Introducing...

Bruce's 3 new Sustainability Interns! Here's the scoop:

Colleagues,

I’m pleased to announce the appointment of three new sustainability interns; Molly Dilg, Katie Elliott and David Sullivan. Each of the interns brings a substantial record of green advocacy and leadership, to support and enhance sustainability efforts at CC. As a team, the interns and I will form the core staff of the emerging Sustainability Office at CC. Based on current priorities, we divided responsibilities in the following way:
David Sullivan – coordinating and providing resources to the ongoing CC sustainability website redesign, facilitating communication and acting as liaison between the sustainability office, the sustainability council and ENACT
Katie Elliott – planning and implementing the new “CC Sustainability Tours” program offering the campus a behind the scenes look at the ongoing greening of CC, coordinating CC participation in sustainability webinars and teleconferences
Molly Dilg – coordinating and promoting CC participation in the effort to prevent Lexam for drilling for gas near the Baca campus in Crestone, collecting information on available technologies and solutions for making our CC transportation fleet more green friendly
All three interns will help our office:
coordinate campus publicity about the upcoming CC energy audit and sustainability plan through the Brendle Group
connect to regional sustainability efforts such as the Earth Day Planning Committee, Focus the Nation, a local green ballot initiative, and connecting to Colorado Springs Utilities
assess possible programs proposed by external consultants and corporations interested in partnering with CC on sustainability projects
the interns offered to assist the Campus Sustainability Council and its subcommittees as needed

Our new interns join the sustainability interns working out of the college communications office. We will be coordinating our work. This is so exciting.

Meeting Minutes 1st week, 4th block

Hi All-
As I promised, I am getting this up earlier than last time :)

Synergy House
-one spot is open for next semester...contact David if you are interested
Farm/Garden on campus
-location: behind President's house...CC Farm is taking initiative
Car Share
-location: Left of Worner Desk
-changing location next semester
-please use them and spread the word
Food Bid
-reaching out to campus community to get some feedback on food service
-ultimately creating some kind of food vision or values
-Food Survey coming out SOON
-Worner center sitting...to get people's attention and ask them to fill it out <- Help needed. more detail to follow
CSC update
-Tomorrow, Wednesday Nov. 28 @ ERC from 3:30 pm
-sub-committees coming together and bringing back their ideas
Vehicle Fleet
-more coming later this week
Earth Week
-working on the speakers
-potential for a movie screening
-starting to put together a rough schedule
Bike CO-OP
-proposal for sustainable co-op, focused on bike
-aim to teach students to take care of the bikes and use it more
-class/seminars for students
-bike recycle--seniors who want to leave their bikes here can, and anyone that fixes it (with some help from co-op, if necessary) can have the bike
-meeting with Res Life next week
Green Wipe
-ideas welcome to structure this publication
-contact Chris for some ideas
Website
-in action, looking for some template at this point
Focus the Nation
-Jan. 30 & 31
-needing some help...contact Lucy if you are interested

This is it for this meeting :)

Meeting Minutes

...Sorry for not getting this up earlier. It's my falt, I forgot about it on Thursday and didn't remembered till now.

Food Survey
-to measure the tempreture of the students about the food issue on campus, more concentrated in local and organic foods
-coming up in 4th block, 1st week Wed + Thurs. More details to follow at the next block's meeting.
Recycling
-putting up 25-30 outdoor recycling bins, they are pricy so thinking about applying to the Sodexho Grant
-more blue "recycling" bins distribution into the dorms
-education about the recycling...example, glass is recycled. The myth is wrong!
-get the food waste out from the recycle batch...if the food is over cirtain percentage, they cannot be recycled.
Catalyst & Green Wipe
-Enact gets back of the Catalyst once a block for the 2nd week's publication
-perhaps get holiday infos on the catalyst
-difference with Catalyst and Green Wipe:
Catalyst->focus on campus, updates of on-going projects
Green Wipe->more larger prespective, tips + how-to, facts
-if you are interested on either of this projects, contact the sustainability interns
Viechle Flee
-meeting with other groups to get list of pros/cons and feasability of this project
-car shairing has a potential to collaborate
One idea: Have a bulletin board with some ways of putting info on, with a pin or something
Earth Week
-talking with heads of groups that may be interested...Communications may be interested
-April 21-26, 1st week of 8th block
speaker ideas needed
synagy tour and bike workshop
big party on Friday or something (with alcohol)
energy competition result from dorms
t-shirt design competition?
CSC update
-focused on longer term goals (because councel is conposed maily by staff & fuclty)
-broke up into smaller sub-comittees
Policy comittee->talk anout long term policy design
Green Buildging comittee->1st LEED cirtified campus, make it more adjusted program to Colorado than general LEED that is there now
-OPEN TO STUDENTS-> they like your inputs
-next meeting: Wed Nov. 28th, in ERC from 3:30 to 5:00
Focus the Nation
-Jan. 30th & 31st, 2008
-number of profs talking about climate change from their prespective
-nation wide effort, many universities involved
-climate change pannel discussion from different depatments-> intermingling...
-potential web cast...
-for more detail, visit the website: focusthenation.org
Printing
-met with ITS people
-next semester, default setting to be double sided
-recycle paper (from the buyer we get now) is expensive...more research needed
-perhaps email from President Celeste if someone is overusing the paper resource by printing too much
-set some limit to free printing, and charge the over-limit printing fee?
-email to notify how much you are printing?

This is all I have. Again, sorry for posting this so late! I will try to get it up earlier next block.

Sustainability Office Interns

Comin' to you straight from Bruce-- two more PAID jobs as sustainability interns.

Green Enthusiasts,

I’d like to invite student applications to serve as Interns for the Sustainability Office. I’m looking for two talented students, with a substantial record of green advocacy and leadership, to support and enhance sustainability efforts at CC. The interns will report directly to me as Sustainability Coordinator. One intern will focus on program planning, development, support and implementation. The second intern will focus on research questions designed to foster CC’s sustainability agenda.

To apply send me a resume by the end of Block 3. Please indicate whether you are applying as the Sustainability Program Intern, Sustainability Research Intern, or both. I’ll contact successful candidates at the beginning of Block 4 to begin working immediately. And for those of you who know that I’ve been talking about this for a while – yes this will happen.

Blessings,

Bruce

Back Page of Catalyst

First of all i just saw the Greenwipe and i think it is a great avenue to get the word out. On the other hand i just read the back of the Catalyst and was really disappointed to see the line "Laziness has probably protected our planet more than any other activity" what kind of call to action is that!

Step it up

Lucy,
Sorry i could not make it to step it up but i was doing a class project helping a new local business with its grand opening that day. I thought that i had contributed enough to step it up by helping you find your funding.

Sodexho Sustainability Grants

A sudden burst of Sodexho "green-ness"

Sodexho and Colorado College Sustainability Grants:
At Sodexho we are charged with 'making every day a better day', and what
better way to accomplish this than to provide funding to address issues of
sustainability here at CC.   Sodexho Campus Dining Services is pleased to
announce that we will award a total of $8,000 grants to students, faculty or
staff of The Colorado College during the 2007-2008 academic year to help with
one of the college's core values of "nurturing a sense of place and an ethic
of environmental sustainability".  The amount of the grants will depend on the
projects and funding requested and the committee will determine how to divide
the $8,000 among the grant recipients. These grants may be used in areas such
as but not limited to; to further research, purchase equipment to enhance
sustainability, or to support an educational campaign on sustainability.


The Process:
Students, Faculty and Staff are encouraged to participate.  All applications
should include the name (or names), addresses, phone numbers and email
addresses of all the people participating in the project.  The application
should clearly define the project, target audience, scope of work to be
completed, detailed time line for the project including full completion,
anticipated budget, and projected outcome and sustainability benefit.

Deadline:
The deadline for grant submission will be the last day of Block III.  All
submissions must be delivered via email to Shawn.Finnegan@SodexhoUSA.com no
later than 5:00 PM on November 21, 2007.

Review and Award:
The grants will be reviewed by a 7 member team including:  Shawn Finnegan,
General Manger for Sodexho Dining; Jeff Lougee, Sodexho District Manager;
Chris Melcher, Colorado College Legal Counsel and Business Manager; Bruce
Coriell, Colorado College Chaplin; Howard Drossman, Director of Environmental
Science, along with two Colorado College Students.
The awards will be announced no later than the end of Block IV, and winners
will be notified by email and on both the Colorado College Sodexho Dining
Services web site and The Colorado College web site.

Evaluations:
The decision of the committee will be final and based on the following
criteria:

• Organization and clarity of the proposal
• Tangible results of the proposal
• Benefits to CC and the Colorado Springs community
• Timeline for accomplishment
• Demonstrated ability to carry out the project
• Amount of grant desired
  

Grants will not be awarded for proposals or projects already in progress or
completed.

Questions:
Please direct questions to Shawn.Finnegan@SodexhoUSA.com or at
(719) 389-6152.

-DS

Vandana Shiva video

Vandana Shiva's lecture last block was inspiring and well-received
If you missed the lecture, listen to it at
www.coloradocollege.edu/podcast

Also, Here's a short video of what she's up to.
http://www.linktv.org/programs/bullshit
Shiva's adversaries recently awarded her the "Bullshit Award" for sustaining poverty.
What do you think? Heroine or Villian?

Response to Jamie

so jamie, you want more things to involve the entire campus in sustainability? I could not agree more that's why I invited the entire campus to the Step It Up event that took place just yesterday through the listerv, personal invitations that were delivered under every door in all the dorms, signs in every building on campus, advertisements in the Independent and Gazette and through general word of mouth. There were probably about 150 students there but I didn't see you anywhere. Funny.

DId not mean to offend

Bruce and all,
I did not mean to offend anyone with that post although it did sound heavy handed i just posted it to ruffle some feathers and get people talking both about the blog and ENACT. I agree with you that ENACT does great things and that the current leadership is quite effective and therefore we can have a very productive year. My argument for tangible things was more along the lines of the fact that we need things such as the CC compost that gets the entire campus thinking of sustainability not just the 50 of so people that show up to the GRT and the 20 or so that attend ENACT meetings. We have a great bunch of people this year in many influential positions and think that we can accomplish a lot, so lets get out there and make a difference. Furthermore, Bruce i did not mean for my earlier post to be seen as a personal attack on yourself, in fact i applaud you for stepping up this year and being our sustainability coordinator, you took on a great deal of work and responsibility simply because you think it is the right thing to do (and it is) and i thank you for that.

Step it Up TOMORROW!

Come out to Rock Ledge Ranch at Garden of the Gods this Saturday--
bring a friend and a picnic--and enjoy the natural beauty we all
love, take a guided nature walk, dig on some great live music, and
learn about the unique past present and future of Colorado Springs.
CC students put together this rally, with participation from CC
faculty and staff, interested community members, and generous
support and co-sponsorship from the City of Colorado Springs Parks,
Recreation and Cultural Services. Rain or shine, 12-3pm.

If you want to ride your bike to the Garden meet in front of Loomis @ 11:30

Want to learn about retrofitting houses? Want your heating bill to be lower this winter? Come to Synergy House Sunday @ 10:00 - 1:00 pm to help and learn!

-Synergy Residents

a rant from your sustainability coordinator

I suspect this is an odd first post as the CC Sustainability Coordinator but:
Jamie are you kidding us?
You seem to have exactly the opposite perception of ENACT's effectiveness than I do.
You mention composting at Rastall as the last big ENACT contribution (which by the way, just earned CC our only "A" on a national sustainability report card.
How did you miss ENACT's successful campaign to win LEED certification for the Cornerstone Arts Building, or fighting for CC to sign the President's Climate Commitment, which led to a $50,000 energy audit to serve as baseline data for a long range CC sustainability plan, and bringing new energy/organization/effectiveness to the Green Round Table. And hey, I'm only part-time, but why do you think Pres. Celeste asked me to serve as Sustainability Coordinator - do you think student pressure had anything to do with it? Should I continue?
I don't mean to sound surly, but the current ENACT leadership and membership is the most effective that I've seen in my 20 years at CC.

Bruce Coriell

ENACT: Action through inaction

Sorry to put this so bluntly but ENACT needs to get something tangible done rather than just talking. the last public and tangible thing that ENACT seems to have accomplished was the composting in rastal. Lets get something done that gets the general student body talking about sustainablility by giving ENACT a public and positive image.

LGRT Outcome

Hi all,

The Leadership GRT proved to be somewhat of a good/tough process, and at this point I'd like to update everyone on the purpose, process, and progress of the LGRT.

PURPOSE:
To bring together the leaders of the campus green groups to represent the green student body and form an "asking" committee to the administration on sustainability issues that we see as outstretching the scope or responsibility of any one green group.

PROCESS:
We gather to whittle down these larger issues into three categories:
-Resolutions, which are "asks"
-Supports, which are a way of showing a thumbs-up to the admin. on processes that are already underway
-Recognitions, which are thank-yous or shout-outs to members of the admin./staff that have done great work

When the Resolutions, Supports, and Recognitions are decided, the LGRT drafts them up in a formal document to send through the Sustainability Coordinator to the appropriate members of the admin. with the invitation to read the document, and then meet with the LGRT to discuss the issues at hand. Hopefully from this meeting the admin. and the students will not only be on the same page, but also be excited about working together on the issues that the LGRT has specified.

PROGRESS:
The issues we've specified this fall are:
The Food Service/Sodexho Bid
Getting a Full-Time Sustainability Coordinator position created post-Bruce
Changing out the Vehicle Fleet

We will be drafting the formal document starting this block break, and will hopefully be meeting with members of the admin. by the end of 3rd block.

That's the news for now-- have a fine time over the break and unplug everything while you're gone!

Best,
EnAct co-chairs

SYNERGY HOUSE NEWS

Some news and reminders just to keep everyone updated:

-There will be a Senior insulation workshop the first Sunday 3rd block. Synergy will be running its annual blower door analysis so come learn what you can do to improve your heating bill this winter - It will definitely add up. If your interested in running a blower door for your house Synergy can help facilitate the process, but we need to reserve the blower door a week ahead of time.

-Synergy will be winterizing the garden and moving the herb garden 3rd block! stay tuned for more info...

-Come to blockly potlucks 2nd Friday of every block.

-The house is getting matching sail shades for the upstairs windows! If your interested in helping make the sailshades, or learning how they work, contact Synergy house or a resident at Synergyhouse@coloradocollege.edu.

-Synergy is open for groups interested in reserving the house for lectures, workshops, speaker receptions, meetings, etc(Contact a Synergy resident to plan or email Synergyhouse@coloradocollege.edu)

Winter is coming so be smart with energy use due to heating - remember to close windows while your heater is on. Don't forget to unplug all of your appliances and set your thermostat low while your gone during block break.

Much love,

-Synergy House Residents

The Leadership GRT

Greetings everyone,

Thanks to all who came to the GRT last week-- it was a productive meeting that brought forth some strong ideas and greater cohesion within the campus green community-- just what we were hoping for!

As we discussed at the GRT, the best way for our voice to be heard by the administration is if we streamline our campus-wide sustainability goals and vote on them as heads of green groups in the form of Green Roundtable Resolutions. To do this we're holding:

THE LEADERSHIP GRT
THIS THURSDAY
9 PM
THE ERC, TUTT SCIENCE

Just one representative from each green group is needed, and we'd really like to see representation from the student green groups that were at the GRT, including:

CCCA
CC Farm
Synergy
Food Chained
Sacred Grounds
Roots n' Shoots
State of the Rockies
Sustainability Interns
ORC

PLEASE SEND A REP! And if your groups can't make it, please let us know.

See you soon,
Your loving EnAct GRT Committee

SEED EXCHANGE

Bring your SEED
Bring yourSELF
Bring your FOOD

1st Annual SEED EXCHANGE

What? A community gathering centered around the lost art of seed-saving (AND, for those with no seeds or plants, not to worry – bring a potluck dish to share!)

Where? Yampa Field (Inclement weather – Bemis Great Hall)

When? Sunday, October 22: 10 AM – 2 PM

A FoodChained Event----->>> Questions? Contact Jackie Pitts j_pitts@coloradocollege.edu

'Hijaking' the Global Food Supply>>>Dr. VANDANA SHIVA

FOOD CHAINED PRESENTS:

DR. VANDANA SHIVA

The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply:
The Human & Ecological Impacts of Globalization

Oct. 16th at 7:30 in Shove Chapel

Dr. Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned physicist, activist, ecologist, political-economist, feminist, and author. She has written over 350 publications and 14 books. Dr. Shiva’s most recent books include Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. In 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Doctor Shiva has fought for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food through grassroot campaigns.

“over the past two decades every issue I have been engaged in as an ecological activist and organic intellectual has revealed that what the industrial economy calls "growth" is really a form of theft from nature and people.”

The Green Roundtable

Greetings one and all,

The time has come for the first Green Roundtable of the year. The Green Roundtable is the campus-wide sustainability summit that brings together leaders of all campus green groups, student-led through the administration, to put names to faces, share our biggest news, and, as a campus, discuss where we are headed with sustainability.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10th
GATES COMMON ROOM
7 PM

Please join us and see how large the campus green community has grown.
There's plenty to talk about!

Best Regards,
The EnAct Green Roundtable Committee

Freshman CSC Applications

All freshman Campus Sustainability Council applications are due on Tuesday, Oct. 2nd by 3 pm. The applications can be found at the Worner Desk. You may turn your hard copy in at the worner desk or email your application to me at wileyrogers@gmail.com. Cheers

The CCCA Green Rep

HEY

Congrats to Jamie Storrs, our new CCCA green rep. If you want your issues heard by the student government, he's your man.

EnAct meeting minutes, 9/18

Hi all-
Here is what were discussed at the meeting yesterday.

Intro of EnAct - because we are using different format and welcoming freshmen, we had brief intro to sub-groups present at the meeting.
Mission of EnAct - serving as umbrella organization, where sub-groups works on their projects. EnAct meeting will bring those sub-groups together and provide resources and info necessary for successful achievement of the project. Differing from Green Round Table, because this will include administration and faculties as well as all the students interested.

News
CSC expansion - Campus Sustainability Council has expanded and there are more students involved.
PCC update - President Celeste has set aside $30,000 to do more research, and create a baseline of campus energy use
Sustainability Coordinator - Bruce Corriel, our chaplain, will be our bridge to the administration people. Stop-by and say hi to him, if you got a chance.

Opportunities - for more info, keep an close look at this blog
CSC wants freshman! - There is a spot for any interested freshman to get involved in CSC. Applications available at Worner Desk.
Sustainability intern - 3 positions wanted at communications office. works include but not limited to: advertisement of an event, research on topics etc. For detailed job description, look back a little in this blog.
CCCA Green Reps - we need someone that thinks for the environment. Election is this Thursday!

Sub-Groups Updates
Energizing Colorado Springs - meeting on Thursday, Sept. 20, 1:30 pm at Palmer 121. If you are against the coal-fueled power plant, this is the place to go. Also big event, on Oct. 4th with speaker and expo. For more info, attend the meeting or on the blog.
Investment Club - wants to invest on some sustainable means for CC campus. Ideas and suggestions welcomed. Show-up to the meetings in Palmer Econ department.
Synergy House - hosting more events at the house, joining forces with other green groups.
Food Chained - cast ideas and watch out for more info on blog!
CC Farm - farmers market at Worner on Friday, 11:30-2:00. Pumpkin harvesting on Saturday, meet at Synergy House at 10:00 am.

Projects/report of action
Baca Drilling - 350 written and 350 faxed letters + emails are sent to Fish and Wildlife Service to push Lexam to perform Environmental Impact Assessment.
Eco Fund - Start thinking about what can be done in with some money ($3,000 or so). This is going to be on Spring semester, but it wouldn't hurt to start thinking about possibilities.

Recycling!

Hey EnActers!
If you're interested in making major changes to CC's recycling
program, talk to me, Adam Plourde or James Fry.
What would you like to see changed?
What suggestions do you have for people to contact?
Thanks!
-Sandhya

EnAct Meeting TONIGHT- 9:00 PM

Hey folks,

As many of you are tuned in-- Bill McKibben, fantastic climate activist and all-around Good Guy is coming to speak in Shove tonight at 7:30, which conflicts with the EnAct meeting that is traditionally held at 8:00 in the ERC, Tutt Science.

Given that anybody who's involved or looking to get involved with EnAct should instead go to this talk, we're postponing the meeting until 9:00 PM, same place.

So c'mon out of Shove and b-line it for the ERC to shake out some ideas with EnAct.

Best,
EnAct co-chairs

Our Connection To Wilderness

How to connect People and Place?

Will Rogers, the President of the Trust for Public Land, a nationally recognized land conservation organization will be discussing the state of our wilderness areas.

Monday 16th, 7:30 PM at the Gates Lecture Hall.

STUDENT SUSTAINABILITY INTERNS WANTED

Hi folks,

Positions abound, these days. Besides a green rep needed for the CCCA council, three new student positions have been created in Communications for Sustainability Interns. This is your chance to get paid for the work you've been doing in the past- and to get sustainability fully recognized on campus. Here is the job description and contact info if you're interested:

-----
YOU have ideas to make CC a more sustainable place.
WE have job openings for three sustainability interns, AND funding to achieve mutual project goals.


Sustainability Intern. The office of communications is seeking committed student partners to help make Colorado College more sustainable. This is a paid internship. Our goal is to facilitate positive environmental change at the college. This will be a collaborative effort with other individuals and groups on campus. Your ideas and passions count for a lot in a collective effort to engage other students, faculty and staff.

This is a great opportunity for a self-starter with a strong interest in sustainability coupled with dependable follow-through. You should expect to work primarily in teams, with some opportunities to pursue independent projects.

Under the auspices of the office of communications, you will have the flexibility to address a wide range of issues that impact environmental sustainability on campus. Approximately half of your time will be for projects assigned by the office of communications, having to do with research of particular issues, education of campus constituencies regarding sustainable practices, working with interns in compatible areas (e.g. State of the Rockies, KRCC) and on special projects (e.g. possible development of a sustainability report card for the college). The remainder of your time will be for projects initiated by the team of interns or yourself, working along the lines of making a proposal for a project that supports making CC more environmentally sustainable, creating a budget, securing approval and following through to achieve your goals.

The Office of Communications will also fund attendance at selected conferences.

The internships will be mentored by Jen Kulier (director of publications) and Karen To (director of new media/web editor), who are both on the Sustainability Council. You will work with others in the office of communications, and should see this department (including KRCC), and its multiple areas of expertise, as a readily available resource to advise and assist projects.

Hourly rate: $8.50
Must be able to commit to working 8 hours per week on average (taking into account the “seasonal” time demands of the block plan).

The internships will start at the beginning of Block 2.
Please contact Jen Kulier (jkulier@coloradocollege.edu) if interested.

Best,
Katie

CCCA Needs a Green Rep

Hello All,

Sierra Fleenor, the pres. of the CCCA is sending out calls for CCCA board members- and as of yet a Green Rep is not on the docket.

ANYONE from the green movement at CC can step up and make our opinion heard, from speakers to compost to recycling to energy.

Elections are being held next Thursday, so if anyone's interested please reply to this post, so we can see who all's interested and you can talk to each other about running-- then contact Sierra. Let's get represented!

Best,
Katie

New EnAct Mission Statement

Let us know what you think of the tentative mission statement: Comment, edit, and lets finalize this!

"The EnAct Network provides resources and empowers the campus community to take action toward a sustainable future."

- DMS

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Alien or ACKEE???
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Meeting Minutes::::FOOD CHAINED a project of ENACT
-----------FIRST:::: This WEDNESDAY Nick Maravell "Organic Farmer and activist" in the WES ROOM at 6:30 with FARM FRESH FOOD from your vary own CC FARM. ----------

-----------------Also Small group discussion/ workshop with Nick in Sacred Grounds on THUR (time TBD).------------------------------------

Meeting with Interested faculty Tuesday

MINUTES ......****please send a shout out if any of these issues strike you to the core and you want to get involved****

Broad GOALS:
+ Initiate discussion around the issues of the FOOD SYSTEM
+ unite community around FOOD
+ capitalize on resources in the CC community (namely our excellent staff and faculty)
+ Promote the food vision of LOCALITY through our events and activism on campus
+ Bring together our unique passions for sustainability, culture, politics, and what ever.. through FOOD

ISSUES to address:
Tackle the issues surrounding GMOS.
GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY...WTO
Tradition/ religion and FOOD
Seed Saving....loss of diversity
Ranching
Urban and Farm interface/ incorporation/ overlap
Migrant Workers and illegals in the US.....Colorado current stance
Permaculture
BEE CRISIS
Slow food ....collaboration

Campus Action:
Helping to create communication b/t dinning services and farmers as well as students.
#1 CAMPUS FOOD SURVEY......We need help brainstorming questions....send ideas to Adam Plourde @ a_plourde@CC.edu
encourage labeling of food origins in Rastall....
Work on COMPOSTING with CC FARMERS and EnACT....in campus kitchens and Herb n' Farm
Helping to advertise Farmers Markets....Lyndnesy
COlaborative FOOD COLLUM in campus publication
NSO WEEK info sheet about farmers market ETC. 2nd semester

Blocky or week long ....COOKING GET TOGETHER....learn how to cook seasonally and from scratch
_-----invite CC community chefs, nutrition experts etc. .....

Workshops in partnership with the CC FARM:
>>>>Bread Making...Adam is going to take this on but needs a hand
>>>>cheese making...Sandhya and paneer.... mmmmm
>>>>Bee keeping
>>>>Gardening
>>>>>>>PERMACULTURE

WORK DAYS ON FARMS AND RANCHES......
GET OUT the word about RAW MILK

Speakers:
VANDANA SHIVA tentatively OCT 16th....
Joel SALATIN tentatively Jan. 24th
SATISH KUMAR
.,......and many more......


WOW!! what a schedule. Lets Get er done..... there is plenty of ROOM for additions..Only take on what you are truly passionate about.




"It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding."

~~~Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries, June 2006

Success at the EnAct Catamount Retreat

Big leaps and a strong focus for the Green Movement were made this weekend as EnAct leaders went on an overnight leadership retreat to the Catamount Institute. Howard Drossman helped us by facilitating discussions and team-building excercises, and we have emerged with a renewed vision for EnAct as well as campus-wide communication and achievement in the sustainability arena.

Main Takeaways from the Retreat:

-New Mission & Guiding Principles for EnAct
-EnAct to serve as an umbrella organization for the Green Movement at CC
-EnAct to provide resources, encouragement and action opportunities to all levels of the campus community on green issues by bringing Green Groups together under the EnAct Network
-More excitement around the Green Movement with new EnAct Social Committee-- bringing us together at gatherings other than meetings
-New framework for problem-solving and solution outlines within EnAct- the GreenDoc
-Great Big List of Green Initiatives for the year, categorized and prioritized

Utterances of, "we should do this again" were abundant, and so with Howard's permission, a tentative thought for a return to Catamount would be to go and plan out the first GRT intitiative during third weekend this block, seeing as the first GRT should be occurring the second week of 2nd block. Please post thoughts, responses.

Here's to a weekend of good people, good food, and strong planning!

Best,
Katie

The 2008 Linnemann Lecture

Nominations for the 2008 Linnemann Lecture speaker were requested this morning (see below). Please send your speaker ideas to Sharon Neely in the Environmental Science Program office. We want this to be a democratic, student-organized process this year, so please send in your vote to Sharon. Thanks!

PS
Check out the speakers at Ted.com. Thanks to Wiley Rogers for showing me this great site!

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Good morning everyone. I am starting the process to select our guest lecturer for this year's Linnemann Lecture on the Environment. I am asking for nominations from you for possible candidates. Please feel free to dream as big as you wish when considering who you would like to have as a speaker. Our parameters are simple: this year we are looking for a female who is involved in some area of environmental activism, teaching, research, policy, etc. We do have a budget, and can look into their fees at a later date, so dream big! Send your suggestions to me by September 28, complete with a short bio on the individual.

Once we have compiled a list of suggested speakers, the seniors will meet to rank their choices. I will then take the first five and see if any are available (that we can afford!).

Getting Connected...

The updated list of Campus Sustainability Council members is now available here. In a renewed effort to improve communication, I'll be posting meeting minutes for the CSC monthly meetings. Be sure to talk to the CSC members about what's happening on the Council, and we'll be working with other campus groups throughout the year.

Campus Sustainability Council Recap

The new and improved CSC met this afternoon for some exciting and productive discussion. As a recap, the council talked about:

-PCC Update/Energy Audit for campus
The administration is working on getting better footing with climate issues and by submitting an RFP (Request For Proposals) for energy auditing corporations, is certainly moving in the right direction to sign the PCC in the future. Right now we have a few companies outlined, and a new committee of 4 CSC members was created to further discuss, review, and attend interviews of possible auditors. The whole process of picking an auditor should be done by mid-December.

-The President's Alumni/Parent Council on Sustainability
This council was outlined as an outside, cost-efficient resource for the CSC that would provide expert information to us on any number of issues we choose to tackle on campus, be it solar engineering or wind farms...however no specifics like a meeting time with this council were mentioned, and it seems to be on hold, with few details available.

-AASHE Membership
Bruce Coriell will be talking to different parts of the admin. and figuring out if $1,000 is available for a membership. Another CSC member will be researching different higher education green organizations' memberships and will report on which ones are best for CC to join at the next CSC meeting.

-Facilities Director Search
Howard Drossman will be the "green" member on the search committee, making sure that whoever we choose to work for CC will be sustainably minded. There is a possibility that a student rep. could make it onto the committee, if anyone's interested, with the help of a CCCA (Sierra's) recommendation.

-Endowment Institute Report
Remember the report card of colleges' endowments and overall campus sustainability-- the one that CC wasn't included in? Well, now we're getting included, and the full evaluation of CC should be done before winter.

-New Freshmen Member(s) for the CSC
Wiley drafted up an application for one or two freshmen candidates to hop on the CSC. The other students on the CSC will decide which applicants will be accepted.

-Focus the Nation
Could use a student rep. from CC, seeing as Bill McKibben is coming to campus quite soon. Email Howard Drossman if you're interested.

-CC is installing a fancy energy-efficient water cooling system for our water main-- which will save a whole lot of C02 from going into the air-- roughly 96,000 tree's worth, I believe. Hooee.

!The next CSC meeting is Third Wednesday at 3:30 in the ERC!
Open-door, all are welcome to attend and see what's up.

As Ever,
Katie

EnAct Meeting minutes

Hi all-
Here is the meeting minutes from last meeting
Recap of summer/last year
President Celeste has set aside $30,000 for sustainable audit. Planning some thank you action for it.
Campus Sustainable Council has expanded its capacity, and number of students getting involved has also expanded.
Bruce Coriell, our Chaplain is now our new Sustainable Coordinator. We will be working with him a lot this year.
World Affairs
There will be a cooperate-based sustainable energy/living forum with speaker on Oct. 5. This is ways down our planning ability time, but there is a plan to get some poster board information about CC (and other college around here). More information will be discussed in the next meeting.
Food Chained
There will be a lecture on Sept. 12 (in WES Room at 6:30pm)and discussion in Sacred Grounds on Sept. 13 (TBA). For more details, please look at Food Chained info page below.
CC Farm info
They are holding farmer's market on Fridays. Also they will be working towards collecting compostable food scraps from apartments and off-campus housing. Keep a watch-out for more info.
Another piece of information, they are working to get an on-campus farming/gardening plot, yet we don't know where that may be.
Green Round Table
This year, we plan to have 4 GRT in total, 2 in each semester. Our 1st GRT will be held 2nd week of 2nd block. This year, we want to meet and discuss issues with Green groups in 1st meeting, and in 2nd meeting try to create a resolution that we could stick to. We are still planning to create a Green Handbook with contact info of heads of the group.
Also we will plan to create more rigid structure (and possibly time limits) so the discussion will not go for hours.
Reaching Freshmen
For campus activities fair, a information bullet points will be made for the freshmen to take a look at.
Catamount
There will be a leadership retreat this Saturday and part of Sunday, with camping. Meets at North side of library, at 9am on Saturday. Bring foods, tent, sleeping bag etc.
Other (maybe not too) small things
CCCA- Co-chairs will be meeting them, to get onto the same page.
EnAct TP- Just like Toilet Paper, there is some idea of creating some newsletter in the bathrooms. More details to come as we figure things out.
Catalyst Article- Submit perhaps once a block or so, to get students interested/involved.

Thank you for all of you who came to the meeting yesterday!

EnAct Meeting Numero Uno

That's right--

Tomorrow night at 8:00 in the ERC will thus begin official EnAct meetings for the year. We've got plenty to talk about, and all newcomers are welcome to the table. Bring yer enthusiasm, folks. It's a big year ahead.

Best,
Katie

FOOD CHAINED UPDATE

Here are some morsels for your consumption,

FOOD CHAINED is rollin....

1st Block::: Nick Maravell "Organic farmer and Activist " ***WED the 12th *** In th WES ROOM @ 6:30
~~~~~~~~REFRESHMENTS FROM CC FARM BOUNTY~~~~~~~~~~~

"Organic:::Farming like there is a Tomorrow>>> from theory to policy and practice.”

Nick is a pioneer of the organic movement gaining experience from conducting organic systems research on his farm
with the USDA and participating in the national debates on the passage of organic laws and regulations, while also
operating his own commercial organic farm since 1979. Nick has been a policy advocate for ecologically sound organic
standards, regional food systems, science based research on organic systems, and strengthening the smaller family
farms which he believes provide the innovation and guidance for a more sustainable agriculture.

His whole farm production of vegetables, grains, livestock and forage uniquely positions him to answer questions such as:
Can organic farming really feed the world? Should you buy local or organic? What do all these labels really mean: “natural”,
“cage free”, “grass fed”, “made with organic”? Do our policies, such as the currently debated Farm Bill, help or hurt
sustainable practices?

Nick brings a unique insider’s perspective on how far organic farming has come in the last 30 years and where it is
headed. Please join us on September 13th in Sacred Grounds Coffee House to discuss “What you always wanted to know
about organic farming but were afraid to ask”
@ 9:00

2nd BLOCK:::Vandana Shiva Tentatively Coming OCT. 16!!!!!

5th BLOCK:::Joel Salatin!!!!

1ST FOOD MEETING>>>>> Wednesday @ 4:00<<<<<<<
Topics: What do we want to accomplish, address, and learn about our food system.
Getting local food on campus
Discuss researching success with the Local FOOD Movement at Grinell College Check it out @
AND CAMPUS FOOD Survey...

Welcome Back

Hello all,

For those of you who check up on the blog--

EnAct has an incredible amount of engaging activism to wrangle with this coming year, and we need a pow-wow ASAP to bring us back from our far-flung summers. After speaking to Howard Drossman about action with the administration over the summer, I learned of quite a few BIG THINGS that quietly changed while we were all off regaining our sanity. Juicy tidbits like:

-The Campus Sustainability Coucil has expanded, with two more student spots
-We have a Sustainability Coordinator
-Celeste is alotting at least $30,000 for a campus energy audit AND is doing so to garner strength to sign the PCC...

MY goodness, such sneaky things happen while we're away!

THIS is why we need to meet and discuss what's up, and how we should best allocate our time this year, preferrably SUNDAY NIGHT, if at all possible. My vote is for a big dinner/discussion at someone's house, but if we must use a space on campus, that's alright, too. Tuesday this week will be the regular EnAct meeting as usual, 8:00 in the ERC, however we need to meet sooner than that to get our act together and make a few quick decisions.

Word.

Katie

State of the Rockies: Fall Speakers

Hey all,
State of the Rockies is bringing in some interesting speakers as well. Bill Cronin who has challenged the concept of wilderness , a second round of Gloria Flora and Will Rogers (my pops) who works for a land conservation organization. We are looking forward to working with EnAct, Food Chained and other groups to be more student oriented and depart from the traditional image of State of the Rockies as a disconnected EV project.

Psst...

Bill McKibben is coming to campus September 18th-- more info is on the CC homepage.

Katie

ArcGIS half block

Yo Anybody taking the ArcGIS halfblock course next year? There is a ArcGIS certification process that we should think about completing. Matt Reuer has more details; its free, delicious and very sexy. Hopefully we will have a good crew.

Cornerstone LEED certification: a waste of resources

Does anyone else agree with me that pushing for LEED on the cornerstone arts building did little more than buy us an expensive plaque for the front door? In fact in order to cover the costs of certification they had to actually cut out certain options that would have made the building more sustainable, such as a heat recovery device for the HVAC system.

Due to this i propose that next year Enact/CC urbanists should draft up a series of building guidelines for new buildings and building renovations at colorado college.

for more information on the problems with LEED check out this article written by Randy Udall about why he has given up on the idea of LEED certification in favor of better options.

http://www.igreenbuild.com/cd_1706.aspx

Administrative Decision on the PCC

For anyone who's reading this thing, here is the official reply from President Celeste on our efforts with the PCC, now that he's met and presented our paperwork to the Board of Trustees. Please post your thoughts-- let's figure out what to do with this.

Best,
Katie

____________________________________
Dear Katie, Charlie, Laura, and David,

Thank you for your thoughtful letter to the trustees and me, urging Colorado College to become a signatory to the American College and University Presidential Climate Commitment.

I discussed this matter in some detail with the Board of Trustees during their meeting here last week. Many of the trustees share our interest in achieving carbon neutrality and general sustainable practices at CC. As I told them, however, I am not inclined to sign the ACUPCC until I am assured that we can carry out the commitment it represents.

Thus I am forming an advisory council on sustainability, comprised of alumni, parents, and other experts. Their charge will be as follows:

One of Colorado College's core values is to "nurture a sense of place and an ethic of environmental sustainability." How well do we live up to this important value?

In 2004, President Celeste appointed a Campus Sustainability Council (CSC) to help promote environmental awareness; make recommendations to ensure a safe and healthy environment; promote resource conservation, energy efficiency, waste reduction and recycling, pollution prevention, and use of renewable resources; further long-range environmental planning; conduct regular environmental audits; and encourage incorporation of sustainability and environmental issues into the curriculum, among other activities.

As of 2007, Colorado College has made progress on sustainability, much of it due to the efforts of students and the CSC. We are working on our second LEED-certified building, the Cornerstone Arts Center. (Tutt Science Center is the other.) We pay a premium for wind power, which provides 15 percent of our electricity. We are exploring a move to 100 percent wind power and hope to have a plan before our Board this year. We recycle; we compost; we use only non-potable water on our grounds and are xeriscaping wherever possible. Several of our motor fleet vehicles have been replaced with hybrids.

To fully embody our commitment to sustainability, however, we have far to go.

The Colorado College Sustainability Presidential Advisory Council (Sus-PAC) will advise and assist the President, Dean, and Board of Trustees. The Sus-PAC will:

* Work closely with the Campus Sustainability Council to assess progress on sustainability measures
* Provide counsel on current and future directions in the areas of policy, global warming and energy, green buildings, investments in sustainability sectors, and other sustainability issues
* Provide guidance for formulating and executing an actionable plan for reducing carbon emissions in order to achieve carbon neutrality

The work and advice of this council will help inform a decision about becoming a Regular Signatory of the ACUPCC.

I welcome your continued involvement on this important issue and fully expect you to engage with the advisory council when they come to campus (at a date yet to be determined in the fall or spring).

Thank you for your impressive leadership on sustainability.


Sincerely,

Richard F. Celeste

*Meeting Minutes 5/8/2007*

*Meeting Minutes 5/8/2007*

Need to do 8^th block

Sustainable Living sheets (handouts) for NSO

EnAct Flyers for NSO

Nalgene Stickers

Formalize Drossman’s Catamount Institute leadership retreat

Need to do during summer

• Checking up on PCC
• Getting stickers printed
• Get NSO sheets printed
• Give them to Elizabeth Putter Service and Learning
• Give them to Res Life for RA’s
• Work with Wiley on website to get ready for NSO
• Revise/create the constitution via email

Projects for next year

Sticker campaigns

GRT

Earth-week

Sustainable alumni fundraiser

Bathroom flyer

Wind credit competition

Sustainable principles

PCC follow through - Get involved in implementing it

Meeting with:

Dick Celeste – Monday the 14^th at 11:00

John Delahunt – Thursday the 10th at 12:00 Wooglins

CCCA - Wednesday the 9^th @ whenever they tell us

• Wiley's info about wind power at CC
• Tom Nykum has been working on a wind farm
• Walt Hecox wants to have a wind credit competition
• Students would bid at an auction for credits
• The Slade fund would be used for money
• Make stickers for those who buy credits for their room
• It could be a competition between dorms…. Other schools?
• Credits would be bought at wholesale and sold at a premium
• Profit would go to make a “live feed” energy monitering system for the school.
• EnAct has agreed to host and run the student auction
• Graffi-T’s (contact is Julie) (down on Hancock and Bijou) has worked for EnAct before and gives a good deal on stickers (compost sticker was 97 cents)
• Look into the Campus Climate Challenge
• The reason its feasible is because of the tax credits

Other topics/tidbits of info

• What are we doing to get in touch with the trustees?
• Ask the CCCA to contact the trustees and give them the packet
• We are handing the packet to Celeste on Friday the 11^th
• We should go part digital in future petitions.
• Sarah Ruben Made a “how to” sheet on connections etc…
• Make sure Drossman knows we want to go to the Catamount Institute
• Leadership retreat of first weekend of first block

• NSO
• Sustainable living sheet
• RA’s
• Leaders to kids
• Elizabeth Putter’s in Center for service & learning
• Make sheet before end of block
• Stickers
• EnAct basic nalgene sticker
• Many colors
• Sell at CC store

• Bathroom info sheet (Next year)
  
• Catchy name
• Approved
• Also include EnAct info meeting dates

• Advertise composting in Rastall (Next Year)
  

• There is a compost account
• There is money in it around 150 – 300
• EnAct will have control of the fund
• Rowan is interested in working on the project
• Joint money should come from rastall, enact, others for the sign
• Project for EARLY next year is signs
• Shawn Finnegan (Sodexho regional Mngr)
• Adrienne already sent him info on the signs
• He want to make table tents on composting OR EnAct info if we go in on it with him
• Talk to Jerry Swiesser (assistant director facilities)

• RMSS refunding to get rid of the $93.00 in our CCCA account (info from Laura)

-DS

EnAct Meeting Tomorrow Night

Folks,

Last EnAct meeting of the year: Tuesday night, 8 pm in the ERC. We have plenty to talk about, including:

Final PCC Edits
Summer Organizing
Catamount Retreat
Early Fall Initiatives

Please post anything else you think we should discuss. Let's wrap up and get ready to hit the ground running next year.

See you there,
Katie

EnAct Minutes - Tuesday May 1st

Enact Meeting Tuesday May 1st.


Speaker series: focused on energy efficiency and renewable energy.
-Including fort Carson, Air Force Academy, El Pomar
-James Woolsey, Salazar, Amory Lovins, Rittenburg
-Colorado Springs is considering building an additional 350 million dollar coal power plant
-Popularize EnAct


EnAct 8th Block
-PCC petition
-EnAct Constitution
-Student Sustainability Principles
-Introduce new Enact to campus/admin.
-Elections


PCC – petition timeline

Week 2 –
- Door to door finish
-Loomis – Wiley and Laura
-Mathias – David and Sandhya
-Slocum – Charlie
-Off-campus – David
-Language Houses – ?


- Llama- Table canvas
- Gear Sale
- Faculty Signatures
-EV Department
-Bio Department
-Relay 4 Life
-Dorm-Posters + Petition @ desk
-CCCA


Week 3:
-Cover letter, meeting with Celeste, CCCA meeting, Submit proposal petition.
-Meet with John, David meet with Gary Reynolds

Elections
Chairs Responsibilities/duties
-Lead meetings
-Budget
-Spearhead Projects
-Official Representation & projects
-Switchboard Operators
-Executive/Organize Vision

*Possible Leadership Training
-Catamount Institute

Meeting Structure
-1 Hour
-1 Co-chair responsible for vocally leading the meeting
-Send out pre-meeting schedule and post meeting minutes
-Create “parking-lot” for ideas that don’t necessarily fit into meeting topics

PCC Charter Signatory

Looking at the PCC website today I noticed that if we are able to get President Celeste
to sign by June 30, 2007 he can be a Charter Signatory of the Commitment. This might give him some incentive to sign soon, so that he has this title instead of just "Signatory". Currently 202 colleges have signed the commitment, so it's not a matter of meeting the 200 Goal, but it would still be cool to have this signed ASAP.
What do you all think?
Could we use this as leveraging power to get this signed sooner?
-Sandhya


Presidents and chancellors may play several different roles as signatories to the Commitment. Here are the key roles and definitions:

Signatory - a president or chancellor who signs the Commitment. Goal: 1,000 or more signatories by December 2009.

Charter Signatory - a president or chancellor who signs the Commitment by June 30, 2007. Goal: 200 or more charter signatories.

Leadership Circle - signatories who have agreed to help lead the initiative, promote it, and recruit colleagues to join. Any interested signatory may join the Leadership Circle through December 2007.

Steering Committee - a smaller group of Leadership Circle members selected by the group to facilitate its efforts and guide the initiative. The Steering Committee will be established in March 2007.

Brown's PCC Initiative

Ran across an article from grist.org that talks about Brown's movement towards the PCC. Here are some links that might interest:

Brown's PCC initiative

Brown's Environmental Blog

-DS

Voting Results

Awesome meeting tonight EnAct!
I really feel like we're going in the right direction!
Here are the voting results:

Voting Results:

Co-Chairs for 07/08
David Sullivan
Katie Eberle
Laura Parker

Public Relations
David Amster

Secretary
Megumi

Internet Guru
Wiley Rogers

Treasurer
will be assumed by Co-Chairs

Design/Marketing
Katie Eberle
Along with Courtney and others

Minutes from Monday Meeting

Because David S. and Adam weren't able to make it to the meeting tonight, here are the (apologetically lengthy) minutes:

Main topics were:
-The PCC campaign plan for 8th block
-Meeting with Dick Celeste to discuss the PCC & EnAct for next year
-EnAct positions/who's running
-Back to school plans for the fall

The PCC Campaign Plan for 8th Block
-Deadline to hand in the PCC proposal & petition = 3rd Friday

This week:
-Set up a table for the petition at the Gear Sale and during Llama this Saturday morning and afternoon (David S yes we
assigned you)
-Get the GRT green group heads to all sign the PCC (Katie)
-Get EV professors/general willing faculty to sign the PCC (?)
-Get the petition out at the Relay for Life (Charlie & Courtney)
-Chalking (Katie & Charlie)
-All-school listserv, departmental listservs (Charlie)
-Butcher paper signs (?)
-More flyers up- check EnAct listserv for PDF email (everyone)
-Door-to-dooring with the petition as assigned tonight (everyone)
-Email CCCA Heads this week to get ourselves on their docket for 3rd week meeting (Charlie)

3rd week:
-The to-be-newly-elected co-chairs meet with Dick Celeste 3rd Monday during open office hours in Worner
-Put a new cover letter on the PCC branding it as "student support" instead of a petition
-Then meet with CCCA 3rd week to discuss them making a resolution on the PCC to send to Celeste with our proposal
-Put the whole packet together with blessings from DeLaHunt and submit it all on Friday


Meeting with Dick Celeste 3rd Week:
-He already knows about the PCC and our push for it, he just doesn't know we are the faces behind it.
-Via Beth Brooks, Celeste is creating a President's Advisory Committee of External Experts on energy consumption &
costs for campus, which will directly advise him on the PCC. David Amster is connected with this. We need to have full
communication between this new committee and the CSC so that everyone's on the same page.


EnAct Positions/Who's running:
-5 folks are running for co-chairs: David S., Katie, Laura, Adam, & David Amster-O
-Discussion continues about tri-chairs vs. quadra-chairs vs. a committee of everyone
-Beyond the co-chairs, positions of Treasurer, Online Point-Person, Secretary, and Marketing are up as well


Back to School Plans for the Fall:
-Get our hands in RA Training
-Create a pamphlet on sustainable CC lifestyle choices & EnAct stickers for all new students & NSO Leaders
-Get a table in Worner with EnAct's name during the move-in weekend, getting parents and kids to check us out
-Make another set of EnAct stickers and blitz the bathrooms V.A.T.-style before classes kick in

YAAAAA! That's about it. Big EnAct meeting tomorrow at 8 for elections!

Best,
Katie

Monday Meeting

-Meeting tomorrow to discuss the PCC campaign and re-group before the official EnAct meeting on Tuesday-

5:00 PM in the ERC

Bring copies of the petition for door-to-door circulation. See you folks tomorrow.

-KE

Urbanism Week: Majora Carter, etc...

First I want to thank everyone who participated in Urbanism Week. I hope everyone had an enjoyable and enlightening experience. With time I will provide additional follow-up information from the Campus Planning Forum.

But in the meantime, I wanted to provide a link to a presentation Majora Carter gave at the TED Conference in 2006:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/51

I would encourage everyone to view any and all of the amazing presentations available on the TED website [ted.com] because there is a wealth of information for your thirsty brains. Soak it up big guy. Just soak it up.

EnAct's future officers

I'm thinking we should discuss who will seek to be one of EnAct's officers next year and the structure and concept of the positions - accomplishing some dialogue and at least preparatory thought here onj the blog in the run-up to the meeting Monday.

1) What should be the structure of EnAct leadership? The idea of 3 tri-chairs was popular at the last meeting. Do we actually need 4 co-chairs to accomplish all of our ambitious plans, given the inconsistency of the block plan and our presumably increasingly academically intense lives and tighter schedules? Laura Parker told me she thinks 4 chairs is what we need. In addition, I think it is important to have a Treasurer; Secretary; Outreach Head; and Internet Pointperson within EnAct. Ideally for me these positions and their responsibility would be covered by people who are not also EnAct chairs, but I imagine some chairs will double in these positions. Laura Parker would be a great Treasurer given her experience, and she has expressed some interest in this. Wiley Roberts expressed some interest in being the Internet Pointperson. Should we omit or add any positions or have them at all? Thoughts in general?

2) Should we have elections for officer positions to give a clear authority and legitimacy to the officers, or simply determine who will be the officers by finding consensus through a roundtable discussion, or do the former if the latter doesn't narrow the field to the correct possitions? How should people be eligible to run - personal decision alone, or the requirement of nomination by others?

3) Who is running for officer positions? I know Katie Eberle and David Sullivan mentioned that they think they will run for chairs. I know I am considering doing so as well while also pondering how that would relate to my position as chair of the Climate Change CC subgroup. Anyone interested in the non-chair officer positions?

Charlie

Some Ideas for the Future

Oberlin College, at first glance a CC-like liberal arts college in the middle of nowhere, but wait... 66% of Oberlin's energy is from renewables, their student dorm room energy reduction competition saved the school $66,000, almost 25% of their on campus food is organic and locally grown. Oberlin is one of CC's main competitors, I think it is important to use them as a model. Check this website out before you cry yourself to bed. http://www.oberlin.edu/dormenergy/. I think all of these exciting projects that are thriving at Oberlin, will become a lot more realistic and necessary if we can get the PCC signed. Lets do it.

2008 Linnemann Speaker

Thanks to everyone who attended the Linnemann Lecture last night, and I wanted to promote next year's lecture and student involvement in the process. To the best of my knowledge, there will be a meeting Block 1 next year led by Sally Meyer and Sharon Neely to get everyone involved (I'll repost once I get the exact date). So start thinking about your favorite environmental luminaries who might be willing to talk at CC. So who do you think should be our next speaker?

New subtitle for blog?

I am wondering what you all think about these changes to the subtitle just below "The CC GreenPad" at the top of the page:
1) Include "EnAct-sponsored" since it is EnAct that created it and since EnAct is is seeking to facilitate bettern communication and coordination within the CC green movement, and would like to be recognized for that role.
2)I suggest we call it "Colorado College's green movement" without the capitals since it's not an official title.
3) I think we should only include reference to "student" when next to "green movement," not as part of "student-inspired," since I think the latter's a bit to long.
4) Make the forum for the green movement directly, rather than to address it, to give a direct sense of ownership of the blog to all members of the green movement.

My suggestion:
"A forum for Colorado College's student green movement - hosted by EnAct"

or include reference to EnAct in the top of the right-hand section of the page, rather than in the top title bar ... like above the "It's not easy being Kermit"

-Charlie Keller

Next Meeting

Next meeting THIS Sunday? Please comment back on what times work for you...

We should:

• Plan an 8th block timeline for the PCC campaign
• David Amster-O should explain his "Town Meeting" Csprings Renewable Energy event.
• Discuss ways to present ourselves to Dick Celeste
• Plan to explain whats going on at the next EnAct meeting the following Tuesday.

Keep the campaign rolling!

-KE & DS

Wind Credit Competition

Katie Eberle, Jamie Storrs and whoever else that is interested. Walt Hecox wants a "crap sheet" on how poorly CC compares to its main liberal arts competitors at buying wind power. The five schools ranked above CC by U.S. News are Oberlin College, Bates College, Macalaster College, Mout Holyoke College and Barnard College. The five below are: Scripps College, Bucknell University, Trinity College, Lafayette College and Kenyon College. I will take the top 5, the rest are out in the open. All we need to figure out is how much wind power these schools buy, what percentage of their energy is wind power and have they had student wind credit competitions. I emailed John D. CC's statistics. Cool. Thanks.

before our meeting?

Yo, we got to figure the leadership things ourselves first before going to Dick Celeste. The day KE is proposing is BEFORE the meeting, right? It's fine to go and talk about PCC, but we should stop there.
M

Board Meeting Change of Date

HALT! AND FORWARD!

I went to a seriously unnanounced luncheon/Q & A with Dick Celeste this afternoon. There were only 6 kids and heaps of food, and we had Celeste to ourselves for an hour to ask whatever we wanted to ask. MAIN POINT:

THE NEXT BOARD MEETING IS MAY 16-17 (NOT THIS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS I WAS TOLD AT THE LAST CSC MEETING)

WE NOW HAVE THE ENTIRE BLOCK TO WORK ON THE PCC AND THE PETITION so everyone hold yer horses. I'm sorry I didn't know this earlier, but now we do, so we have more time to revise and consider our work with the petition and the proposal.

That said, the petition is at the Worner Desk, and I have flyers ready and waiting to be taped in bathroom stalls the campus over. If you'd like to help, shoot me an email and I'll drop some off.

Also, Dick Celeste has open office hours every monday afternoon in Perkins lounge, and Charlie and I were thinking that, as a group, we should go and discuss this PCC movement with him, as well as introduce ourselves fully as the next organizers of EnAct. Next Monday-- who's in?

-KE

"Greening the Ghetto"

Majora Carter a speaker for the CC Urbanists Speaker Series, presented an incredibly inspiring solution for The South Bronx and other publicly neglected communities: "Green the Ghetto". Her non-profit organization Sustainable South Bronx is working to install green roofs, offer ecological stewardship training and create at least 600 local jobs revolving around preserving environmental integrity. She is full of fiery energy, realism and dedication to her community. Thanks to Majora Carter and Ken Farmer for a great presentation. Check out Sustainable South Bronx at: www.ssbx.org

In response to Katie:

The petition needs to be MUCH stronger than the last LEED petition as this is a much larger issue(we need to prove that the student body is educated and aware + Sign on the majority of the student body)

Questions that come to mind:

1)is the PCC currently a topic of discussion for the board? I'm guessing that they know its floating around.

2)Can we hold a successful student campaign/petition/AND revise the report in a few days... I would imagine not.

3)If we have all block for the report/petition/campaign will it be more effective... my answer is yes.

4)How much does the time of year matter for Celeste/the Board to agree on the PCC?----- I have no clue. Does J.Delahunt know?

I am voting on a full 8th block effort for the PCC Campaign.

-DS

PCC imm-ed-iate-ly

BIG FAST NEWS:

The next CSC meeting hasn't been planned yet, and the next Board meeting is THIS THURSDAY & FRIDAY.

This means that we have two paths we can take with the PCC:

a) We need to get the PCC report/proposal in ASAP -as in tomorrow afternoon- so that the Board knows what's going on and that we're pressuring for this, or

b) Gather serious support for the PCC and get it completely refined so we can submit the whole chunk of paper + petition by the end of the block to both Celeste and the Board so mull over for the summer.

What's our stance on this? Decisions on PCC action need to be made by this evening.

-KE

Solidify/Connect

When is the next CSC meeting? While educating the student body on the PCC and getting the petition signed we should solidify the new EnAct network for next year (in formal writing/visually) and set up meetings with CCCA and the CSC.

Should we just brainstorm and wait till next Tuesday? Is that too late? What about the weekend?

-DS

CC Urbanists Speaker Series

CC Urbanists Present:
The Urbanism in Action Speaker Series

Monday April 23rd:

Lunch [12:15 Palmer]:
Katie Selby, South Main Co-founder & Dir. of Community Affairs
Urbanism 101: Overview of New Urbanism

Evening Presentation [7:30 Gaylord]:

Jerry Novak, Land Development Division Manager, Classic Homes
James van Hemert, Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute
Rich von Luhtre, President, RNL Design
Sprawl Brawl: The Pros/Cons of Sprawl Development

Tuesday April 24th:

Lunch [12:15 Palmer]:
Jed Selby, South Main Co-founder and President
New Urbanism as a Living System: South Main Development
Case Study

Wednesday April 25th:

Lunch [12:15 Tutt Science]:
Majora Carter, Executive Director SSBX
Community Development: Sustainable South Bronx Case Study

Evening [7:30 WES Room]:
Tom Hootman, RNL Design Director of Sustainability, USGBC Colorado Chapter President
Sustainability Begins with You

Thursday April 26th:

Lunch [12:15 Palmer]:
Gary Reynolds, Colorado College Director of Facilities Services
Presentation of CC Long Range Development Plan

Saturday and Sunday:

Lunch [Bemis Great Hall 11:00-3:00]
Charrette with student critique of Long Range Development Plan

Topics Addressed: Landscape Architecture, Points of Connection, What’s Happening to Tejon , Dormitory
Alternatives, The CC Playground Design, The New Sports/Health Center, Leadership in Campus Design

***Community members are strongly encouraged to attend all events!

Sponsors: The Venture Grant Committee, The President's Office, The Art Department, The Black Student Union,
The CCCA, The Business and Community Board, The Sociology Department, The Downtown
Partnership

Great Meeting. Here is the Wesleyan University Blog: http://www.wesleying.blogspot.com/. Keep in mind that their Blog is for all student concerns and events, not just sustainability.

Meeting Minutes 4/24/2007

The New Enact - - - Minutes 4/24/2007

In attendance:

Charles Keller, Wiley Rogers, Adam Plourde, David Amster-O., Laura Parker, Sandhya Tillitson, David Sullivan, Katie Eberlie, Courtney Shepard

OUTLINE of network

• President
• CSC
• EnAct
• GRT Council
• Heads of environmental groups
• GRT Public
• Student body and environmental groups

• GRT meetings twice a semester
• Public followed by private
• Maintain dialogue through the Green pad (http://greenpad.blogspot.com/)

BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR

• Get the PCC signed
• Educate students
• Petition
• Meet with CCCA
• Create EnAct Constitution
• Create Student sustainability principles
• Based from GRT findings?
• RMSS findings?
• Introduce the new Enact and the new movement to the administration and faculty.
• Make the new EnAct network clear, accessible, and presentable

GOALS

• PCC
• Market enact as CC’s green movement
• Online expansion/access/connection (Blog)….made (use it)
• Enact home page/umbrella
• Simplify – keep Enact simple and sweet.
• Secure annual $ for the ecofund
• Constitution
• Publication to inform campus on CC’s sustainability and standing amongst peers
• Smear-like campaign?
• sticker AD campaign (like VAT)
• Funding Campaign from Alumni

PURPOSE

• Facilitator
• Outlet
• Communication
• Contact/switchboard for new interested students
• Central operator
• Public - recognized accomplishments
• GRT Public/Private

HOW?

• Op-ed
• Catalyst
• Cipher
• Flyers
• Listservs
• Booth in worner
• Butcher paper
• Chalking
• Announcements at events
• Listservs of all sorts
• Letters to faculty
• Letters to formal organizations of staff and trustees
• Letters to worner boxes
• Flyers in bathrooms
• Blog http://greenpad.blogspot.com

MISC

• Earth-week with purpose
• Incite and educate involve students
• Sponsor David’s mediation program.
• Wind credits competition
• NSO ED/AD

The NEW EnAct is forming in tandem with the current green movement on CC. Get involved.