Minutes à UWENET meeting, Nov.15/2005
4:30-5:30pm
Attendance:
-Miranda – UW Field Naturalist Club, UW Womyn’s Centre
-Melanie – UWSP (University of Waterloo Sustainability Project)
-Hingman - UWSP
-Darcy – UW Campus Greens, ERS Student Association
-Catherine – Planning Students Association
Mike McWilliam, STEPs - had ideas and supports the network. Will meet with Darcy Friday for discussions.
Regrets: Sara (ERSSA), Justin (Clearing a Path), Maggie (ERS 250 Project)
Catherine - PSA, - Planning Students Association, no environmental initiatives for this term, fundraising event for the Homeless
-toque drive in February, selling toques for $10 with the ‘raise the roof’ symbol on it
Darcy UWGreens– Sustainability letter delivered to Office
-Article in imprint on Friday, Nov.11 looked great
-wait for response from administration
-John Anderson very receptive to everything that we’re doing
-university has not supplied information on what they are doing
-for green buildings etc. – see Gregory Richardson’s thesis, available (#292):
http://www.watgreen.uwaterloo.ca/studentprojects.htm
“Specific recommendations are presented to move forward with green building implementation at UW: strong administrative leadership, sustainability targets, faculty/Plant Operations collaboration, and increased communication (a Plant Operations web site and published UW resource consumption data).”
-start advocating for accountability
-passed around document on sustainability initiatives
-can get information from the waste management web site on WATgreen accomplishments
-keep pushing for the Sustainability Coordinator?
-try to implement Green buildings on campus?
Hingman – LEED initiative from ERS 339
-possibly looking at having Leadership Energy Environmental Design standards implemented on campus
-currently still working on project
Catherine, PSA
Larry Smith à main contact between the building designers and UW for construction of North Campus, (Research and Technology part)
-work closely with the planners and be the voice for the students that have environmental concerns with the process
-need to find out who has the information à Administration, FEDS reps
-could this be an additional campaign initiative?
-quantify the number of students that are represented by the uwenet
Action Item: Darcy -schedule another meeting with John Anderson and groups interested – obtaining and sharing information decided to be most important first step
Hingman – UWSP
-movie night, Nov.30/05, showing some environmental movies
-bring in professors for discussion
-UWGreens want to help out with the movie night
-held on the last night for the Bomber night, and reach out for the people in line
-Games day/volunteer appreciation on Dec.6 (first day after classes end)
Catherine PSAàLessons to be learned from scheduling activities at CIF
- make sure the weather is good
- can only schedule during the day
-had 80 people promise that they would show up, but only had 11 ppl present
-probably cannot serve food in the gym
Darcy – UWGreens
-Buy Nothing Day, next Friday Nov.25
-Swap day, can still drop off stuff in ES Coffee shop, and also during Nov.25 at SLC
-Food not Bombs will be serving free food outside of ML
-Show movies: Culture Jamming, and Koyaanisqatsi
Hingman – UWSP can send out an email about Buy Nothing Day
Miranda – Santa Claus Parade
-have not had a good response of number of individuals that want to participate in the parade
-meeting at 8:30-9:00am at corner of University and King
-email Susan to tell of details
-meetings on Wednesday night
Hingman –UWSPà Coffee house
-location.date format
-who is going to rearrange what
-UWSP could potentially book the space
-UWSP probably can do a poster run for it
-UWGreens, ERSSA, interested
-courtyard? Can we book this at night?
-time for this term?
-maybe do something for next term to start off the term? Meet/greet
-UWSP will organize activities for Dec.6 for UWEN and pass on info to ERSSA and UWGreens for support – then all welcome – UWSP awards beforehand.
PSA- having a karaoke/pub night
-Dec.6/05
-time: 6pm
-others welcome
-free food for planners
Midnight Sun à from Bruce Cameron
-Build a new team, by recruiting new members
-Attend various events and sponsors (EcoFest in NYC, FunFest in Ottawa)
-Retrofit old race car with new technology
-Participate in the Formula Sun Grand Prix in May of 2006
Miranda -UW Field Naturalist
-Levi, former ERS grad will come in and speak to students on a Wednesday in the future around lunch time
-just in process of becoming a FEDS club
-Dragonfly lecture Monday Nov. 28 with KW Field Naturalists
-shuttle from school to event from the school: mmclin@fes.uwaterloo.ca
Darcy - UWGreens
-Sandra from CREW à Regional Energies group
-very interested in what’s going on on campus
-STEP and CREW are working together on initiatives
-lots of contacts for locally environmental stuff
-will share info on campus events that the public is invited to
-information can be sent to us as well and posted on the uwenet blog space
Hingman - UWSP – planning on doing t-shirts or sweatshirts
-organic cotton t-shirts, probably expensive
Miranda UW Field Naturalist
– American Apparel à has organic t-shirts, question of company ethics
Catherine -PSA – took orders and had people sign up for the t-shirts
-when you give them the design they have to digitalize it, that flat fee will be divided among number of students that order them
-charge slightly more just in case and excess money is put towards a charity
