Agendas

Sustainability Council Agenda 1/10/2020

January 10^th, 2020 9:00 – 10:30

S111 Student Services Conference Room

Announcements

New Business

RSPT annual dues $330

WLSSD battery and CD disposal fee

Food service RFP update and timeline (Connie)

Going forward….

Soft plastic recycling

S-building Spring Planting Project

USDA Technical Facilities Design Assistance request

Earth Day

Other?

Old Business

FY20 SC Workplan Goals – updates and reporting

1. Develop proposal for north trail as pedestrian path (Dave)
   • Desired Outcomes:
     1. consider appropriate surface for maximum usability,
     2. estimate total costs, development and ongoing maintenance,
     3. account for the trail’s potential use as an access from lower main parking lots to Living Labs field site

2. Articulate the role of “Living Labs” at LSC
   • Desired Outcomes:
     1. draft potential interdisciplinary collaboration/learning opportunities at new Farm Site
     2. develop a forest management plan for Miller Creek corridor – identifying terrestrial invasive species threats and management goals
     3. align goals as potential course-related field experience, both through curriculum and Sustainability Distinction

3. Update campus’ sustainability and energy goals
   • Desired Outcomes:
     1. align with state and system-wide sustainability goals, following Board of Trustees approval of new system sustainability policies,
     2. update LSC Sustainability webpages to reflect these new goals

Budget

FY 20 original budget: $8,450 – current balance $6,546.05

Encumbrances to date:

• Menards: -$300
• Dan’s Feedbin: -$150
• P-Card (Amazon): -$167.95 (Compost bags)
• AASHE dues: -$295
• P-Card (Amazon – 10 sets loppers, saws) (Landscape Restoration – 10 buckthorn dobbers and dye): -$600
• Bee-line spur trail Limestone: -$225.50
• P-card (Amazon – Cornerstone) $92.95

Sustainability Council meeting agenda 12/13/19

December 13^th, 2019 9:00 – 10:30

S111 Student Services Conference Room

Announcements

New Business

Board of Soil and Water Resources (BWSR) grant for Lawns to Legumes demonstration sites ($20-$40K reimbursement)

Food service RFP update and timeline (Connie)

Food service survey results

USDA Technical Facilities Design Assistance request

Eco-Ent program updates

City of Duluth single use bag ordinance – April 2020

Old Business

Buckthorn removal – November 13^th recap, lessons learned (Glenn)

FY20 SC Workplan Goals – updates

1. Develop proposal for north trail as pedestrian path (Dave)
   • Desired Outcomes: 
     1. consider appropriate surface for maximum usability, 
     2. estimate total costs, development and ongoing maintenance,
     3. account for the trail’s potential use as an access from lower main parking lots to Living Labs field site

2. Articulate the role of “Living Labs” at LSC
   • Desired Outcomes: 
     1. draft potential interdisciplinary collaboration/learning opportunities at new Farm Site
     2. develop a forest management plan for Miller Creek corridor – identifying terrestrial invasive species threats and management goals 
     3. align goals as potential course-related field experience, both through curriculum and Sustainability Distinction

3. Update campus’ sustainability and energy goals
   • Desired Outcomes:
     1. align with state and system-wide sustainability goals, following Board of Trustees approval of new system sustainability policies, 
     2. update LSC Sustainability webpages to reflect these new goals

Budget

FY 20 original budget: $8,450 – current balance $6,546.05

Encumbrances to date:

• Menards: -$300
• Dan’s Feedbin: -$150
• P-Card (Amazon): -$167.95 (Compost bags)
• AASHE dues: -$295
• P-Card (Amazon – 10 sets loppers, saws) (Landscape Restoration – 10 buckthorn dobbers and dye): -$600
• Bee-line spur trail Limestone: -$225.50
• P-card (Amazon – Cornerstone) $92.95

Sustainability Council Meeting Agenda 11-8-2019

9:00-10:30

S111 Student Services Conference Room

Announcements

Eco-E will host the MN Ag Commissioner in an Emerging Farmers Summit on November 14^th in S255 (Randy)

New Business

Student Senate – Collaboration for food service feedback (Grant)

New Food Service Task Force (Connie)

Eco-Ent program updates

Eco Market bags

Minnesota Power’s free Level 2 charger grant opportunity

APB on compost bins

Old Business

FY20 SC Workplan Goals – updates

1. Develop proposal for north trail as pedestrian path (Dave)
   • Desired Outcomes:
     1. consider appropriate surface for maximum usability,
     2. estimate total costs, development and ongoing maintenance,

• account for the trail’s potential use as an access from lower main parking lots to Living Labs field site

UPDATE – Spur trail work – recap $225, 10 yards of limestone, 0.1 miles of trail, 10 volunteers, 6 hours, 12 donuts, 6 bananas

2. Articulate the role of “Living Labs” at LSC
   • Desired Outcomes:
     1. draft potential interdisciplinary collaboration/learning opportunities at new Farm Site
     2. develop a forest management plan for Miller Creek corridor – identifying terrestrial invasive species threats and management goals
        1. align goals as potential course-related field experience, both through curriculum and Sustainability Distinction
     3. Update campus’ sustainability and energy goals
        • Desired Outcomes:
          1. align with state and system-wide sustainability goals, following Board of Trustees approval of new system sustainability policies,
          2. update LSC Sustainability webpages to reflect these new goals

Budget

FY 20 original budget: $8,450 – current balance $6,546.05

Encumbrances to date:

• Menards: -$300
• Dan’s Feedbin: -$150
• P-Card (Amazon): -$167.95 (Compost bags)
• AASHE dues: -$295
• P-Card (Amazon – 10 sets loppers, saws) (Landscape Restoration – 10 buckthorn dobbers and dye): -$600
• Bee-line spur trail Limestone: -$225.50
• P-card (Amazon – Cornerstone $92.95

Potential purchases

• EV install $1,500

Sustainability Council meeting agenda 10-11-2019

October 11^th, 2019 9:00 – 10:30

S207 111 Student Services Conference Room

Announcements

New Business

Pollinator Garden “certification” options

• Bee Campus
• Monarch waystation

Eco-Ent program updates

Old Business

FY20 SC Workplan Goals – updates

Develop proposal for north trail as pedestrian path (Dave)

• • Desired Outcomes:
    1. consider appropriate surface for maximum usability,
    2. estimate total costs, development and ongoing maintenance
    3. account for the trail’s potential use as an access from lower main parking lots to Living Labs field site

Articulate the role of “Living Labs” at LSC

• • Desired Outcomes:
    1. draft potential interdisciplinary collaboration/learning opportunities at new Farm Site
    2. develop a forest management plan for Miller Creek corridor – identifying terrestrial invasive species threats and management goals
       1. align goals as potential course-related field experience, both through curriculum and Sustainability Distinction

Update campus’ sustainability and energy goals

• • Desired Outcomes:
    1. align with state and system-wide sustainability goals, following Board of Trustees approval of new system sustainability policies,
    2. update LSC Sustainability webpages to reflect these new goals

Budget

FY 20 original budget: $ 8,450

Sustainability Council meeting agenda 9/6/2019

September 6, 2019 9:00 – 10:30

S111 Student Services Conference Room

Announcements

Lake Superior Harvest Festival, Bayfront, Sept 7^th 10:00-4:00pm

Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (UMACS) annual conference is Sept 27-28 at Carleton College

Nobel Conference, “Climate Changed: Facing Our Future”, September 24-25^th at Gustavus Adolphus College

2019 AASHE Conference “Co-Creating a Sustainable Economy” – October 27-30 in Spokane, WA

New Business

Today is the worldwide debut of RSPT’s #NoPoopFairy vimeo

AASHE annual dues: $295

Red railing removal – project update

Forest Management MOU with CISMA, update (Glenn)

New City of Duluth “Cigarette butts are Litter” signs (Tammy)

Eco-Ent program updates

Sustainability Distinction – update

Review System Sustainability Newsletter

• Grants/Project ideas?

FY20 Workplan Goals – planning

Old Business

Summer project – sustainability website content update (WP Goal 3)

Interpretive Trail and Miller Creek corridor updates (new trails and trail guides, invasives id and planning) (WP Goal 1)

FY20 SC Workplan Goals – submitted 4/16/19

1. Develop proposal for north trail as pedestrian path
   • Desired Outcomes:
     1. consider appropriate surface for maximum usability,
     2. estimate total costs, development and ongoing maintenance,

• • account for the trail’s potential use as an access from lower main parking lots to Living Labs field site

2. Articulate the role of “Living Labs” at LSC
   • Desired Outcomes:
     1. draft potential interdisciplinary collaboration/learning opportunities at new Farm Site
     2. develop a forest management plan for Miller Creek corridor – identifying terrestrial invasive species threats and management goals
        1. align goals as potential course-related field experience, both through curriculum and Sustainability Distinction
     3. Update campus’ sustainability and energy goals
        • Desired Outcomes:
          1. align with state and system-wide sustainability goals, following Board of Trustees approval of new system sustainability policies,
          2. update LSC Sustainability webpages to reflect these new goals

Budget

FY 20 original budget: $ 8,450

Encumbrances to date:

• Menards: -300
• Dan’s Feedbin: -150
• P-Card Amazon: $200 (Compost bags)

Next Meeting

October 4^th, 2019

Sustainability Council Agenda 5/17/2019

May 17, 2019 9:00 – 10:30

S1913 Student Services Conference Room

Announcements

MREA Energy Fair, Custer, WI, June 21-23

Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (UMACS) annual conference is Sept 27-28 at Carleton College in Northfield. Call for presentation proposals ends April 5^th.

2019 AASHE Conference “Co-Creating a Sustainable Economy” – October 27-30 in Spokane, WA

New Business

Eco-Ent program updates, welcome Kevin!

Student Services In-Service days (June 13 and 14, 10am-12, 1-3pm)

• Mulch pollinator garden
• Planters soil and flower planting
• Student Senate apple trees and fencing
• Farm site: fence and terrace, transplanting, tomato trellising, pollinator hotels

Project Red Railing – landscape plan

FY20 S-Council Workplan Goals – submitted 4/16/19

1. Develop proposal for north trail as pedestrian path
   • Desired Outcomes:
     1. consider appropriate surface for maximum usability,
     2. estimate total costs, development and ongoing maintenance,
     3. account for the trail’s potential use as an access from lower main parking lots to Living Labs field site
2. Articulate the role of “Living Labs” at LSC
   • Desired Outcomes:
     1. draft potential interdisciplinary collaboration/learning opportunities at new Farm Site
     2. develop a forest management plan for Miller Creek corridor – identifying terrestrial invasive species threats and management goals
        1. align goals as potential course-related field experience, both through curriculum and Sustainability Distinction
3. Update campus’ sustainability and energy goals
   • Desired Outcomes:
     1. align with state and system-wide sustainability goals, following Board of Trustees approval of new system sustainability policies,
     2. update LSC Sustainability webpages to reflect these new goals

Request meeting with incoming President, Dr. Patricia Rogers

Summer project – sustainability website content update (WP Goal 3)

Interpretive Trail and Miller Creek corridor updates (new trees, invasives id and planning) (WP Goal 1)

Old Business

Earth Day debrief

Budget

FY 19 original budget: $8,450

Encumbrances to date:

• Earth Day supplies: -$300
• Food Farm (carrots): -$60
• Cub Foods (Earth Day): -$100
• RSPT Annual Campus Dues: -$330
• Prairie Restorations (tansy treatment): -$300
• Menards: -$200
• ShelDon: -$140.52
• 4 Seasons Outdoor Svcs: -$ 179
• AASHE annual dues: -$280
• Printing: -$22.22
• Amazon (Hanging scale for Recyclemania): -$49.95

Final FY purchases

• Boreal Natives service contract (tansy treatment, spot weed/seed) -$1,000
• Menards increase: -$400
• Four Seasons (mulch and limestone): -$1000
• Forestry Suppliers (3 rogue hoes): -$200
• Dan’s Feedbin (flowers): -$500

Balance to-date: $3,445.74

Next Meeting

TBD

Sustainability Council Meeting Agenda 4-5-2019

April 5, 2019 9:00 – 10:30

S1913 Student Services Conference Room

Announcements

Duluth Power Dialog: Energy Comedy & Conversation for a 100% Clean & Equitable Energy Minnesota moderated by the Theater of Public Policy, Tuesday April 9^th, 5-7:00 PM at Zeitgeist, free event

Green New Deal Duluth Action Summit, Saturday, April 27^th, 9:30-3:30 at AICHO – Keynote by Winona LaDuke

Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (UMACS) annual conference is Sept 27-28 at Carleton College in Northfield. Call for presentation proposals ends April 5^th.

2019 AASHE Conference “Co-Creating a Sustainable Economy” – October 27-30 in Spokane, WA

New Business

FY20 Work Plan goals (review FY18)

LSC Earth Day

• Poster and media plan
• All Hands On Deck! Sign up to host an activity/information table:
  • RSPT table host (    )
  • Bag It, Duluth table host   (     )
  • Campus clean up supplies station host   (    )
  • E-EP demo hosts (Randy and Mike)
  • Sustainability Distinction table host w/ Duluth Invaders (    )
  • Seedlings and seeds table host (Mary)
  • Handmade hummus table host (Deanne)
  • ?

Eco-Ent program updates, advising, and field site update and work plan

Sustainability Distinction website and application window live

CLA2 Living Labs Coordinator position update

Pollinator garden spring clean-up

S-building landscape, Part 2 planning

Garden Club Garden – adoption ideas?

Old Business

Work Group and Student Employee Reports

Student Employee Project updates

• Café serveware inventory (Boris)
• RecycleMania update (Kurt)

Budget

FY 19 original budget: $8,450

Encumbrances to date:

• Earth Day supplies: $300
• Food Farm (carrots): $60
• Cub Foods (Earth Day): $100
• RSPT Annual Campus Dues: $330
• Prairie Restorations (tansy treatment): $300
• Menards: $200
• ShelDon: $140.52
• 4 Seasons Outdoor Svcs: $ 179
• AASHE annual dues: $280
• Printing: $22.22
• Amazon (Hanging scale for Recyclemania): $49.95

Balance to-date: $6,488.11

Next Meeting

Regular monthly meeting May 3rd, 9:00 am

Sustainability Council Meeting Agenda, 2-1-2019

9:00 – 10:30 — S1913 Student Services Conference Room

Announcements

9^th Annual St. Louis River Summit  at UWS – March 5-6

Protecting Duluth’s Green Space – A Public Forum Wed March 6th, 7:00 at Lincoln Park Auditorium

Climate Summit at UMD: Will Duluth become a climate refuge city? March 19-20

We Are Water exhibit hosted by Fond du Lac Band of LS Chippewa at Great Lakes Aquarium – March 10-April 22nd

FREE DIY Energy-Efficiency Workshop March 13, 6-8:00 at Duluth Folk School

Talk Climate Institute by Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy – March 25-26 at AICHO Duluth

Our Planet, Our Future: Environmental Summit (organized by MPIRG), Thrs March 28^th, 2:00-8:00 at the DECC, pre-registration encouraged

Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (UMACS) annual conference is Sept 27-28 at Carleton College in Northfield.

2019 AASHE Conference “Co-Creating a Sustainable Economy” – October 27-30 in Spokane, WA

New Business

RSPT Annual Dues: $330

Student Employee summer and FY20 hours re-allocation

2019 tree order – motion needed

LSC Earth Day

• Theme, presenters, video
• Food

LSC Farm name ideas?

Sustainability Distinction update

• text ideas?
• Duluth Collaborative Invasive Species Management Area (CISMA) MOU
• Stewardship Network – Terrestrial Invasive Plant Management Plan

Potential memberships:

• National Council on Science and the Environment (NCSE) – The Community College Alliance for Sustainability Education (CCASE) 
• SEED (Sustainability Education & Economic Development)

S-building landscape, Part 2 planning

Old Business

Work Group and Student Employee Reports

Student Employee Project updates

• Café serveware inventory (Boris)
• RecycleMania update (Kristi, Boris, Kurt)

Budget

FY 19 original budget: $8,450

Encumbrances to date:

• Prairie Restorations (tansy treatment): $300
• Menards: $200
• ShelDon: $140.52
• 4 Seasons Outdoor Svcs: $ 179
• AASHE annual dues: $280
• Printing: $13.42
• Amazon (Hanging scale for Recyclemania): $49.95

Balance to-date: $7,337.06

Next Meeting

Regular monthly meeting April 5th, 9:00 am

Sustainability Council Agenda 1-18-2019

January 18, 2019 9:00 – 10:30

S1913 Student Serivces Conference Room

Announcements

Sustainable Farming Assn (SFA) Annual Conference at College of St. Benedicts, February 9^th

New member introductions

Lake Superior Chapter SFA Conference and Annual Meeting at Peace Church Duluth, January 26^th

2019 AASHE Conference “Co-Creating a Sustainable Economy” – October 27-30 in Spokane, WA

RSPT February 13th, monthly meeting S1981, 1:00

New Business

MAP #3 Distinction in Sustainability update

• Promotion/recruiting – materials, SS Day, Open House tables, others…
• co-courses

Potential memberships:

• National Council on Science and the Environment (NCSE) – The Community College Alliance for Sustainability Education (CCASE) 
• SEED (Sustainability Education & Economic Development)

LSC Earth Day

• Campus Book Club read: “Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren

Old Business

Office waste handling proposal update

Campus housing update

Work Group and Student Employee Reports

Student Employee Project updates

• Café serveware inventory (Boris)
• RecycleMania (Kristi, Boris, Kurt)
  • 8-weeks, Feb 3-March 30
  • Needs: prizes?, scale, planning team members
    • First team meeting: Jan 22^nd, noon, Student Life Conf Room
• TerraCycle

Budget

FY 19 original budget: $8,450

Encumbrances to date:

• Prairie Restorations (tansy treatment): $300
• Menards: $200
• ShelDon: $140.52
• 4 Seasons Outdoor Svcs: $ 179
• AASHE annual dues: $280
• Printing: $13.42

Balance to-date: $7,337.06

Next Meeting

RecycleMania first team meeting January 22nd, noon

Regular monthly meeting February 1st, 9:00 am

Sustainability Council Meeting Agenda 11/30/2018

9:00-10:00

S2920 Large Admin Conference Room

Announcements

MPCA grant for electric lawn equipment, up to $24,000, due December 5^th

New Business

LSC Living Labs

MAP #3 Distinction in Sustainability:

• Promotion/recruiting
• co-courses

Earth Day – date

SEED (Sustainability Education & Economic Development) membership

Old Business

Follow-up State of MN Enterprise Sustainability 2017 Report and Minnesota State C&U’s policies/goals on sustainability

• BoT Sustainability Policy/Procedure timeline update-May and June agenda
• Reporting tool

Office waste handling proposal update

• Office towels

MET Bikeways Plan review & LSC trails planning (Dave)

Campus housing update

Work Group and Student Employee Reports

Student Employee Project Prioritization

• Waste audit
• Café inventory

Budget

FY 19 original budget: $8,450

Encumbrances to date:

• Prairie Restorations (tansy treatment): $300
• Menards: $200
• ShelDon: $140.52
• 4 Seasons Outdoor Svcs: $ 179
• AASHE annual dues: $280
• Printing: $13.42

Balance to-date: $7,383

Next Meeting

Regular monthly meeting January 11^th, 9:00 am