{"id":998,"date":"2019-08-12T22:55:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T02:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/?page_id=998"},"modified":"2019-08-12T22:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T02:55:29","slug":"july-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/meetings-activities\/meeting-minutes\/july-17-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"July 17, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t<h1>July 17, 2019<\/h1>\r\n<p><strong>Attendance: Maureen Auro, Mai Maheigan, Faith Duffy, Sebastien Bigorre, Stephanie Madsen<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>#1\u00a0 Activities Fairs were held Thursday, July 11 from 11-1 in Clark 507 and Thursday, July 18- Discovery Center from 4:00-6:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>The goal of the Activities Fair is to encourage a sense of community pride and cohesiveness by providing a showcase of current activities and resources that contribute to a positive environment at WHOI for the broad spectrum of WHOI\u2019s culture.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s committee or advisory work, a task force, or a group focused on artistic expression, social justice, environmental concern, or mind-body-spiritual fitness, the activity fair will help WHOI employees connect to your groups to enable a stronger WHOI culture.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Action:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Help advertise the events (All)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>#2\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>WSS Events Reflections and discussion of upcoming and new events<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Lawn Games \u2013 Friday, July 12 from 5-7pm Village Lawn above Garden Plots<\/li>\r\n<li>Music on the Hillside (across from Pie n Sky)- Thursday, Aug 8 5-7pm. The Rowan Brothers will be playing live music. Bring a picnic and invite friends. It is open to the Community as well.<\/li>\r\n<li>Water kiosk ribbon cutting \u2013 Waterfront Park (date TBD)<\/li>\r\n<li>Partnership suggested with Jeff Kaeli (orienteering) and outside WHOI people \u2013 ex. Christin Marshall<\/li>\r\n<li>Spring Bike Ride- on a Friday \u2013 need to pick one<\/li>\r\n<li>Movies on Lawn? People are interested in bringing this back<\/li>\r\n<li>Yoga on the Beach \u2013 Wednesdays at Chappy (past Bowerman\u2019s Beach) in West Falmouth at 6:30pm<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>Action: For Music on the Lawn Event<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Create flyers and posters to advertise the Music on the Lawn Event (done-HH + SM)<\/li>\r\n<li>Recruit volunteer team- so far we have Al Gagnon, Bethany Blackburn, Faith Duffy. Please let me know if you can help out the night of Aug 8 4:30-7:30pm.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>#3 \u00a0\u00a0Garden Plot behind Challenger \u2013 <\/strong>The Sustainability Task Force was offered Garden Plot #3 in the Village Garden, and\u00a0 Sebastien Bigorre will be the garden leader so please email him and sign the waiver.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Action:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Generate watering schedule (done- SB)<\/li>\r\n<li>Help weed garden (All)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>#4 Sustainability Tours \u2013 <\/strong>on Friday, Aug 9 from 11-3 we\u2019ll be hosting a Sustainability Tour at WHOI for 20-30 members of Northshore Technology Council NSTC.org. ReVision, our solar providers facilitated the connection.<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019d love for STF members to help out if possible<strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Action:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Recruit helpers \u2013 Faith + Seb agreed to help (confirm with Steph)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>#5\u00a0Single-use Plastics at WHOI 2020. Another initiative to eradicate single-use plastics even more at WHOI <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Letter for all employees coming your way soon. <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Action:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Present letter to Staff Council then all WHOI employees (CR)<\/li>\r\n<li>Help Services at WHOI meet the goals (Steve + Denise have been amazing in transitioning!)<\/li>\r\n<li>Research alternatives to plastic juices (SM)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>New Business:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 17, 2019 Attendance: Maureen Auro, Mai Maheigan, Faith Duffy, Sebastien Bigorre, Stephanie Madsen\u00a0 #1\u00a0 Activities Fairs were held Thursday, July 11 from 11-1 in Clark 507 and Thursday, July 18- Discovery Center from 4:00-6:00pm The goal of the Activities Fair is to encourage a sense of community pride and cohesiveness by providing a showcase&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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\/998"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/998\/revisions\/1000"}],"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=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}