Attendance: <\/strong>Alex Kinsella, Liz Maloney, Morgan Anthony, Susan Sholi, Gretchen Swarr, Dina Pandya, Bryan Urquhart<\/p>\n #1 Beach cleanups (first Thursday of the month at noon) March 20, 2024 Attendance: Alex Kinsella, Liz Maloney, Morgan Anthony, Susan Sholi, Gretchen Swarr, Dina Pandya, Bryan Urquhart #1 Beach cleanups (first Thursday of the month at noon) \u2022 Alex will lead Apr 4 \u2022 Alan will lead May 2 #2 Lunch and Learns \u2022 Beekeeping: Mar 27th at noon at Carriage House \u2022 We’ll…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2526\/revisions\/2528"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>\u2022 Alex will lead Apr 4
\n\u2022 Alan will lead May 2\n
\n#2 Lunch and Learns
\n<\/strong>\u2022 Beekeeping: Mar 27th at noon at Carriage House
\n\u2022 We’ll get there a bit early to test A\/V
\n\u2022 Liz will publicize through events list. Alex will email postdocs.
\n\u2022 Data library\/herbarium tour: Apr 9th at noon
\n\u2022 Pam says maximum is two groups of 10 or one group of 15. So it would be good to
\nget RSVPs and see how many people will come. Start with the STF list.
\n\u2022 Farming Falmouth
\n\u2022 Alex was in touch with Jeny at Farming Falmouth and she is interested in giving a
\nLunch and Learn. She says that Thursdays work best for her. It seems that May
\nwould be best for our LnL schedule. Alex will follow up about a good day.
\n\u2022 Idea from Gretchen: monarch\/pollinator garden tour.
\n\u2022 Good time would be near end of July
\n\u2022 Could invite Lauren Leveque to talk about the garden. Would likely need to be able to
\noffer an honorarium.\n
\n#3 Garden updates
\n<\/strong>\u2022 Liz reported on a successful initial garden meeting. Planting will start early April and
\ncontinue in May. She will send an email to those who expressed interest in the garden.
\n\u2022 We need a source of compost for the garden. We didn’t use any last year and it showed. Liz
\nsays one option is eelgrass from the beach, which would take some volunteers to transport.
\nBlack Earth requires you to pay for compost. Town of Falmouth compost might be
\ncontaminated.\n
\n#4 Earth Day event ideas
\n<\/strong>\u2022 The Earth Day 2024 theme is “Planet vs. Plastics”, so we can have some plastic-themed events.
\n\u2022 Idea is for two components:
\n\u2022 1: An email to employees that highlights existing plastic mitigation strategies at
\nWHOI, encourages less plastic use, and asks for ideas about improvements that can
\nbe made. Dina will make an initial draft.
\n\u2022 Some current mitigation efforts: gloves, pipettes, utensils at the Buttery, no
\nplastic water bottles, beach cleanups
\n\u2022 2: A campus cleanup event where people will pick up garbage (especially plastic)
\naround WHOI. Followed by an event with cake? Liz will spearhead the walk.
\n\u2022 Village campus will probably have more garbage to find than Quissett. But the
\nedges of Quissett (e.g. the path to the beach) have garbage too.
\n\u2022 Possible competition between small teams if we can get enough people to
\nshow up. Each team takes a picture and weighs their garbage at the end.
\n\u2022 Can also offer people the option to meet at a different time of the day and
\nsend in a photo\/weight of their haul.
\n\u2022 Another idea was to highlight some people who carpool or bike to work and feature them on the website and maybe give prizes. But this might be better for another time since the focus of this Earth Day is plastics.\n
\n#5 Carpooling: Link to spreadsheet for carpooling organization: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/
\nspreadsheets\/d\/1Gi2FCnSJPuekmn0v53EYhu1V-B3kCJGGuAoqY0K78do\/edit?
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\n<\/strong>\u2022 A handful have signed up so far. Liz will send the link out to the admin pros list to get a wider distribution.\n#6 Energy efficiency updates from Facilities<\/strong>
\n\u2022 LOSOS HVAC is being converted to a heat pump system and will be completed next year
\n\u2022 Dave is preparing a presentation of GHG reduction strategies to broader leadership in July
\n\u2022 There is solar being installed on the David Center and North Quissett storage facility
\n\u2022 Clark 4 air handler replacement is done in preparation for future hot water system
\n\u2022 Heat pump and solar are being factored in for the new location of the machine shop during dock upgrade
\n\u2022 Dave Derosier will present about the Energy Master Plan at next month’s meeting\n
\n#7 Other ideas\/discussion
\n<\/strong>\u2022 Jed pointed out that WHOI coffee services often use single-use plastic creamer containers.
\nHe suggests that they provide a container of cream instead. Similar at the Buttery: there is a fridge now that has cream. Can we ask them to put a sign up to encourage use of that cream? Alex will ask.
\n\u2022 Jed found that one of the chargers at Shiverick lot is very slow (4.2 kW now) and something might be wrong with it. Liz will follow up.
\n\u2022 Idea: take a picture at the end of each monthly beach cleanup and make them into a collage at the end of the year. Could also weigh the garbage each time to have an annual total.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"