The new board was elected in December 2008.
Co-Director: Mordechai Treiger(mntreiger@gmail...)
Co-Director: Christiana Dietzen (cdietzen@sas... )
Secretary/CHAC Rep: Maddie Macks (mmacks@sas...)
Treasurer/SAC Rep: Sigrid Luhr (luhrs@sas...)
Webmaster: Leah Abrams (ljabrams@sas....)

The Penn Environmental Group was founded in 1971 by students who were actively involved in the 1970 Earth Day celebration. The initial purpose of the group was to collect recyclable materials from Penn students, faculty, and staff, and for nearly twenty years the Penn Environmental Group provided recycling service on campus.

The group became extremely successful in the mid-seventies due to an ever-increasing group of dedicated volunteers and donations and funding from CHOP (the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), the University, and SAC (the Student Activities Council). Penn Recycling recycled up to 50 tons per semester, and made a large enough profit to donate hundreds of dollars to local chapters of environmental organizations, such as the Sierra Club.

The University of Pennsylvania Environmental Group is a student run group aiming to increase campus awareness of global environmental issues across the Penn community and throughout the world. The Group seeks to incorporate ideals from a diverse community, and expose the campus, community and the world at large to an expanded knowledge of environmental issues. Our major principles are as follows:

• Attempt to raise the awareness of the University of Pennsylvania community to current local and global environmental issues. The Group has primary concern for enacting change on the local level, while secondarily promoting awareness of national and global issues.
• Provide an open forum conducive to the free exchange of ideas and information about environmentally related issues. The Group acts as an academic environmental resource for Penn and the surrounding community.
• Focus energy on the immediate issues concerning the University of Pennsylvania community. The group provides an opportunity to transform this awareness and idealism into useful and effective local action and involvement.

To achieve these ends, we attempt to take the intellectual idealism of individuals and provide a group opportunity for its transformation into direct local action and impact. It is our belief that as a collective, diverse group we have more power to enact change than on an individual basis. In this mission statement we have created a set of goals and ideals to be used as a base for the common vision we hold of a sustainable future.