Environmental Club Meeting Agenda
February 26, 2010 12:35 PM – 1:06 PM
Mrs. Turner-Bull’s room E5
1. Welcome and Introductions: Name, grade, why joined the club, one activity you do outside of school.
2. Discussion of litter-free lunch challenge (2/12/10 – 2/26/10)
- Alternatives to plastic baggies: Tupperware, glass jars, sandwich holder
- Eating more wholesome, non-packaged foods; soup
- Cloth napkins
- Silverware instead of plastic (Even “biodegradable” corn starch plastic is still bad for the environment and though it disintegrates, it technically just becomes smaller pieces and isn’t something beneficial to the soil.)
- Reusable water bottle, coffee mug; juice in a reusable bottle instead of boxed
3. Pleasanton Unified School District Environmental Awareness Committee meeting
- March 24 at 4:30 PM in Bernal Room at PUSD District Offices 4665 Bernal Avenue
- Amador student presentation about Environmental Club’s projects, successes
4. 40th Earth Day/Week Celebrations (week of April 19 – 23; Earth Day is April 22nd)
- Lunchtime activities with help of Leadership Commission
o Book swap
o Lights out for an hour during class (see Earth Hour)
o Bring your water bottle day, reusable lunchbox day, green shirt day, hand out green stickers
o Recycled arts & crafts (Monica will brainstorm ideas for this.)
o Reusable water bottle raffle
- See list of Earth Week activities.
5. Additional events/activities:
- Alviso Adobe “Tools from the Ancient World” March 27 2PM to 3PM
- Earth Hour March 27, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM turn the lights off! (http://www.blogger.com/www.earthhour.org/)
- These Come From Trees: Guerilla Paper Waste Elimination Project (thesecomefromtrees.blogspot.com) for bathroom paper dispensers and science classrooms.
- Future purchase of driers instead of paper towels possibility
6. Check your energy meters!!
7. Choosing your DOT (Do One Thing).
- Feasibility, relation to your life, ease, impact.
- If you want, visit http://billionactsofgreen.net/ to post your DOT to the Billion Acts of Green website. Earth Day Network is hoping to get one billion people to post one thing they will do for the planet. Spread the word about your green thing and read what others have posted.
- Post your DOT on our Facebook page or group to share your idea.
8. Break into focus groups: Please email us which group you were in so we can take note of it. Thanks!
- Solar – Emil, Nisha, Nicole, Grant, Natalie
- Food scraps - Kirsha
- Teacher/class encouragement – Taylor, Erin, Jerelyn
- Recycling – Ryan, Monica
- Beautification/flowers – Joyce, Emily, Sahar
o Brainstorm ideas & write them down
o Determine what goals are for next two weeks.
9. ACE lesson plan: Try to brainstorm ideas for our next meeting’s discussion.
10. Next week’s bulletin green tip #6: Try to reduce your paper usage by writing smaller, using the full sheet of paper for notes, printing on both sides of papers, reusing old papers and thinking of creative ways to use less paper on a daily basis!
11. Blog discussion, time permitting. Talk to Melissa for more info.
Cool links:
- Earth Day Network Footprint Calculator: What areas of your life need to be “greened”? http://earthday.net/footprint2/index.html
- TreeHugger.com has a wealth of tips and stories.
- SierraClub.org has great ways to send letters to legislature encouraging our representatives to support our environment. They also have tips and even a green social networking site called Climatecrossroads: http://climatecrossroads.sierraclub.org/
- National Geographic has a lot of tips, science, articles and pictures relating to the environment: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/
- EnvironmentCalifornia.org is specific to our California land and has ways to take action, as well as keep you updated on environmental issues in California.
- Our club's secretary, Melissa's Green Gal blog has some tips and shows how easy it can be to be green--and vegan! greenbeangal.blogspot.com
- The Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op blog has stories and tips about how to live greener and save some green while you're at it: simple-green-frugal-co-op.blogspot.com
- Reduce Footprints blog has a weekly challenge called Change the World Wednesday: reducefootprints.blogspot.com
- MeatlessMonday.com gives some great reasons to reduce your meat consumption for the planet. They have a ton of meat-free recipes, too!
- GreenLivingTips.com has a whole database of tips.
- Alliance for Climate Education has some great tips and stories: ACESpace.org
- Be the Change Cyclists is a local commuter cycling group that tracks member miles by bike. If you ride your bike to school or on errands, talk to Melissa about joining (her dad founded the group). Visit the blog at bethechangecyclists.blogspot.com
- The Ecology Center has an extensive list of facts and tips http://www.ecologycenter.org/factsheets/
- No Impact Man & his Project A guy went a whole year trying to reduce his impact as much as possible. He has a blog, a movie and a book about it. Check him out here: noimpactman.typepad.com and here: noimpactproject.org
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