Meeting+with+Simon+McIntosh

Yesterday I met with Simon McIntosh, a fellow student who also happens to be apart of the Student Climate Culture club (SCC) here at UVM. I had originally began this project with the goal in mind to eliminate natural gas/ fossil fuel usage from UVM. I thought that this was what divestment meant. Simon explained to me that there are two ways to tackle UVMs fossil fuel involvement. But first let me explain UVM's fossil fuel involvement. UVM does use fossil fuel / natural gas for certain tasks. UVM also invests in fossil fuel, which is what SCC is trying to eliminate. Simon told me that there are two ways to tackle this. 1. Top down Which is done by talking to people in charge, by expressing your passion for the earth and how fossil fuels are dangerous. 2. Bottom up Which is done by laying out plans for alternative uses, then presenting them. Simon and I concluded that if this is an important action to students then the best way to have that action take place would be to combine both combinations. The key to get any project started is to make it easy, especially when trying to change a method of how things are done, and its even harder to