Greens Meeting 10/3/12
Garden Announcement! Field trip this Saturday to Weaver’s Way (urban farm in Philly). Please email Maiya at mdk fifiosdj@BMC by Friday if you would like to go!
Flyering Responsibilities:
- Can possibly give to Res Life and they will put them in HAs’ mailboxes for dorms
- Karen: Batten
- Angela Blatc: Merion and Taylor
- Su Oner: Park and Pem West
- Betsy Helm: Radnor and Campus Center
- Karunya Venugopal: English House and Russian Center
- Michaela: Thomas and Rhoads
- Lee: Dalton and Brecon
- Meg: Haffner and dining hall and Pem East
- Sofia: Erdman and dining hall and Denbigh
- Debora: Rock
- Maiya: Bettws-y-Coed
E-Forum:
- Tuesday, October 23rd at 8pm in Pem East Common Room
Goals:
- Challenge the traditional and stereotypical ideas about “green”
- Individual responsibility – knowing that you have an impact, what you do matters
- Leave with one new piece of information
- What do you want to talk about in daily life?
Conversation Ideas
- Start with handing out notecards for questions at any point and then collect at the end
- What is sustainability/green/etc?
- Advertising on campus – what’s an environmentally friendly way to do it? – Angela
- Eco-justice: that environmentalism isn’t just about saving the environment but also intersects with many social inequities – brought up by Lee
- Questions around guilt and environmentalism – being green is for everyone
- What can Green (clubs) do for you?
- End with Q&A
Election Flyering:
- Collaborate with EJL to split national and local candidates
Green Corps Event and Flyering: October 11 at 7pm
- Green Corps is a field organizing training program that works with environmental groups nationwide; college grads work for a year for Green Corps, getting hands-on training and experience for environmental campaigns