Meetings of ECO Meetings 1999-2000 ---------2000--------- (latest=first) 4/24/2000 discuss how earth day events went -speaker, tree planting, veggie dinner, article/picture in newspaper elections held Dump+Run discussed next meeting (last) @ Jane's House 4/17/2000 -Lisa Heller from Dump and Run (U. Richmond) with Planet Aid -tabling wed, thurs, fri in campus center meet tuesday @ 9 PM by Library to poster (chalk later) Sat 11-Veggie Posters @ Rainbow's House 4/10/2000 plan meeting this wednesday, Campus Center, Wed @ 7:30 -to fill out forms for speaker Saturday cleanup; start at 12:20, Nick's Pizza elections in two weeks Next Meeting in Campus Center at 9:30 PM 4/3/2000 Anja from Tufts Climate Initiative (TCI): speech -30% more CO2 than in past -> more extreme weather (storm, changes) -US has 5% of world population, but 25% of CO2 emitions -Kyoto agreement blocked by Senate -TCI plans to reduce CO2 by 7% at Tufts (Kyoto number): heating, cooling, fuel -bike to Tufts Day, Wed April 19th: free bike tune-up, info/table -^^^^make poster for event afterwords: speaker planned: TBA concert on the 15th 3/27/2000 Biodevistation protest was success -speaker, singer, march concert: Amnesty/AppleJam in Dewick, Friday April 14 tabling-notebooks April 15th-Water Watch mystic river cleanup Recycle Bins-This Sunday After Earth Day-Loj Trip 3/20/2000 Spring Break-no meeting 3/13/2000 Earth Day planning B+G Tree planting ceremony in front of Lewis, $100, 3 Trees concert-applejam, amnesty or midnight cafe Veggie Day: Seta ad in Daily Recycling: cancelled again, new date: TBA Kids Day; Dirty Jobs; Plastic Bottles 3/6/2000 Michelangelo's Birthday! Fact: there is a patent on Basmati Rice -Biodevistation conference, April 24-30, Boston Speaker: Bill Mumock, Tuesday, 2:30 (?) concert: AppleJam April 22: Veggie Sunday: see previous meeting Saturday, river cleanup, 11 AM, Campus Center end of year idea: collect good things which are thrown away Kid's Day Booth, April 1st 2/28/2000 -Mystic River Cleanup: 11AM, Sat March 11 @ ATMs in Campus Center to Alewife of Medford Sq. -Wed March 1st: meet in front of Library to post fliers for the following two events -> -Thurs March 9th: Movie in Library (Media Center, top level, possibly room 310) A Civil Action -Sunday March 5th @ 7:30 PM in the campus center, upstairs (Lane room 218) speaker about U'wa tribe in Colombia -bins (see previous meeting's notes) rescheduled for the 12th -calls for Dirty Jobs: 12:30 Tuesday 29 in Campus Center by telephones -Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, declined to come & speak for earth day 2/21/2000 Presidents Day Veggie Meal on Earth Day weekend, Saturday dinner speaker-5th March (Sunday 7pm)about Uwa tribe (in Colombia) article (viewpoint) in Daily with Amnesty Applejam is doing concert (earthday) with Visions of Tibet, Amnesty Movie: Civil Action-@Tisch (or Olin or Barnum 8) planning for a thurs see previous minutes for more info 2/14/2000 Valentine's Day! next meeting: Monday, holiday Sunday 27th, 3PM @ 167 College Ave: Recycling for off campus students bin distribution Concert with other groups in Dewick Fri/Sat Earth weekend misc: Vegetarian meal OK'd with Patti Lee, buy nothing ideas, tree planting (free from Arbor), scraping food off plate 2/7/2000 Fact-Prostest vs WTO Conference in Boston Th,Fr,Sat of Earth Day Weekend: -Band (runner up of Battle of Bands) on patio Sat 5:30 perhaps with Amnesty Int, Visions of Tibet, also having concerts -Misc send coke bottles back to coca-cola buy nothing day-Friday (eat what you have!) vegetarian dinner + buttons (meat free meal/day) off campus recycling drive (instruction-sat) Trees -Lecture -Etc Theme for EDay=reduce gases, energy consumption Tufts Recycling-batteries, buy only recycled paper, composting, resuable bags in hodgdon 1/31/2000 Earth Day 2000 Planning INTRO: concerts: Jamnesty, Apple Jam, Midnight Cafe misc: Vegetarian club, TASA, SETA Supercleanup of mystic river (week before Earth Day) GROUPS: lecture/speaker-thurs, lecture series, Harvard Prof, Daniel Quinn, Metcalf Speaker concert-fri, outside in tents (Patio) or inside in hotung during club night (for sundown) include pros + Tufts band, Acapella misc-thurs tabling for buy-nothing, sat Vegetarian dinner, tree planting other-Daily, Mountain club Newsletter, movie 1/24/2000 Table during activities fair; sold notebooks + mugs first meeting of semester: Earth Day planning: Sat, April 22 speaker (Econ, Lecture Series) concert (Concert Board) do-nothing or something days (Coalition for Social Justice and Nonviolence, TASA?) table-ing tree planting (B & G) movie (film Series) Daily Veggies in Dining Halls (SETA-Vegan food fair) plastic back to Coke/call company ---------1999--------- (latest=last) 9/20 Dave-composting, lectures, Rainforest action network (home depot), library Basek: 1) community: education, children 2) volunteering: beach clean up, LCS 3) political lobbying: green voter guide Logan's new runway in this area -> protest apple picking-(october 1) Saturday tradition Questions posed: cigarrette butts free bikes (Cornell) Daily-excess copies beach cleanup cooperation with LCS organic foods in dining halls meat products & cruelty to animals vegetarian club 9/27 canditates-environmental policies, for voters Waterworks (LCS) Mass has 2nd worst water in US, does river testing, OCT 7 Applepicking this Saturday Tufts Recycling-info poster policies econference in Philadelphia 'recycled' notebooks to sell 10/4/99 Guatemala speaker Basec-green voter guide paper notebooks-from Eaton, et al. 1000 pads for LCS (Oct 20) $.10 to bind @ Tufts Printing Services store paper in TIE or bring to info booth Sun 7-11 PM or Thurs 3-7 12 worst companies-don't work for them! SETA-video, consponsoring, Nov Waterworks-this Thursday, 6pm 10/12/99 Basec-candidate interviews 1:30 Friday Paper Sorting, TIE Environmental week/day Tuesday 11pm paint cannon (Oct 20) tabling on Wednesday after Movie for Wednesday night Waterworks-Oct 18, Crafts Center (Lewis) ECO cabaret, 22, Cohen (TIE) 10/18/99 secretary sick 10/25/99 long term project=paper notebooks Waterwatch: Thurs, 5PM, Campus Center, Upstairs cigarettes 11/1/99 secretary detained paper sorting 11/8/99 paper sorting plans: informative ads, trip to NH 11/15/99 Tufts Climate Initiative speaker: Sarah Tufts to comply with Kyoto Standards: - Schmalz House, Grafton Construction - reform shuttle/s - reduce CO2=overall goal - rideboard (online or in campus center) Facts in the Daily Lodge Dec 5 (2 hours away) Recycling Can Mascot: name=U-Can! this Sat, Alewife Beach cleanup, 2PM ATMs notebooks sell next semester (more paper sorting) 11/22/99 more paper sorting Trip planned (in the making) mention amendment to constitution about secretary 11/29/99 last paper sorting Trip to Lodge, NH this Sat-Sun (meet 9:30 at campus center) possibly $3-$10 elections held two co-chairs, treasurer, email/voicemail, secretary voted on adding amendment to constition about secretary result: passed meet at 3 at Oxfam on Friday to make notebooks 12/6/99 last meeting this semester discuss notebooks covers, pictures, facts, cost, location Hodgdon bags -EJE