We got to feature the new SEAC chapter at the University of Michigan in the awesome school newspaper The Independent. Check out the article below! We also got more than 40 contacts from students interested in the group today at the student organizational fair.

What exactly is this environment that we hear about so much these days? Is it the atmosphere? The rain forest (which one)? Yellowstone? The Fish Bowl? Our pocketbooks? What if it were all these things? What if the environment were the totality of the social, political, economic and cultural conditions in which we all live? That is Environment with a capital E. How would you relate to it?

The Student Environmental Action Coalition (www.seac.org) is a national youth and student led organization that acts in accordance with this holistic definition of the Environment. From SEAC's vantage, the environment is not a distant entity in need of rescue – it is all-surrounding. For the communities that bear the greatest Environmental burdens -- including poverty, racism, police brutality, domestic violence, lead poisoning, and high asthma and cancer rates -- it is in need of immediate improvement. SEAC works to bridge campus and community organizations to take collective action on the urgent Environmental issues that affect their regions.