Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  Students socialize before the start of the AU launch Announcements Africa Policy Conference @ UNC Perfect Presidential Platform crafted @ UGA Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More National Press Chronicle of Higher Education The Nation LA Times New York Times > More "It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." — Teddy Roosevelt    Reducing our dependence on foreign, harmful, and unsustainable energy > Roosevelt Home > Roosevelt Challenges > Energy Challenge The way America uses fossil fuels interferes with every other progressive goal. Our environment is being not only threatened by global climate change, but by extraction efforts that invade pristine wildernesses and level whole mountains in the greedy quest for oil and coal. Huge economic resources are being poured into the ground when they could be used to create jobs for Americans in sustainable energy and conservation. Internationally, our oil use enriches oppressive dictatorships and theocracies, undermines our democratization efforts, props up and funds terrorist groups, and provides a powerful diplomatic weapon for rivals to use against us and our allies. The Roosevelt Institution is committed to developing practical ways to reduce our fossil fuel use through reduced energy consumption and moves to other sources of energy. This national steering committee is for people at each chapter who are coordinating that school's involvement in the energy challenge. Please join if you'd like to be involved (more info on steering committees). Olivia A Katz is the policy coordinator for this challenge. Group members: Olivia A Katz Thomas H Au Todd M Bandhauer Dave Baumann Andra M Belknap Nick R Bradley Molly E Canty KiYonna Carr Warren S Carter James D Coan Kirti Datla Sean P Doherty David Dolginow Richard Dovere Tarsi V Dunlop Stephen P Durham James D Elias James S Fallon Ted Fertik Daniela V A Fiedler Justin Floyd David A Gottesman Nicholas B Greenfield Michael K Hernandez Amanda R Hillman Giselle J Howard Kevin Hsu Charles R Keller Robert J Kemper Jonas Ketterle Brandon H Key James D Lamond Jeffrey K Landgren Andy Lee Tanya Lee Jenna Lipscomb Lindsay K Looft Mark H Madsen Alison % Marklein Zach Marks Joshua D Murphy Sarah B Myers Angela Nagy Sarah E Pace Adam R Perry David W Richardson Andrew A Rohrbach Nicholas R Santos Nessia S Sloane Louie Sloven Kristen D Spires Alina Syunkova Syd L Terry III Kedron J Touvell Lindsay E Ullman emily r hallet megan e sharrow Jeroen van Bommel   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 1527 New Hampshire Avenue NW, 4th Floor / Washington, DC 20036 || Fax: (202) 483-2657