College ‘Green Teams’ Tackle Pressing Environmental and Climate Challenges

College students from 30 universities are tackling pressing environmental and climate challenges at Montclair State University this summer as part of the PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies’ annual “Green Teams” program. These challenges include inequalities exacerbated by climate change, notably food insecurity in Paterson, flood mitigation in Washington Township, and the impact of replacing natural sports fields with artificial turf in Verona.

We’re thinking big, we’re thinking long term, we’re thinking locally. We’re thinking through an environmental justice and a social justice lens.

Since 2016, the Green Teams program has been a platform for launching students into internships, green jobs and graduate programs. Community partners sponsor teams of undergraduates who provide research, analysis and marketing to shift corporate culture. To date, that has included 290 real-world projects, with 370 students overall assisting 50 local communities, nonprofits and national and global companies advance their sustainability projects.

For corporate and nonprofit partners, this summer’s projects will include creating a plan to influence land-use laws in Northern Jersey as part of an environmental justice initiative, evaluating the effects of greenhouse gasses and aviation and detailing how a hospital could reduce emissions by introducing a fleet of electric vehicles.

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