Greens Meeting
Date: 10-11-2012
Location: Gustie Den, Cozy chairs
Meeting Called by: Rebecca Hare and Saskia Raether
Attendees:
Rebecca Hare
Dan Ly
Jennifer Steffen
Elizabeth Lutz
Katie Feterl
Griffin Spier
Dennis Lee
Katie Pearson
Saskia Raether
Kara Helgeson
Agenda: Share progress/plans, budget?, education plans
Things to do and discuss:
• Tell Katie Feterl about Ashley Hansen in the Interpretive center for Recyclemania
• Get Statistics about caf waste and Gustieware
• Start thinking on how to implement education w/out alienating
• Think of other clubs to contact to make allies
• Experiment on ways to change caf layout
• Styrofoam cup update
• "make ourselves co-researchers" with the group already working on the composting issue
Decisions Reached and Project Progress/ Updates -
• CF - not sure how educational it was
○ New requests! 2A, 3H, 3E
○ 2E covered
○ Different techniques for boys
§ Katie P. knows them, will help
• Megan and Marissa emailed Rebecca a nice poster
• Sign for courtyard - special approval from who?
• Styrofoam cups are actually not Styrofoam, and are recyclable...
• Jessica with GAC TV
• Educate campus about composter
Discussion:
• Arctic- warmest in 1800 years
• Climate change can kill 130 mil by 2030, cut GDP
• More than 400 acres of prairie have been preserved in MN
○ Prairie grassland is the most endangered habitat in world
• Websites to visit
○ Www.enn.com
○ www.cmvotercenter.org - asks Minnesotans what's important to them - surveys
○ Macalester Strategy
§ New chiller air system
§ Decrease vending machines
• Behavioral Brainstorming for campus attitude
○ GAC Caf advertisements
○ Getting other groups involved - Greeks? Senate?
○ Little signs over things
○ Inform what happens to trash after it is thrown away - establishing how you are personally contributing
○ School Forum for environment
§ Teachers involved
§ Involve dining services
§ Portion off section of caf? - Advertise stats
§ Thanksgiving theme?
○ Tabling
§ Saskia will be tabling about fisheries soon
○ Emotional advertisement - tug on heartstrings
§ Birds, penguins
○ Garbage pick up walk, complex,
§ After Homecoming at 12:30 PM- Trash Walk! Sunday - Meet at 3 flags, wear green shirts
§ Facebook
○ T-shirts - Anvil Organic - Let's plan on them!
○ Banana growers - next Friday
○ Greens Meetings - need Jim at next meeting
○ Greens@gac.edu
Agenda for next meeting: Check progress for projects, budget?
Date for next meeting: 10/18/2012