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March 18, 2015

STF Meeting Minutes

MRF 204

Present: Valerie Caron, Ann Devenish, Ken Kostel, Paul Avery, Stephanie Madsen

Agenda Item #1: Guest Speakers

  • Guest Speaker Hilde Maingay + Earle Barnhart April 14 at 4:00 Clark 507
  • Debrief Megan Amsler’s talk – general consensus that attendance would increase if talk held on Quisset Campus vs. Village.

Action:

  • Create poster and advertise presentation through Joanne Tromp. Title of talk: “Waste Not – Ecological Strategies  for Cape Cod” (SM)
  • Generate check/tax deductible donation for “The Green Center” $200.00 (SM)

#2 : Paper Towels

  • The Sticker is completed and graphics poised to print. Total count in bathrooms = 132 paper towel dispensers

Action:

  • Print 132 stickers (DP with help from Graphics)
  • Apply stickers to Dispensers (SM, DD- will facilities or security employee’s help?)

#3: Building Rep Update:

  • Sebastian’s Docs for Building Reps: members are interested in posting these helpful docs on their door. Sebastien attached a bulletin board to his office door and pinned the documents. Docs included recycling info, print in Garamond Font, One Paper Towel Challenge – shake + fold

Use Garamond Font (This doc is typed in Garamond…it saves 20% on ink costs)

  • Bldg Rep Follow Up Meeting – It’s agreed that April 8 is too early (DD + PA have lots of reporting due April 15). We briefly discussed Whoi’s Green House Gas Reporting – members would like to know more.
  • Ron + Allesandro – Still need to do initial Pilot Building Walk through with Dave
  • Utility Bill Baseline data with CEC Summer intern- Waiting for Megan Amsler to contact us

Action:

  • Send Paul, Dave and Matt Agnese the Building Rep Documents + Walk Through Write ups (SM)
  • Send Sebastien’s Bldg Rep Docs to the group (SM)
  • Schedule Bldg Rep Follow up meeting (SM, DD)

#4  Earth Day STF Info Dissemination (Wednesday, April 22)

  • Set up table at the Buttery and offer information to Whoi employees
  • Members agreed that we do not need to generate another Earth Day Poster. Last years is still very effective.  Perhaps we update it every 2 years.

Action:

  • Check with Steve at the Buttery to ensure that he’s okay with us setting up table (SM)- Done, he is supportive
  • Schedule a subcommittee meeting to discuss what information and materials we should share (SM)

#5  Sustainability Awareness

  • It was suggested that we use a ppt slide to convey STF’s mission, meeting dates, + efforts. Stephanie generated one to display before guest speaker events…it’s being edited.
  • Would be effective to have a STF member address Sustainability at Whoi’s monthly New Employee Orientation. SM spoke with Julie Fawkes and she’s onboard with the idea.  We would only need 5-10 minutes during the orientation and use the ppt slide as a source of info.
  • SM is meeting with Matt Agnese to explore Procurements role for increasing Whoi’s sustainability efforts. Meeting scheduled for March 24th.

Action:

Send STF Slide to Julie Fawkes. She will add it to the orientation agenda (SM)

Meet with Matt Agnese – Procurement (SM)

Items not fully addressed but still important:

#6: Plug Loads review- we need a user friendly write up or Help Sheet for Website and Earth Day Table.

Action:  We need someone to write up user friendly help sheet (Jonathan?)

#7: Electric Vehicle charging station Debrief.

Action:  Select locations for EV Charging Stations