Comments for WA Environmental Club

Comment on Reusable Water Bottles: Aluminum vs. Plastic by Ryan Barry

Ryan Barry — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:33:25 +0000

-Aluminum is more expensive than plastic
-Aluminum is more durable than plastic
-Aluminum is easier to recycle, does not downgrade as much with every recycling

Comment on 2/12, 2/26 meetings by Mike White

Mike White — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:19:53 +0000

Environmental club meeting 2/26/09

Bottled Water Free WA:
1. Selling water bottles fundraiser
2. Completed conversion to filtered tap water
3. Student buy in
a. How and where?
b. Not caring
c. Bias against tap water
d. Establish global perspective
e. Possible perk for bottle purchase
f. Core value school mission
4. Taste test (bias)
5. Project awareness- assembly, multimedia
6. Community wide involvement

Club-Business Office-Dining Hall-students-Director of sustainability-Student store

Bottle Project:
1. Aluminum vs. Plastic
a. Costs = $3 per bottle vs. $2 per bottle
i. club costs +50 one time fee
ii. need a computer logo?
iii. Exact cost
iv. Brand name
v. Production location
b. Purchase pricing?
2. Logo?
a. WA (w/ or w/out logo-Ram, motto)
b. GCC
c. Blank
d. Recycling logo

Comment on 2/12, 2/26 meetings by Ryan Barry

Ryan Barry — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:15:34 +0000

i am going to send the letter. i will let you know when we get a response.

Comment on Ideas/Suggestions by waenvironmentalclub

waenvironmentalclub — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:31:32 +0000

Mike, those are good ideas, especially with the lights in the library and student center. The only problem with the student checkup idea is that it seems that students not involved in the club are not very willing to do check ups on the lights (maybe we could create incentives for advisories that do a lot of work for it?). Another good idea would be working with the IT department to make sure that all computers are put on a setting in which they go to sleep quicker. We tried that this year, but we did it late in the GCC so it did not have the effect it could have.

-ryan

Comment on Ideas/Suggestions by waenvironmentalclub

waenvironmentalclub — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:21:35 +0000

sounds good, do you know how to post pictures?

-ryan

Comment on 2/12, 2/26 meetings by Mike White

Mike White — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:41:10 +0000

Good work Barry!

Comment on Ideas/Suggestions by Mike White

Mike White — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:37:44 +0000

Just an idea for next year regarding the GCC. I think we should go back to designating each grade or enivironmental club members to a building on campus to perform regular check ups to make sure as little lights are on as possible. Maybe next year we should also get the library and the student center to turn off at least half of the lights because those two buildings have plenty of natural lighting as it is.

Comment on Recycling by Mike White

Mike White — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:31:17 +0000

I have the bottles for the lobby and second floor of Kingsley.

Comment on 2/12, 2/26 meetings by waenvironmentalclub

waenvironmentalclub — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:39:29 +0000

We haven’t sent it yet because we’re waiting on more feedback from the club.

-ryan

Comment on Recycling by Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:59:27 +0000

Library