minutes10_16_08

Chris mentioned that CCDS has joined the Green Schools Alliance. Middle School will not be part of the tabulation, because of the MS construction. This was recommended by the MSBO lady. Cary Academy is part of the Alliance too. This is good because we can compare with other North Carolina schools. The football game recycling had some issues. Plant Operations did not do their part. LS students who were helping got their feelings hurt when some older students were rude to them. One issue is where do the full recycling bags go? Patrick is going to request Plant Operations to take the recycling at football games to a recycling receptacle. After football season, use this model for all other athletic events. It was also mentioned that we need to tell Boosters Reps at the games what we are doing about recycling so they are in the loop. Chris mentioned that there is an Atlanta Conference in November. He plans to take possibly another faculty member and a few students in his car to this conference. We need to complete our carbon footprint audit this school year. The company we will use is Green modeling LLC, a local firm. We need to draft an opportunity statement. The water bottle project is alive and well. Patrick Phillips came up with the look. BIG GULP (**B**ucs **I**ntent on **G**oing **G**reen by **U**sing **L**ess **P**lastic). Go Green! Bottle details: 32 oz. Tritan wide mouth, bpa free, Nalgene Everyone loved the look. There was discussion about the bottle and text color. I think the bottle color and cap will be Spring green and the text will either be white or black. Chris was going to ask someone’s opinion at the design company. These bottles will be given to Faculty and Levine staff and sold in the Bookstore and possibly the Cafeteria. Lori Townsend mentioned the Energy Symposium at Queens November 12. Chris was going to forward Lori’s email to the committee.
 * Minutes 10/16/08**
 * In attendance:** Chris Gawle, Patrick Phillips, Taryn Page, Lori Townsend, Nancy Hackett, Simon Keilty, Stewart Peery, Zhenya Arutyunyan, Becky Rizzo, and Brooks Williams

http://www.greenmodeling.com - possible resource auditor