Thursday, April 24, 2008

Let's make a list!

Hey there, SEAC!

Last night, we had our final meeting of the year, featuring ice cream (including vegan options!) and nostalgia. We put together a list of things we've done this year so that we could look back on a year well done, along with putting together a list of things we want to do next year.

In order of being shouted out last night, things we did this year:

-Focus the Nation
-Polar Bear Splash
-Plastic bag recycling program
-Chico bags
-Powershift
-Greenfestival
-Earth Day with Public Citizen
-Bike generator
-Highway cleanups
-Do it in the Dark Month
-Vegan Thanksgiving
-President's Climate Commitment
-Coffee (the beginning)
-Town Hall meeting
-Riverfest
-Health Heroes award
-Earth Hour
-World Carnival and vegan bake sale
-Farm Bill
-Storming Annapolis
-That other polar bear splash
-Maryland Student Climate Summit
-No War No Warming
-Critical Mass
-Bike-powered dance party
-Working with first-year orientation
-Native plants planting

Awesome!

For next year, we'd like to tackle....

-Green/Pink Party
-Green cleaning supplies
-Coffee (the saga continues)
-Double-sided printing
-Anti-oppression, environmental justice
-Coalition-building with BSU, Raices Hispanas, have a green fashion show?!
-Offset college travel, especially air travel
-Sustainable endowment (Mark Orlowski?)
-Trail maintenance (Brian Rayburn, GPS?)
-Energy star
-Bottled water (Jen Yogi?)
-Cleanups, walks, drum circles, workshops
-Mountaintop removal
-Conferences
-Riverfest
-Consumer week (October-ish) (Maybe with GJL, FNB?!)
-Maryland Student Climate Commitment, coalition with other MD schools, groups, communities!
-Tampaction with FUSE
-Anti-clean coal
-Calvert Cliffs nuclear (direct action?)
-Meet with Steny Hoyer
-Read environmental poetry/children's books
-Work with SMRP to get to local elementary schools?

Hoo boy. Next year is going to be intense. And by "intense," I mean "it's going to ROCK!"

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Rebirth!

Dear readers,

Worry not. This blog is soon to be revitalized. At the very least, it will get some momentum next semester, as we are creating the officer position of Webmaster/Historian. If you are going to be a St Mary's student next semester and are interested in applying for the position (or any other SEAC officer position), send an email to jlgibson (at) smcm (dot) edu with your name and a few sentences about why you are a good candidate.

Stay green!