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LEAP ECOLOGY CLUB DRAFT MINUTES
March 25, 2008
Attendance
Thursday- Bake sale March 27
4th Tech Drawing- Notes to Valerie (Rabel) and Andrea (Taudel)
5th Salma, Yuna, Ola, Andrea (Note), Valerie
6th Miranda*, Miriam*, Christine*, Nola*
7th Christine, Miranda (Gym)
Any food homemade *responsible for food Kayla
Recycling
Nola needs to see Ms. Cooper
Need a Timeline
Need to spend $
Meat Out- Sylvia, Miranda
Ovens secured!
Will make poster (2) for display
April 3rd
Natalia- Quiche
Also posters to advertise
Christine will make flyers
Talk to Calais about her job
Sylvia- "Chicken" nuggets & Yams and apples
Yuna- Spanish rice
Kayla needs to enter Golden Apple (has been done)
Needs recycling logs
Jessie Cannizzaro’s News
Design with flowers where the tree is, near Reservoir
Pictures will be emailed to Jessie and Christine
Planting starting April 16th and 17th
Earth Day
Tables- from $6,000 we need to use by June
Need to talk to Karishma
Partopia- approximately $248.75
Need to find out Vendor Number
Some Ideas for spending the $6K
Cotton candy machine, plant trees, inflatable Earth ball, flowers, Earth day shirts, bags
Executive Minutes
Attending: Jessie Cannizzaro, Christine Chan, Mr. I.C. Levenberg-Engel (advisor emeritus) , Sylvia,
Miranda, Miram, Kayla, Natalia, Ola, Olivia, Nola, Salma, Dr.Julie D.Mankiewicz (co-advisor)
Minutes from last week: Bake Sale, Better planning, No objections- Accepted as read!
Recycling Report
Meeting with Ms. Cooper
How many green recycling bins? In classrooms, how many have them?
Buy the ones we need, one/classroom
Kayla has a list, do we need to update? Needs number by tomorrow
One blue recycling bin/ 3 classrooms
Posters- Salma will make: "Recycle please", "This is trash bin", "This is for paper"
Start by April 3rd à the bins need to be in by then
Talk to faculty on April 7th at after school conference
Janitors will manage with clear bags
April 3rdà talk to homerooms about it, recruit Cabinet, Arista members = 80 homerooms
Need people to sort trash out
Ola will write what people will say by tomorrow for homeroom visits
Miranda will talk to ms. Paolercio
Black bins?
Ms. Cooper will talk care of bins $ from janitor, unless it’s too much, LEAP $
Audtorium à slide show about recycling for people who have subs
Nola will get date it needs and timeline
Email through naviance
$6000
Deadline: April 18
Ideas: Ads in school paper: recycling, Earth Day; Ola will talk to Ms. Schoenfeld about $
Make professionally made posters from poster contest
T-shirts & Totes: Carousel Ads- Direct
Raffle on clean- up date, when you bring a bag of trash, get a ticket
Flowers for designà Horticulture can provide
Something that runs on solar power and makes food
Planting trees
Tables
Smoothie supplies
Little Earth balls/ hackey sacks, Frisbees, Chewing gum cleaner
Earth Day Guest Speaker
Green architect- Fox and Fowle
Sculptor that does water
Miranda’s mom lower for Green Grows (community gardens)
2 short 10-minute presentations
Jessie connections at Botanical Gardens
Adam R Green- Rocking the Boat
Respectfully Submitted, Natalia Piland (acting) Recording Sec'y
Tuesday, 02 January 2007
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Minutes for Executive Meeting #9
January 2, 2007
I. Attendance
Christine, Elissa, Holly, Marni, Petry, Suzie, Mr. Levenberg, Ms. Wolin, members
II. Upcoming
1) January 9, 2007:
a. Finish watching movie The Inconvenient Truth
2) January 16, 2007:
a. Meeting cancelled due to midterms week
III. Earth Day
1) Date: Friday, April 20, 2007
2) Rain date: Monday, April 23, 2007
3) Invite children to Earth Day
4) SimmCorp wants a booth with a game (Christine to ask for details)
5) PETA Stickers: Emily
6) Student projects: ask teachers to offer extra credit to students who create projects
7) Environmental Posters: ask Mrs. Rocchio
8) Reprint last years letters/contracts
9) Better map of campus
10) Contact:
a. Past Earth Day attendees
b. Eric from Satya
c. Al Gore
d. Hillary Clinton
IV. Meat-Out:
1) Ask Mr. Eng for permission
2) Check site for Meat-Out Date
3) Talk to dietician about what would be served in cafeteria
4) Possible Food donators:
a. Zen Garden
b. GoGo
c. Frozen Food Company
V. Recycling:
1) Elissa emailed Mary Most
a. Found out Schools don’t recycle metal
b. Waiting for email response
2) Catherine created Survey to hand out to classes
3) Recycling Movie:
a. Natalia and Holly
b. Elissa to give them specifics about what to put in movie
4) Johanny bring in Golden Apple project by next Tuesday
5) Recycling Inspection: must ask custodian in advance to have unlocked doors
6) Nola: research companies that collect used computers to recycle
VI. Holiday Sales:
1) Raised $198
2) Thanks to everyone who sold!
3) February Valentine’s Day bake sales
VII. Responsibilities:
1) Christine:
a. talk to Mrs. Cooper about:
i. Check policy of animals on campus
ii. Clear Earth Day date and rain date
iii. Clear Valentine’s Day sales dates
b. Find out information on tabling company
2) Elissa:
a. ask at Advisory Board meeting to let teachers take students out to Earth Day
3) Suzie:
a. Saga Grant
b. Contact ConEdison
c. Work with Petry on Al Gore letter
4) Petry:
a. Work with Suzie on Al Gore letter
b. Email everyone reminders of their responsibilities
5) Marni
a. Research composting bin
6) Emily
a. Find out about PETA stickers
7) Natalia and Holly
a. Work on Recycling movie
8) Ola
a. Research composting bin
9) Ruben
a. Penguin/Polar bear costume
10) Nola
a. Research company that recycles computers
11) Johanny
a. Bring in last year’s Golden Apple Project to Elissa
12) Everyone
a. Look up three organizations to contact for Earth Day and bring them in at next meeting (January 9, 2007)
b. Include organizations contact information
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Minutes for Regular Meeting 7
December 19, 2006
1) Holiday Sales:
a. Discuss that no members are showing up during lunch periods to sell and others outside the group have been selling
b. Available Periods:
i. Period 4: Ola, Ruben, Tatyana
ii. Period 5: Martina, Leah
iii. Period 6: Marni, Nola (Thursday), Daniel (Wednesday, Friday)
iv. Period 7: Olivia, Johana, Julia
2) Committee Meetings:
a. Recycling Committee: went outside to take pictures of trash
b. Treasury Committee: discussed holiday sales and decided that Valentines Day Sales would be bake sales
c. Animal Rights: research possible animal shelters in which members could volunteer
Minutes for Executive Meeting #8
December 19, 2006
I. Attendance
Christine, Elissa, Holly, Marni, Natalia, Petry, Sable, Suzie, Ms. Wolin
II. Upcoming
1) January 2, 2007:
a. Exec meeting in which members sit in
2) January 9, 2007:
a. Finish watching movie The Inconvenient Truth
3) January 15, 2007:
a. Deadline for submitting YouthCan paper
4) January 16, 2007:
a. Meeting cancelled due to midterms week
5) January 2007:
a. Jane Goodall Conference
b. Invite some of the members to attend
III. YouthCan
1) Takes place on Monday after Earth Day
2) LEAP will have a recycling session
3) Deadline for mailing in is January 15
4) Elissa/Sable run the meeting
IV. Animal Rights
1) volunteer at animal shelters
2) some require once a month commitment
3) Emily: look up shelters and make lists so members can choose to volunteer at the ones they prefer
V. Possible Guest Speakers
1) Bobbins
2) Mankiewitz parents
EarthAngels
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- Name: LEAP Ecology Club
- Country: United States
- Birthday: 9/30/1978
- Member Since: 5/14/2004
