| About ECO
| About ECO
ECO-OSU is a grass-roots environmental organization established on the Oklahoma State University campus. ECO-OSU is an action oriented club, maintaining that people can make a difference in their world and are responsible for their actions within it.
ECO-OSU is not a pizza and pop student organization. We do not exist to further the career goals of any college or major. We do encourage the growth of students as active participants in the representative democracy of this nation.
We are dedicated to creating better environmental awareness and action towards the goal of sustainability locally, nationally, and internationally.
Our function is threefold:
There are two mainstays of ECO, the standing committees. These are the Earth Day Steering Committee and the eco film project. Other issues form ephemeral committees from issues the membership brings forward as an action items.
We are affiliated with the Sierra Student Coalition, the student led arm of the Sierra Club. To find out what the SSC is doing in Oklahoma, join the listserve.
We hold general group meetings every two weeks. See the meeting schedule on our calendar. All meetings are open to all interested persons.
Minutes are recorded at each meeting. To see the minutes
Please contact Jessica Coryell at jessica.coryell@okstate.edu with any questions, comments, or suggestions for the web site. To contact the officers send an email to the officer listserve.
Our mailing address:
ECO-OSU| President | Brooke Brandon |
| Vice President | Blake Parks |
| Treasure | Rachel Branch |
| Secretary | Erin Oglesby |
| Outreach Coordinator | Kat Sever |
| Recycling Committee Chair | Kevin Fink |
| Webmaster | Yuriko Mori |
| Advisor | Tamara Mix |
Officers are elected at the second-to-last meeting of the spring semester (typically in April). For a more exhaustive account of the criteria for being an officer, see the constitution.
^ topSee it as a web page or download it as a word file.
Our constitution was revised in spring 2003. The changes were:
Minutes are recorded at each official meeting by the Secretary. They are usually posted to the Web site within three days of the meeting, and emailed out to the list serve.
As a recognized student group, we maintain an account with Campus Life. We provide an excel file of our account balance to maintain transparency. Any questions about the account should be addressed to the treasurer.
ECO-OSU should host and maintain five listserves to aid communication within the community. Unfortunately, nobody has really maintained them for two years, so they are probably out of date and send messages to the wrong people. For assistance you may contact the list master. You may modify your preferences, join, or leave from the "options" link beside the description of each listserve. You may view the archives (if you are member of the list serve) by following the "archive" link beside the listserve description.
You can join by email by using the general formula:
Send to: listserv@listserv.okstate.edu
Body: <subscribe OR unsubscribe> <listname> <first name> <last name>
For example:
Send to: listserv@listserv.okstate.edu
Body: subscribe ECO-OSU George Bush
This is the group announcement listserve. Typically this means meeting announcement, reminders, minutes from meetings, and information that the group as a whole requests. The list is open to anyone who wishes to be "in the loop". This list is moderated and announcements are often held, consolidated, and then posted as a digest by the moderator.
This is the group discussion list and community announcement listserve. The list is "open" (meaning anyone may join) and not moderated.
The discussion of diverse topics is okay on this listserve, as it is meant to be a forum for intellectually stimulating conversation between members who join.
Is the administration about to initiate a campus-wide recycling program? Is Bush eroding landmark environmental legislation? Is there a cool seminar on permaculture in Tulsa? Let everyone know!
The officer listserve was created to facilitate information exchange between the officers. It is now public as well. This is to allow the membership to directly contact all officers to submit agenda items, concerns, questions, praise, etcetera. Do not be afraid to use it as such. Email the officer listserve.
The Earth Day listserve formed to better connect the members of the Earth Day Steering Committee. It is typically unused until the spring semester. For more information see the EDSC page.
This list was originally formed to be an announcement list serve to keep the campus informed of efp films. However it has become the discussion list for the efp committee instead.
If you would like to join the efp committee, share comments, suggest movies, or tell us what a good job we are doing, email us.
The OSU-Activist group discussion listserve included members of at least 4 activism student groups, professors, and many other people around the community, but has fallen into disrepair. The moderator is absent, and it has been subscribed to some wacko list serve which posts like 3 times daily.
Subscribe at your own risk. I suggest using eco-talk for this purpose instead.
The OKLAHOMA-STUDENTS list serve is used by youth in Oklahoma for announcements of student environmental events and discussion of environmental issues students are concerned or interested in. It is also used to exchange ideas on what events work well, how to keep a group going strong, or anything else that may be useful in organizing students around environmental issues. It is sponsored by the Oklahoma Chapter of the Sierra Club. Anyone may subscribe to this list. Click here to subscribe.
^ topThis is the third incarnation of ECO's web page
The original format came from Haran's Sinorca design which can be found at OSWD. It was chosen for its simplicity and level of compliance with the w3c's standards.
We currently have more ideas for the website than we have time to put it together properly.
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