Agendas

Agenda 1/21/2011

9:00 – 11:00

Location:  Student Life Conference Room

Announcements

Patty Dorn: Arts/Environmental Education grant project

Message from Hanna Re: Strategic Planning Portal

“In Reference Materials, please check the PowerPoint and January 6 duty day ideas for enhancing our Sustainability Plan of Action.

Question: Given the feedback and the strong interest in this topic, do you think we should incorporate this theme strategically into our institutional planning? If so, what outcomes do you envision?”

She’s encouraging us to give input on the portal, please do!

Rain Barrel Sale & Watershed Festival will be held June 4^th at LSC, 10:00-4:00

Sub-Committee Reports

Old Business

PaperCut discussion with English Dept (Cliff)

SPA: Student Senate meeting update (Kristi)

“Northland Sustainability Folks” meeting highlights (Kristi)

New Business

Earth Day (Heather)

Sustainability e-Newsletter (Kristi, Kevin)

Campus food committee (Kristi)

Next meeting

Budget

Meeting Agenda 1/7/2011

9:30 – 11:00

Location:  Student Life Conference Room

Announcements

Sub-Committee Reports

Old Business

Duty-Day recap and discussion

Double-sided printing signage (Kristi)

Printer cartridge and cell phone recycle boxes placed (Kristi)

New Business

SPA and Strategic Planning request from Hanna (Kristi)

Next meeting

Budget                                                                                                                                                                      

EC balance YTD:

Meeting Agenda 12/3/2010

December 3^rd, 2010

9:30 – 11:00

Location:  Student Life Conference Room

Announcements

Sub-Committee Reports

Living Green update (Deanne)

Discuss 11/30 Climate Action Plan meeting with Dr. Johns 

Next steps for completing the Climate Action Plan

-include access to campus bicycling, pedestrians, limited mobility (e.g wheelchairs), non-motorized transportation in our Sustainability Plan. (Dick)

-Incorporate Policies into the CAP (Kristi)

Old Business

CAP Extension Request update (Kristi)

GHG inventory annual data collection work-study update (Kristi)

Definition of Sustainability for Kent Richards update (Glenn)

Double-sided printers update (Dave O.)

New Business

Sustainability and CAP discussions for January Duty Day

 -craft a paragraph to submit to Kelli (Deanne)

Budget

AASHE Membership Dues paid through our budget

Next meeting December 17^th ?(is finals week)

Agenda 11/19/2010

9:30 – 11:00

Location:  Gary’s Office

Announcements

UMD’s Winter Campus Sustainability Fair

Sub-Committee Reports

Living Green update (Wade, 10:15)

Old Business

CAP Extension Request (Kristi)

Discuss CAP meeting with Dr. Johns on November 30^th

GHG inventory annual data collection (Cliff, Kristi)

Work-study position next semester (Kristi)

New Business

Definition of Sustainability for Kent Richards (Cliff)

Next meeting December 3rd

Budget

Membership Dues (AASHE, ACUPCC)

Agenda 11/5/2010

9:30 – 11:00

Location:  Student Life Conference Room

Announcements

Sub-Committee Reports

Update on Living Green (Wade)

Update on website and Travis’s work (Kristi)

Old Business

Report on MN Waste Wise Meeting (Kevin, Kristi)

CAP Extension Request (Wade)

Disk-golf course: Perfect Duluth Day blog, update on City trash collection (Kristi)

Work on Climate Action Plan

New Business

Next meeting November 19^th

Budget Report

Meeting Agenda 10/8/10

8:30 – 10:00

Location:  Student Life Conference Room

Announcements

MPCA RFP for Environmental Assistance Grant (Deanne)

Update on disk-golf course cleanup, student recruiting, and sustainability webpage (Kristi, Tom, Jeri)

Discuss next meeting date

Discuss Living Green Conference (Wade)

Sub-Committee Reports

Old Business

Work on Climate Action Plan

New Business

Budget Report

Meeting Agenda 9/24/2010

September 24^th, 2010

9:30 – 11:00

Location:  Student Life Conference Room

Reminder: Paper copies of this agenda will not be provided.

Announcements

Update on the Environmental Club and SS Day table (Jeri)

Sub-Committee Reports

Climate Action Plan – extension? http://acupcc.aashe.org/instructions/extension/

These are the main points addressed by the Extension Request

• Describe your institution’s efforts to meet the deadline and explain why you have been unable to do so

• Requested Length of Extension : 1, 2, 3 or 4 months?

• Provide a list of steps you will take to achieve this new target

Friday morning CAP working meetings starting October 8^th in place of regular EC meetings? (Deanne)

Old Business

Kristi has set up Requisition for Purchase to Twin Ports Paper & Supply for kitchen compost bags and handed it off to Wade (Wade)

Kevin and Kristi are registered for the Waste Wise Annual Meeting

Water bottle fill stations (Deanne)

Kristi is still working with Jeanine at WM on the disk golf course dumpster.

Kristi updated the ACUPCC Institution Implementation Profile to reflect the change from Mark to Wade and also Dr Nelson to President Johns.

New Business

Budget Report

Meeting Agenda 9/24/2010

September 24^th, 2010

9:30 – 11:00

Location:  Student Life Conference Room

Reminder: Paper copies of this agenda will not be provided.

Announcements

Update on the Environmental Club and SS Day table (Jeri)

Sub-Committee Reports

Climate Action Plan – extension? http://acupcc.aashe.org/instructions/extension/

These are the main points addressed by the Extension Request

• Describe your institution’s efforts to meet the deadline and explain why you have been unable to do so

• Requested Length of Extension : 1, 2, 3 or 4 months?

• Provide a list of steps you will take to achieve this new target

Friday morning CAP working meetings starting October 8^th in place of regular EC meetings? (Deanne)

Old Business

Kristi has set up Requisition for Purchase to Twin Ports Paper & Supply for kitchen compost bags and handed it off to Wade (Wade)

Kevin and Kristi are registered for the Waste Wise Annual Meeting

Water bottle fill stations (Deanne)

Kristi is still working with Jeanine at WM on the disk golf course dumpster.

Kristi updated the ACUPCC Institution Implementation Profile to reflect the change from Mark to Wade and also Dr Nelson to President Johns.

New Business

Budget Report

Meeting Agenda 9/10/10

9:30 – 11:00

Location:  Student Life Conference Room

Reminder: Paper copies of this agenda will not be provided.

Announcements

Discuss this morning’s meeting with Dr. Johns

LEED Ceremony is next Monday, Sept 13 at 2:30

Potential Student Magazine (Jeri)

Sub-Committee Reports

Old Business

CAP IS DUE IN 116 working days !PLEASE HELP! me with these 2 CAP items (Kristi)

     -COMMUITY OUTREACH AND OTHER EFFORTS working doc (SharePoint)

     -CURRICULUM AND EDUCATION & COMMUNITY OUTREACH  (SharePoint)

Shredding report (Anyone)

STARS Sub-Committees: This document is still on SharePoint, and has been updated (Kristi)

New Business

Waste Wise Annual Meeting: October 19^th at Mall of America

Budget Report

No change from last meeting

Meeting Agenda 9/10/10

9:30 – 11:00

Location:  Student Life Conference Room

Reminder: Paper copies of this agenda will not be provided.

Announcements

Discuss this morning’s meeting with Dr. Johns

LEED Ceremony is next Monday, Sept 13 at 2:30

Potential Student Magazine (Jeri)

Sub-Committee Reports

Old Business

CAP IS DUE IN 116 working days !PLEASE HELP! me with these 2 CAP items (Kristi)

     -COMMUITY OUTREACH AND OTHER EFFORTS working doc (SharePoint)

     -CURRICULUM AND EDUCATION & COMMUNITY OUTREACH  (SharePoint)

Shredding report (Anyone)

STARS Sub-Committees: This document is still on SharePoint, and has been updated (Kristi)

New Business

Waste Wise Annual Meeting: October 19^th at Mall of America

Budget Report

No change from last meeting