Minutes 10 Dec 2007

Last full-group meeting of the semester!

Icebreaker: Name and pet peeve

Announcements (many):
-Nate wins the Wespeak award!
-Sustainability Committee meeting (8am of that morning)
oSubcommittees are working, leadership-wise
oNeed students
  •Procurement
  •Energy
  •Transportation
  •Recycling/Waste
  •Education/Communication

oSustainability Subcommittee reports:
•Transportation is trying to capture numbers for transportation impact
    •Looking at fleets
    •How to monitor outside contractors
•Energy
  •Cogeneration will save a lot, but no solid numbers
  •Possible system for monitoring campus energy use (software costs $3000)
•Recycling/Waste not going anywhere fast
  •Bon Appetit using sugarcane dishware soon (not as much plastic)
    oCompost infrastructure able to handle it?
    oWaste metric in the works
•Procurement
  •Lots of paper waste (to the tune of 1 million sheets/month for
copiers alone)
  •Trying to make standards more universal across the university for
procurement
•Green Building
  •LEED silver is becoming the state standard for new buildings in two
years
  •Talk of making LEED silver standard now
•Focus the Nation
  •One speaker fell through
  •Funding pending
oTalk of getting sustainability audits for departments

-Possibility of solar panels by March – so sayeth Peter Staye
-Allison is reelected to WSA!
-EON study break movie – “Planet Earth”
o8pm and 9pm, Wednesday 12/12, Shanklin 107
oPut up signs!
-Wednesday at noon at 42 Fountain Ave, gathering to send e-mails to
individual professors for Focus the Nation (bring $2 for pizza!)

Group reports:

Energy/Events:
-Focus the Nation news
oGot the $2400 from the SBC
oMeeting next Monday at normal EON time

Procurement:
-Sarice has infiltrated ITS! Will help write policy on lab computers so
that they go off at night, double sided printing.
-Sustainable meal for Focus the Nation

Waste
- Working one trayless Tuesdays, waste weighing for next semester.


-EON meeting Monday, Jan 21st, if you’re back.
-Finish the EON beer party, 42 Miles, Thursday.
-Interested in campaigning for Barack Obama in New Hampshire? Talk to Izaak.
-Harvesting Long Lane Earth Tub next week! Talk to Elisa. E-mail forthcoming.

Good luck on finals and enjoy the break!

Meeting Minutes, 12/3

A productive end-of-the-semester meeting.  Some major stuff:
- Remember your Focus the Nation hw
- Vote for Allison to keep Wes Green! www.wesleyan.edu/wsa/voting (ends
Friday)
- Groups email your achievements for archives to Antoine at
acadotwood@wesleyan.edu

Minutes, 12/3

Icebreaker – what do you like to do in the snow?

Announcements
* Met with Trinity and Conn College = showing “The Eleventh Hour” at Conn
College; coordinated movements
* Dec 12, 6pm @ Green Street – 2nd meeting for planning meeting for “Feet
To The Fire”
          8 pm = EON study break
* Party: $4 for Dana Powell
* Vote for Allison Quantz for WSA At-Large!  And Gianna Palmer because she
is going to give us money for Focus the Nation!
* Next time in Usdan: Think twice before buying bottled water!
* Energy Bill take 2: Sarah will set up a tabling thing for people to call
senators!!

Groups talk

End of meeting notes
* Miranda: verbal consent is legally binding in CT; so don’t tell people
you will offer money!
* IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON: any ideas of smart people to come,
talk to Julien or email jburns@wesleyan.edu.  This is your project!
* Make conversation with professors this week = approach professors that
they have in; what’s going on! (we want profs to work on this)
        Jan. 31 = can make it into a whole class, we can provide readings to
begin class.  lots of ways to get involved, we’ll be getting in touch
with that sort of info.
* Meeting
        Thurs., 4:15, Usdan = energy meeting/ focus the nation – 2pm
* Accomplishments
Events
-        blog
-        party
-        movie
Waste
-        set up infrastructure of ppl
-        dining facilities composting
-        natl recycling day competition
Energy
-        Signed climate commitment; got community climate
-        Do it in the dark
-        Powershift conference
-        Step it up
-        Tabled for energy policy in senate
-        Involved in focus the nation
Procurement
-        bottled water signs
-        double-sided printing project
-        green bags at weshop; discount signs
-        food waste scales
-        energy saving lightbulbs at weshop