Meeting minutes 9/29/08
Icebreaker- favorite thing about fall
Alex does how to post to the eon blog presentation : www.blogger.com
to view the blog www.wesleyaneon.blogspot.com
how to blog:
1. go to blogger.com (use firefox, it works better than safari)
2. id: weseon, password: wesleyan
3. under WesEON, click new post
4. enter text in the editor box. If you want to add a link, highlight the word you want to link (like you would highlight “this website” in a sentence like “check out this website about climate change”) and click the green circle with a chain link icon on the top bar of the editor (it’s next to the text color icon). Then enter the url in the box that pops up. If you want to add a picture, click the image icon (next to the spell check icon)
5. once you’re done, hit publish post (if you hit save, it won’t show up on the blog!)
Announcements
Saturday tabling at Usdan for Green Jobs, lots of people signed petition, you can still sign it at www.greenjobsnow.com
Wesleyan Mountain Justice Coalition Wednesday night meeting 8pm in 200 Church lounge to discuss Bank of America coal issues
Proposal for EON to endorse speakers – Evan Greer (activist from Boston) to talk about social justice and climate change
This Wed. first waste awareness wednesdays during lunch at usdan, collection of post-consumer waste, what is collected will be displayed at dinner to show people how much is wasted and to promote composting
Aurora is talking to pi about how many cups are used each day, turn that amount of waste into a visual project
Emilie is working on a project with solo cups, reducing their use on campus and turning it into a visual project
Wednesday @10 presentation on the Sustainability and LEED certification of the new Molecular and Life Sciences Building, location TBA-look for an email from Jacob
Group meetings:
Waste-Thursday 12pm Usdan
Beyeond- Tuesday 10pm Usdan
Election- tabling Thursday 12-1pm Usdan (email eallen01@wes)
Development- TBA
Institutional Reform- Sunday 12pm Usdan
Monday, September 29, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
9.22.08
Welcome to all the new freshman and thanks to Julien for doing that lovely powerpoint!
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Julien is taking over facilitating and getting rid of ice breakers for this week so he can do his presentation.
What is EON?
· Non-hierarchical—julien is not in charge and doesn't know anything
· Making Environmentalism happen on campus!
· Created to enable various campus environmental groups work together on campus
· Usually we break up into issue groups/ campaigns
· Everything is decided on consensus
· What ever you want it to be!
· Other organizations
o SAGES: sustainability advisory group for environmental stewardship
o Long lane farm
o Earth House
o Sustainability committee of the WSA
· Committees we are on:
o SAGES
o SAGES subcommittees
o WSA dining committee
o MLSB (molecular life sciences building) committee
· SAGES
o Chair: Bill Nelligan
o Composed of faculty, students and staff
o Sub-committees: Transportation, energy, waste, procurement, green building
· Previous EON achievements
o Composting and recycling programs
o President's Climate Commitment
o Focus the Nation
o Step it Up
o Do it in the Dark
o Creation of the sustainability committee
o Waste Not!
o Powershift
· Important people:
o Joyce Topshe- head of physical plant
o Mike Roth—the man
o Bill Nelligan—Director of Environmental Health and Safety and Sustainability
o John Meerts—VP of finance
· EON Resources
o Blog!!! – www.wesleyaneon.blogspot.com
o Sustainability website—Wesleyan.edu/sustainability
o Listserv: weseon@lists.riseup.net
o Gmail: Wesleyaneon
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
· Alex: collective action! Rainforest Action Network: ask the world bank to consult indigenous people about climate change—The World Bank is hosting a "Global Forests Leaders" forum this
week in Washington, D.C. to discuss global warming and threats
to the world's forests. This meeting exemplifies the systematic
exclusion of representative Indigenous leaders by international
institutions. While hundreds of people - including
representatives of corporations like Walmart, Weyerhaeuser and
Citi - were invited, only ONE representative of a democratically
elected Indigenous organization from the Amazon was asked to
come. This is not acceptable, considering that the Amazon is the
world?s largest tropical rainforest and home to more than 300
Indigenous nations.
Please help by sending a letter today.
http://ga3.org/campaign/world_bank?rk=idXRHK7q9ofAW
· Alex: want to help research new landscaping options for campus that are more sustainable? Contact her at aprovo@wes or after the meeting
· Grace: SBC wants to come up with a contract of sustainability if they give out money (ex: you must you recycled products, etc) contact her at gpetersen@wes
· Beyond Wes: no one else came? This is important! Lets try and get people interested in
· Sarice: plastic bag workshop October 16th- Russell library: crocheting knowledge is necessary
Beyond Wes: Usdan 12pm Thursday
Waste: Usdan 4pm Friday
Development: Lowrise B6 6pm
Election: Wednesday 1pm Usdan
Institutional Reform: Sunay 11am.
Beyeon(d)- Tuesday 10pm Usdan
procurement subcommittee—WE NEED YOU. Email egreenstein@wes if you're interested, or if you have questions PLEASE.
all other committees-- email wnelligan@wes to join. also: look at wes/sustainability to read about the committees, what they are doing, and who is on them. Then, feel free to contact the chair directly and ask to join.
green jobs event? Alex will send an email or do it herself.
EON party 9pm-- 273 Pine. BYOcup (and anything else you might want to put inside)
Beyeond—blog particpation—each group have a weekly post? Please discuss what this could be at your weekly meeting!
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Julien is taking over facilitating and getting rid of ice breakers for this week so he can do his presentation.
What is EON?
· Non-hierarchical—julien is not in charge and doesn't know anything
· Making Environmentalism happen on campus!
· Created to enable various campus environmental groups work together on campus
· Usually we break up into issue groups/ campaigns
· Everything is decided on consensus
· What ever you want it to be!
· Other organizations
o SAGES: sustainability advisory group for environmental stewardship
o Long lane farm
o Earth House
o Sustainability committee of the WSA
· Committees we are on:
o SAGES
o SAGES subcommittees
o WSA dining committee
o MLSB (molecular life sciences building) committee
· SAGES
o Chair: Bill Nelligan
o Composed of faculty, students and staff
o Sub-committees: Transportation, energy, waste, procurement, green building
· Previous EON achievements
o Composting and recycling programs
o President's Climate Commitment
o Focus the Nation
o Step it Up
o Do it in the Dark
o Creation of the sustainability committee
o Waste Not!
o Powershift
· Important people:
o Joyce Topshe- head of physical plant
o Mike Roth—the man
o Bill Nelligan—Director of Environmental Health and Safety and Sustainability
o John Meerts—VP of finance
· EON Resources
o Blog!!! – www.wesleyaneon.blogspot.com
o Sustainability website—Wesleyan.edu/sustainability
o Listserv: weseon@lists.riseup.net
o Gmail: Wesleyaneon
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
· Alex: collective action! Rainforest Action Network: ask the world bank to consult indigenous people about climate change—The World Bank is hosting a "Global Forests Leaders" forum this
week in Washington, D.C. to discuss global warming and threats
to the world's forests. This meeting exemplifies the systematic
exclusion of representative Indigenous leaders by international
institutions. While hundreds of people - including
representatives of corporations like Walmart, Weyerhaeuser and
Citi - were invited, only ONE representative of a democratically
elected Indigenous organization from the Amazon was asked to
come. This is not acceptable, considering that the Amazon is the
world?s largest tropical rainforest and home to more than 300
Indigenous nations.
Please help by sending a letter today.
http://ga3.org/campaign/world_bank?rk=idXRHK7q9ofAW
· Alex: want to help research new landscaping options for campus that are more sustainable? Contact her at aprovo@wes or after the meeting
· Grace: SBC wants to come up with a contract of sustainability if they give out money (ex: you must you recycled products, etc) contact her at gpetersen@wes
· Beyond Wes: no one else came? This is important! Lets try and get people interested in
· Sarice: plastic bag workshop October 16th- Russell library: crocheting knowledge is necessary
Beyond Wes: Usdan 12pm Thursday
Waste: Usdan 4pm Friday
Development: Lowrise B6 6pm
Election: Wednesday 1pm Usdan
Institutional Reform: Sunay 11am.
Beyeon(d)- Tuesday 10pm Usdan
procurement subcommittee—WE NEED YOU. Email egreenstein@wes if you're interested, or if you have questions PLEASE.
all other committees-- email wnelligan@wes to join. also: look at wes/sustainability to read about the committees, what they are doing, and who is on them. Then, feel free to contact the chair directly and ask to join.
green jobs event? Alex will send an email or do it herself.
EON party 9pm-- 273 Pine. BYOcup (and anything else you might want to put inside)
Beyeond—blog particpation—each group have a weekly post? Please discuss what this could be at your weekly meeting!
Monday, September 15, 2008
meeting minutes 9.15.08
meeting minutes 9.15
VEG OUT thursday at 6:30 in earth house : local, tasty food. come early for peach cobbler!
b of a
chalking at 4:30 outside 200 church tomorrow
email petrie.nick@gmail
buddhist house is seeking an inter-program house collaboration about spirituality and environmentalism (navee: nsidhu@wes)
activities fair
sustainability committee meeting on wednesday at 9 am in usdan 110 (?)
or, you can join a subcommittee
groups so far:
development (UR, alums, $$)
compost
recycling/reuse (waste not, swaps, etc)
election '08
beyond wes (powervote, middletown)
beyeon(d) (campus ed, outreach, film, diitd, art)
institutional reform (bon appetit)
schedule meetings with roth and present what we're doing?
beyond wes: coal gasification plant in massachusetts, natural gas stuff, copenhagen climate talks, eli is going to the UN convention!
TO DO this week: calendar for your group, big goals
meeting times:
development: thurs. at 7 pm LoRise A6
waste: thurs at 12 at Usdan
election: thurs. at 12 at usdan
beyond wes (after the meeting)
beyeon: tues at 10 at outhouse
institutional reform: sun at 11 am at usdan
VEG OUT thursday at 6:30 in earth house : local, tasty food. come early for peach cobbler!
b of a
chalking at 4:30 outside 200 church tomorrow
email petrie.nick@gmail
buddhist house is seeking an inter-program house collaboration about spirituality and environmentalism (navee: nsidhu@wes)
activities fair
sustainability committee meeting on wednesday at 9 am in usdan 110 (?)
or, you can join a subcommittee
groups so far:
development (UR, alums, $$)
compost
recycling/reuse (waste not, swaps, etc)
election '08
beyond wes (powervote, middletown)
beyeon(d) (campus ed, outreach, film, diitd, art)
institutional reform (bon appetit)
schedule meetings with roth and present what we're doing?
beyond wes: coal gasification plant in massachusetts, natural gas stuff, copenhagen climate talks, eli is going to the UN convention!
TO DO this week: calendar for your group, big goals
meeting times:
development: thurs. at 7 pm LoRise A6
waste: thurs at 12 at Usdan
election: thurs. at 12 at usdan
beyond wes (after the meeting)
beyeon: tues at 10 at outhouse
institutional reform: sun at 11 am at usdan
meeting minutes 9.8.08
icebreaker (name, year, where you're from, something cool about the enviro you learned this summer)
farmer's market this wednesday! bring cassshhh
buy local! yippee
(if you'd like to get involved, wesleyanfarmersmarket@gmail.com)
energy bill about to come up in congress--discussing drilling vs. a bunch of solutions that don't involve drilling
john: mountain top removal is bad! bank of america funds that stuff. want to start a campaign to remove them from campus
meeting tomorrow at 8 at 200 church
ginger ninjas
bike-powered band
coming to wes!!!
this saturday at 2ish
happening at high rise/low rise
student activities fair 2-6 on september 19th
talk to grace (gepetersen@wes)
paolo--lives in earth house
running year-long program about nutritional education and food security in middletown
if you want to talk about it, pspeirn@wes
want to be a sustainability intern? email wnelligan@wes
structure discussion
current structure:
4 groups: energy, procurement, waste, beyond wes
keep groups, but also pick one thing to do all together?
can make ad hoc groups if we have specific projects to do
should we have campaigns instead?
group actions at the end of each meeting
contact emilie knight if you know of an environmentally-themed film/tv show we could show! emknight@wes
goals
compost: improve stuff
procurement: purchasing policy, recyclable products
energy; do it in the dark, step it up
beyond wes: university relations
educational forum on presidential elections
powervote (eli is awesome)
energy, culture on campus--radical environmentalism! arts! music! action not apathy!
edible landscapes, green roofs (pplant has all that area being cleaned up, want to/should put wildflowers in...push for that in other areas)
pi cafe--food gets thrown away, noooo-->work on reducing that (work with food not bombs?) (community services house?)
dining--work with bon appetit!! emphasize take a bag leave a bag, reusable mugs, 10 cent bag thing (community services house?)
freeganism-promote that
film screenings (show me green, manufactured landscapes) outdoor series? use buddhist house!!
biodiesel fuel program
sustainability coordinator position!!! (can't drop this issue)
find a big symbol/embodiment of sust. at wes (like a solar panel or wind thing)
tag sale dance swaps
eon kickoff party?
BLOG BLOG BLOG
elisa is facilitator next week
farmer's market this wednesday! bring cassshhh
buy local! yippee
(if you'd like to get involved, wesleyanfarmersmarket@gmail.com)
energy bill about to come up in congress--discussing drilling vs. a bunch of solutions that don't involve drilling
john: mountain top removal is bad! bank of america funds that stuff. want to start a campaign to remove them from campus
meeting tomorrow at 8 at 200 church
ginger ninjas
bike-powered band
coming to wes!!!
this saturday at 2ish
happening at high rise/low rise
student activities fair 2-6 on september 19th
talk to grace (gepetersen@wes)
paolo--lives in earth house
running year-long program about nutritional education and food security in middletown
if you want to talk about it, pspeirn@wes
want to be a sustainability intern? email wnelligan@wes
structure discussion
current structure:
4 groups: energy, procurement, waste, beyond wes
keep groups, but also pick one thing to do all together?
can make ad hoc groups if we have specific projects to do
should we have campaigns instead?
group actions at the end of each meeting
contact emilie knight if you know of an environmentally-themed film/tv show we could show! emknight@wes
goals
compost: improve stuff
procurement: purchasing policy, recyclable products
energy; do it in the dark, step it up
beyond wes: university relations
educational forum on presidential elections
powervote (eli is awesome)
energy, culture on campus--radical environmentalism! arts! music! action not apathy!
edible landscapes, green roofs (pplant has all that area being cleaned up, want to/should put wildflowers in...push for that in other areas)
pi cafe--food gets thrown away, noooo-->work on reducing that (work with food not bombs?) (community services house?)
dining--work with bon appetit!! emphasize take a bag leave a bag, reusable mugs, 10 cent bag thing (community services house?)
freeganism-promote that
film screenings (show me green, manufactured landscapes) outdoor series? use buddhist house!!
biodiesel fuel program
sustainability coordinator position!!! (can't drop this issue)
find a big symbol/embodiment of sust. at wes (like a solar panel or wind thing)
tag sale dance swaps
eon kickoff party?
BLOG BLOG BLOG
elisa is facilitator next week
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