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A major component of training during the Semester is the hands-on experience that comes from doing actual campaign work on current Greenpeace projects.
Students in the program have participated in a wide variety of activities and events:
• Delivering information packets to the offices of members of Congress on Capitol Hill
• Creative visual events on toxics, anti-whaling, and climate change campaign projects
• Phonebanks to turn out local residents to a public hearings to shut down dirty coal plants
• Collecting petition signatures from local citizens to corporations demanding they stop destroying the Indonesian rainforest
• Going door-to-door to educate Vermont residents on the dangerous nearby nuclear plant, Vermont Yankee
• Conducting research and engaging with store managers at retailers to ask them to remove threatened fish species from their seafood shelves
Many opportunities arise during the course of the Semester in which students can get involved and they are encouraged to take advantage of experiences outside of the classroom. Additionally, on-the-ground experience is built in through the Campaign Trip and the Expedition.