Attendance:<\/strong>Alex Kinsella, Liz Maloney, Sebastien Bigorre, Bryan Urquhart, Ciara Pimm, Kim Hoyt<\/p>\n #1 Beach cleanups (first Thursday of the month at noon) July 16, 2025 Attendance:Alex Kinsella, Liz Maloney, Sebastien Bigorre, Bryan Urquhart, Ciara Pimm, Kim Hoyt #1 Beach cleanups (first Thursday of the month at noon) \u2022 July 17th – Fadime \u2022 August 7th – Liz \u2022 September 4th – Alex #2 Lunch and Learn updates \u2022 July 23rd – A Taste of Health. \u2022 Dr.…<\/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\/2692"}],"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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2692\/revisions\/2694"}],"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=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>\u2022 July 17th – Fadime
\n\u2022 August 7th – Liz
\n\u2022 September 4th – Alex\n#2 Lunch and Learn updates
\n<\/strong>\u2022 July 23rd – A Taste of Health.
\n\u2022 Dr. Kumara has lots of knowledge and local connections. He will give a
\npresentation and sampling of three recipes from his book.
\n\u2022 16 people signed up so far, open to WHOI and non-WHOI guests. Need to
\nknow RSVP number to figure how much food to prepare. We’ll be able to put up
\nsigns directing for parking, etc.
\n\u2022 Advertisement? Seb will print flyers to put up around WHOI. Bryan will check in
\nabout advertising at the hospital.
\n\u2022 Fall: Megan Amsler talking about changing federal landscape, renewable opportunities?
\nOr similar from one of our CES energy consultants? Liz will check in with them.
\n<\/strong>\n#3 Event planning
\n<\/strong>\u2022 KidWind 2025: Alex will give a presentation about offshore wind projects to the students
\nat Mass Maritime on 7\/17
\n\u2022 Mass energy interns: unclear if the energy utilities are going to auto-populate the data for
\nthe larger buildings.
\n\u2022 Alternate commuting day? I.e. bus or bike or carpool, etc. A day in the fall would be nice
\nbecause it’s not too hot or cold and there’s late daylight.
\n\u2022 Ciara will update the postdoc bus primer.
\n\u2022 Alex will lead bird walk at 8 am on August 26th
\n\u2022 Repair cafe – can we do it in the fall?\n#4 Garden\/landscape updates
\n<\/strong>\u2022 Garden is doing well!
\n\u2022 Invasive pulling last week was a success. But Japanese knotweed is almost impossible to
\neradicate. How often would we need to pull it to keep an area clear? We can prioritize
\nareas that we want to keep clean, like the rose garden.
\n\u2022 Should we team up with other ERGs again for invasive pulling? That seemed to work
\nwell. We could also partner with them for the beach cleanups.
\n\u2022 Seb will contact WHOI communications to gauge interest for removing knotweed
\nbehind Bell House.\n#5 STF Communications
\n<\/strong>\u2022 Fadime has been revitalizing the Instagram page.
\n\u2022 Do we want a Slack channel? Some use Slack, others don’t. It might help us engage a
\ndifferent group of participants. It would be opt-in, and there’s no real downside to
\nhaving it.
\n\u2022 Fadime suggested she could give a Jelly Talk (casual talk to other JP students) about
\nSustainability efforts. Seb will talk with her about it at the beach cleanup.
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