Meeting Jan 18th

Green House Meeting Minutes!
January 18 2009

New year! Paul is back. Kate says hello. Laura and Elspeth comped. Hooray!

Are we living as greenly as we talked about last year? We’re doing pretty well so far- avoiding driving on campus is a good example. We should continue to be aware of things like turning off lights, short showers, etc.

Clean up of Woods Creek!
Paul will coordinate this event. It will take place January 31, Saturday, from 1-3. Paul will send out an e-mail to env. studies organizations, Mary Grace Hinkle (contact person for greek outreach), c-student, and a note to the messenger.
On the day of, we’ll have some sorts of refreshments or hot drinks at the house. Helen and Chelsea can help coordinate this.

Next week we need to talk about garden stuff when Carson is here. Things to consider are students who might want to have plots at our house garden or help with the brakefield garden.

We’d like to have an event to attract lots of people here. One idea is a band on the back porch in the spring. Bentley will talk to Dean Hartman soon to see if we could do this.

We’d like to sponsor events with organizations that aren’t specifically environmental organizations. Think about who you’d like to sponsor an event with and talk about it next week.

The compost buckets should return to McClurg. Tomorrow Emily will check to see if there’s a sign and if so, she’ll bring a bucket over. After that, we should all work to transport compost between McClurg, the house, and the garden. The buckets need to be periodically hosed out.

The compost bins at the house need to be finished and Jonathan is going to work on a bike trailer to transport compost out to the garden.

We’ll try to have an event on the calendar for the Saturday evening of Merit weekend. Helen will talk to admissions about this.

The merit weekend might involve playing Scrabble. Or we might have a massive scrabble-playing night some other time. Laura will help with this- track down scrabble boards, advertise, etc.

Green house application process for next year:
We will have an applicant information session Thursday, February 5 at 6:00. At this event, we need to have a revised application available.
We also need to revise the application process. Elspeth has ideas about this- she’ll compile them and share them with us at next week’s meeting.
After next week’s meeting we’ll work to revise the application. We’ll brainstorm at the meeting, and Emily, Becca, and Helen will compile the ideas.
How will we advertise the info session and who will do the advertising?

We have a chance to get chickens in conjunction with Helen Stapleton’s daughter’s 4-H project. Becca will write a proposal to Dean Hartman asap.

Next meeting we’ll talk about projects.