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Greening Princeton: Meeting Minutes September 20, 2010 *We’ve had many requests to change the 8 pm Monday meeting time/day due to a conflict of schedule. If you would like to attend meetings, please let us know when you available here.* Get involved with the Upcoming projects! Game Day Recycling Challenge Greening Princeton will be helping the athletic department with the Game Day Recycling Challenge, which is a friendly competition for colleges and universities to promote waste reduction at their football games. During the month of October, colleges and universities will implement waste reduction programs during a home football game. Schools will track and report recycling and waste data that will then be used to rank the schools. EPA will announce the winning schools in November. Princeton has 3 home football games in October (9th, 16th, and 23rd), so there will be a big need for volunteers. Email azhao@ if you’re interested in helping out. 10/10/10 Day 10/10/10 day is a festival on campus that will be similar to the 350 Day of Climate Action. We will have representatives from campus environmental groups sharing ideas, sustainable snacks, and a cappella groups to provide musical entertainment. It will be a great way to raise awareness about climate change and encourage everyone to get involved! Email czheng@ if you would like to help with planning Dinner Discussion Series Greening Princeton’s dinner discussion series features distinguished speakers on environmental issues and policy-making. We invite a range of speakers who each approach the subject matter through a unique lens, and who collectively reflect the scope of environmental policy. Past speakers include Professor Michael Oppenheimer, a leading climate change scientist, and Mr. Valentino, VP of CSR at Bayer China. If you are interested in helping out with speakers and coordination, please email czheng@. Leadership positions open: If you want to get more involved with Greening Princeton, apply for a position! *Greening Princeton is now accepting applications for Treasurer, Secretary, and Webmaster/Blogger. Deadline for the application is this Saturday, Sept. 23rd 5pm. The application can be found attached at the end. Future/Potential Projects We want to hear your ideas! Below are some of the ideas from Monday night’s meeting. Email greening@ with comments or questions. Reducing the amount of bottled drinks sold: If people could fill their water bottles with soda, Gatorade, Snapple, etc. would students be less inclined to buy bottled drinks? Sustainability outside the Orange Bubble: Trips to the nearby organic farms to see what’s happening in New Jersey and where our food comes from. Increasing Recycling awareness: Change the color/design of the recycling bins to look more like recycling bins and less like trash cans; Green tips or facts about sustainability at Princeton on dining hall tables. Upcoming green events and new developments Cell Phone Recycling Princeton is finally able to recycle used cell phones! Drop old phones and chargers off in the receptacle near the FedEx box (Café Viv side) on the 100 level of Frist, and tell your friends! The Greening Princeton Farmer’s Market is back! The Farmers' Market will be held at Hind Plaza, next to the Princeton Public Library on Thursdays, from 11AM-4PM. Fusion’s Global Warming Debate Thursday, September 23 at 4:30 Frist 302 With Professor Fred Singer, Robert Socolow, and Isaac Held Ever wonder what happens when the dining halls prepare too much food? Student volunteers with Princeton FoodTASK collect trays upon trays of leftovers from the dining halls and deliver them to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) each Tuesday and Friday morning from 8–10 a.m. With the help of all our members, FoodTASK contributes thousands of nutritious meals each semester to the Trenton community. Please contact svctask@ if you are interested in joining (or if you have any further questions)! If you want to get involved, but Tues/Fri do not work for you, please let us know as well. Environmental Fall Breakout Trip Black Gold and the Green Economy in the Navajo Nation and Flagstaff, AZ Led by Pete Florence and Jason Ramirez Application now available at http://fs6.formsite.com/pace/form400666873/index.html Weekly STEP Seminar This week: The Future of Nuclear Waste Disposal in the US Allison MacFarlane Monday, September 27 at 12:00 Wallace 300 Free lunch from Olives! SAP Seminar Come learn how SAP (global leader in business management software) is helping some of the world's best companies be more environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable. Bill McDermott (co-CEO of SAP) Wednesday, September 29 at 5:00 Dodds Auditorium DC Energy - Redefining Investment in the Energy Markets: DC Energy is looking to fill an investment analyst position. Join representatives from DC Energy, including one of the firm's founders and managing directors, to learn about the energy industry, the critical function of trading and how DC Energy plays an important role in the energy markets of today and the future. Food and refreshments will be served. When: September 27, 2010 8PM Where: First Campus Center, room 302 Contact us at [email protected] with questions.