UWEN Meeting and Minutes - January

UWEN Minutes
January 19th, 2006 | 5:30pm | ES Coffeeshop
Facilitator: Darcy | Minutes: Jason

Anyone can email if you have any inquries or questions about what happened at this meeting. These are your groups, your Network! You may wish to get invovled in something, or make contacts with these folks.
uwenet@gmail.com

Attending:
• Jason Hammond (UWSP / UW Campus Greens / CKMS Radio Waterloo)
• Kristina Domsic (Clearing a Path)
• Justin Williams (Clearing a Path)
• Miranda McLin (UW Campus Greens)
• Mike McWilliam (STEP)
• Michelle Zakrison (ES FedS Councillor)
• Sarah McAlister (ERSSA)
• Matt Stevens (UWAFT)
• Farrah Chan (UWSP)
• Ashley Page (WEBS)
• Amber Cantell (UWFN)
• Kristi Herlein (EngSoc)
• Darcy Higgins (UW Campus Greens)
• Tiff Smith (Env. Studies Society)
• Regrets: Raj Gill (WPIRG)

Updates
Justin (w/ Kristina) – 250 Project: Revitalizing WATGreen
Sustainability Office & Coordinator
Accountability for WATGreen
Exec. Summary on UWEN website
Darcy: review of reply letter from UW President Johnston
Sustainability Coordinator not addressed
Justin: Clearing a Path meeting: SLC 2105B Thursday at 5:30Mike: Upcoming STEP event
“End of Suburbia” (first half)
Professors to speak with 4 audience groups on specific topics
Date to be announced
Jason: One year UWEN joint project for May 2006 to April 2007
Building the environmental movement on campus
Report card on candidates during FedS election
Building a strong relationship with new FedS Executive
Clubs day style event for UWEN
Outreach to other campus groups
Recruiting and social events
UWEN gave consensus on this common focus
Miranda: WCRI becoming more eco-friendly
Recruiting green residents
Promote Eby-town food co-op on Phillip St.
Tiff & Ashley: SYC Sustainable Campuses Conference
Maclean’s – getting letters of support sign on and off campus – Action item: Ashley will work on getting a MacLean’s letter and Network members willing to sign on or go back to their groups on this
Sustainability office/coordinator helpful info
PAC – Provincial Action Committee – can use volunteer from Waterloo
Amber: UWFN
Jan 22nd 1pm SLC winter twig identification
For details: amcantell@yahoo.ca
Farrah: UWSP
Green Career Seminar (details TBA)
UWEN Social Event
Coffeehouse, etc.
UWSP to plan / book Bomber
Michelle: FedS
Enterprise Opportunity Innovation – apply to this FedS fund for greening!
Administration will match for environmental project funding applications
Amber: Online funding guide – Action item: Amber will work on pulling together funding info for a web page to link to our sites
Darcy: Campus Greens
Local food:
- at Grebel – local organics (Mennonite and other farms)
- food market at SLC
Michelle: FedS applications reminder
Tiff: Guelph Organic Conference January 27-29
Other groups will email to post meeting times: uwenet@gmail.com
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Next Meeting
Tiff to facilitate
Amber to take minutes
Monday Feb 13th, 5:30
Location TBA