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Campus Environmental Issues CommitteeApril 27, 2006
This CEIC meeting was a special EnviroThursday gathering to celebrate all of the accomplishments and achievements of the CEIC during the 05/06 academic year. Brett opened the meeting with a brief announcement. The Living Green Expo is the weekend of the 6 th and 7 th and Macalester will be providing transportation via a bus that will depart at noon and 2pm on Sunday outside the field house on Snelling. Brett opened the floor to students and faculty to acknowledge environmental accomplishments and establish ideas and goals for next year: Green Roof Alese Colehour and Ellie Rogers talked about the green roof with a brief slide show. They explained the various aspects of the fish bowl’s new roof top garden including the containerized structure, benefits, maintenance, and testing. For future goals, the group has submitted an EPA grant to create more green roofs on campus and hope to continue research. Café Mac Lori Hartzell from Bon Appetit talked about various improvements at Macalester’s cafeteria such as all local grains, local salmon, grass-fed beef, shelled eggs that are cage free, and all peace coffee at the grill. Bon Appetit has many future goals; they plan to host the Eat Local Challenge again next year throughout the entire cafeteria, serve 20% of food as “Farm to Fork” (coming from within 150 miles of Café Mac), and provide fair trade tea, cocoa, and sugar at the grill. MacBike Dillon Teske, the student worker for MacBike, told the CEIC that this has been a great year for the program as they successfully started running the program out of the info desk and increased the number of rentable bikes to 12. They also raised a significant amount of money for Claire Stoscheck’s bike program in Quito, Ecuador through bike sales. MacBike has many goals and ideas for next year: more donation drives, affordable bikes, group rides (critical mass), and increased space (possibly in the new athletics building). Mulch Janet Aubin talked about the student run garden, MULCH, which sells its produce to Café Mac. This spring, they started their seeds early and have been working with a master gardener. As this is their last season at this sight (with construction on the athletic building forcing the garden to move locations), they hope that this will be a great season. MULCH hopes to expand its summer program and find a new site for future gardening. Hour Car Two representatives from Hour Car briefly talked about the new program. With the Neighborhood Energy Connection, Hour Car will be implementing their program for the Macalester community which will be run out of the Patagonia Parking Lot. The new car, a Honda Prius, will arrive July 1 st and will be ready for use in the new academic year. CERF Asa Diebolt explained to the CEIC about the new environmental action, CERF: the Clean Energy Revolving Fund. CERF received money from the student government and is beginning with approximately $100,000 to be invested in sustainability projects, from which the savings will be returned back into the fund. CERF hopes that their first investment will be a CBED wind turbine project. Brett made a motion to approve CERF and the CEIC collectively agreed to appoint Timothy Den-Herder Thomas as the representative. Mark Dickinson made a few last comments. On Monday, May 1, Eureka will officially be Macalester’s recycling partner. They hope to increase recycling as well as spread a greater awareness of the environment and energy use on campus. Meeting adjourned at 1 p.m. |
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