Minutes and Reports

Meeting Reports and Activities
Of the Northeastern Illinois University Green Cycle Group

Green Cycle Group Minutes September 24,2009

In attendance: President Ekman, Vice-President Chmiel, Hyeyoung Kim, David Salinas, Alex Cichon, Nick Brandt, Mark Kenseth, Neal Conroy, Robert Drapeau, Bonnie Fritz, Lauryn Burkhalter (Loyola/ISEC), Nathan Shaw (Loyola), Laura Knezevic (ISEC)

1) Approval of minutes from last meeting successful; David 1st motion; Radek 2nd motion; Acclimation
2) Spending Money
- Green Arch. Walking Tour; Approved up to $150 by acclimation. 1st motion Radek, 2nd motion David.
- Organic Lollipops, Approved $40. Kate 1st motion, David 2nd motion. 7 in favor, 2 abstain.
- Bikewinter Workshop donation Approved $50. Kate 1st motion, Nick 2nd motion. 8 in favor, 1 abstain.
- Snacks for upcoming meetings- postponed due to time constraints, next meeting

3) Intro's

4) October 3rd Green Arch. Walking Tour
Interested in going- Radek, Ellen, Alex, David, Neal Conroy
-Advertising by flyer. Volunteers needed to hang posters around campus. Posters can be found in SU mailbox. Kate gives location/directions of said mailbox.

5)ISEC
-Laura Knezevic from ISEC speaks about the organization
-Goals and past accomplishments
-ISEC Steering Committee- 1 person needed

Lauryn (ISEC intern)
- Expand your potential by joining up with others...and other motivational tidbits
-ISEC Conference Oct. 17th at Loyola. It's free, good food, good people

6)Green Fee Committee representative needed
-Green Fee Committee explained
-Next meeting Oct. 6th 1:40- 3:00 SU003

7)Coucil of Clubs
-Explained
-Radek makes passionate plea for 2 members to submit their name

8) Getting the word out for GCG
-talking to classes, making a script
- David wants to coordinate w/ teachers; Kate is confident she can get some teachers on board
-David is allowed to speak in front of 150 student class

9) Next meeting approved for 10/1
-Green Week preparations

Signup sheet passed around for Green Week & Committee needs

Respectfully submitted,

Radek Chmiel, Kate Ekman

Green Cycle Group Minutes 09/10/09

In attendance: President Ekman, Vice-President Chmiel, Treasurer Zaraza, Advisor Banerjee, David Salinas, Mistydawn Moore, Nick Brandt, Jack Kroll, Bob Kastigar, Neal Conroy, Ashley McDonald, Bonnie Fritz, Ellen Larrimore, Paisly DiBianca

Introductions
GFC report:

Green Roof is still being discussed in Committee. Progress is being made. No other major projects are being discussed.
Treasurer’s Report:

We have $618.64 in our account

PLANS FOR THE SEMESTER:
Student org. fair taking place 9/16 and 9/17

Signup sheet was circulated. We will be able to hold the table both days!
Discussion of Info tables and Bake sales.

We should have at least one a month this semester. Kate will look for dates.
Green Week 10/5-10/9

Waiting on confirmation from BikeWinter.org on presentation during Activity Hour on 10/8

Also would like to show thestoryofstuff.com 10/8 1:30-3:00
Green Arch. Tour- sometime in Oct.

Radek will choose which date and we will see who all wants to go before voting on how much to spend. Tickets are $15.00 each.
ACUPCC

A letter with a link to an article which Ellen drafted will be sent to the listserv for comment.

Once the comments have come in, the letter will be sent to President Hahs.
Waste Reduction

Jack's looking for ideas to reduce waste (composting, Sodexo) – ideas should be sent to j-kroll1@neiu.edu.

End of Semester Party

Just something to keep in mind.

Open Discussion:

Illinois Student Environmental Coalition: we need to send someone to the Steering Committee. Kate will go for now.

Carpooling: Mistydawn is interested in getting more active carpooling participation at NEIU.

Friends of the Chicago River: Neal has been involved with volunteering for him. Several members of the club will be volunteering at the Flatwater Classic.

NEXT MEETING: September 24th. 1:40. B-152

Respectfully Submitted,
Radek Chmiel and Kate Ekman

Green Cycle Minutes3/17/09

In Attendence: Georgia Yelton, Kate Ekman, Whitney Behr, James Zaraza, Cliff Sharpe, Erica Subkowski, Abhijit Banerjee

Old Business:

Neighborhood Science:
Whitney will send email about our intended projects and to commit to the festival.

Gompers Park Cleanup:
Georgia will verify the information on this and get back to us.

EARTH DAY: April 21st and 22nd, SU 214
We are getting great responses from other student groups for Earth Day events. We still need many of these groups to verify their interest so we can complete the schedule.
Ken Dunn will be speaking in SU 214 from 2-3.
We have 4 info tables reserved on the 21st in the Village Square.

New Business:
Bike Drive- Jack will be in charge of this.

April Bake Sales: Georgia will be emailing possible dates to the group.

NEXT MEETING: April 7th. 1:40. B-158

Respectfully Submitted,
Whitney Behr
GCG Secretary

Green Cycle Minutes3/10/09

In attendence: Paisly DiBianca, Ellen Larrimore, Nikki Marella, Bob Kastigar, Radek Chmiel, Jack Kroll, Whitney Behr, Georgia Yelton

Call to order 1:45 PM

Old Business:
Neighborhood Science Event Apr. 18, 9-3, NEIU Commons
GCG will be putting together tables to participate in this event. Ideas: Notebook making table, recycling relay race for kids, Recycling FAQs for adults.

Gompers Park Cleanup Event, also 4/18
Georgia will be sending out a signup sheet for this event over email.

Replacements for website manager: Kate has had positive responses on this. Don't worry, Bob! :-)

EARTH DAY: Apr. 21st and 22nd
Still working out which rooms we'll get for this event.
Including, so far:
Notebook making workshop
Bicycle Tour workshop
Eating locally table
Drumming?
Recycling FAQ table
Indian Student Association Table
Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance Table

Still interested in more tables/workshop ideas!

New Business:

UPCOMING TABLES!
Monday, March 16, 9-3 in Villiage Square BAKE SALE.
In need of baked goods and volunteers for table. Georgia will be emailing sign up list.
Wednesday, March 18, 9-3 in Village Square, INFO TABLE
Georgia will be emailing sign up list. Whitney will make a recycling FAQ presentation board. This info table will also have an Earth Hour petition!

Summer club retreat:
We're looking at waiting on this until the weather improves, perhaps after the semester ends.

End of Semester Potluck Party:
Ellen Volunteered to host. Date TBA.

NEXT MEETING: Next Tuesday, March 17th. Same bat time, same bat channel (B-158, 1:40).

Respectfully Submitted,

Whitney Behr
GCG Secretary

Green Cycle Minutes 11/18/08

Call to order: 1:40

Old business:

Nathan: Conference? He’s looking at another opportunity in April. More news on that later.

Recruiting: Rihani and Slate in BIO dept. are willing to have us talk in their classes next semester.

Smart Home Exibit: GCG will subsidise 10 dollars and lunch for attendees. That leaves 13 dollar fee for ticket.

Museum passes: CPL passes can get 4 people in for free.

Meet in main lobby of Science and Industry at noon. There will be an email with more details. So far 5 people have RSVPed

End of semester Potluck: RSVP to Nathan as soon as possible.

Clean Car Act Rally: Georgia attended.

We’ve sold half of our cereal box notebooks! We should schedule more notebook making parties next semester. SAVE YOUR CEREAL BOXES, etc!

THANKS to those who helped for the bake sale! $127.20

Green fee committee rep. Kristy can’t do it anymore, so we need a new representative!

Nominated Ellen L., She accepted.

We need to make it clear how we elect representative to the committee and lay out specifically what these representatives do.

We’re going to revisit our constitution and mission statement next semester.

Lights out campaign:

Howenstein wants to get some decals on the lightswitches. He designed them and will have them made as long as the GCG endorses them.

We voted to endorse the decal lights out program.

But we have to get the word out in many other ways.

Faculty, Students, Facilities Mgmt, etc.

Send emails to the heads of department

President’s climate commitment:

Georgia, Ellen, & Dr. Banejee wrote an email to President Hahs proposing that she sign it. They are also going to draft a letter to her, too, to follow up.

Dec. 4 informal meeting to draft the letter.

Do we have a letterhead? We should make one.

New Business:

Nathan signed us up for:

The Wreath Project

SAO has supplies.

Window Painting-We have to have a drawing by 4:30 tomorrow and painting is next Tuesday and Wednesday (Diana Medina)

Event with Animal Rights club: Vegan food event

Raising awareness about the sustainability of eating less meat.

Might be able to have it in the Student Union, Kate is working with Sodexho and the Balanced Kitchen to see if they’d be willing to work together. If not, we can do it in any other University building.

Anthropos club is interested in participating in this event, too.

Have to have a proposal ready before the Dec. 9 SGA finance meeting so we can get them to pay for it.

Could show a fun movie. Ellen will look into getting a green themed festival movie

Games? Massages? Open to more ideas.

Dec. 4 9am Prairie burn!!!

Ellen L. went to a meeting last night on the Chicago Climate Action plan.

The city has some aggressive goals to reduce emissions by 20% by 2020 and 80% by 2050.

All buildings need to be 15% more energy efficient

Expanding use of renewable energy and the CTA.

70% Greenhouse gas emissions are from buildings.

21% from transportantion (wow!)

www.chicagoclimateaction.org

Earth Day: We should start planning this event as soon as possible as to avoid the end of semester rush!

CMAP next Tuesday in Golden Eagles.

Finished: 2:30

Next meeting: Dec. 4

This is informal for the purposes of drafting a letter to the president of the university and preliminary Earth Day planning

1:40 in B-158

Respectfully Submitted,
Whitney Behr, Secretary!

Minutes October 16th, 2008 - Call to order 1:40

In Attendance:
Jack Kroll, Kate Ekman, Georgia Yelton, Whitney Behr, Bob Kastigar, Ellen Larrimore, Radek Chmiel, Nathan Ziccarelli

Old business:

·        Going to a conference? Nate will discuss this with Sharron Evans. There’s a sustainable construction conference coming up in Wisconsin soon (end of November). We might not have time to get to that one.
       We’re open to ideas!

·        Recruitment in related classes? VP is responsible for recruitment.
       We could have separate meeting for recruiting sometime.
       Send teachers in related departments emails to ask if we can have a few minutes for a presentation and set up a schedule for members to do this.

·        LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified building tour- Chicago center for green technology. Nate is in touch with the necessary people for this. We will find out how much interest there is in the group for an event of this nature.

·        Potluck party! End of the semester
       Saturday Dec. 13, 2008 at Nate’s house
       Interactive Potluck dinner party

·        Banner:
       Jack found out that Rugen can make us a new paper banner by the middle of next week. Although this isn’t as durable as the other banner options, it is free, and therefore the superior option!

·        ELPC (Environmental Law and Policy Center)
       We are encouraging members to volunteer (even as individuals) to help them out. Nate sent the info out through the listserv. (FREE FOOD! FREE SHIRT!)

·        ISEC (Illinois Student Environmental Coalition) conference on Oct. 25, 2008 at Loyola University 10AM-3PM
       FREE FOOD
       Student Sustainability
       RSVP this week
       Those interested should email Kate for Details

·        Cereal Box notebooks
       Kate’s waiting to hear back from the ESCI dept. about using their binding machine
       Using manila folders, old thin cardboard, cereal boxes.
       Possibly putting some GCG labels on them.
       Concern about reusing pages with people’s names and personal info on them.
       Notebook making party: Next Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008. 1:40 in the lower level of the Library. Everyone is invited to attend!

New Business:
    * Info Table: Oct. 28th 10-3. Volunteers Schedule:

10am Jack

11amVOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

12pm Radek, Kate

1pm Ellen, [Whitney (1:40-2:50)]

2pm Georgia

3pm VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

    * Green fee committee representatives from the GCG: Georgia and Kristy Dressman.
          o Perhaps the selection of these representatives should be more official. Look into doing this during elections.
    * Putting up flyers for the lights out campaign. The following areas are taken care of. Volunteers welcome for any unmentioned areas!
          o 2nd and 3rd floor of SCI building
          o Library
          o Fine Arts building 1st floor
          o B wing
          o Classroom Building
    * Ellen suggested we write a letter to the president of the university to ask for her leadership on Environmental issues on campus.
          o Follow it up with a meeting with her.
    * Town Hall meeting tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 17
          o We should have representation at it.
          o Have questions prepared

Done at 2:40

Respectfully Submitted,
Whitney Behr, Secretary!

October 2, 2008 at 1:40 PM
In attendance: Jack Kroll, Kate Ekman, Georgia Yelton, Nathan Ziccarelli, Whitney Behr, Bob Kastigar, James Zaraza, Sylvia Sztark, JJ Mulliken, Shari McLead, Jimmy Hodum

Ye Olde Business:

Nathan Suggested we hold meetings in a private room instead of the cafeteria. He will look into reserving SU 214 or some similar room for our future meetings.
-We revisited the issue of holding meetings at varying days and times. We decided to keep meetings the way they are based on most peoples' schedules. All members that can't make it to regular meetings are welcome to contribute their ideas via email.

GCG Banner: JJ looked into prices and discovered that a large vinyl banner is likely to cost around $200. She will check with the SAO for other suggestions.

CTA Machine:
Kate Checked into it. Talked to Paul Harris. He said the issue has been raised before and there are a lot of logistical issues making it difficult. They will keep trying.

Lights Out Campaign:
We encourage members to turn out lights in empty classrooms around campus. It's an effort to get students involved and thinking about our energy usage. Flyers are posted on the website for anyone who wishes to distribute them.

Upcoming events:
Green City Farmers market. This saturday, Oct. 4. Meet at NEIU commons at 9 am to bike down with Georgia!

ELPC Volunteer trip:
We couldn't coordinate a date yet, but Georgia will send an email with potential dates and everyone can see which ones they can do.

ISEC conference: Kate, Georgia, and maybe Jeremy will discuss the passing of our green fee in an effort to help other schools do the same.

Table events:
Next Bake Sale: Monday, Nov. 10th, 10am-3pm
Info Tables: Tuesday, Oct. 28th 10-3
Thursday, Nov. 13th 10-3
Cereal Box Notebooks
-We're going to try to get this started. Members: Save thin cardboard and paper that's only used on one side.

NEW BUSINESS:
Things discovered at officer training:
-we get one free 4X5 ad in the independent a year.
-Members of Student organizations are entitled to go to a conference with all expenses paid per year. Nathan will look further into it. Suggestions for conferences are welcome!

We should recruit in related classes (i.e. G&ES, BIO, ESCI courses).

LEED building tour trip: Would be fun. Suggestions for specific buildings are welcome.

End of Semester Potluck at Nathan's house: Sometime in Dec? More details later.

At the next meeting: OCTOBER 16
We will revisit these and other topics. Still looking for ideas for green fee!

September 18th, 2008 at 1:40 -2:40 PM (Room SU 215)

In attendance: Jack Kroll, Barbara Gillies, Whitney Behr, Bob Kastigar, Kate Ekman, Georgia Yelton, Nathan Ziccarelli, Lazar Ihz, JJ Mulliken, Frank Nieto, and Shari Mclead, with a special visits from Gregg Christie from the Independent and Christina Frum from the ISEC and Celia Christensen from the ELPC!

Old Business:

Vice President: Kate Moved to elect Nathan Ziccarelli, Georgia Seconded. Welcome aboard!

Georgia acquired a locker for the GCG and asked to be reimbursed the $15 fee. She will return the $10 security deposit back into the GCG treasury at the end of the semester.

Meetings will from now on be held the first and third thursday of every month at the raised portion of the cafeteria during activity hour (unless otherwise noted).

Banner: JJ will look into prices for 8 ft. long cloth or vinyl GCG banner with the club logo and website on it. We tabled discussion of prices until we have a ballpark figure to base it on.

Themes/goals for this year: Sheri suggested we look into getting a CTA machine on campus for commuters' convenience. Kate said she'd talk to the SGA about it.

Also, Georgia wants to start some 'reducing our carbon footprint' initiatives. Along these lines, we discussed our campaign to get people to turn the lights off in classrooms when they leave. Barbara suggested we email all the instructors and Kate and Georgia supported the idea of everyone turning off lights in unoccupied rooms as they go about their days here. The Green Fee committee recently approved funding for motion sensors in classrooms and bathrooms on campus, which should help.

Speakers: Christina Frum from the ISEC spoke about an environmental conference on Oct. 25th from 10-3 (Free admission!) at Loyola University and the ISEC's monthly Chicago Regional meetings. She recommended we check out their website (www.greenstudents.org) for resources that might help the GCG.

Celia Christensen from the ELPC spoke to us about supporting the Illinois Clean Cars Act (H.B. 3424) which aims to raise the fleetwide fuel economy for cars sold in IL to 39.6 mpg! She was asking for volunteers to help get petition signatures at various events. Georgia said she'd be interested in organizing a GCG event where we help with this and also volunteered to get signatures at the bake sale on October 1st.

Gregg Christie from the Independent said he's interested in getting the Independent to run a regular "green column". The upcoming issue is entirely devoted to Green topics.

Bake sales!: Georgia will see which dates are left available for Bake Sales. We decided Tuesdays and Thursdays would be best for everyone in attendance. Kate asked for volunteers for the Green Week Bake Sale on Oct. 1st.

Green Week Promo Contest: Georgia and Whitney are going to create a promotional poster (or something) on behalf of the GCG to enter in the contest.

Future Events:

Trip to Organic Apple Orchard: This Sunday, September 21st. Georgia still has room in her car, so contact her if you'd like to go!

Farmer's Market Trip: Oct. 4th, GreenCity farmer's market (LaSalle and Clark)

Hosting Winter's Farmers market at NEIU?

Sheri will send Georgia more information.

Fundraising ideas:

Cereal Box Notebooks

Informational Tables:

We'd like to have 2 before the end of the semester. Tuesdays and Thursdays work best. 10-3.

NEXT MEETING: Oct. 2 at 1:40 (in the cafeteria)

Come with ideas/suggestions for events, fundraising, materials for our informational tables, or ideas for the Green Fee committee!

Respectfully Submitted, (Sept. 18th at 4:30 PM)

Whitney Behr

August 26, 2008 meeting

The meeting was called to order at 3:15 PM.

Those present were: Dr. Banerjee,Princess Harris, Bob Kastigar, Georgia Yelton, Kate Ekman, Jeremy Slate and Jack Kroll.

Bob Kastigar nominated Georgia for President and Kate Ekman seconded the motion. It was approved. Georgia nominated Kate for Treasurer and Bob Kastigar seconded the motion. It was approved. Whitney Behr was nominated by Jeremy Slate and Kate again seconded the motion. It was approved. We will see who would like to be VP at our next meeting which will be Thur. Sept.18th.

It was moved to hold our meetings during Activity Hour at the raised portion (south end) of the cafeteria each 1st. and 3rd. Thursday of the month unless otherwise noted.

It was moved that several members of the GCG to table at Alumni Hall this Thur. At 1:30 to 2:30 PM. Claudia Mercado has the agenda.

Georgia

proposed purchasing a banner, made of fabric, not paper.We may spend up to $100.00 for it. The motion was tabled at this time.

Jack said that "all" the property of the club is currently in the storeroom. The storeroom is in the lower level of E bldg., down the hall from Rugen Reyes' office, also in the LL E bldg.

Kate Ekman moved to have the club spend up to $100.00 for food at the 9/18 meeting, pending availability. We will need to get the paper work submitted.

Georgia

said she would submit the paper work at the Student Activities Office (SAO) on the second floor of the Student Union (SU)

The meeting was adjourned at 3:40 PM.

However, after the meeting several members went to the SAO and submitted the form with the officers names. At least two officers need to attend some type of training to become more effective leaders . Info at SAO, http://www.neiu.edu/~deptsao/stuorgtraining.htm

We also found out the balance in our treasury. Its $412.00!!!

Respectfully submittedby Jack Kroll. If you see anything wrong with these minutes please don't hesitate to let me know. I am sorry for spelling some names wrong as I purposely left the attendance sheet in the storeroom. I did NOT want to take a chance on losing the list.

April 3rd Meeting

In attendance: Georgia Yelton, Kate Ekman, Brendon Gross, Brad Bowen, Stephenie Creegan

Old Business:
-Green Film Festival dates need volunteers
-Working Bikes 4/8-4/22 - Jeremy will make signs
-North Side Learning Center appreciation party either 4/25 or 4/26
            Needs volunteers
            Stephenie and Kate can help on either
            Brendon can help if it is Friday
            Georgia can help if it is Saturday

New Business:
-Tree Planting: Facilities Management has identified 3 locations, may do labor for planting
            Kate could pick up trees, pending reimbursement for gas
            Trees cost $90.00 each
            Vote for expenditure for three trees and reimbursement for gas: Unanimously in favor
-Treasurer vote:
            Candidates:
                        Jenn Wyatt
                        Kate Ekman receives 4 votes from present members, one absentee vote
            Waiting for additional email ballots
-Georgia has agreed to retrieve 50 Conscious Choice magazines from downtown for tables and Earth Day
-Discounted drink flyers approved by Café Descartes, will be printed in the future, Sodexho will make signs for their discount for Earth Week
-Discussed getting reusable mugs for tables from thrift stores
- Stephenie made a motion to reimburse herself for up to $200.00 for the purchase of vinyl stickers
            Brad seconded motion
            Unanimously passed
-Meeting adjourned 2:05

No next meeting date sent - but many events to deal with!!!

Submitted by Kate Ekman

March 27th Meeting

In attendance: Jennifer Wyatt, Georgia Yelton, Stephenie Creegen, Princess Harris, Whitney Behr, and Brendan Gross.

Regarding Earth Day:

Princess will speak to Little Village to see if they would like to have a speaker come in for Earth Day.

We're going to have a table up in the Village Square to generate interest in worm composting. If there is significant interest, Brendan will look into leading a workshop on the subject at a later date.

Our next film screening is April 10th in SU 214 with the Film Go Further. We're looking for volunteers to help with popcorn etc. Jen is going to talk to Mostek about taking his class to the screening and Princess will talk to Jones about encouraging students to attend.

We voted to plant a tree.

We're looking for a new treasurer. Kate Ekman volunteered to run for the position. Other volunteers are welcome to run as well.

The awards ceremony for the kids who do our recycling is scheduled for April 25th at 1 P.M.

NEXT MEETING: NEXT THURSDAY APRIL 3RD.

BE THERE!

That's all.

Thanks,

Whitney

February 28th Meeting:

We're going to have a clothing swap event at a to-be-determined date. Steph and Jen are going to put together a brochure for it.

The turn out the lights/close the door in classrooms campaign was supported and we will be making fliers regarding that as well.

IMPORTANT:
Next Tuesday, March 4th at 1:40 there is a SGA finance meeting. We need GCG members to attend in order to show them we really deserve the $600 dollars we requested. SOLIDARITY!

We are revisiting the idea of throwing a party for the young recyclers. This will be discussed further at the next meeting.

March 24th is our next table. Steph passed around a sign up sheet for this and subsequent tables.

EARTH DAY:
We discussed the movies for our Earth Day celebration. As we need to decide soon, Stephenie will email video list to the membership again and we will vote on which movies we want to show. We would ideally like to have a decision by Tuesday.
Princess will send emails to other student organizations for Earth Day support.
Other proposed vendors/speakers:
Sierra Club (Georgia will contact)
Sadhu Johnson(Georgia will contact)
Center For Green Technology (Princess will contact)
Oberlin College (Princess will contact)

For our new member recruitment funds, we're considering getting some green cycle coffee mugs.

Next meeting date TBA.

Thanks everyone.

Submitted by Whitney Behr, Secretary

February 19th Meeting:

In attendance, Stephenie Creegan, Georgia Yelton, Princess Harris, Jennifer Wyatt

We didn't vote on slogans. But we did form an information subcommittee. This committee will create our news brief for the independent, brochure for earth day film festival and a flyer to distribute at the information table in Village Square – new members, and "get involved". The subcommittee members are Stephenie Creegan, Georgia Yelton and Jennifer Wyatt. (Please feel free to through your name into this hat)

We'll need to see how much literature we have in the group locker this week for our table Tuesday. Also we need to get the locker combinations and find our table banner.
Jen suggested that we repurpose old gasoline advertisements for our group. Something clever like the Sinclair dinosaur but for the earth. Or pin up models from yester year with the slogan "It's getting hot in here". Stephenie suggested a polar bear in the water saying, "it's getting hot in here" but I was booed.

Stephenie will pick up our earth flag this week and get it to Princess before our first information table this coming Tuesday.

The group decided to bring back the coffee mug campaign.

Stephenie will create a sign up matrix for our events.

Georgia will be the contact for David Kraft.

Our next meeting is 2/28/08 at 1:40pm in the Cafe.

We will need to discuss what to do with our $300 award. We must use it this semester or we'll lose it.

(5% of our $600 budget for Earth Day must come from our group. That's $30, Just FYI)

Submitted by Stephenie Creegan

February 14th, 2008 Meeting:

In attendance: Princess Harris, Whitney Behr, Georgia Yelton, Stephenie Creegen, Jennifer Wyatt, and Jeremy Slate.

Feb. 26 is unavailable for a bakesale. Stephenie came up with a list of other potential bake sale dates, but none of the present members were available on those dates. Princess is looking into convincing other groups to give us one of their dates.

Jen suggested making informational posters to post around campus that have various environmental suggestions/slogans on them as a fun and interesting way to get attention for Earth Day and GCG. We decided to think about potential slogans this week and vote on them next meeting.

EARTH DAY:
Georgia met with David Kraft of Nuclear Energy Information Service (our speaker for Earth Day). He had various options for use of his time including discussion groups and movie screenings. We decided we'd go with his standard presentation which includes information about why nuclear energy won't solve global warming and the "Low Carbon Diet" workshop to start at 1:45 on April 22nd in the Golden Eagle's room.
Princess is going to talk to other groups about getting their help with our information tables for Earth Day.
We are also considering asking Professors to speak for Earth Day.
We're going to have some movie screening dates that are as yet undetermined. Once we have a list of dates and movies, we'll send lists to departments.

Potential Event: April 5th, 2008. Wind Farm Tour in Sublette, IL. We're seriously considering taking a group down to this event sponsored by the ISEA. More information to come.

NEXT MEETING: Feb. 19th, 2008 at 1:40 in the cafeteria.
We'll be voting on films and film dates.

Submitted by Whitney Behr, Secretary

February 7, 2008 Meeting:

This is what we went over at the meeting today:
In attendance: Jack Kroll, Princess Harris, Jennifer Wyatt, Stephenie Creegan, Whitney Behr, and Bob Kastigar

Stephenie reserved the following dates for having a table in the Villiage square: 3/24, 3/25, 3/26, 3/31, 4/1, 4/17, 4/18, 4/21, 4/22, and 4/26. (Mark your calenders!)
We need people to volunteer to man the tables for these events. We talked about having the tables for only an hour or two in order to perhaps entice volunteers.There was talk about having frequent bake sales, but it was brought up that we can't have a bake sale the same time as another group and we want to make sure we know what we're fundraising for before we start fundraising.

We discussed having an appreciation party for the Northside learning center (who does NEIU's paper recycling), but we didn't decide on doing it yet.
That being said, we decided on a potential bake sale date for Feb. 26. Stephenie will check on this date and let us know at the next meeting.

EARTH DAY:
Stephenie is looking into reserving the Golden Eagles room for an undecided amount of time on April 22. 9am to 5pm was suggested, but we were unsure of member availability for staffing the event.

We're planning on having David Kraft come in as our speaker. Stephenie is going to Email Georgia about his availability. We're going to see about having vendors in the village square during the day on Earth Day. Some suggestions were Little Village, Chicago Bike Federation, and Environment Illinois. The goal is to get as many vendors as possible for this event, so more suggestions are welcome.

DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING: February 14, 2008 at 1:40 (Activity Hour) in the Cafeteria.

Submitted by Whitney Behr, Secretary

January 31, 2008 Meeting:.

In attendance: Whitney Behr, Stephanie Creegan, Princess Harris, Jack Kroll, Prof. Banerjee, and Jeremy Slate

We needed to fill the offices of President and Secretary. It ended up that Stephanie became president and Whitney Behr became secretary.

We discussed many ways to get noticed around campus including having a bake sale.

Princess suggested that every time we have a meeting, we have one on either a Monday or Wednesday and one on either a Tuesday or Thursday to potentially solve conflicts. This will be discussed further at the next meeting.

We voted to ask SGA for $600 for the Earth day event. We also discussed the idea of having an "Earth Week" April 21-25 with Earth Day itself falling on April 22nd.

We briefly discussed nominations for the green fee committee (we need 2) and Stephanie nominated Jeremy.

The next meeting is scheduled for Feb. 7th during activity hour (1:40)

Submitted by Secretary: Whitney Behr

Report - on the meeting regarding the use of recycled paper in the computer lab printers
Held on Wednesday, 19 December 2007

In attendance: Bob McKenney from purchasing, Scott Simon - Coordinator of Computer Labs, Luis Pezzarossi - maintains printers, Jack Kroll, Kate Ekman, Jeremy Slate, Georgia Yelton, Dr. Banerjee

Key observations
-       $3.10 per ream is the price the computer labs pays for paper
-        Jamming appears to be more of concern than the price of the paper.

Next semester
-        Over the course of the Spring semester, they are going to use the 30% recycled paper in the science computer lab to see how it performs. They’re going to use the same 30% recycled paper as NIU does.
-        Kate Ekman will contact the computer labs at NIU to ask about paper jamming.
-        The computer labs will put in a requisition order for the 30% recycled paper for this pilot test but there’s no guarantee the administration will fund it in the middle of the year and it’s possible we’ll have to wait until the summer to do the pilot test.

Everyone at the meeting cared about the issue and wants to make it work. So I think it’ll take some time but as long as we keep at it, we can make it happen.

Jeremy Slate, Secretary - Green Cycle Group