New Leaf Budget Spring 2008

 Meetings Meeting Information


 * Meeting Frequency:Weekly * Number of Meeting:10 * Projected Attendance:40

Meeting Expenses


 * Food: $40.00 * Advertising: $1.00 * Magic Board: $0.00 * Other: $0.00 * TOTAL: $410.00

Trips Trip Information


 * Name: Sirius Ecovillage Retreat * Attendance: 10 * Date: 2/29/08 * Destination: Sirius Ecovillage, Shutesbury, MA * Description: This will be the third year that HCEMS attends the conference. Attendees will include 12 self-selected EMTs. The conference provides over 16 hours of continuing education credits, which are necessary to maintain certification, and to improve our medical care.

Trip Expenses


 * Fee per Person: $ 0.00 * Gas: $ 6.00 * Lodging: $ 250.00 * Other: $ 0.00 * TOTAL: $256.00

Events Event Information


 * Name: Step It Up 2008 * Performer: * Description: "The Amherst town community, along with students from University of Massachusetts, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, and Amherst College, are joining together on April 12th for their part in a nation-wide campaign to show Congress that we care about climate change. The event is called Step It Up 2008 and unites cities, towns, colleges, and individuals across the nation to rally for Congress to enact a law cutting carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.

1-3pm at the Hitchcock Center, 525 South Pleasant Street (Route 116) Amherst

Transportation is currently the largest contributor to carbon emissions. Come to the Hitchcock Center’s Greening the Roadways festival to see green transportation possibilities in person and even test drive so high-efficiency and clean-energy vehicles. We will have simultaneous workshops (from 1-2:30pm) on grease and biodiesel production in the valley, ZipCars, making your car more efficient, electric hybrid bicycles, and other green transportation topics. There will also be lots of alternative vehicles to see, from gas/electric hybrids, new kinds of bicycles, and cars that run on grease and biodiesel. And bring the kids to learn about climate change! Local artists will be on hand to help children make prints and posters, fabric paintings, and t-shirts that convey the message to congress about cutting carbon emissions. This is a free event for the whole family. We have car parking, but please come by foot, bike, bus or carpool. PVTA buses #31 and #38 stop nearby, just a short walk to the Hitchcock Center.

3 pm parade from the Hitchcock Center to Hampshire College Campus

The Greening the Roadways Festival and Step It Up 2008 will be ""On Parade"" at 3:00 pm, walking, biking, and driving green vehicles down Rte. 116 as well as carrying a laundry line of signs that promote awareness about climate change.

4pm-1am at Hampshire College, 893 West St., Amherst

We will celebrate sustainability and discuss the negative ramifications of carbon emissions on the environment on the college’s library lawn. The event will include food prepared by New Leaf, lentil soup, bread, veggie dishes and beverages, activities for all ages such as painting, a recycled art contest, speakers from the community and representatives from local sustainable businesses and groups with tables on the library lawn. The national touring BioTour, a bio diesel school bus, will be present at the event to answer questions and make several presentations. At 8pm, local bands will kick off the evening festivities which are centered around a large concert organized by members form New Leaf.

Security (based on last year estimate): 4pm-1am 1 event monitor, 8pm-1am 2 officers."


 * Attendance: 600 * Date: 12-Apr-08

Event Expenses


 * Advertising: $15 * Food: $150 * Sound and Light: $150 * Security: $503 * Honorarium: $500 (-2500) * Other: $0 * TOTAL: $1318 * NOTES: BIOTOUR BUS IS NOT ATTENDING THIS YEAR.

Event Information


 * Name: Focus the Nation at Hampshire * Performer: * Description: Focus the Nation is organizing a national teach-in on global warming solutions for America—creating a dialogue at over a thousand colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, places of worship, civic organizations and businesses. The agenda is designed to engage over 100 faculty members, as well as students, staff, and community members as teach-in presenters. This would be a campus-wide two day event in which the Hampshire community would have a wide array of panels to choose from and attend instead of regular classes. Faculty, staff, and community members will be asked to speak about topics related to global warming from the perspective of their discipline. This teach-in engages all academic disciplines and fields in the discussion of climate change and its current and future effects on society, without limiting the discussion to simply environmental or sustainability concentrations. In light of President Hexter’s commitment to sustainability and recent endorsement of the President’s Climate Challenge Commitment, this event brings the discussion of Hampshire’s commitment to environmental sustainability to the broader community while catering to the various academic interests of community members in this debate. * Attendance: 1400 * Date: February 20th, 2008

Event Expenses


 * Advertising: $15 * Food: $75 * Sound and Light: $ * Security: $0 * Honorarium: $0 * Other: $0 * TOTAL: $90

Event Information


 * Name: The Role of Geopolitics in Creating a Socially Just and Sustainable Society * Performer: * Description: The Role of Geopolitics in Creating a Socially Just and Sustainable Society is a lecture by John Perkins followed by a panel discussion and questions and answer session. Perkins will discuss his experiences as an economic hit man, the empire that resulted, and the plan presented in his book The Secret History of the American Empire for creating a stable, sustainable, and peaceful world. He will discuss the epiphany that initiated his personal change and the reasons he is optimistic that we can create human societies our children will be proud to inherit. * Attendance: 800 * Date: 5-Mar-08

Event Expenses


 * Advertising: $15 * Food: $150 * Sound and Light: $150 * Security: $0 * Honorarium: $3000 * Other: $0 * TOTAL: $3315

Event Information


 * Name: Human Rights Tour * Performer: * Description: "The Human Rights Awareness Tour is a series of captivating and stimulating events that aim to raise awareness about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights laid forth by the United Nations, to educate on current issues and human rights topics, and to inspire and motivate college and university students nationwide.

The tour includes: 2-4 films for the film series, 1-3 regional speakers, an art exhibit with live art and still displays, the Fair Trade Coffee Night (free fair trade coffee and chocolate provided) with 3-5 touring acoustic music and poetry acts (the rest of the performance slots can be filled out by interested students), The No Sweat Fashion Show (promoting sweatshop-free clothing) with 4-6 touring professional models (the 10-15 other model slots will be filled out by interested students), and the Human Rights Awareness Festival/Concert featuring our full touring band Wisebird, other bands slots filled by student bands, motivational Human Rights speakers, as well as NGO and cultural group info booths and displays. This tour will raise awareness as well as educate members of the Hampshire community about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a fun and exciting way. With an emphasis on the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace, this tour is relevant not only to social justice, anti-racism, cultural diversity, and environmental groups, but to all that the Hampshire community strives to be. "


 * Attendance: 700 * Date: 3/7/2008

Event Expenses


 * Advertising: $0 * Food: $0 * Sound and Light: $0 * Security: $0 * Honorarium: $ * Other: $0 * TOTAL: $0 * NOTES: NEED MORE COMPREHENSIVE PROPOSAL

Event Information


 * Name: Liberation Ecology Workshop * Performer: * Description: "Integrating presentation for multiple learning styles, discussion, and small-group work, the Liberation Ecology workshops are like what most of us wish school could have been. Using the material of their own projects, aspirations, and day-to-day lives, participants are guided through a process of exploring the networks of relationship that integrate us into a broader context, in a critical synthesis of ecological, social, and evolutionary perspectives. With hands-on mapping exercises that draw out the hidden connections between power, freedom, and the flow of energy and resources across seemingly disconnected social and ecological communities, participants discover and discuss new perspectives on our situation, and new strategies for changing it. Liberation ecology describes, critiques, and changes the ecosocial (human-ecosystem) and intrasocial (community-community) edges, and flows of power (self-determination, governance, capital) and energy (plant, electric, mechanical, etc) across those edges, and aims to design projects such that they increase ecological and social health of systems while meeting our needs. We don’t have to settle anymore for the absurdity of choosing between social and ecological objectives in our lives and in our work – and we shouldn’t!" * Attendance: 20 * Date: 2/15/2008

Event Expenses


 * Advertising: $5 * Food: $60 * Sound and Light: $0 * Security: $0 * Honorarium: $500 * Other: $0 * TOTAL: $565

Event Information


 * Name: Liberation Ecology Workshop * Performer: * Description: This is a workshop that forces participants to think about the relationships between power, freedom, and the flow of energy and resources. Lectures, discussions, and small group work give the workshop an integrated learning approach. * Attendance: 30 * Date: March 12

Event Expenses


 * Advertising: $10 (-3.5) * Food: $60 * Sound and Light: $0 * Security: $0 * Honorarium: $500 * Other: $200 * TOTAL: $770

Others Other Expenses


 * Description: "Gazebo Painting

We will be continuing to paint Earth's on the Dakin, Enfield, and Greenwich gazebo floors to raise awareness about the necessity of properly disposing of cigarette butts. We will need to buy more paint: 3 cans of colors: green and blue for the Earth, black for the writing Cost: $30

Bottled Water Campaign We will be campaigning to raise awareness about corporate control and abuse of water, encouraging the community to stop buying bottled water and to drink tap water instead, and hopefully getting bottled water out of the school store. We will need posters, poster making materials, paint, pens, etc. Cost: $40

Environmental Committee We will need to poster for the student elections for the Environmental Committee we are forming, as well as paper, pens, etc. for the elections Cost: $20

Campus Energy Challenge In February 2008, high schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country will participate in a one-month-long competition called the National Campus Energy Challenge (NCEC). Students will take on the Energy Challenge by raising awareness about smart energy use on campus and by getting faculty, staff, administration, and their fellow students on board. This will involve reducing individual consumption on campus, help establish a sustainable energy policy on campus, and track Hampshire’s energy data. We will need banners, posters, paint, print-making materials, etc. Cost: $50

Total Cost: $140"


 * TOTAL: $ 140.00