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Past Activities & Accomplishments

Environmental Sustainability Committee (ESC)
Wednesday September 24, 2003 2:00-3:00 pm
Room 875 of the DOW Building

Meeting Minutes

1. How Organic Are You? We took a fun, informative quiz about organic foods and products.

2. Designated Subcommittee Chairs: The following is a list of members under each subcommittee with the chair of that subcommittee designated:

Parking and Transportation Alternatives
Chair: Mike Abbott
Kyra Fillmore
Heather Wright
Shalini Suryanarayana

Recycling, Composting, Reuse
Chair: Kristine Bradof
Chair: Kyra Fillmore
Jessica Brakora
Theresa Coleman-Kaiser

Energy Efficiency
Chair: Theresa Coleman-Kaiser
Angela Arpke
Mike Abbott

Green Buildings/Green Landscaping
Chair: Angela Arpke
Heather Wright

Green Purchasing
Chair: Alexis Troschinetz

Financial/Executive
Chair: Shalini Suryanarayana
Alexis Troschinetz

Education/Publicity
Chair: Jessica Brakora
Bethany Baibak

3. Updates of subcommittees:

a. Recycling: received one response back from a soon-to-be liaison in the Daniel Heights.

b. Education and Publicity: designing slides with catchy sayings or graphics to be part of the previews of the movies provided on campus from Filmboard. Drafts will be provided to the committee either via email or at the next meeting to review. Also, these slides will work well for the Electronic Display System.

4. Review of Nicole Bloom Memorial Service: The service went really well with attendance nearing 50 people. Janice Glime did a great job with the tree dedication. Nicole’s two diplomas were presented to her mother. The memorial stone has been placed into the ground near the tree.

5. Greenprint Review: It seems as though everyone is making progress on their sections of the Greenprint. At the next meeting (October 8) everyone is expected to submit what they have completed to Shalini or Alexis. Following the meeting, a copy of the entire Greenprint, instructions of how to track changes, and a list of official benchmarks were sent over email. It was decided that Shalini and Alexis will compose the introduction to tie all of the sections together.
6. Update on the Kiosk in the MUB: Theresa reported that it is being worked on, but not yet completed.

7. Open House: Saturday September 27. Mike offered that we put up a display for ESC next to the Tech Trails table. Kristine and Alexis volunteered to put the display together.

8. Upper Peninsula Recycling Coalition: Wednesday October 8, 2003. ESC is going to make an appearance. Alexis may be able to attend. If not, Allison Hein will give the presentation. Kristine will prepare the presentation, and Alexis will prepare the display board.

9. Future meeting schedule (with tentative plan): October 8, 2003 2:00-3:00 pm 5th flr. Conference room Admin Building

- Chairs of each sub-committee turn in their section of the Greenprint to the Co-Chairs of ESC to finalize. Start rolling on new initiatives and ideas for ESC.

Contact Information

If you have general questions or comments, please contact Shalini Suryanarayana (shalini@mtu.edu) and please put "ESC Question/Comment" in the subject line.

Electronic mail
If you have any questions on the recycling program at MTU: recyclinginfo-l@mtu.edu

General Information: shalini@mtu.edu

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