New Leaf Meeting Minutes

February 18, 2008

 * Check-in with old business
 * Painting Gazebos-
 * Finished Merrill (it’s beautiful,) too cold to continue for now?
 * How was the process? (went smoothly)
 * Continue when it’s warm.
 * Compost-
 * Issues brought to community council, funding found for the pad, Andrew and Maxwell have taken lead in directing this work.
 * We can continue maintaining buckets for next year if we talk to phys plant this year.
 * Compost in bridge?
 * Education: we need more education about what exactly to put in, especially for the mods. (We should take this on.)
 * We could make some excellent and informative signs for the bridge and mods.
 * What about walking tours of the compost heap?
 * Becca will e-mail Andrew to see if he needs more help mobilizing.
 * Free Store-
 * Slow process, have to talk to administrators.
 * It is a really great idea and super necessary.
 * Consolidation of free piles all around the campus.
 * Orientation ideas: what if we had a free-store group (or generalized for New Leaf/Sustainability)?
 * We have a unit in donut 2.
 * Still need to resolve shelving (find it somewhere for cheap, commission someone from Lemelson?)
 * Can use hampedia to communicate and keep things rolling.
 * Free store could really take off and become its own group, (work study?), part of the institution.


 * New Business
 * Potluck:
 * Bring people together
 * This Saturday, 6PM.
 * Remember that everyone is invited, even if you can’t cook food.
 * Venue- Centrum gallery? Women’s Center?  Living rooms? (Amanda will ask about the Donut 1 space)
 * How will we publicize? (Invite Mixed Nuts, LFI)
 * intranet (Luke W Gay)
 * posters (Jeremy and Bridget), we would like to post them around campus.


 * Focus the Nation
 * We’re putting it on, March 7th.
 * National teach-in that has been happening at colleges and universities.
 * Faculty panels (want students to speak as well), professors speaking about how climate change affects their expertise.
 * We already have nine faculty members, each panel is five minutes, grouped into similar themes
 * Lani needs help going directly to professors and asking them to speak.
 * The list of professors is going up on Hampedia (hampedia.org), we can put our names next to the professors we will talk to.
 * Posters: Bridget
 * Tabling in Saga to get word out?
 * MLH, 5PM-8PM
 * Need to start thinking about publicity now.
 * Try and talk to faculty members this week.


 * Step It Up
 * Beginning of April. Would like to change the theme to be Hampshire based.
 * Performers, an event on the library lawn.
 * Hampshire is supposed to be carbon neutral by ___(some set time?)
 * Clean energy program being offered to campuses to buy wind energy, based on student contributions that are opt-in (Lani is working on getting the campus to match.)


 * Mass Power Shift
 * Happening in April.
 * Do we want to organize everyone to go?
 * Maya will look into Mass Power Shift and educate us for next week.


 * Other Ideas
 * Having sustainability nights (Div II and Div III students talking about their projects, education about environmental racism and environmental justice)
 * Possibly Thursday evenings at seven PM? First one on 2/28.  Mida would be willing to talk.  (What venue?  Yurt?)
 * Broadcast at Yurt?
 * Every other week seems more likely, we could have food.
 * Who can we get to talk?


 * Agenda for next meeting:
 * Focus the Nation
 * Mass Power Shift report from Maya
 * Potluck
 * Thursday meetings
 * Step it Up
 * Publicity


 * Rebecca/Becca will facilitate next meeting.

February 5, 2008

 * Ice Breaker
 * Discussion of last weeks meeting
 * Roles within meeting: facilitator, scribe, note-taker, time-keeper, vibes watcher
 * On going roles: give people purpose with group
 * Liaison between student groups/student services, 5-colleges & president
 * Web coordinator
 * Committee coordinator
 * Treasurer/Fundraising coordinator
 * Food coordinator (for meetings, potlucks & parties!)
 * PR/Spokesperson
 * Education coordinator to organize member shares of what we’re doing at

Hampshire etc..
 * Action coordinator
 * Campaign coordinator
 * Historian
 * Photographer
 * A position to look at group dynamics/vibes watcher
 * Communications coordinator


 * Meeting Plan
 * Brainstorm ideas
 * List of criteria: project- time-line, resources necessary, end result, involved parties
 * Review projects from last semester
 * Criteria:
 * Time Required
 * Who benefits
 * Base
 * Target
 * Roles to fill
 * Meet overall objectives


 * Next meeting:
 * Campaign eval (painting gazebos, free store, Compost pad, Education)
 * Mission statement
 * Elect officers