green alfred

Green Alfred Minutes 6
Oct. 8, 2008

Liz Wager, Secretary

New Developments:

Thursday—Ithaca phone conference, help with sustainability

Very informative/helpful

Friday—Meeting with Staff Council

Cooperate with our thoughts and campus in general

Get students more involved

Apply for bottle grants

Write letter to senator—Bottle Bill

Heating concerns in dorms?

Poster Contest:

Contact organizations/Art Union for help

Rule Sheet/Award

Slogan, logo, the purpose is inspiration

Specifications—about recycling/sustainability/other (loose guidelines)

Minimum size 8 ½ x 11 inches

Expand to Alfred State?

Put rules on blog/Fiat Lux

Other Issues:

Full recycling bins? E-mail Andrew

Where are Scholes’ bins??

How do we want to use Innovation Grant?

Waste audit-show progress and areas in need of improvement, volunteers?

Green “tid-bit” posters to hang around campus

“Green State” meeting at 4.30

Green Alfred Minutes 4
Sept. 24, 2008

Liz Wager, Secretary

Senate update

Dining halls—students can get water in reusable mugs

Bergren Forum

Sustainability—Virginia Rasmussen 12.10-1.00 on Thursday

Last week:

Paper recycling

Visuals/signs

Activities/concerts

Recycling committee

Get more “key players” together

Being active-

Creek cleanup? 3.30 October 3^rd (LATER POSTPONED)

Getting electricity turned off when not needed (ITS?)

Cleaning up recycling bins-Friday 3.30 at Powell

Petition “Green Jobs Now” –take a picture

Split into smaller groups for brainstorming

Green Alfred Minutes 3
Sept. 17, 2008

Liz Wager, Secretary

Sign-in and pass out list of projects for the year

Students could sign up for any leadership positions

We will discuss the projects in later meetings

There is a meeting tonight with food services—discuss the use of Styrofoam?

On working with other groups/clubs: talk to Liz Tolson, working with REPO

Break up into small groups to discuss/plan projects

Paper Recycling

Bin location, starting points

Research, paper collection, cardboard?

Concerts

Concerts like last year, ideas for later years

Visuals

Plastic bottle “sculpture”, Res. Ed. boards, display cases, flyers, posters on recycled paper

Planning Committee

“look to the future”

Get the first steps under control, check out current systems, make a

goal/long term goals, field trips (?), cost analysis—why recycling is cheaper

Next week:

Clarify projects/discuss in depth

Green Alfred Minutes 2
Sept. 10, 2008

Liz Wager, Secretary

Students signed in with e-mail addresses if they were not already on the e-mail list.

Discussed the need for the Student Senate Representative to sit in on the Senate meetings, Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m.

Re-cap of last week’s meeting, including the reading of the “projects” list. Students voted on the projects they were most interested in; each student could vote (roughly) four times. Below is the complete list, with number of votes following:

Large Projects:

Personal recycling bins (12)

Paper recycling (14)

Powershift (8)

Bin repair (9)

Improving collection center (1)

Educational Projects:

Res. Ed. Bulletin boards (5)

“Green Tip”/Fiat Lux (7)

Reusable bottles (www.filterforgood.com) (7)

Visuals/signs (5)

Concerts (2)

Political Aspects:

“5 cent deposit” Bill (2)

Alfred State Coordinator (4)

Dining Hall Coordinator (-)

Campus recycling planning committee (3)

Members should think about what projects they might be interested in working on/leading. Any ideas for posters or other visuals welcome—talk to Arianna Carini.

Green Alfred Minutes 1
Sept. 3, 2008

Liz Wager, Secretary

Officer/Advisor Introductions

Brief history of Green Alfred (Spring of 2007)

Promote sustainability/recycling

Help educate students/work with the University

Last Year: Put up recycling bins

Stopped using trays in dining halls

Using reusable mugs

Worked with Environmental Science dept.

Sent reps. to Baltimore

Projects:

Education/Events

-“Plant-it” music concert

Large Projects

-Recycling bins

Politics

-Met with University leaders/administration

Ideas for this year:

Using Blackboard for communication?

Personal recycling bins for students

Make them?

Where do the recyclables go?

Fee/deposit/returning the bins?

Stop use of Styrofoam/plastic in dining halls

Educate students

Workshops (cooking, compost, recycling)

Bulletin boards in residence halls

Fiat Lux- “Green Tip”

Working with other clubs/activities/Alfred State

Renewable Energy? (Ann’s House)

Can drive

Using less bottled water-Nalgene

Visually demonstrate amount of waste generated

Connect present to future—motivation

Show effects of waste for motivation

Contacting reps. from Congress/Senate

Hornell transportation-bus

Cut down on car usage

Use of public transportation

“Zip” cars

Power-shift: workshops, representatives (February)

Next week:

Vote on ideas above

Silk-screen shirts

Think about posters/awareness/publicity

*Friday 12.20-1.10 in Roon Lecture Hall

Speaker on bio-degradable composites