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

Meeting Minutes 11/26

Meeting Minutes
facilitator: morgan
icebreaker: fav mode of transportation
laura: there's double-sided printing in sci li! OMGGGGGG
when you go to printer: says "copies" scroll down to layout, says double-sided printing off, JUST PUT IT TO ON! HAHA wow.
party this weekend? 10 pm on friday at 34 fountain! woo.

focus the nation (happening on jan. 31st): we need speakers. Julian will send a form letter so we can send letters to people we think could be a good speaker. everyone should contact at least one person!
categories: science, policy/response, social justice
more info in email

vote for allison in next week's WSA election
talk to izaak if you want to be on the WSA (increase green presence)

for next meeting: bring list of things we've done so far this semester (for institutional memory)

apparently we shared space with para la familia.

procurement: every printer can print double-sided! perhaps they just installed something and just didn't tell us.
HOW TO: when print page comes up, click drop down that says copies and pages, go to layout, says normal, choose double-sided printing.

facilitator for next week: sarah

Meeting Minutes 12 November

Meeting Minutes
Hey guys,

Here are the minutes from last week's meeting, Nov. 12...sorry to post them SO late.

Icebreaker – things you like that start with the first letter of your name

Announcements –

• Meeting with ITS – Green Month for ITS; campaigns to save energy

Two campaigns that we’re sponsoring together

1. Shutting off computers in the labs (when not using them)

-Josh recommends getting software

-Harik bought timers for printers

2. Getting GOOSO printer in the ST lab

-during summer, double-sided printers on the way

• SAFT – trying to add more shuttle service, publicize current publication

- i.e. DATCO = Hartford/New Havan corrider

- 6:30pm on Wed.

- saftwesleyan@gmail.com; their blog is linked from EON’s

• LOOK AT THE BLOG
• Sustainability meeting = mildly productive

- Nelligan determined that there are 5 subcommittees

1. Transportation

2. Procurement

3. Green Building

4. Energy

5. Recycling/Waste

- If you would like to be on some, please contact us

- FEAR: when there is no structure, no way to maintain system

• Feet to the Fire – interdisciplinary project of art/science

- Ann Kaarlson = looking to explore

- Landfill Festival = art projects, food

- Environmental Exhibits or Art

• PowerSHIFT = 14 students went

- How to create a youth voting bloc

* create bigger change by electing representatives

* be part of voter drives – coalition with WesDems

(10% registered to vote)

- How to see a movement through start to finish

* setting concrete, measurable goals

* find targets

* making events more powerful

- Revelation: you can do something!

* if we accomplish 50% reduction by 2050

- Food and climate change

* voluntary day a week in which you don’t eat = if all Americans did that, equivalent to taking 8 million cars off the road

- Mine campus for all resources on campus

* e.g. Gary Yohe, government professors

* engaging all groups (frats, republicans, etc)

- Environmental issues related to other important issues

* we don’t always build coalitions, see connections (e.g. War in Iraq)

- Session in which we broke out into state groups

* Trinity sent 50 students

* got a lot of contacts, will compile and share

• New subcommittee = Beyond Wesleyan

- working on campaign; there is a bill for 35% reduction for car emissions

- phone-a-thon/email-a-thon at Usdan (we got 60 people to contact their reps; 30 senators got contacted)

• Focus the Nation = Sunday 7 PM to talk about

- Met with Barry Chernoff; we have tentative schedule of speakers

- We would like to bring in headliner speakere

- Majora Carter = her mission of environmental justice
Meeting Times:

• Procurement = Wed., 6PM, Usdan
• Waste = Recycle Toss! Thurs., 11:30/12-1PM, Usdan
• Events = Thurs., 12PM, Usdan
• Energy = Thurs., 4:15PM, Science Library
• Focus the Nation = Fri., 12PM, Usdan

31 people!

Minutes 5 November 2007

Meeting Minutes
blog has calendar
let's have a party
SAFT (saftwesleyan@gmail.com)
Long Lane Workday?
Still need someone to go through Freeman Center to assess enviro stuff--Julian, Sarah

Allan Comp--Speaker tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7:30 at Daniel Family Commons (super interdisciplinary--effects of coal, working with communities)
Sludge movie on Thurs.

Sam went to Yale Food conference thing

Step it Up happened kindof, despite the odds...yay! (can we get the picture?)

14 went to powershift this past weekend at U of Maryland
youth forum
went beyond rhetoric, usual discourse
enviro justice issues, how interconnected many issues are-->working together, building coalitions
mostly underclassmen went (props to them)

Sam met some people from Conn College who do similar things--they have an herb garden, buying cheap tea bags, selling herbs to make money for their group (cool idea--work with the farm?)

MEETINGS:
thurs 4:15 sci li energy
fri at 12 focus the nation
waste: wednesday at 12:25 at usdan info desk

friday 16th early evening eon party

next thursday is america recycles day

andres' idea: maximize paper usage
take all one-sided paper---make notebooks (cover with fun facts) to sell! use it to buy carbon credits

procurement is getting a printer for gooso paper in ST lab
problem: it's up to us to fill it with paper

Meeting Minutes 10/29

Meeting Minutes
Katchen Coley-enviro activist from Mtown
Ron Klattenberg- city council, common council
Matt Lesser-running for planning and zoning (wes student?)

what's going on in mtown in the next election

Katchen:
impressed with us--shareholder in the farm (food fair was great)
Bill Nelligan praised us as well
appeal for help--election day is happening Nov. 6th (tues)
vote for candidates
3 referendums--approve bonding money (for diff projects)
1.roads
2.sewers
3. conservation commission (preserve farmland, open space in middletown) is asking for bond (which includes state aid)
approve $2million so they can continue their work

want us to stand at polling places to hand out a piece of paper explaining the 3rd referendum item

polling place on williams st. (green awning at senior center)
if you're doing this, note that you can't stand closer than 75 ft. to the polling place
2 hr shifts

(preventing land from being developed saves tax $$)

Ron Klattenberg
how is Middletown involved in environmental issues
infomercial--intended to encourage residents to participate in clean energy task force thing

Matt Lesser (08)
Democratic Candidate for planning and zoning commission
Planning and zoning=city agency that has most control over how Middletown actually looks (any developer has to consult)

important election that's coming up
conflict between philosophies:
1. put jobs first
2. looks at enviro impact


announcements
izaak has talked to marsha whitehead student athletics advisory board thing--interested in working on sust. at freeman athletic center--who will check it out and make recommendations for her?
jamie silver at admissions wants some people to go talk to tour guides
contact iorlansky@wes

step it up is this weekend (12 on saturday--rally on foss hill. live music! whee. info, compact flourescents) talk to julian if interested in helping
before rally at wes, there's going to be a march across bridge (at 11)

12 people going to powershift--need one more car (can anyone volunteer?)

bottled water kickoff event at farmer's market
43% filtered
22% tap
23% bottled
13% no pref

yay! people were interested

ride board thing: its has set up a program
demo at thurs at 2:30 in nicole chabot's office (across from that store thing)


energy: thurs 4:15 sci li
procurement weds 6 at usdan downstairs
waste: tues at noon at usdan at info desk (talking to bill nelligan)
events: thurs at 7:30 comfy couches

Meeting Minutes 10/1

Meeting Minutes (by Dana)

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Minutes from tonight's EON meeting (EON meets weekly at 9pm in the Woodhead Lounge):
-Anne facilitated
-Birthday icebreaker (quick)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
-Anne Carlson (amcarlson@mindspring.com) is a visiting faculty member who attended the meeting. She's working on Feet to the Fire, a year long interdisciplinary series on climate change issues. There is FUNDING AVAILABLE for climate change project ideas for their Landfill Festival in May--keep an eye out for registration info or contact Anne.
-Dining Committe update: We've seen changes based on EON members' suggestions (keep suggesting). Folks are concerned with wes students wasting LOTS of food, and sushi and kosher station food in disposable dishes. Note: Weswings and Red and Black are overseen by Ed Thorndike (sp?): different pathway to address concerns.
-Wed. Oct. 24th campus farmer's market
-remember to comment on Pres. Roth's blog about climate change (GREAT student responses so far)
-sign up to help with tabling THIS WEEK at Usdan meals for the Student's Climate Commitment (email sreed@wes) **EDIT: POSTPONED**
-Apple Picking and Preserving Green Series event THIS SAT.: apple picking at High Hill organic orchard--leave from back of science center (outside lobby) 1pm, PLEASE bring car if possible, bring $ and bags
applesauce making (to freeze for winter) 3pm at Dana's house (42 Miles Ave.), bring tupperware, email dpowell@wes if interested.
-HUGE Climate Change Summit in D.C.: Nov. 2-5, may have FUNDING, email
Sarah Reed or Alex (**EDIT: actually Anne) soon if interested or know a potential driver
-EON will be scheduled to help on Long Lane Farm (one workday a month)--good times, good veggies, dates soon
-We're asking the WSA to pass a resolution for Pres. Roth to sign the Climate Commitment
-Read the Argus for EON members' wespeaks this week (!)
-Help go door-to-door with the Do It In The Dark campaign THIS SUN.: 1-3pm, email sreed@wes for sign-ups


GROUPS met briefly. This week, their meeting times will be:

EVENTS: Fri. noon outside Pi (working on online events calendar, blog, water taste testing booth, events to come)
PROCUREMENT: Wed. 6pm Usdan (paper campaign, bottled water...)
WASTE: email (compost route continues, recycling/compost accessability and
awareness)
ENERGY: 4:15 on Thurs. in Sci Li (****EDIT****)