UWEN Meeting and Minutes

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