GreenHouse Meeting Minutes Sunday September 7, 2008
Kate: Meeting Director
Carson: Minute Man
The Party
enjoying different cultures and social groups coming together, Rebecca - introductions of house members - name tags? need to do a better job to explain who lives here, Chelsea - knowing a bit about the “greenness” of the house - what makes house special is something we need to know
The Treasurer and Scheduler Positions
a new leadership role? says Elspeth
in charge of reimbursement forms - keeping track of garden and house budget
also, a “go to” person for scheduling the house for events (ER meetings)
Chelsea takes the position! THE GREENSCHEMER!!!!!!
Helen jumps up to duty for the Treas. Helen “Money Bags”
Jono says green is also a colloquial term for cash money, someone says something inappropriate
Dishwasher use
Clean as we go would be better - do our dishes after we use them
duty of kitchen chore people to put away dishes?, says Kate - Emily is all like “lets put up the dishes ourselves after we use them”
Low Key Event - MUSIC JAM? - this week
adaptations of haskells food for thought?
Dr Miller, according to emily, not very scheduled would be great
what night asks kate?
a theme, maybe? no! we shall say ACOUSTIC
Becca “thursday night makes sense”
Helen remarks that choir is coming over at 7 and afterward we could jam acoustically
c-student email - elspeth jumps to duty
Greenschemer role
to use house, week ahead in advance
on the bill - tuesday (kairos), thurs (music jam)
emily talks of making delicious muffins
bently says he will walk in his undies
Annie A - Archives
says we can keep records of events in the archives
yes-elspeth, laura, others, general yes consensus
Sewanee Purple
ask to write article? asks Kate
editor - megan plummer
Yes - everybody
Kate’s Indy Study - Farm Tours
indy study - farm tours
kyle and jakes house
every 2-3 weeks - use greenhouse to advertise it
transportation - ok to use money of GH? everybody says heck yes
Jake and Kyle - wanting to teach, beer brewing workshop
GH Workshop
Ideas - jam making, paper making
should we put on the agenda?
compost teaching? worm bins?
lets find the worm lady - get in touch with the worm lady, a local worm expert
elspeth - compost 101
laura - advertise in the messenger to attract - asked by kate to do a paper making workshop - not yet she says
Clearance for back yard
Elspeth says to stop by admins office on wed to get the ok
Expansion Committees
Emily - we should have a meeting with the old list of people, including new people - we need to keep up with the most vocal, most excited of the crew like Dixon and Dr Coffee.
Elspeth - will bostwick also interested
Bentley - represents the Garden Committee, recounts meeting with 5 people, not many people went due to scheduling conflicts
Jono - in the dark, with Laura b/c came late
Elspeth explains... the official history of the GH
Bentley and Els - should people be on both committees
Bentley wants a co-leader for Garden Expansion - Carson jumps to duty
House Committee - look at green designs - green homes tour field trips
Individual Projects
Helen - bike stuff, generators, we already have a trainer, we need two more parts, it would be around 150-60, under two hundred, we need a battery, and a motor that generates, jono - need electrician to verify setup, elspeth answers - tom from pps - jim from woods basement - dr coffee - helen - good to sit down later this week
Chelsea - no house as of right now, working with housing sewanee to incorporate more green technology, inquires Kate - Chelsea kind of sees her project (right now) as a bad idea
Emily - talks about putting a garden in the middle of campus
Laura - Garden Expansion committee shoudl take care of it
Helen - asks Chels about her community engagement anthro class, maybe she could persue a greenhouse project for the class
Kates project - making a cobb shedd with tires and earth pack (sand clay straw), water collecting, building it where the shed is now, Chelsea asks that it usually is a place you live in, Jono offers help, need to ask permission from pps and lady who runs garden (name?)
Bentleys project - GH website, other-getting IFC and ISC spots to REPRESENT - getting spot would be difficult, Carson inquires about what they are all about
Laura - says we should save other half for next week
Buying seeds and Trees
kate - made list of garden tasks, we need to buy trees, is it ok to buy trees?
emily and chels - want a peach tree
carson offers to call buddy who owns a bunch of nurseries
jono - what phase of tree is it in when your buy it
Individual Garden Plots
Emily and jono support idea of having individual places to grow things rather that general tasks - a better way to be personally invested in the garden space
Garden Chores
three work days a week
try to have everybody come out would be excellent
Mint Tires and Cold Frames
kate wants to ok as long as movable
starting to build cold frames for windows
Mission Statement
elspeth will send out compiled documents
Flies
make a point to close containers - emily
chelsea - GROSSSSSSS - we dont want to be seen that way
dirty towel box - move to Tupperware container should fix the problem
Table Looking Better
maybe making a table cloth - cons are that it is hard to clean
glass with pictures, quilt a table cloth, a crazy quilt
bentley - maybe we should since it
Elspeth - white clothing needs to be washed
self explanatory
Killing bad vines
everybody is excited about it
kate - having garden work days
elspeth - changing work day to something appealing
chelsea - getting people to allow garden work to count as community service for bad kids
Recycling at Frat Houses
Emily - pps wont pick up recycling, maybe we could get them to recycle
bentley - get someone to talk to IFC ISC
someone could talk to ashley, the head ER
House Party
alcohol at the house? - maybe better to talk about this a little later
solo cups are #6 , and not recyclable, a sham
Love and Joy - hugs all around
CHELsea - “I Think that is the first time I have ever hugged bentley” “but not the first time I ever thought about it...”
the room clears, a good night at the greenhouse, people feeling warm inside
The Poetry of Lullabies
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4 comments:
Sid Brown asked for photos of the open house. Can we get photos from Hanna? We can also ask Lynn at the SPO. Did anyone else take photos?
I did!
1. you are all fantastical.
2. I think the house should be carbon neutral. Yes, the university is moving that way, but there is no reason the house can't do this much, much sooner. Let's look into it - electricity (we can pay extra to get clean power from TVA), natural gas, transit in vans...everything. I think purchasing energy credits that go to projects half way around the world is stupid - sometimes those projects (like hyrdo dams) really destroy a lot of lives and do a lot of harm in the name of carbon neutrality. Let's look into going neutral by locally produced carbon credits (Dr. Haskell talked about this last year - we should bring it up with him) and more intense conservation.
3. You can buy compostable plastic cups and other items for parties ... I know at some universities the take out and cultry at all the restuarants on campus is biodegradalbe plastic. It's expensive, but if we got the entire university to use it, perhaps we could pull it off.
kate and I ordered 5 photos from Lynn at the sPO
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