The Student Environmental Action Coalition or SEAC (pronounced, "seek") is a student and youth run national network of progressive organizations and individuals based in the United States.
SEAC, "working together to protect our planet and our future," defines the environment as including the physical, economic, political and cultural conditions in which we live. By challenging the power structure that threatens these environmental conditions, SEAC works to create progressive social change on both the local and global level.
SEAC was started in 1988 by students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. It differs from other student environmental organizations by its broad definition of the environment that includes racism, sexism, militarism, heterosexism, economic justice, and animal rights.
Although, sometimes disruptive and willing to break the law, members of the Student Environmental Action Coalition or SEACers (as they call themselves) are prepared to do what it takes to get their message received. SEAC has a bottom-up approach where the headquarters takes direction from the individual chapters around the country. People from Burma, England and Hong Kong, China, for example, participated in the 1995 SEAC Conference. They are, also, included in numerous websites dedicated to networking environmentalists such as www.campusactivism.org and www.climatechallenge.org.
Read more about Student Environmental Action Coalition: History and Past Accomplishments, SEAC’s Principles, Current Projects, Schools With SEAC Chapters
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