Meeting Recap & Requests February 26, 2010

Thank you everyone who attended today's meeting--it was such a success! We are so glad you've all decided to join Environmental Club and it's inspiring to see so many new faces and so much enthusiasm! You all make our club what it is and what it has the potential to be--you guys rock!

Quick links:
- Meeting agenda with notes from today's meeting (February 26, 2010)
- List of local Earth Week events
- DOT ideas/ Ways you can easily change the world document

Please email us which focus group you were in so we can update our list. Also, please send us a brief explanation/some notes of what your group discussed and brainstormed. We want to create a list of goals/ideas for each focus group.

If you couldn't attend today's meeting, please let us know which focus group you think you'd find most interesting:
- Solar panels/energy
- Food scrapping (our ACE grant that we're applying for would go toward food scrapping)
- Beautification/flowers/gardening at Amador
- Teacher/classroom encouragement of green habits

If you'd like, it'd be AWESOME if you guys researched environmental things that interest you between now and our next meeting on March 12. If you find interesting facts, stories or tips, write them down. We will save some time at our next meeting for people to share what they learned.

Rather than break into focus groups every meeting, we may have meetings where we focus on one thing. For example, maybe at our next meeting we'll have a club discussion on food scrapping or solar power. We will let you know ahead of time so you can do some research if you want so our discussion will have some facts, etc.

Around March 10, we'll send you a meeting agenda so you will know what we'll be doing at the meeting. You're always welcome to send us suggestions for meeting topics or any interesting facts/articles, etc. that you want us to pass along to the club.

Again, thank you everyone!
See you March 12 for sure and hopefully around school :)

Melissa
AVHS Environmental Club secretary

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Inspiring Nature Thought for the Day...

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
-- Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage