December 27, 2013
December 13, 2013
December 13th Meeting Minutes!
Present: Eliza, Ana, Sylka,
Eliyah, Karen, Amelia, Darcy, Isaac, Jud, Cora
Thanks to Jud, Amelia and Xing we had some
delicious smoothies, cookies and brownies!
“Movie
with the Mayor” featuring honored guest speaker Mayor Coss followed by a
screening of “Chasing Ice”
§ January
17th 7 pm
§ Suggested
donation of $5
§ Helping
people connect with climate issues through artistic mediums
o Food
+ drinks (using club funds)
§ Perhaps
using reusable containers
§ Popcorn
§ Honest
tea - Sam’s Club
§ Hot
cocoa
§ Complimentary
cheese and crackers
o Flyer
§ Karen’s
awesome sketch will be the background
· Text
using white font to save ink
§ Cora
and Jud will pass ideas back over the break
· Will
send out official flyer asap for everyone to start distributing!
o Publicity
§ Announcements
at assembly (and other schools?) following Winter Break
· Be
thinking about your connections with students at other schools (see if they can
make an announcement for us!)
§ Karen
will create Facebook event
§ Cora
will enlist Hobbits and Loving the Lands
· Meeting
the first Thursday we get back
o Posters
§ We
can put out some of the posters we had for Climate Night
§ Need
to make several large ones specific to the event
o Movie
copy
§ Will
come from Naomi and New Energy Economy
§ If
not, Isaac has a copy!
o Atrium
Layout
§ Similar
to Climate Night with the portable screen, projector, and podium in the corner
of the Atrium near Jennifer Dryfoos’s office
§ Darcy
will talk with Mr. Zappe about tech help
Bake
Sale December 10th during lunch => we raised over $70!!
o Hopefully
we will do more next semester (the smoothies were a hit!)
Survey
o on
our school’s transportation => went out!
Double
sided printer settings + advisory announcements
o Tuesday
we come back
Arroyo
cleanup will start up following our movie event Skiing
Trip!!!
o At
Santa Fe - January 25th and February 1st
Things
to do over break
Spread
the event to everyone (especially students) you know! Respond
which day you are available to go skiing Play
in the snow, drink tea by the fire and relax!!! December 8, 2013
December 6th Meeting Minutes
Hi all!
Here are the minutes from last Friday's meeting. Many of you were gone at Speech and Debate or other various activities, so please take a look and let me know if you have any questions!
Also, a reminder, we will be having a bake sale this Tuesday during lunch, so if you're not already on the list, please think about bringing something to sell! (Hopefully another group won't prevent us from selling this time!)
“Movie with the Mayor” featuring honored guest speaker Mayor Coss followed by a screening of “Chasing Ice”
§ January 17th 7 pm
§ Suggested donation of $5
§ Helping people connect with climate issues in a different through artistic mediums
o Food + drinks (using club funds)
§ Perhaps using reusable containers
§ Popcorn
§ Honest tea - Sam’s Club
o Flyer
§ Cora and Jud will pass ideas back over the break
o Publicity
§ Announcements at assembly following Winter Break
§ Announcements at other schools
· be thinking about connections you have with students at other schools (see if they can make an announcement for us)
o Posters
§ We can put out some of the posters we had for Climate Night
o Movie copy
§ Will come from Naomi and New Energy Economy
o Atrium Layout
§ we need to talk about more
Bake Sale for December 10th during lunch
o Jud - smoothies
o Sylka - iced tea and blenders
o Xing - brownies
o Cora
Solar lights Survey => Jud will send out!November 5, 2013
Our New Cleanup Site: A little historical background about Arroyo Hondo
Upper Arroyo Hondo Pueblo (LA 76) is a small to medium-sized pueblo of multistoried masonry/adobe roomblocks in a U-shaped configuration surrounding a plaza containing at least one kiva.
Dating possibly to the late Coalition and perhaps Classic periods, the site has often been considered a predecessor to the larger Lower Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, LA 12. The site is on top of a rise in the alluvial plain, surrounded almost completely by two branches of Arroyo Hondo, the main channel and a side drainage, forming a virtual island. Vegetation is piñon-juniper woodland. The open area of the pueblo itself is covered with a mix of grasses, short shrubs, and invasive weeds. The site is enclosed by the foothills of the Sangre de Cristos in a narrow part of Arroyo Hondo canyon near the headwaters of the drainage. There is a small amount of level land available near the village that would have been suitable for agriculture. The site is surrounded by low-density residential and commercial development and is bounded on the west-southwest by Old Las Vegas Highway (US 84/285).
The first Euroamerican notation on LA 76 may be the mention of its existence in Adolf Bandelier’s diary of 1882. Local contacts told him of two pueblos in Arroyo Hondo, south of Santa Fe (LA 12 and LA 76). Based on his entry of November 21, 1882, he visited and made a sketch map (see attached photocopy; Lange et al. 1966:359–360). Nels Nelson visited the site in 1915, made a sketch map, and excavated 12 rooms (see attached photocopy, on file at ARMS). His notes indicate that black-on-white, gray utility, and “red ware” pottery was recovered, along with lithic debitage, ground stone, some effigy vessels, a bone awl, a bone whistle, and faunal remains. An excavation was carried out in 1934 by Stanley Stubbs of the Laboratory of Anthropology with a crew from the Civil Works Administration
November 4, 2013
Fall for Spring Update
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Randy Bennett <hellorandy1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:27 PM
From: Randy Bennett <hellorandy1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:27 PM
I spent some time at the nursery this morning. Daffodils are our best bet. They don't require a lot of attention and rabbits hate them. There are several varieties from which to choose. The guy said we needed 6 per square foot to have an impact like we want in the front median and under the signs. The ones I looked at were 32 for $12. I looked very sad and dejected when he said that and responded, "oh, ok." He said if I could wait a few weeks, he could probably donate or at least heavily discount whatever we needed! I would suggest we try to plant on Nov. 24th. That gives us plenty of time for Howard Gabor to roto-till the areas. That's the only soil prep we need. No bone meal. No mulch. We might consider whether or not we want raised beds under the signs. Let's plan on putting the word out in a couple of weeks. I think between my advisory (16) and OC plus some parents, we should have plenty of help.
Thanks,
Randy
October 28, 2013
Right On!
Great site. Bravo to everyone who has contributed to date. Check out the Youtube called Shallow Waters by a young Salish girl named Blaney. She was 10 when she and her teacher put this together. Very moving. Sorry I'm rushing and won't be embedding the link. Best, Dana
October 26, 2013
Climate Films
From Eliza:
From Naomi
Perhaps we can do a fundraiser showing of some of these films... The CCA had a showing of this one earlier this year, but it would be nice to bring it to Desert!
Oct 25 Meeting Minutes
·
Fall for Spring Event
o Parents
come and bring bulbs or donations and we plant in the garden
o November
9th
o Use
around $100 from grant to buy bulbs
§
Blue crocus and yellow daffodils
o Currently
club has $450
·
Upcoming Events
o Putting
up a gofer fence around the garden with Mr. Richards
o Saturday
October 26th and November 2nd
o 11:00
AM to 3:00 PM
·
Other Garden Ideas
o Planting
and selling roses
o Cactus
garden
o Oasis
§
Nice, secluded space with benches where students
can hang out
o Thursday
during CAS advisory is garden action time
§
Cleaning, planting, etc.
o Hobbit
club working only on garden
o Get
a map on which we can identify all the projects going on
·
Climate Action Plan
o Statistics
about our current CO2 emissions
§
Natural gas usage produces 150,000 lbs. of CO2
every year
§
Electrical usage produces 225,000 lbs. of CO2
every year
§
Total of 375 lbs. of CO2 emissions
per year
o Important
factors
§
Food
·
In the US 20% of our carbon footprint is food
related
·
Food served on campus
o We
need to find:
§
Bought from where
§
How many people on the program
·
Get list from Liz
§
Recycling and Waste
·
In the US 1/3 of our food is wasted
·
Need more people to not throw recyclable
materials in the trash
·
Jud talk to Augie about when they bring trash
and recycling to dump
o We
need to find:
§
How much trash goes out every day
§
What people recycle that can’t be recycled
§
What people throw away that can be recycled
§
How much recycling vs. how much trash
·
One building at a time
o Do
this every few months and track improvements
o Jud,
Karen, Jonas, Cassidy, and Amelia working after school some days
§
Transportation
·
Commuting surveys
o How
many people
o How
many cars
o From
where
o Car
type
·
Cora & Karen gathering data in the morning
·
Darcy and Isaac writing survey
§
Electricity
·
Electricity audit
o Count
lights in each building
o What
type of light bulbs
·
Find worst type (halogen or CFL’s)
o Mr.
Richards’ estimate for cost of solar panels = ¼ million dollars or more
·
Trips
o Hiking
Rio en Medio
§
Possible dates:
·
November 8th, 9th, 15th,
16th, 22nd and 23rd
·
Please email Cora and tell her when you are
available!
o Winter
– ski trip
o Spring
– backpacking trip – if enough people are interested
·
Other
o Get
club blog going again
§
Post minutes, articles, events, etc.
October 25, 2013
October 11th Meeting Minutes
·
Main Project – Solarizing Desert
o
Estimated cost for total = $150,000 to 200,000
§ Methods
of raising money and materials:
·
Grants
o
From organizations we know from climate night
·
Naomi’s CAS project
·
Bake sales
·
Solar night/climate event
o
Money we raise goes to solar panels
·
Solar panels might provide extra money for the
school – then they might sponsor the project
·
Bake Sales
o
Next Tuesday at lunch
§
Amelia and Tyler selling
§
Hailey and Danielle, Jud and Cora bringing food
·
Garden and Grounds Work
o
Loving the Lands group – the middle school branch
of the club
§
Do landscaping, garden and other outside campus
work
·
High school should oversee their work and help
include them
§
Talking to middle school about their work – Tuesday
during academic advisory (approximately 2:30 – 3:30 after assembly)
·
Email middle school advisors: Natalie, Liz,
Sandoval, Randy, and Nevdahl
·
Other Conservation Efforts
o
Water collection
§
Currently draining to the road
§
Looking to get underground bladders that collect
water and that we can use for watering
§
Or large underground cistern
§
New method must be active by May 2014, according to
some state rule
o
Energy emitted by transportation
§
Find out how far people travel to get to school
§
Random sampling from student body
·
Other events/trips
o
Saturday event
§
Parents, students, others
§
Bring bulbs (or money) and plant in the garden
o
Trips
§
Fall – hiking
·
What weekend in November – not Thanksgiving –
works?
§
Winter – skiing
·
For Cora:
o
Email Mr. Richards and bring food for Tuesday
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