Filed under: Middlebury College
Filed under: Middlebury College, Saint Michael's College, University of Vermont, VSEC Meeting Notes
UVM
People: Ian, Andrew, Emily
Initiatives: Earth week (waterworld documentary, greenpeace event, targeted towards Vermonters & community, Church St. takeover – band, speakers, stands, games, UVM preschool fingerpaintings of wind turbines – don’t you think this looks beautiful?, ban on water bottle sales for one day, aesthetic water bottle art), riot/march week ago. Jessie Tolkan will be there the week of Earth week – Monday 23rd, lots of speakers 20th-24th. Wednesday-someone from green for all. Will try contacting Champlain, CCV, Burlington,
St. Mike’s
People: Dan Sandberg, Derek, Heidi, Clara, Josh, Carrie
Initiatives: Yellow bike program getting ready, planning for earth week starting Saturday (concert, tent city, documentaries, anti-plastic water bottles, water bottle art, free food, free music, Anthony Pollina)
Middlebury
People: Marilyn, Jesse, Nicole
Initiatives:
4/25 Earth Day celebration on town green – music, local food, face-painting, last winter farmer’s market, seed/seedling exchange (ACORN, MAGWAC)
Earth Day Cake
4/20 Cycling for a Sustainable Future Event
11am-12pm, Hillcrest
http://CyclingForaSustainableFuture.blogspot.com
5/1-5/2 “Getting to 350” conference AT Middlebury!
FREE but register on the internet now
http://blogs.middlebury.edu/350workshop/about/
4/19 is National Hanging Out day
Creative Action
Trek to ReEnergize America – Contact Michaela Skiles
Contact Castleton, Johnson, Green Mountain, Lyndon, VTC
Get names of people coming
May 2nd Meeting
10-15 people from UVM
Introductions of each school – who’s represented
Open discussion
Review of env’tal programs, etc.
Theme among schools of what we want to accomplish next year
What’s our structure?
Subgroups – Goals, campaigns
Earth Day
“It’s getting hot in here streak for climate change” 12:30 noon
Filed under: Saint Michael's College
Cool, thanks for including us in this. We can’t do too much right now, but our emails and names are all on the “contact sheet” so keep us updated.
Filed under: Middlebury College
Courtesy of Amanda Warren…
Announcements:
Contact Corrine Almquist for more information about:
5/2 Middlebury Community Garden work day and potluck 9-12pm
4/25 Earth Day celebration on town green
–volunteers needed to set up and clean up
4/17 Don’t forget to go to the student symposium
Contact Chester Harvey for more info about:
Cycling for a Sustainable Future Event
April 20 11am-12pm, Hillcrest
http://CyclingForaSustainableFuture.blogspot.com
5/1-5/2
“Getting to 350” conference AT Middlebury!
-FREE but register on the internet now
http://blogs.middlebury.edu/350workshop/about/
4/19 is National Hanging Out day (i.e. worship your clothesline says Rhiya)
Subgroups:
CASG (Creative Action Subgroup)
-this week’s SRI creative action
-Milk cartons!
-follow up meeting Wednesday at 9pm in the Gammut Room to paste labels on the cartons
Trek to ReEnergize America
Contact Michaela Skiles for more information about a bike trip that will converge in Washington D.C. in July
Earth Day Cake!
-Follow up meeting Wednesday 9pm in the Gammut room to make posters
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Hope this provides some inspiring insight into our lives here at midd! See you all tomorrow.
-Jesse
Filed under: Middlebury College
Hey everybody! – I thought it would be useful to post what we hope to accomplish for our next meeting on the 13th. Here’s what I wrote down as our primary goals:
- Come up with definitive list of people to come to Middlebury on May 2nd
- Decide if will want to stay overnight at Middlebury Friday or Saturday (so we can start organizing the giant slumber party)
- Continue trying to contact and involve other schools
- Continue posting summaries of environmental meetings on blog
- Brainstorm collaborative Earth Day ideas
- Continue streamlining blog
I think this covers most of it, but if I missed anything let me know! Talk to you on Monday!
-Marilyn
Filed under: Middlebury College
Just wanted to let you guys know that I added some category tags so that as we are posting we can identify what school we are from.
.. and we’ll also be able to just click on the category tags on the left and instantly see all the posts from each school.
Also, I updated the links portion of the page so now we can all access the VSEC listserv/active members list. (it also might be useful to just update out statuses on that list to indicate whether or not we are coming to the meeting on the 2nd)
And one more thing. I’m looking into embedding calendars into the page and coming up short. I’ll keep you all posted, but let me know if anyone knows anything about this.
Jesse
Filed under: Bennington College
Hey Vermonters!
These are the results of Bennington’s Environmental Initiatives Committee (EIC) meeting from last Wednesday, in case anyone is interested in what we have going on here. This is from an email that was sent out to all of the students on our mailing list that cannot attend the weekly meetings.
The EIC is moving forward with our plans for Earth Day on the 22nd and the days before and after it. Here are the events that we have planned that are more or less concrete.
April 22nd- Do it in the Dark! — On Earth Day we have a number of events on the calender all relating either directly or indirectly to being conscience about energy use and on the 22nd we plan to publicize a day when everyone will should try their hardest to use the least energy possible throughout the day (obviously within the parameters of safety.) It will culminate in an “Earth Hour” when everyone will turn off lights and there will be a candlelit acoustic concert or several on commons from 9 to 10 in the evening. We hope to get the word out as much as possible and get the maximum number of people engaged and participating. We had planned originally to have meters on houses in order to do house competitions and get a better readout of how much energy would have been saved for individual buildings, but unfortunately we wont have those in time, however it is definitely something that we will be doing in the future.
April 22nd- Local Food Day — Although this is not completely solidified, Dana has been talking with Bill Scully, who suggested doing a local food day on Earth Day. We are not sure whether it will be all three meals or just dinner perhaps, but that is definitely something to look forward to.
April 22nd- Faculty Panel — We have asked several professors from Bennington to talk about Environmental issues that they care about pertaining to their various disciplines.
April 25th- Clothing Swap — If you have old things that you don’t need, come and swap them with other people and get new things yourself so as not to have to buy new ones. Kind of like a campus wide free box on the Saturday following Earth Day.
Also in the works with still tentative dates
Seed Starting Workshop
Bike ride/workshop with Bikes Hooray!
Roadside Cleanup
Film Screenings
Panel with Local Farmers
Eco/Geo Hike with Tim and Valerie
Filed under: Sterling College
Hi Everyone, I missed the phone call on monday night, but I hope it went well! I am excited to have this blog for dialogue. I am wondering about Focus the Nation this year and the town hall forums that are happening to talk to local representatives about energy solutions. The forums are happening on or around April 18th, an I am wondering if anyone is organizing one in Vermont and if so, how I can get involved! thanks!
Hannah Morgan from Sterling College
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