ERAC

Club Description

The Energy Resources Awareness Council (ERAC) investigates and discusses of energy and environment-related topics in politics, engineering, community, and activism. We seek to foster knowledge and thought about the energy infrastructure of our world.

We occasionally supplement our weekly discussions with movie/documentary showings on various topics relating to energy use and the environment. Some of the films previously shown include Who Killed the Electric Car?, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, and An Inconvenient Truth. We want to continue these showing for club members and as special weekend events (maybe in Kemper).

We are also launching a series of hands-on projects in spring term that will allow students to learn about sustainable technologies. For example, we have kits to build miniature solar cars, and if there is enough interest and active participation from club members, we are planning on building a bicycle-powered blender (which will allow ERAC to sell smoothies to increase club funds!). Join us in Gelb on Tuesdays at 5:45 (we keep our meetings short for those with musical commitments) and help progress ERAC’s role fun, informative, and influential club that it seeks to be.