no meeting tonight + Food Week events

Just a reminder: there will be no Greens meeting tonight, March 21, due to Food Week events.

At 5 pm today there will be dinner at Batten House and a discussion on food and nutrition with the Body Image Council. From 6:00-8.30 in Thomas 110 will be a movie screening of What’s “Organic” about Organic? with a discussion by director Shelley Rogers. (To learn more about the movie, check out the trailer here.)

Tri-Co Food Week 2012: March 19-24

Food Week is a week of food-related events at Bryn Mawr, Haverford & Swarthmore centered around issues of local food, food sustainability, food justice and access, vegetarianism & veganism, farming, and culinary careers. See below for more information about a week full of events, discussions, lectures, volunteer opportunities and more!

tri-co food week calendar

Minutes 2012 March 14

Minutes 3/14/12

Intros – What Food Week event we are most excited about

Hanging up Food Week posters

How to Reach Out to New Students

  • What green means to us?
  • Advertisement
    • Spring – Congrats you got into BMC
      • Video? – facts about moving in, greens stuff, what we do
  • Summer – What you should bring to campus (move in)
  • Customs Week – program meant for freshmen
    • Impactful
    • Follow up
    • Interactive – recycling scavenger hunt
    • Who to contact – as a resource
    • Recycling Committee – need to be accountable

 

  • Content for Spring advertisement

 

  • Congratulations from BMC Sustainability – we explain what it is
    • Professors – in ES and outside ES department
    • As “random” people on campus
  • Sustainable 360
  • Batten House & Food
  • Garden
  • Personal contribution/initiatives
  • What you can do to contribute – invitation
  • We have a really cool community – don’t you want to be part of it – Why we need you
  • Dining Hall, House Keepers
  • Food Week video
  • Bridge between academia and extra
  • Video – email out via admissions, 2016 facebook page
  • What do we mean by Sustainability
    • Lifestyle/community
    • An invested community
    • Connection with entire community – everyone cares about
    • Looking to the future
    • Personal accountability/responsibility
    • Eco-feminism
    • Social justice issue
    • Structure of Film
      • Map – zoom into middle of nowhere – Bryn Mawr Community – angry man –
      • Rewind (fun music) – this is our community
      • We impact environment this way
      • How environment affects us this way
      • End with I’m Sexy and I know it – presidents say how it is sexy to be green

 

  • Who will write script – due by Sunday March 18th  – work on it this weekend
    • Sophia (soleas@brynmaw.edu), Ellie – contact Sophia
    • Who will film
    • Who will edit

 

March 28th – M. Shale workshop

Minutes 2012 February 22

Greens Meeting 2/22/12

 

Upcoming Events

  • Workshop: “Stages of change…How do we move to the next level”
    • Tomorrow, Thursday 2/23 1:00-4:00
    • Gateway
    • Lecture “Who are the change makers?”
      • Tomorrow, Thursday 2/23 7:30-8:30
      • Workshop “What a waste”
        • Monday, 2/27 10-12
        • Wednesday 2/29 10-12
        • Friday 3/2 10-4
        • Lecture: Sustainability Challenge at Bryn Mawr College
          • Wednesday 2/29 1-2
          • Food Week: March 19-24
          • Workshop: Marcellus Shale – instead of Greens meeting
            • Wednesday 3/28 6-9
            • Gateway

 

Story of Bottled Water

  • Problems with using bottled water

 

Food Week (March 19-23)

  • Kate Thomas will be speaking Monday of Food Week (2:30-4:00)
  • Greens advertise for – film screening and discussion at Batten House
    • Activities emails
    • Contact communications
      • Send out master schedule
  • Table Tents for dining halls
  • Individual fliers for events
  • Batten house dinner (Wednesday)
    • Sustainable Body
      • Need to RSVP
      • What’s Organic about Organic Film Screening with Director(Wednesday)
        • Reserve Thomas 110 6-9
        • Show film 6:30-8:00
        • Swat compost/garden tour 11:20-1:00 (Tuesday)
          • RSVP
          • Contact transportation so that bus will not be packed
          • Monday night – chef dinner @ Haverford
            • First come first serve
              • 3-5:30 – cooking  – 15
              • 5:30-7:00 dinner – 25

 

Brainstorm: Outreach to New Students

  • letter/list– what to bring – what not to bring
    • fridge (don’t bring)
    • take out containers (bring)
    • Diva cup (bring)
    • facebook page – Welcome from the greens
    • email
    • customs week – provide materials
    • redefine what sustainability means on our campus – require discussion on our part
    • GOOGLE DOC to organize everything

 

no meeting Feb. 15

Reminder: there will be no Greens meeting on Wednesday, February 15, since it’s the beginning of Hell Week. We will meet on Wednesday, February 22 at 8 pm in Taylor C.