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.