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While most college students spent their winter break at home or in the mountains skiing, 20 students from CoPIRG’s Energy Service Corps spent their break educating 1,454 K-12 students in classrooms across Colorado about energy conservation
Today kicked off two major initiatives for open education: the first annual Open Education Week and the Why Open Education Matters video competition.
2012 has already brought a tremendous victory for students and families.
Today the President appointed Richard Cordray as the director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB will rein in the bad business practices of banks, lenders, and credit card companies.
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Campaign News
It's been 8 years since we launched a campaign to make textbooks more affordable. I’m impressed by the progress we’ve made, but there’s still much work to be done.
It’s buying season though, so before I give the rundown on the campaign, check out the NYT’s Guide to Finding Cheap Textbooks.
Big News.
Today Facebook settled a privacy complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC says Facebook "deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public." Read the FTC's full statement here.
In the last 90 days 29,000 Somali children under the age of 5 have died –and if we don’t do something now, the death toll will grow by tens of thousands more.
The UN has officially declared a famine for the first time in nearly 30 years. The Eastern Horn of Africa is experiencing a major food crisis which threatens the lives of more than 12 million families and children.
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Make Textbooks More Affordable
We are educating professors about ways they can help reduce the cost of textbooks, like turning their book orders in on time and adopting open textbooks.
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Intern with CoPIRG
As a CoPIRG Student Chapters intern you'll learn skills and get valuable experience working on a campaign. You’ll learn how to build teams of volunteers, organize events on campus, and work with the media.
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Hunger and Homelessness
Every spring we host the Hunger Cleanup to fight poverty in our community. This spring we are going to fundraise for local food banks and shelters. Register today to volunteer and fundraise.
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Let's Make Health Care Work
We're working to make health care work in Colorado by supporting a pro-consumer health insurance exchange to bring competition to the health insurance marketplace, increasing affordability, access and choice for hundreds of thousands of families and small businesses.
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CoPIRG Energy Service Corps is a joint project with AmeriCorps to educate and engage communities around energy efficiency. We educate the campus and community about the simple things we can do to save energy like switching out our old light bulbs to more energy efficient CFLs.
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