December 13th 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 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!Friday, November 22nd
Cancellations
o Rio
en Medio Hike – not enough students
o Fall
for Spring Event – Randy was too busy with the play
·
Bake sales
o Tuesday
the 26th
o Bringing
food:
§
Amelia – brownies
§
Silka – Cupcakes
§
Ana
§
Jud
§
Ester
§
Cora
§
Hailey
·
Movie night
o January
17th, 7:00 PM
o Guest
speaker – Mary Cross
o Documentary
– Chasing Ice
o Things
we need to plan:
§
Atrium set up and design
§
How to promote the event
§
Food and drinks
§
How open it should be (just Desert student or
whole community?)
§
Cost/suggested donation
·
Climate Action Plan
o Transportation
§
Darcy, Karen, Isaac, Sueking, Cora
§
Working on driving survey
o Recycling/waste
§
Jud, Karen, Jonas, Cassidy, Daisy, Xing and
Amelia
§
After school trash and recycling sorting –
probably Friday after Thanksgiving (12/6)
o Energy
Use
§
Anna, Xuan, Eliza, Fang Xin
§
Light count and categorization
§
After Thanksgiving going to reset all faculty
and lab computers so they automatically print double-sided
·
Spring backpacking/camping trip
o Mr.
Alei will make an announcement at assembly and everyone interested will meet
and brainstorm the location, duration, etc.
§
Maybe at Aspen Vista?
·
Just a quick note: Naomi needs to talk to New
Energy Economy
Thursday, November 14th
Hi all,
We had a good meeting Thursday during
CAS advisory. Middle schoolers, and those involved in other CAS projects as
well: we are still figuring out a system for our weekly meetings so that
everyone can attend, and apologize for not having a meeting on Friday!
Things we covered:
·
Movie night
o Friday, January 17th at 7 pm
o At Desert
o Mayor Coss is going to be our honored guest
speaker!
o We decided that we are going to show the
documentary “Chasing Ice” since it has the most directed message, but we will
try to find another time for a student showing of “All I Can” (the
skiing-related documentary) as well!
·
Surveying
o The electricity and transportation groups continued
surveying
§
Isaac finished
the online transportation survey and we will be sending it out to parents,
faculty and students promptly
o We are working to finish up the majority of
preliminary surveying in the next two weeks or so
·
Blog
o Just a reminder that if you find any interesting
climate-related photos, articles, news, videos, etc. please be sure to share it
on the Outdoors Club blog! (http://daoutdoorsclub.blogspot.com/)
·
Fall for
Spring
o Sunday, November 24th will be the Fall
for Spring planting day
§
We will be
planting daffodils in the front entryway, which will bloom beautifully come
spring!
o Please start telling your parents and friends about
it, and encourage them to come help plant
·
Bake sales
o It would be great if we could start fundraising
again. We have Tuesday lunches as our time to sell, and all we need is a couple
of people to bring in baked goods.
o Please email me if you can help sell or bring
things in this coming Tuesday!
·
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.
Friday, October 11th
·
Main Project – Solarizing Desert
·
Bake Sales
·
Garden and Grounds Work
·
Other Conservation Efforts
·
Other events/trips
·
For Cora:
Friday, October 4
Hi All,
Thank you for coming last Friday and for bringing such great treats! It was a beautiful day, and for you 9th graders who were not there, we definitely hope to do another one soon (before it gets too chilly).
Our main matters of business were:
Naomi’s CAS Project (Solarizing Desert)
o This will be the Outdoor Clubs’ new project for the year
o We will help provide fundraising, manpower, publicity
o Solar Night Event
§ Kind of like Climate Night, but specifically focused on solar
· Will raise money for installing panels on our school
§ We will need to determine a timeline
*Last year this took us from November to March to get everything arranged, so we’ll have to start soon!
Our river cleanup status
o We are no longer going to be doing river cleanup in the Santa Fe river do to accessibility
o However, we do plan on adopting an arroyo area on or near our campus
§ Middle Schoolers able to help with cleanup Tuesday afternoons
§ High Schoolers able to do so on Thursday afternoons (CAS activity)
Sales
o Will continue every Tuesday
§ Need people to sign up for each week either to sell or bring food
Future of the Outdoors Club and the middle schoolers’ Loving the Land Club
o Jud, Mr. Alei, Leslie, Mr. Richards and I will all be meeting this Wednesday to discuss how to combine the efforts of both groups
Lastly, I just want to recognize our fantastic new members (middle and high schoolers alike)! We are so excited to have you, and look forward to getting to know you.
In Attendance: Cora, Eliza, Darcy, Abby (7th),
Karen, Eliyah, Danielle, Ana, Hailey, Jonas, Jacob,
Silka, Daisy, Mr. Richards, Judd
·
Middle school Thursday advisory: outdoors club
as possible third option (could be grounds work, etc.)
·
D.C. climate action event: potentially send DA
delegation in future
·
High schools could create programs to reduce
carbon footprint like colleges
such as Middlebury (ACUPCC)
·
Climate Action Plan for Desert (organized
planning framework)
o Scientific
Inventory of our current carbon footprint
§
Transportation, food, waste, etc.
§
Judd could have access to carbon
footprint-related info for Desert
·
2 weeks from now (?)
o How
to get to zero over time, how to get faculty/staff involved, etc.
§
Compost, lighting replacements, going paperless,
etc.
§
CAP gives framework for the big stuff
§
Cutting-Edge Leadership Awesome (CELA) J
·
Solar panels – climate night contacts/Naomi
(talk to both)
o Silka’s
uncle – solar panels from scratch
·
Recycling – middle-schoolers (little containers
to big containers)
o Need
to figure out how to filter out stuff efficiently
·
SF River Cleanup – about to drop us, need to be
more consistent about cleanup
o NEED
TO SET UP A DAY OF THE WEEK
o Or
volunteer for nearby arroyo cleanup (closer to campus)
o Bus
to and from Desert to cleanup river after school (?)
o MONDAY
POSSIBLE RIVER CLEANUP DAY
Friday, September 20th
9/20/13 Outdoors Club Meeting Minutes
In Attendance: Cora, Eliza, Darcy, Abby (7th),
Karen, Eliyah, Danielle, Ana, Hailey, Jonas, Jacob,
Silka, Daisy, Mr. Richards, Judd
·
Middle school Thursday advisory: outdoors club
as possible third option (could be grounds work, etc.)
·
D.C. climate action event: potentially send DA
delegation in future
·
High schools could create programs to reduce
carbon footprint like colleges
such as Middlebury (ACUPCC)
·
Climate Action Plan for Desert (organized
planning framework)
o Scientific
Inventory of our current carbon footprint
§
Transportation, food, waste, etc.
§
Judd could have access to carbon
footprint-related info for Desert
·
2 weeks from now (?)
o How
to get to zero over time, how to get faculty/staff involved, etc.
§
Compost, lighting replacements, going paperless,
etc.
§
CAP gives framework for the big stuff
§
Cutting-Edge Leadership Awesome (CELA) J
·
Solar panels – climate night contacts/Naomi
(talk to both)
o Silka’s
uncle – solar panels from scratch
·
Recycling – middle-schoolers (little containers
to big containers)
o Need
to figure out how to filter out stuff efficiently
·
SF River Cleanup – about to drop us, need to be
more consistent about cleanup
o NEED
TO SET UP A DAY OF THE WEEK
o Or
volunteer for nearby arroyo cleanup (closer to campus)
o Bus
to and from Desert to cleanup river after school (?)
o MONDAY
POSSIBLE RIVER CLEANUP DAY
Friday, Sep 13
Thank
you again everyone for all of the great ideas on Friday!
Please
let me know if there is anything I forgot to include. We’ll have another
meeting this Friday (Sep 20) to really get things organized and going.
Present:
Karen, Eliza, Daisy, Sophia, Hailey, Anna (welcome!), Darcy
Feedback:
what people would like to continue
o
Trips
§ Skiing
§ Backpacking
§ Biking
§ *suggest
others!!!
o
Garden/grounds work
o
Possible climate event
Projects
o
Thursday afternoon community advisory gardening
with MS: Karen and Cora need to talk with Señora, Jud and Mr. Richards
o
Solarizing
§ Going to
need to talk with Naomi about New Energy Economy connection and what her CAS
project plan is
o
Labyrinth
§ probably
a project to do with MS students
§ Will
need:
·
glass bottles
·
recyclable materials
o
Parking lot area revitalization
o
Board
§ hanging
possibly on side of portable building with every Desert student’s hand
print/recycled art
o
Lunchtime activities
§ Didn’t
really talk much about this at the last meeting, but we were thinking that the
OC could sponsor lunchtime food/activities to promote enjoyment of the outdoors
while also fundraising
·
could sell lemonade/hot cocoa/baked goods depending
on the day
o
Compost/recycling
§ need to
catch up with what’s already going on (MS seem to be doing recycling)
Leadership
positions
o
Please be thinking about if you are interested in
being an official for the club, either in terms of VP/Finances or in terms of
being a committee head
Blog
o
want to get it connected with Desert FB and Events
Calendar/website
o
Need a couple of volunteers to help maintain
it/restructure it so that we can not only post our own projects/info, but also
other local petitions, news, etc.
Get to
know OC Picnic/Hike
o
tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of Sat 28,
but open to change
o
still need a location
o
everyone can bring food to share, and it will be a
fun opportunity for new members to meet people and to discuss our plans for
this year (will need to announce at Assembly once date is finalized)
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