other groups on grounds to see if they have any connections, insight, etc. on environmental policy things
April 2024 General Body Meeting (4/02/2024)
- Constitution ratified
- Elections
- President: Jackie hertz
- Vice President: Evelyn Lepsch
- Treasurer: Sophia Baez
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair: Emma Block
February 2024 General Body Meeting (2/27/2024)
- Goals for Spring Semester:
- Becoming a CIO
- Get Constitution ratified
- Temporary constitution committee- if interested please indicate on your attendance form or email me (hertz@virginia.edu)
- Regular meetings
- Reach out to Sustainability Offices (UVA and Cville)
- Refresh mission: to educate
- Website expansion
- Environmental positions of candidates ahead of Super Tuesday (next week!!)
September 2023 General Body Meeting (9/11/2023)
- Discussion of mission statement
- Team research to establish EEEP as unique club on Grounds
- Established plans/goals for Constitution