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12-8-09

End of Semester Notes: For Sustainability and the Future!
• More tangible tasks; less abstract concepts. We did better with this but there is always room for improvement.
• Trash on the lawn and mugs was good, but we should follow up.
• Should follow up these concrete developments with community outreach through the citizen and bulletin board.
• EQAs will work on communicating more next semester: need more concrete tasks assigned from the EQC.
• The roles of the EQAs and EQC and the relationship between them needs to be better defined. Tasks and goals.
• Recruit new EQC committee members to replace Tom, Kenny, and Alyssa.
• Continue to work with Erin and Eva on the local foods dinner. Opportune times for fund raising versus best time for community awareness. Also, coordinate with the History of cuisine class.
• Coordinate with food and farm committees and interact with EAC more. Create networks to strengthen sustainability efforts.
• Facilitator role is very important—keep it up with Wiki notes the whole semester.
• Review minutes for on wiki page new ideas for projects.
• Coordinate with Lyceum committee for sustainability-oriented presentations and social events.
EQA next semester projects: Talk to RA’s about sustainability efforts. Work on calking with Don C. and work on efficiency repairs. Call Cliff about recycling.

11-23-19

Attended by: Nick, Ayla, Tom, Mairead and Noah
Where's Alyssa?
Nick talked about EAC info for the upcoming Citizen article: Marlboro is the caboose on the train of VT colleges. Ellen doesn't want to hire a sustainability coordinator, which could be resolved by taking from the paid EQA and Farm Manager positions. Also, suggested a student program with Don, weatherizing and maintaining dorms.
Put a Town Crier announcement about missing mugs. Plan to spend committee funds on more.
Kenny feels left out.
Tasks:

11-16-09

Attended by: Ayla, Tom, Mairead, Noah and Nick
Painted dining hall mugs, will need to repaint, acrylic came off in the dishwasher.
Tasks:
Keep braintorming tangible tasks!

11-9-09

Agenda
Minutes
Project ideas:
Ask Noah about Trash On the Lawn day- was it a success/failure??
Ask Nick about infrared images of heat escape in buildings

Jobs for next week:

11-2-09

Agenda
Review last week's tasks and assign unfinished tasks
Minutes
Noah – nook thread. Talk to Evan about citizen article.
Research – talk to all the EAC members - e-mail. Where is Marlboro's environmental concerns as it relates to other colleges.
Try to get a bike co-op through the OP w/ a work study position dedicated to bike maintainer (talk to Randy)
E-mail the writer of the Sierra Club article.
Put up Sierra club report on board.
Dan – incoherent and irrelevant ramblings.
Plan trash on the lawn for the day after tomorrow
e-mail sunny and maintenance
All the way, out of the way, Howland, the science building for trash
Get in touch with triple T about recycling policy.
Get mugs.
Ask about budget.
Discussed black-out party

10-21-09

Recycled Agenda!

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10-12-09

Agenda

Minutes

10-5-09

Agenda
Notes from the meeting/tasks for next week:

9-28-09

Meeting Notes and Next Week's Tasks:

9-28-09

Agenda -Trash on the Lawn day -Survey of student sustainability awareness -EQC updates for Town Crier and reports for Citizen -Compost buckets and systems for emptying in dorms. -Publicity stunts/combating student body apathy -Getting Cliff to pick up all the recycling. (Who is responsible for this?) -Institutionalize composting. (Is the farm committee working on this?) -Recycling containers in all the buildings.

9-21-09

Meeting Notes and Next Week's Tasks:
Other:

9-21-09

Old Business
Moving Forward

9-14-09

1) Review of language:
Article XI, Secton A, Number 1, clause f (of the constitution: either student driven or staff run) "The Committee on Environmental Quality will consist of five members from Town Meeting. These representatives will serve for one year, three members being elected in the fall semester and two being elected in the spring semester. One committee member will be chosen by other members to serve as the committee chairperson. Another committee member will be chosen by other members to organize the group’s data and maintain its record-keeping system. All meetings will be open to all members of the community. The responsibility of the committee will be to create, enact, and sustain programs that reduce campus resource consumption and improve campus environmental quality. An additional duty will be to inform and educate"

Projects

Notes from Meeting:
Assigned jobs (from the above list):

5-4-9

-we talk with sotack about

follow up from compost potluck

incentives

an email from randy: I spoke with admissions today They do conduct a survey to assess if a student is well rounded The data is often not recorded. However Ken Schneck will add just such a survey to the excepted student process to identify likely committee/group /activity connections We will be able to contact incoming freshmen directly before they even arrive on campus I also meet with Kyle and Ken about community service requirements and incentives Both were supportive of the concept Ken thought that maybe we just move directly to the requirement ...! Kyle is open to some sort of acknowledgment reward that would accompany a housing bib system based on credits and supplemented by community service credits as well Kyle felt that he would need to run it by the Housing commmitte/authority which is being restructured and may not meet until the fall He was still open to putting some action into motion... Randy

3-31-9 -- 7pm -- Compost Potluck Discussion

Agenda

I expect to discuss: 1) how to motivate students, faculty, and staff 2) composting as an orientation activity for freshmen 3) raising awareness 4) formalizing documentation 5) describing the history of composting at Marlboro 6) completing the wiki page 7) And please bring your own suggestions as well.

In attendance

Kenny, Lilly, Randy, Chrisy, Georgios, Anna, Daniel

What happened during the meeting

Composting

Orientation activity for Compost -once it becomes what we do--it's not extra(randy) -lilly says to buy red worms -Document What happened . . . . -with photos, by weight, ex cetera. . .

Recycling

-Get RAs to train students to recycle properly -talk to ken and kyle about recycling -we can get them to recycle -we can get them to take out their building's recycling -Identify what people will do stuff: on dorm floors, on faculty floors -what people are supposed -Document What happened . . . . -with photos, by weight, ex cetera. . .

Information

-Information -how do we get the community to understand the importance -Connect people that are composting to the farm -Sustainability Coordinating Activity -Where is it celebrated??? -how can we show that the community cares? -can we give them credits? -one hour a week from students? -housing credits? -Document What happened . . . . -with photos, by weight, ex cetera. . . -Wiki Pages -How to get involved? -eco stewarts -agricultural scholarship for extremely dedicated and experienced student

Smart material consumption

-Paper use in the library -gleaning at local farms

Issues

-students are upset about the administration packaging the school as sustainable -conservation over sustainability

What to do:

1) Feed back mechanism and reporting on issue -nook (pump it through) -give a report for what is happening -wiki pages described on nook 2) surveys -lets write a survey for how to get new ideas (on nook) -new students that will come 3) Scale - - (somebody might have a used scale on campus) 4) Define EQC initiatives online 5) community service hours 6) organize ways to celebrate sustainability workers on campus (give cookies to students that have been involved in a "sustainability lunchtime" -- where you come to get cookies and milk -- and praises for the work you have done) 7) smart material consumption 8) gleaning local farmers

Tasks:

-Georgios --check out scale -- older farm documentation -Kenny type up minutes and make a survey about new ideas -email to everyone a link so they can comment on the wiki pages -ask them to please look at the committees -hopefully this will change community assumptions about "sustainability" on campus -Randy - - ask admissions about probing for certain students and ken and kyle about incentives for students. -Anna - - formalizing some data -digital sign up form -digital description of compositing process -put on wiki -Daniel - - talk to ken with erin about orientation activities -- brainstorming with Anna -sustainability projects: composting, recycling, greenhouse usage -get RAs trained to help with stuff (talk to Kyle and Ken about this)

other tasks..

-(Eva) Talking about curriculum -(anne) -- gleaning at local farmers -nicole - - smart material consumption -ask about potential agricultural scholarship or additional rewards to a very active -- academically -- student in agriculture
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