WPIRG

WPIRG’s mission is to foster and support UW students and others to research, educate, and take action on environmental and social justice issues while:

• Motivating community participation and responsibility by encouraging members and others to be concerned, informed, and active in their community.
• Recognizing the interconnectedness, and pursuing an integrative analysis, of social justice and environmental issues.
• Respecting and encouraging local and global ecosystem integrity.
• Encouraging diversity and social equality for all people by opposing all forms of oppression such as those based on gender, “race”, class, sexual orientation, age, cultural heritage/ethnicity, religion, gender orientation, ability and physical appearance.
• Working in a cooperative and non-hierarchical way, employing a consensus decision-making process and recognizing the necessity of people affected to participate in those processes.

Members of the Climate Action Project, a WPIRG Action Group, hold up posters at the group's 350 Rally to advocate for environmental sustainability in 2009.