Environmental Illinois

Since I am new to Illinois State University this semester, I felt like I should try to get involved so that I could meet people since most people met right away last semester because no one knew anyone else. Since I am a renewable energy major, I decided that it would be a good idea to attend a speech about the environment put on by an organization called Environmental Illinois. I thought the speech would go over strategies to help the environment and give interesting ideas on what can be done, however, all the speech did was talk about the problems with the environment. I was very disappointed with it because most people already know there is a problem with the environment and that’s why they would attend a speech like that one.
There were five speakers and all of them said basically the same thing. One of them worked at a Bloomington, IL solar energy company but she did not really give enough information about it and I was looking forward to learning more about it. Another speaker was actually taught by Al Gore to give a speech about his movie An Inconvenient Truth which I thought was very interesting even though I disagree with much of the movie and do not like Al Gore, however, she did not actually give the speech, instead she talked about the fact that that’s what she does.
Although I was fairly disappointed in the content of the speeches, I think that gatherings and environmental organizations like that are important and all of the speakers do good for the environment. Everyone was also very friendly, with greeters at the door, and very casual and friendly speakers. The overall mood was very bright with joking from the speakers, even though they were talking about the problems with the environment. I did not actually meet any people, which was disappointing, but it was worth a shot. I hope to continue to go to speeches like this and hopefully the future ones will give more information, and I will be able to meet some people with similar views.