Minutes 10/25/10
Agenda:
1. UPDATES ON BYOB Campaign: See attached Poster to post around campus
-Putting up posters in other places besides dorms
-Put a bin of plastic bags in Cotter by the jitney pick-up/drop-off
Clothing Drive
-Make new posters
-Put in General Announcements
2. UPDATES ON TBTT Campaign: We are going to survey athletics on bottled water consumption. Are you on an athletic team and want to help out? Email me to get involved. We will also be creating a survey for the general student body on bottled water consumption so come with ideas! New Poster by Avery Beck as well to post around campus!
-Sarah made a survey for athletics
-Work with Student Athletic Board
-Student Survey through Survey Monkey(Make sure you all log on)
-Bottled Water ReductionPlan
-Tabling Next Week, More Surveys November 3, 2010 11am-2pm
-Water Audit?
3. Showing of the film TAPPED with Dessert on Wed 7:30! Stop by to watch a great documentary on the bottled water industry as well as eat some yummy foods!
4. Event for November 18th with Eco-Reps! Planning and brainstorming!
- Bring your ideas
-Trash Audit with Eco-Reps with every dorm
- Bates Meeting November 6, 2010
-Follow up on Climate Summit
- Unplugged nov 18
7pm lopo
-student run event
-table for each green group on campus
Minutes 10/05/10
1. Sign up for 7th Annual Climate Conference (next Sat-Sun)
-Unity College
-Starts 9-10 am Sat and ends 1:30 pm on Sunday
2. Review the TBTT proposal
-Film Screening of water justice film in late October
~“Flow”
-Call a candidate to take a survey for assessing ground water protection (Need Volunteers for Tuesday October 6, 2010) (Maine Water Network)
-Save Our H20
-Eliminate all plastic bottle water (esp. at Campus Events)
-Athletics Department (ban plastic bottles)
3. POSTER MAKING session for tabling on WED.
4. Sign Up for TABLING on web 11-2 (email me if interested and can’t make meeting)
**BYOB campaign
-Selling canvas bags
-Selling Water bottle
-plastic bag (bring/drop off)
**TAKE BACK THE TAP
-TBTT petition
6. TAKE ACTION PETITION
-Online Petition toBarack Obama for 60MPG fuel efficiency standard
Minutes 9/22/09
Introductions: See the officers’ page for more information.
EnviroCo’s semester goals:
350: 350 parts per million is the level of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere that must be reached if we are to avoid the most extreme side effects of global warming. Currently, we are at 387ppm. October 24th is the International Day of Climate Action. We are going probably holding a rally on Friday the 23rd and then coordinating with other Maine schools to possibly have a large rally at UME Orno.
Take Back the Tap: A movement to eliminate the unnecessary use of bottled water. We will try and work with the athletic center to encourage the use of water coolers instead of the 10,000 bottles they currently use/year.
Sustainability Month (October): There will be a series of events throughout the month including an ongoing clothing drive, clothing swaps, tabling for various issues, and movies. The week precluding the 24th will be especially action packed.
Toxicity petition: At the end of the meeting, we signed petitions that support the Kid Safe Products Act and the Substances Control Act.
Minutes 5/27/09
Time to pick positions for next year!!! Has it always been your dream to take a more active role in Enviroco? Now is your chance! Here’s what we have for officer title/descriptions:
Publicity: let the campus know what we’re doing as a club.
President (2): allocate tasks and oversee club activities
Fundraiser: Keep track of our money and get more when we need it.
Communications: Minutes/ club outreach
Recruitment/membership: Plan fun club activities
Next Year Plans: clothing drive, Take Back the Tap, 350 action day on October 24th (International day of climate action) We hope to have one goal that we will all work on, so that our club has more of a focus.
We discussed Earthweek and what we need to do differently next year.
There is a college activist conference on Sept 26th. Yes this notice is very far in advance.
We applied to get a pugh office.
SPRAG: Sierra Club Student coalition is holding some weeklong activist training programs around the country this Summer. Contact me if you are interested and I will send you more info.
On Wednesday there will be a public hearing on LD1028, which aims to strengthen rights based ordinances in the face of corporate personhood.
Minutes 4/20/09
Water Rights Talk this Thursday with Jamilla from Save our Water and Emily Posner from Defending Water for Life in Maine.
Photo Pledge for Focus the Nation (Liyu)
Clothing Swap Tuesday
Chico Mendez talk in Olin 001 Wed night
The Expo, including a craft sale in Pulver on Wed 9-3.
Thursday: Take Back the Tap tabling
Friday: Sustainable BBQ in the south end at 4:00
Saturday: America’s Energy Future Forum: Featuring Amy Caroll, Senator Collins’ advisor on Energy and many other politicians. 11:00am in Diamond. Seeing as there are only 7 months till Copenhagen, it’s really important that we have people come to this. Robyn is taking pictures for the forum
Saturday: Enviroco and Goho is teaming up with Pride Week for a combined BBQ and Ice cream social on Frat Row.
Minutes 4/13/09
· Collins’ Rep wants to give a statement on the 25th, Liyu is organizing this.
o It will be in town hall at 10:00am and will take about an hour. Rob Goodwin from ME Orno wants to come.
· Recycled Art contest
o Carly advertised it at the last Coffeehouse concert
o Russ Cole and Alan from the post office will be judges
o Michelle will send out more gen announcements about this
o Sophie and Jacob are doing something with environmental art projects as well.
· The food at the International Extravaganza will be composted.
o They may put in a plug for Earthweek
· Focus the Nation:
o Composting at Coffee hour this Friday
o Send your related photos in to Liyu and they will be projected in Pulver
· Water Rights Talk:
o Poland Springs can’t/won’t come, but it is not canceled
o Will feature Emily Posner from Defending Water for Life in ME, Amy from Food and Water Watch, and Jamilla, a resident affected by the extractions.
o We are applying for a grant to cover their transportation costs.
· Pat and Sarah are working on advertising the Expo
· Beth Kopp and Gail Carlson are advertising an opportunity to work at a Wellness Fair at Hall School. It is from 8:30 to 2:10 pm. Participants help with a recycling campaign and get paid $12/hour.
· We have permission from Kelly Wharton to chalk from the 18th to the 28th by Cotter Union
· Michelle produced some awesome t-shirt designs.
o She is making the screen this Thursday and we are screening the shirts on Friday.
· Pat put out some sheets on the info desk so that people can sign up for the i-bike relay, the clean-up and the clothing swap
· Pat needs volunteers to help set up the i-bike relay!!!
Minutes 4/6/09
Andy sent us a contact to a band in Ithaaca New York called Devon.
We’re still waiting to hear back from Beth about whether Poland Springs will attend, officially at least, our water rights talk.
The schedule should be posted, but here is an outline format, since that is what we discussed for the majority of our meeting. (task list coming later)
Earthweek is from the Saturday the 18th of April to the 26th of April. The teach-in will be occurring all week at the convenience of the professors.
18th: The International Festival and a Mary Low coffeehouse concert, at which art from the Earth Week art contest will be displayed.
19th: An ES talk. A clean-up of the Johnson Pond at 3:00pm
20th (Mon): Round table Fairchild room discussion with PPD. Take Back the tap tabling. Frogs and Bogs walk at 2:00. Clothing swap.
21st (Tues): Forestry talk in Olin 001 at 7:00pm
22nd (Wed): (Earth Day!!!!) The Expo. The Garden Club is going to contact Johnny’s and Fedco. Menu for the future, a dining hall event. Local brew fest. Student art sale and judging of the Environmental art contest.
23rd (Thurs): Poland Springs water rights panel.
24th (Friday): South End BBQ at 4:00pm in South End. Trash Audit at 1:00pm
25th (Sat): Go-ho Enviroco BBQ at 2:00pm. I-bike relay.
26th (Sun): 3-mile loop cleanup.
T-shirts will be on sale all week. If you have a particular design in mind, contact karoche@colby.edu
Guster concert this Friday: There will be an ecovillage at 7:30 pm and a carbon offset program. If you donate 3 dollars, you get to download an unreleased song and be entered into a raffle to win a guitar signed by the band members. Guster is also having a lunch-time colloquium this Friday.
The gardening club may have open-campus work sessions during eartweek.
Monday the 13th at 7pm in Olin 1 Logan Perkins from Food for Maine's Future will be giving a talk on the International Movement for Food Sovereignty and then on Thursday the 16th at 7pm in Lovejoy 319 Logan and Bob St. Peter (also from F4MF) will heading a discussion on the role of GMO's in organic agriculture.
Minutes 3/30/09
Enviroco was invited to talk to Leonard about green living.
Pat has a speech about Copenhagen.
LiYu is planning Focus the Nation for the 18th. She is inviting our legislators. If they can’t come to Colby, then we will plan a trip to Augusta.
Guster is coming next weekend on the 10th. They want to do something with us!!!
The T-shirts were ordered for Earth Week.
This Wednesday there was a hearing on the Green Jobs Bill
We should give the earth week calendars to the professors who want to participate in the teach-in.
Photo competition?
Friday before Spring Break we had some Take Back the Tap tabling and taste testing in Pulver. The results will be posted on the website at a later time.
The Green Sponsorship program has a meeting this Wednesday.
There is a Southern ME Source water Protection and collaboration workshop from April 15th to April 16th in Wells, ME. Contact karoche@colby.edu if interested.
Greg Wells, from Pew Environment Group, wants to come and talk about Amendment 16 for the groundfish fishery management plan.
Rachel and Tamer tabled today against coal mountain top removal. They got at least 28 (16 from tabling and 12 from EnviroCo) letters sent out to Congressman Mike Mentzer.
Ninja Environmentalism…enough said. Contact pjroche@colby.edu for more information.
Take Back the Tap: tabling on Thursday, including a taste test of Poland springs, Dasani, Aquafina, and good old tap. Can you tell the difference? Find out during lunch time in Pulver. We’ll also have fun surveys to take.
Maine Climate Summit: free for the weekend after Spring break (the 4th and 5th)? You should go to UMaine Farmington for an annual gathering of students across Maine concerned about climate change. We can still register even though it is past the due date. I went last year and it is basically like powershift for Maine. Food and entertainment is included. From last year’s addition came Sustain Maine, so it would be nice if Colby was represented. If interested email karoche@colby.edu.
Earthweek highlights:
Trash audit, the sequel
Teach-ins: efforts to incorporate environmental messages to curriculum.
Clean-Up of Johnson Pond and the three mile loop.
Barb-e-que: combined event hosted by Goho and Enviroco
Relay race: a bike race extravaganza. Get ready for some crazy competition.
T-shirts: want to be the one to design the earth week t-shirts? Respond to this email.
Clothing swap(s): tired of wearing the same old clothes? Been eyeing your friend’s north face jacket? Earth week is your chance to trade it up.
Water Rights panel: Emily Posner from defending water for life in ME is coming. Poland Springs is a maybe.
Trip to townhall: April 17th. Come talk to your legislators. Anyone up for a similar movement in Augusta?
Earth Hour is the second Saturday during Spring Break. Turn off your lights wherever you are for one hour.
Minutes 2/16/09
We did an introduction session involving hypothetical superpowers.
What committees do you want to be on? We have Take Back the Tap and recycling.
Also, there are many projects that could be turned into committees if there is enough interest.
Innovate or Die: A contest to come up with simple solutions or inventions to environmental problems. Ex: a bike that filters water. We could easily make this as a demonstration or invent our own mechanisms.
Link: http://www.innovate-or-die.com/
When was your bottle born? A recent study shows that the cost of producing a reusable water bottle is so high that it does not become worth having until after you have abstained from using 500 paper disposable cups. We could have people write a date on their water bottles with permanent marker and clear nail polish. Every year away from that date could earn a reduced price on an enviroco t-shirt or some similar incentive.
SGA wants to collaborate with EnviroCo in developing ideas to conserve resources in an effort to save the school some money in view of the current economic challenges.
Invasive species control: taking out the nonnative species, possibly under the cover of darkness.
Guerrilla gardening. Ever see a patch of dirt and think that it is a shame that your favorite native plant is not growing there? Why not plant it on the sly?
Have any ideas for what we can do during Earthweek? Traditionally we have a charity 5k, some cleanups, and sweet t-shirts/bags. If you have any ideas for spicing up the week, email me and/or come to the next meeting.
Some Earthweek ideas brought up at the meeting:
A design competition for the t-shirt
GoHo/Grossman combined event on frat row with music and a barb-e-que.
Recycled art competition.
Some events with little kids from local schools. Eg: arts and crafts, nature walk.
A Focus the Nation event involving a teach-in.
Also, Chris could use some help with sorting clothes for the homeless shelter on wed or thurs. Stay tuned for further info on that.
