Greening McGill

UPDATE!

2008-03-29T19:35:00.002-04:00

Welcome to the Greening McGill blog! We obviously haven't updated this site in ages, which is because we've been using the Green List (and sometimes other sites like http://greeningmcgill.bluwiki.com) to send information. We might start to use this site again next year though, but we probably won't be using it for now because it's almost the end of the academic year. Good luck with exams, have a great summer, and see you again in the fall!
- Warren

Minutes March 21

2007-03-22T15:26:00.000-04:00

Come to our meeting! Every Wednesday at 6:00 at QPIRG (Don't be affaid: we are friendly!)
Email us if you have great ideas about projects for next year.

Plate club
THIS IS GOING GREAT!!!
We need more cutleries (30 knives and forks) for Friday
The plate renting at the cafeteria (SSMU building) is very successful (we rented 28 plates this week). People are very enthusiastic about it. We will start doing it on Mondays in two weeks.
We got some volunteer to do it.
Enviro-committee: Danielle will be our want a representative from the Plate Club. The Enviro-committe would like to integrate the Plate Club in SSMU for their room renting file (and maybe somewhere else).
We could put the renting form online (through SSMU website).
Danielle will create an email address.
It would be great to have a permanent coordinator for the Plate Club.
Michelle and Gabrielle will contact news papers after we get an email.
Schedule for next Wednesday:
11:30-12:30 Michelle and Tim
12:30-13:30 Saima and Gabrielle

Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (CYCC)
Adopt an MP campaign.
There are activities every month.
More information to come.

Class Announcements and Recto-Verso
What do we do when a professor does not allow announcements?
We should take new roots for enforcing the paper policy!!!
-Talk to the principal and ask her to inforce the policy (Michelle).
-Send an email to the professor with the geeningmcgill address (Sophie).
Michelle will bring some notebook to AUS

Ideas for next year
One of the coordinator is leaving next year (Sophie)
Christine is welling to take the lead next year with the help of Huard and Saima.
Saima could be treasurer next year (or maybe Sunny??).
We could “create” new executive position (e.g. media contact)
We should try to involve more people (especially people from the list-serv)
We should organize the Kyoto Birthday March again next year. We could include that in the budget.
Please, email greeningmcgil@mail.mcgill.ca if you have great ideas.

Workshop March 29 (in the evening)
We should advertise it.
Everybody is working on their part.

Last Greening McGill meeting March 28
We will review what we did this year. We will brainstorm for next year.
An idea for the summer: Guerilla Gardening

CKUT
April 3rd 11:00-12:00
They have a special day about environmental initiatives. They will be base in the Shatner building.
Saima will be our representative

Meeting with Jim Nicell!
April 5th 4:30-6:00 SSMU office
Jim Nicell (from University Services) wants to meet with students involved in environmental initiative.
Every body is invited.

Potluck March 25 6:00!
4304 Earnscliffe
Bring Sangria ingredients!
Directions:
Go to Villa Maria Metro station
Walk strait on Monkland (3 blocks)
Turn right on to Earnscliff
It is right on the corner.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Workshop on Climate Change
March 24, 10 AM, 987 rue Côté, 4th floor
Volunteers from the "Greening of the Chinese Community", a subsidiary group of Sierra Club Canada, is presenting a 2-hour fun and interactive workshop this coming Saturday, March 24 th. The event is going to be held in Chinatown, and will be in English and Mandarin. This will be the first workshop delivered by this community-outreach group and they need all the support from the audience. Come out to support them and learn about climate change and daily lives!For more details, please consult the attached poster.Hope to see you there.

Panel on Climate Change
March 30, 5 PM, 3480 University street. (McConnell Building) Room 204
Borderless World Volunteers presents a panel on climate change composed of experts in the fields of atmospheric, environmental, and political science. Featuring McGill Professors Bruno Tremblay, Professor Ariel Fenster, and activist Cameron Stiff, panelists will be discussing the various dimensions of climate change from a scientific and political standpoint.

Minutes March 14

2007-03-14T20:22:00.000-04:00

Rethink (Friday 16th)
The take home message that we want people to remember from the students groups: our involvement with the environment outside of the classroom is a great learning experience that we could not get with normal class.
Saima will speak for Greening McGill.
We will give the wonderful “Paper Award” (any suggestion for a better name?).

Plate Club
The student response is very good! We got around 20 people using our plates for two hours this Wednesday.
Things to bring next time: hand towel (Danielle will bring one)
Next Wednesday:
11:30-12:30 Michelle and Tim
12:30-13:30 Gabrielle
13:00-13:30 Saima
Michelle will buy more cutleries.
We will advertise on list-serv and write letters to McGill papers.
Gabrielle will write to Le Délit.
Michelle will write to the Daily and Tribune.
Saima will talk to SSMU (Club and Services) to advertise about the plates.
We will also sell notebooks at the same time as lending plates.

Workshops
SUS the workshop went well. We had around 15 people attending.
QPRIG (date still to be determined)
Everybody is working on their parts.

Recto-Verso
There are still class announcements to be done. You can email greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca if you want to volunteer.

Potluck Party! (March 25 at 6PM)
Michelle and Saima are inviting us to their place for a potluck. There is one rule: we are not allow to talk about environment or school!

Sustainable Eating Workshop

2007-03-14T20:10:00.000-04:00

This is the information we provided at our workshop on March 13th.

Egg substitutes (this is largely inspired by the Post Punk Kitchen: http://www.theppk.com/veganbaking.html)

Flax Seeds
How to use it: 1 egg = 2 ½ tbsp of ground flaxseeds (or 1 tbsp whole seeds) + 3 tbsp water.
In a bowl, beat until it becomes very gooey and gelatinous, much like an egg white.
You can grind flaxseeds in a blender or coffee grinder.

When it works best: Flax seeds have a distinct earthy granola taste. It tastes best and works very well in things like pancakes, and whole grain items, such as bran muffins and corn muffins. It is perfect for oatmeal cookies, and the texture works for cookies in general, although the taste may be too pronounced for some. Chocolate cake-y recipes have mixed results.

Tips: Always store ground flaxseeds in the freezer because they are highly perishable. This mixture is not only an excellent replacement for eggs, it also contributes vital omega-3 fatty acids.

Silken Tofu
How to use it: 1 egg = 1/4 cup blended silken tofu
Whiz in a blender until completely smooth and creamy, leaving no graininess or chunks. You will want to add other wet ingredients to this mixture to get it to blend properly.
Vacuum packed extra firm silken tofu, such as Mori-Nu is recommended.

When it works best: Dense cakes and brownies, and in smaller quantites for lighter cakes and fluffy things (if the recipe calls for 3 eggs only use 2 "tofu" eggs"). Whizzed tofu leaves virtually no taste, so it is an excellent replacer in cake recipes. In cookie recipes, it may make the cookie more cake-y and fluffy than anticipated, add 1 teaspoon of starch to the recipe (such as arrowroot or corn starch) to combat that.

Commercial Egg Replacer
How to use it: Follow the instructions on the box.

When it works best: It seems to work best in cookies, or things that are supposed to be a little crispy. It does not seem to work for brownies.

Bananas
How to use it: 1 egg= 1/2 banana blended until smooth or mashed well.Bananas work wonders as an egg replacer in baking, which is the reason many banana bread recipes don't require eggs. They hold the air bubbles well, make things nice and moist, and impart a nice flavor. However, you don't want everything tasting like banana, so use in things where the taste won't be intrusive.

When it works best: Quick breads, muffins, cakes, pancakes
Tip: Make sure bananas are nice and ripe and have started to brown.

Soy yogurt
How to use it: 1 egg = 1/4 cup soy yogurt Soy yogurt works a lot like whizzed tofu as an egg replacer. It makes things moist and yummy.

When it works best: Quick breads, muffins, cakes

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Banana Muffins
3 ripe bananas
1/4 cup oil or melted margarine (or apple sauce)
3/4 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional—see other options listed below)

• Mash bananas (overripe ones make the best bread). Add oil/margarine and sugar. Mix well.
• Sift the flour, salt, and baking soda together and add to the banana mixture. Mix until the flour is blended (do not beat).Pour into muffin pans or a bread pan and bake at 360°F until a toothpick comes out clean (~20 minutes for muffins)

Optional: Add a handful of walnuts, oatmeal, raisins, chocolate chips, currants, coconut, or all of the above!
Makes 1 Dozen Muffins

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Almond Milk
-Puree in a blender:
1 part almonds (blanched)
4 parts water
-Add: 2 Tablespoons maple syrup, pitted dates or drops of vanilla for sweetness
-Strain

To blanch the almond, either soak them overnight in water or dip them in boiling water, and then remove the skin (they come right off). The remaining almond paste is delicious and can be tossed on cereal, vegetables or rice.

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Solar Cooking
This is a great website where you can find great info!
www.solarcooking.org

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Veggie Paté Recipe

1 cup oignons
3 small mushrooms
3 cloves garlic, minced
olive oil
1 cup sunflower seeds, ground
½ cup flour
½ cup nutritional yeast
2 tsp dried basil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp dried sage
1 ½ cup water
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 cup potatoes, grated
1 carrot, grated
1/3 olive oil

-Preheat oven at 350F
- In a saucepan, sauté onions in oil, until translucent. Add mushroom, garlic. Sauté until tender.
- In a bowl, combine ground sunflower seed, flour, yeast, spices. Add water, soy sauce, potatoes, carrots and oil. Stir. Stir in sautéed veggies.
-Spoon into an oiled 9” pie plate. Bake 45 minutes, until center set and browned. Chill.

Minutes from March 7th

2007-03-08T19:47:00.000-05:00

Get involved!
1-Help with SUS green week
2-Help to organize a workshop
(read below)

Please, if you want to pass a message on the green list, send it to greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca first. We will compile them and send them at one.
Thanks!

Workshops
1-QPIRG (end of the Month)
Marianne and Saima are doing GMOS and biodiversity.
Sophie and Christine, health issues and the environment.
Michelle, carbon trading
Each part will be 20-30 minutes

2-SUS Green Week (March 13)
Saima made a solar cooker and will show how tomake one and how they work.
Marianne will take care of the vegan cooking part.
Sophie is trying to reach Midnight Kitchen for the kitchen

SUS Green Week
They have organized lots of cool activities.
They need help to put posters up. If you can help, go to SUS office in the basement of Burnside to pick up posters.
Also, I have attached a slide with the schedule that you use to advertise at the beginning of your classes.

Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
Christine went to their meeting. She think they are great!
Greening McGill could be involved in their campaign (we already have been doing some of it)

Finances (finally!!!)
We have $249.49 in cash and $50.00 in the account.
We still need to buy and pay for cutlery and bins to carry plates.

Plate Club
Danielle will buy vermicomposting bins at Canadian Tire, as well as spatula, screen & sponge. The bins will be for carrying & washing the dishes.
We will start lending out plates next week in the Shatner cafeteria:
11:30-12:30: Tim & Michelle
12:30-1:30: Danielle & Saima
$2, a piece of ID or any high quality collateral demanded in exchange for a plate
People will be asked to scrape their own plates before washing them in the bins.
The plate execs will take care of lending plates to SMP for their Community Consultation Lunch on Friday the 16th.

Recto Verso
The green box in Schulich is still there! It just got moved. It will be placed in a more prominent place.
Jim Henderson, manager of Life Sciences Library, has not written back yet about installing boxes in other libraries.
Sophie will contact the McLennan library manager to ask if security can be in charge of closing the doors to the library, which remain open, sometime automatically, sometimes by smokers standing there.

Rethink Conference
Daniel Faucher, recipient of the origami award, has confirmed his presence!
Michelle, Saima, Sophie & Danielle will be there to hand out the prize (probably 9-9:30)
Maybe we should give a brief presentation of the Recto Verso campaign before giving the award.
Student enviro groups this year will give a collaborative presentation instead of individual ones. Details to be confirmed.

Party Time!!!
Michelle & Saima invite all to a party at their place on Sunday the 25th!
It will be a potluck, so bring food.
One rule: no one is allowed to talk about Greening McGill or the environment!
More details to come as the date approached.

Other
Sophie will give the recycling T-shirts back to Kathleen. People who still have theirs, please bring them to the meeting on Wed. March 21st

Announcements
Enviro Potluck take Three!
March 18th - 6pm. Coop sur Généreux.The address is 4518 Papineau (but its not actually on Papineau).
Directions from Mont Royal metro (or biking!!!):-turn RIGHT out of the metro, east on Mont Royal-walk for ten minutes until you get to Papineau, then turn LEFT, north on Papineau-take a hard LEFT at the first alley, Généreux-it's the 3rd door (2nd white door) on the right, go all the way up to the top (3rd floor), all the doors should be openBring food, bring poetry, bring friends, bring yourself, but most of all, bring a scarf! it's cold out there!!!

Minutes February 28

2007-03-02T13:50:00.000-05:00

Plate club
The plates have arrived. They look very nice and strudy!
We already have to clients: Sustainable McGill (March 16) and Student for Responsible Purchasing (April 26-27).
Michelle will apply for a grant with the Art faculty to cover the balance of our expenses.
We will use the template of the contract of Concordia 4R for our contract. Tim will make the necessary changes.
We still need to buy 50 forks, knives and spoons, as well as 5-6 serving plates and a few serving utensils.
Micelle, Tim and Sophie will have a look at Salvation Army. If anybody plan to go buy some utensils, please email the rest before doing so and also tell the rest what you bought.
We could buy a trolley to carry the plates and other things around.

Renting plates at the cafeteria
We will buy a few containers to do the dishes. Danielle is looking into it.
We would do it from 11:30-13:30 on Fridays.
We should contact the cafeteria first.

Workshop Fun!
1- SUS Greenweek (March 12-16)Our workshop will be on March 13th from 4-5PM.
We will do a Vegan/Sustainable eating workshop.
We will use Midnight Kitchen, demonstrate some vegan cooking, solar baking and do a recipes swap. We might use the ethical alternative handbook to talk about alternative food purchasing.

Also during Greenweek:
Monday-Movie day
Tuesday- Veggie BBQ at Gert and Coffee house (they are looking for people to perform)
Wenesday, Thursday and Friday- Tabling at the cross roads
Friday- Rethink conference
THEY NEED VOLUNTEERS: email greenweek.mcgill@gmail.com

2-QPIRG Workshop
3 sides of sustainability (1 -1.5 hour)
Enviro- GMO and our effect on biodiversity (Saima and Marianne)
Social- Health and Environment (Sophie)
Economics- Carbon emission trading (Michelle)

Recto Verso
The box in Schulich library as disappeared

Simple Shoes
This is a company from California that produces vegan shoes. They want to partner up with us.
We agree to do it in an informal way. We could invite them to Car-Free Day and add a link to our blog.

Lug-a-mug
Last week!!!
9:30-10:30: Sophie and Gabrielle
10:30-11:30: Michelle
11:30-12:30: Saima

Minutes from February 14th

2007-02-16T12:52:00.000-05:00

Plate club
We got the cups! They look very nice
We will go pick up the plates on Monday the 19th. We will meet at Métro Université de
Montréal at the turnstile at 15:45.

Broomball: 10:15-11:15 Lower Field
Come and bring your friends to play and sing Happy Birthday to Kyoto!
This is part of national wide “Save Hockey Day”
There'll be cake!

Lug-a-mug is cancelled for this week

Kyoto March
-Greenpeace and Équiterre will be there!!!!
-Everyone should do class announcements and write on chalkboards about the event.
-Friday, meet at 4:30 at QPIRG for prop making (and potluck)
-Bring any kind of cardboard or sign material you can find

Green Week workshop (Tuesday 13)
We should come up with a great ideas for the workshop.
Here are the ideas we already have:
-Vegetarian cooking (Marianne/ Michelle)
-Dumpster diving
-Peak oil survival (being self-sufficient) (Tim)
-Plant workshop? (Marianne)
-Soap/shampooing (Marianne)
We will contact a few people and see what happens…

Ideas for Library improvement & greening SSMU
***Saima will email these to Marcelle
The entrance doors let the heat out
Double door system? Or plastic entrance like in restaurants?
More plants
Better heat circulation
Electronic class room in McLennan is always too warm
Two flush system toilets (3L and 6L)
Automatic water tap
Light sensors in bathrooms and seminar rooms
Campaign to encourage people -not to use the handicap automatic doors
-not to use elevators to go down

Recto-Verso
We keep making class announcements.
We should give a visit to SSMU to investigate their paper use.
We will contact Trevor first to set up a meeting with SSMU people.
A few recommendations:
Office papers: use 100% post-consumer recycled paper
Agendas
Changing the rules for advertisements
Limit paper use
Posters on recycled one-sided paper
Putting a box for one-sided paper
For election: having a few boards with the posters of all candidates
Create electronic submission for Campus Life fund and other businesses
We will bring them 100% post-consumer recycled paper

Rethink (16th March)
Register online to attend the Rethink conference at: http://www.mcgill.ca/rethink/events/
We will give the Paper Price. We still are thinking about a “concept” for the trophy.

Greening McGill

2007-02-08T22:01:00.000-05:00

Greening McGill
These are the minutes from our February 7th meeting:

3 great way to be involved!
1-Help post posters for Kyoto Birthday (Monday 12)
2-Help making signs for Kyoto’s Birthday (Friday 16)
3-Volunteer to do security for Kyoto’s March (Saturday 17)

Library improvement funds
They are improving the libraries.
Marcelle is involves with making the libraries greener.
She is asking us how can we make the libraries better green spaces?
Any suggestions for lighting? Green printing? Other suggestions?
Email Marcelle if you have any thoughts at:
Marcelle.kosman@mail.mcgill.ca

Marcelle also want to run for SSMU VP club and services.
She wants to have the club and the election running in more environmentally friendly ways. You can email her is you have any suggestions.

Budget
We should have $450 left.
Greening McGill will pay for printing 150 posters for the March for Kyoto Birthday.

March Kyoto Birthday (Saturday 17th at 11:00)
Poster Posting: Monday the 12th
Meet at Burnside Basement
At 7PM for McGill University
At 8PM for the city

Poster and sign Making: Friday 16th
Come and help to prepare for the march at 4:30 at QPIRG
Bring some food for the potluck.

We need volunteers to do the security for the day of the march

We are looking for a speaker at the end of the march. Do you have any ideas?

Kyoto Birthday Week (12-16)
We will have cake from Midnight kitchen everyday.
There is a special issue in the Daily about Global Warming.
There will be a speaker (T.B.A.)

Thursday 15: Dance Party! at 1221 Cresent St Pub

Friday 16: Save the Winter sports!
The Sierra Youth Coalition is organizing games all across Canada.

We will do a paper free advertisement campaign and try to advertise through emails and word of mouth

Referendum question
If you want to support QPIRG and the green fees, come to the SSMU council on Thursday 15.

Article for the Daily
We need someone to write an opinion letter for the Daily about climate justice for Friday. Michelle might do it but would appreciate some help or suggestions!
There will be a picture taken at the Daily office (in SSMU basement) at 3:30 on Thursday 8th for a new paper article.

Plate club
The plates have arrived!!!
We will go pick up the plates on Monday the 19th. We will meet at Métro Université de
Montréal at the turnstile at 15:45.
We have to start thinking about advertisement. We could lend plates at organic corner (with deposit) for people eating at the cafeteria.
We need to write the contract.

Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
We support the coalition BUT…we need to send a representation for their meetings. Anybody interested?
http://www.ourclimate.ca/main/index.php

Town Hall
Come to share your green opinions with the Principal!
Monday, February 12, 2007
Time 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Location: Strathcona Anatomy & Dentistry Building
3640 University Street, Room M-1

SUS Green Week
March 12-14th
They want workshops about having a sustainable lifestyle.
Suggestion: A vegetarian cooking workshop!!!
Recipe Swap!!!
We could do it at the MidNight Kitchen.

Lug-a-Mug
9:30-10:30 Gabrielle and Sophie
10:30-11:30 Michelle and Marianne
12:30-13:30 Saima

Colloque Inter-Universitaire Durable
The 2008 meeting will be at McGill

Student coalition for Responsible Trans-Actions
They are involved with Ethical Purchasing for Québec Universities. If you are interested visit www.coalitionresponsable.org or contact incoalition@gmail.com.

Greening McGill

2007-02-01T14:33:00.000-05:00

Greening McGill
Minute from the meeting of January 31st

We need you help!
1- Volunteer for Mug-a-lug this Friday (basement of the Redpath library next to the Tim Hortons 10:30-11:30)
2- Become a plate executive!!! (see below)
3- Make class announcement about the paper use policy (see below)
4-Help to organize the parade for Kyoto Birthday (see below)
email greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca if you are interested

QPIRG film festival Thursday (Feb.1st) 6:30
In the Cultural Studies Building 3475 Peel Street (behind Shatner) screening room
We will be screening “Oil on Ice” and “Still Air of Delightful Studies: A Study of Recycling At McGill University”
Come and bring your friends!

Management Sustainability Conference
At the Delta Montreal (475 President Kennedy Avenue)
Friday 2nd 3-5PM
Marianne will be tabling.

Budget
We have approx. $500 left (there was a miscalculation in last week’s budget) but we still have to pay for part of the plates and utensils.

Plate club
The logo has been done for the glasses. It looks nice!
We might have room in the sub-basement of Shatner’s Building (with Midnight kitchen and Organic McGill).
We are looking for “plate executives”. The persons would be in charge of meeting with the clubs that want the plates and check and count the plates after leasing.
Tim could help but we are still looking for someone else.

Recto-verso
-We now have the email of all the managers of all libraries. We will offer them to put green boxes for one-sided printed paper in their libraries.
-We have been asked to donate 50 notebooks to a departmental conference. We do not really have the money to donate them. We will suggest them to ask McGill Printing for their notepads or we could give them one-sided paper so they can stable them.
-We were thinking to ask Copy EUS for doing notebooks but Gorilla is already doing their notebooks there.
-Class announcement: we keep on doing the announcements in classes where professors are not following the Paper Policy. Please email Greening McGill if you want to do announcements.

QPRIG news from Trevor
QPIRG is planning to do several environmental events in March. The Climate Campus Coalition will work with them. Trevor would like to organize small workshops about sustainability at McGill. There will be a focus on “environmental justice”.
Also in March, Al Gore is giving a talk at the Palais des Congrès. QPIRG would like to do an “alternative talk” to bring arts students. There is also a possibility to have a debate between professors.
Also in March, the Science Undergrad Society will have their green week.

Rethink McGill
We should make a great origami award (Paper award!) with recycled paper and give it to the people we think have been doing a great job for the paper policy. We could ask Katleen to add this as an item on the agenda.

Lug-a-mug
We will have a weekly order at Organic Campus for bread
9:30-10:30 Gabrielle and Sophie
10:30 -11:30 NEED VOLUNTEER
11:30-12:30 Saima

Kyoto Birthday

-There will be a meeting on Sunday 4th 2PM at QPIRG to organize the Parade (Feb 17th).
-“Save winter sports!” Friday 16th 1:30PM
We will play a hockey/broom game at 1:30 on the lower field ice ring. We will borrow EUS brooms and tell people to bring their hockey sticks. Before the game, we will sing a “special Oh Canada” (Saima wrote lyrics about Kyoto on Oh Canada) and we might make Snowman. We might have someone speaking (in a megaphone) to give some context of the event.

Greening McGill

2007-01-25T21:54:00.000-05:00

Greening McGill
Minutes from January 24 meeting

-Plates club
The glasses have been ordered. It will cost 3.20 per glass. We will buy forks, knives and random cutlery from the Salvation Army. We received $250 from the Campus Life Fund (in addition to $200) from QPIRG. We might have to pay $150. We still need to fin some space to store the plates.

-Notebooks and Recto-Verso
We now sell them for $1.75 due to increased price of production. People in charge of boxes in libraries should email the staff to make sure they know what the boxes are for.

We are still giving post-consumer paper to department.
We received a lot of email about professors who waste paper. We will do class announcement in the classes of those professor. Michelle has a list of classes and need people to do them. She will provide a little text to say in front of the class

-Media launch for the Sustainability motion at the G.A.
January 25 2PM to 4:30PM.
Michelle is bringing markers and fabric squares. Saima will give a 5 minute speech for Greening McGill.

-GA (February 1st)
Tell everybody to come and vote for the sustainability motion.
We will make some publicity next week in Leacock. We will wear sandwich boards at strategic hours and give mini-flyers (Saima will make a template for the flyers).
We will store the boards on the black board in the big classroom.
Schedule
Monday: 11:20 Michelle, 12:20 Danielle, 13:20 Sophie, 14:20 Tim
Thursday: 12:50 Garielle, 14:20 Michelle, 15:50 Saima and/or Tim

-Lug-a-Mug, Bread give away (Friday)
In the basement of Redpath Library (next to Tim Horton)
9:30-10:30 Gabrielle and Tim, 10:30-11:30 Marianne, 11:30-12:30 Saima

-Kyoto Birthday (February 16)
Save Hockey Day!
It's happening on campuses across North America that day. We could use the hockey rink on lower field, borrow EUS hockey nets and invite people to bring their hockey sticks to play a game of hockey! People of all skill levels would be welcome. We could sing O Canada with climate change lyrics!! We could imitate Olympic games, have everybody lined up, with hands to their breasts and eyes to the sky! We could make a cardboard coffin (pretty easy, I made one for the Kyoto march in November) and put hockey insignias all over it, and hockey equipment inside, then walk around campus in a funeral procession to mourn the loss of our national sport due to climate change!

-Kyoto Birthday Parade (February 17)
We need some artist to make poster.

-QPIRG annual working group film festival
All screenings held at the Cultural Studies Screening room at 3475 Peel Street.
For more information contact: 514-398-7432 or qpirg@ssmu.mcgill.ca

Greening McGill documentary will be aired of Thursday Feb 1st, 6:30-8:30pm
Title: “Oil On Ice + In The Quiet” and “Still Air of Delightful Studies: A Study of Recycling At McGill University”

OTHER ACTIVITIES
-Raging against Chartwells high prices?
Interested in getting involved in setting up a sustainable, fair trade cafe near campus? The Yellow Door has been a cornerstone in the McGill Ghetto since its inception in 1904. With the success of the Rabbit Hole Cafe (Fridays at 1), it's looking to expand its operations and needs a few student volunteers to help get a weekly cafe operation off the ground.

Come out to the Shatner lounge this Monday January 29th at 5:30 to find out more. Or contact Nyssa ( nyssah@gmail.com) for more information.

-3647 Open House
Join your best friends, QPIRG McGill and CKUT for an evening of drinks, snacks, music, social justice and radio.
Wednesday January 31st, 5-7pm
3647 University, 1st-3rd Floor

-Skillshare weekend
-----!! SAT + SUN JANUARY 27 + 28 2007 !!-----
-----!!!!! at the coop sur genereux !!!!!-----

BRING PLASTIC CONTAINERS TO TAKE HOME FREE BISCOTTI

SATURDAY 27

1000h QI KUNG / 3rd floor
This one's all about breathing yo, be in your body, what?!? With some
basic movements, we can take time for ourselves, and reconnect through the
ancient ways of QI GUNG WHAT?!?

1100h VEGGIE-PÂTÉ and the ANARCHY OF THE FUTURE / 3rd floor kitchen
While boiling beans, chopping potatoes and mixing spices, we'll share our
different perspectives on what exactly anarchy means to us... This will
lead in to more focused discussions and activities later on in the day

1300h KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! / 3rd floor kitchen table
This workshop is an introduction to the rights that you never knew you
had! By going through some basic do's and don'ts of interacting with
police, we hope to empower one another to act smartly when confronted with
the law. Shout-outs to the Boston Anarchist Black Cross and Montreal's
Collective Opposed to Police Brutality.

1400h THEATRICAL IMPROV with Fadi / 3rd floor common space
Lights, crazy people, sparkles!! Naturally talented fool with no
theatrical experience looking to facilitate a motley platoon of
enthusiastic people through a slew of happy improve exercises with the
aspiration of preparing something nice for the talent show. Yeah!!!

1500h THE MAGIC OF MUSICAL IMPROV / 3rd floor common space
Open your ears and hearts! Anna Banana from experimental jazz band The
Pamplemousse Explosion will explore theories concerning musical
improvisation with inspiration from grand masters Sun Ra, John Zorn and
Mr. Bungle. In the spirit of do-ocracy, this workshop will include a
delightful jam, so bring your whistles, tongues, tambourines, and stomping
feet.

1630h ATELIER DE DANSE / 3rd floor common space
Impro, contact, 5 rythmes. La danse "libre" brise les modèles formels de
danse-avec-des-pas imposés par la discipline... un espace pour jouer avec
la musique, bouger, entrer en relation avec les autres, et surtout: un
atelier pour se défouler !!!

1700h FILM - BREAKING THE SPELL / 2nd floor common space
What exactly happened on the streets of seattle, way back in '99? This
hour-long documentary presents persepectives that have been systematically
removed from history, and a couple of wicked folk songs!

1800h Espace de Jeu sur le(s) Genre(s) et le(s) Sexe(s) / 3rd floor
Basically, I'll leave some cool texts and mind-blowing questionnaires
lying around, read them as you wish, and we'll get together, talk about it
and make phallic objects out of playdough. We want to be silly, but also
to create a safe space to talk about possibly more serious things like the
politics of pleasure, privilege, power... Bring a gender symbolic
object/accessory/clothing!

2000h JAM and Talent Show Tabar-WHAT!
Super-spectacular performances To Be Announced SOON!

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SUNDAY 28

1000h MEDITATION AND ACTION / 3rd floor (5.5 if it's too noisy...)
Looking at the relationship between our mind and our actions, as well as
the key components of motivation and dedication. Some basic meditation
techniques, how to be present and still as an active approach to bringing
change in ourselves and the world.

1130h ZEN / 3rd floor ( 5.5 if it's still too noisy...)
More meditation, different techniques...mmmm...meditation...

1300h LUNCH / 3rd floor kitchen
Let us eat, yes, and make merry together. Come early for cooking, bring
what you can, yum!

1400h MÉXICO REBELDE! / 3rd floor kitchen table
Join Erica and members of Ici La Sexta for a report back on the 13th
anniversary of the Zapatista uprising and the recent international
encuentro in Chiapas between the Zapatistas and the Peoples of the World,
along with a general discussion on La Otra Campana, the current struggle
and revolutionary programme of the EZLN.

1500h RADICAL RHYTHMS / 3rd floor common space
Carmen will help us make waste-harvested buckets and tin cans into weapons
of mass movenment. No experience necessary! We'll supply all the
necessary materials, but anything fun and funky could be thrown into the
mix. Once our instruments are put together, we be Jammin, what?!?

1700h CAKE and the POLITICS of LOCALITY?! / 3rd floor kitchen
Engross yourself into the meaning of community and participation whilst
preparing the dessert for the coming feast that will be held thither.
Chocolate-Banana flavour?

1800h FILM - LOOSE CHANGE / 3rd floor common space
Here's that famous documentary about how Bush knocked down the towers.
Come learn how evil fascists are organizing white supremacy and world
domination in the interests of capital and satan.

1930h SUPER-DUPER-GRAND-FINALE-POTLUCK-EXTRAVAGANZA!
More food Food FOOD! A time to eat Eat EAT and reflect on the weekend that
was the 2nd super-spectacular-csg-skillshare...and big THANKS to everyone
that helped make it happen!

+ a few words about the coop:
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The Coop Sur Genereux is a sixteen-person housing collective located near the intersection of Mont-Royal and Papineau in Montreal. We are a cooperative in the sense that we cooperate with each other, sharing space, food, activities, ideas and experiences. Although some of us are taking steps towards incorporating as a non-profit organization or as a housing cooperative, we are currently paying rent for two large loft spaces and a five and a half apartment. We have renovated these spaces ourselves to suit our needs. Skillshare Weekends are part of our on-going efforts to make the space open to all kinds of community events. If you have ideas, contact us!

phone: 514 524 3452
e-mail: coopsurgenereux(AT)gmail.com
mail: 4518 papineau / montreal, quebec / H2H 1V3

Greening McGill

2007-01-18T10:00:00.000-05:00

Greening McGill
Dear Greening McGillers,
These are the minutes from the January 17 meeting:

1-We will give away bread from the Organic Coop this Friday at Tim Horton in the main library. Here is the Schedule:
9:30-10:30 Tim and Gabrielle
10:30-11:30 Marianne
11:30-12:30 Saima
Gabrielle will pick up the bread Thursday.

2- Green boxes for one sided paper
We made signs to put next to the boxes to make them clearer and more obvious. People assigned to a box should put their signs.
Sophie will put a box in the Life Science Building Library.

3-QPIRG film festival
Together with the Campus Climate Campaign, we will screen movies on the 13 and the 15 of February. We chose the documentary “Oil on Ice” for one day and “How killed the Electric Car” combined with a recycling-at-McGill documentary.

4- The Jewish Student Association is doing its annual celebration of trees (either on February 1 or 2). We will provide them with our bike blender and with some pamphlets.

5- Paper policy use
We a gathering the number of classes or name of profs that do not respect the policy (i.e. they waste paper or they do not allow double side printed assignments). Please, send us the names if you know of any (there seem to be a lot of people who are not aware of the policy). We are planning to do some action about it but we are not sure yet (maybe doing some class announcements).
We will give 100% post-consumer paper to the secretary of some department to encourage the use of such paper. You will find at the end of this email a sample text for the cards to go with the paper, and some Frequently Asked Questions (they are provided for general knowledge but people might like to condense them and put them on cards too)
This is the list of people who were assigned to a department:
Saima: biology
Huard: History
Tim: Psychology
Marianne: Agriculture
Gabrielle: French Literature
Michelle: East Asian Studies
The sub-committee on the environment has a budget to pay for the paper. Youppi!

6- Kyoto Birthday
We are organizing a “Birthday Parade” on the Saturday 17th. It will start at the park Emilie Gamelin (Berri UQAM) and will end in from of the Town Hall (Old Port). We will bring birthday hat and trumpets. Saima and Marianne will write song in English and French. Sophie and Gabrielle will contact other Universities and Organisations.

7- There is an Enviro Potluck at the Coop Généreux “eat food, share ideas, talk about feelings, and be merry!” The potluck is taking place this Sunday -- January 21st -- at 6pm at Coop sur Genereux. The address is 4518 Papineau (but it’s not actually on Papineau).
Directions from Mont Royal metro (or biking!!!):
-turn RIGHT out of the metro, east on Mont Royal
-walk for ten minutes until you get to Papineau, then turn LEFT, north on Papineau
-take a hard LEFT at the first alley, Genereux
-it's the 3rd door (2nd white door) on the right, go all the way up to the top (3rd floor), all the doors should be open
This might be a good place to start to advertise for Kyoto Birthday!

8- GA sustainability Motion
The student press, along with all interested parties, is invited to attend a launch event Thursday, January 25th, from noon to three in the Lev Bukhman room. Highlights will include collaborative craft projects as a visible sign of support, as well as live music. From 14h00 on, representatives of the sponsoring groups will give a series of short speeches explaining how the sustainability policy would
bolster and complement ongoing campus sustainability initiatives.

We will be assigned building on campus where to put poster about the sustainability motion. The posters will be in the basement of the MSE building (in box in the office of Sustainable McGill)

9- Enviro Law McGill guest speaker.
Enviro Law McGill wants to host a guest speaker on February 14. They are open to suggestions.

The Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University ,The Urban Ecology Centre of Montreal and The Council of Canadians [Montreal Chapter] present Elizabeth May Leader, The Green Party of Canada Former Director of Sierra Club of Canada.
On “EVERYONE IS TALKING GREEN! But what does this mean?” A discussion of environmental policies and practices in Canada.
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Time: 18:00 to 20:00
Place: St. James United Church
1435 City Councillors, (Corner St. Catherine West)
(Metro Place des Arts. Bus No.15)
For further information: (514) 848-8707 or (514) 842-7432

****TEXT FOR CARD WITH POST CONSUMER PAPER**
Dear (department),

Please enjoy this 100% post-consumer recycled paper, courtesy of Greening McGill, a students' environmental organization on campus.

Using post-consumer recycled paper conserves energy, water and landfill space, and helps to protect our forests. McGill University's Paper Use Policy encourages the purchase of 100% post-consumer recycled paper. For more information on the Paper Use Policy, please visit
http://www.mcgill.ca/rethink/policies/paperuse

If you would like 100% post-consumer recycled paper for your department, please visit http://www.mcgill.ca/rethink/initiatives/purchasing for more information on prices and ordering.

We hope you will consider purchasing 100% post-consumer recycled paper for your department. Please feel free to contact me or Greening McGill with any questions or comments.

Sincerely,

(person's name and e-mail, optional)

Greening McGill greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca

Some Frequently Asked Questions:

Q. What is post-consumer recycled paper?
A. Paper simply labelled "recycled" may be made of unused pre-consumer scraps, for example scraps
that are produced when paper is cut in the factory. Post-consumer recycled paper is the recycled
paper that is actually made from old waste-paper that was collected in recycling programs.

Q. Will this jam my printer?
A. The paper is already being used extensively on McGill campus. Departments of Geography and
Philosophy and the School of Environment use 100% post-consumer recycled paper and have reported
no problems. All the printers and copiers in the libraries that are operated by Printing Services
are also stocked with 100% post-consumer recycled paper. Printing Services is even successfully
printing coursepacks on 100% post-consumer recycled paper! So 100% post-consumer paper is safe to
use!

Q. Does it cost more?
A. 100% PC paper may cost marginally more, but the costs can be offset by paper conservation
measures. McGill has favourable rates for the purchase of 100% PC paper.

Greening McGill

2007-01-11T20:07:00.000-05:00

Greening McGillHello everyone,

Here are the minutes from last night's meeting, as well as some info for people going to gault.

Gault:

1) As you've probably heard by now, we had to change our plans slightly. We will be renting a seven-person van, and everyone who can't fit will be going on the bus. Then the van will shuttle people from the bus station to the chalet.

2) As previously planned, please meet at Gertz at 5:15 on Friday. You should either bring dinner for Friday night, or buy something at Gertz. We will eat while on route. Please don't be late! That will just make things more complicated for me.

3) I found directions for getting to Gault, so I'll be going in the van and trying to navigate. Michelle will be leading the people who are taking the bus. Michelle-please remember to find directions from the chalet to the bus station.

4) The simplest thing to do about groceries will be to buy them at the grocery store at Gault. We will make a run there on Friday night. When you're planning your meal, please keep the following in mind:
- Bring a reusable bag to carry groceries, instead of using plastic bags.
- Try to buy organic and/or local products (e.g. Quebec rather than New Zealand apples).
- As much as possible, select products with minimal packaging and processing.
- If you buy non-vegan products (e.g. dairy, eggs), try to pick those that are organic and/or derive from free range animals. Also consider dairy substitutes such as rice, almond, or soy milk, soy cheeses & yogourts, vegetable margarine and tofu.
- Be creative! Share recipes! http://vegweb.com, www.ivu.org/recipes, www.veganchef.com

For those of you who were on the waiting list and are not yet assigned to a cooking group, don't worry--we'll assign you when we meet on Friday. Hopefully your other group members will have planned a dish already, so you won't need to bring a recipe or anything.

5) I don't know what the bedding situation is at Gault, so please bring a sleeping bag and a pillow in case blankets aren't provided.

Now on to the rest of the minutes:

Gorilla Gardening:

Kristen would like to start a club for gorilla gardening, which is where you go out and plant things wherever there's space. There will probably be a meeting in mid-February to organize the group and maybe start fundraising because some money for seeds and tools will be necessary. Keep your ears open!

General Assembly:

A bunch of environmental groups have written a proposal for a sustainability policy that will be brought up at the GA on February first. We need to get some signatures so that this question can be on the agenda and to raise awareness. Sophie will book a table for sometime next week. We will also get signatures at Activities Night, when we give away cookies on Friday (see lug-a-mug section) and at Ethical Alternatives Day.

Activities night:

Here is the revised schedule:

4-6: Saima and Gabrielle
6-8: Sophie and Warren

Our table is on the second floor of Shatner on the wall opposite you when you walk into the cafeteria.

Lug-A-Mug:

We'll continue the campaign we started last semester to encourage people to bring their own mugs to school if they're going to buy coffee. We'll be tabling outside Tim Hortons in Redpath basement on Friday and giving a cookie to anyone who brings their own mug. We'll also be collecting signatures for the GA. Here's the schedule:

9:30-10:30 Sophie and Gabrielle
10:30 - 11:30 Michelle
11:30 - 12:30 Danielle and Tim

If someone could volunteer to keep Michelle company, that would be great.

Recto-Verso:
We made signs to put by the the boxes for one sided paper that we've put by various photocopiers around campus. WE're hoping this will better explain the purpose of the boxes and more people will use them.

If anyone has paper that's blank on one side that we could make into scrap paper notebooks, you can donate it to us! We'd love to have it!

We'd like to resurrect a project we started last year where we gave gifts of recycled paper to departments in order to encourage them to always buy recycled paper. Michelle will bring materials for making cards to go with the paper to the meeting next week. Michelle will also contact QPIRG about buying some recycled paper from them at cost.

We've discovered that some classes are still requiring single sided essays, which is now against university policy, so we actually have an excuse to do something about it. We'd like to compile a list of courses/profs who require single sided essays, and then do announcements in their classes about the policy. So far we know of the following classes:
The entire french lit department
EAPR 250

Michelle will put an announcement in the SSMU newsletter asking people to write to us if their profs are requiring single-sided work.
Danielle will look into who writes and enforces the academic integrity policy, because he/she might be able to help us.
Please let us know if your professor is requiring single-sided work!

When we table next week and at Activities Night and at Ethical Alternative Day, we'll be advertising Recto-Verso.

Kyoto:
A bunch of environmental groups are collaborating to do something for Kyoto's birthday, which is Feb. 16th. So far ideas include a debate among political parties, birthday cakes, a speaker, a dance and getting people to spell "Kyoto" or "I (heart) Kyoto" on lower field.

Greening McGill

2007-01-06T12:13:00.000-05:00

Greening McGill

Hi everyone,

This is both an email with details about the gault trip and the minutes from our first meeting of the year.

Gault:

Payment:
If you have not yet paid your $25, please pay at Burnside Basement (the area with the couches and tables) either between 1:30 and 2:30 on Monday the 8th or between 10:30 and 11:30 on Tuesday, the 9th. Sophie will be there on Monday and I'll be there on Tuesday. We'll have a sign that says "Greening McGill" incase there's anybody who won't recognize us. If you haven't paid us or contacted us to work out an alternative arrangement by 11:30 on Tuesday, we will assume you're no longer interested in going, and we might give your spot to someone else.

Transportation:
We're all going in the van that Derina is renting and driving. We will meet at Gertz at 5:15 on Friday, the 12th. People can grab food for dinner at Gertz or bring their own food for dinner. Derina will pick us up at 5:30. On Sunday, we need to leave the chalet by noon, so after breakfast we'll tidy up then get out of there and be back at McGill in the early afternoon. Derina will drop people off at the Roddick gates unless we're going past your house, in which case you can be dropped off closer.
Marianne Marcoux is asking her prof who goes to Gault every day to give us directions.

Meals:
Everyone has been assigned to a group, and each group is responsible for preparing one meal for everyone. Here are the groups:

Saturday breakfast: Marianne Corvellec (marianne.corvellec@mail.mcgill.ca) and David Gray-Donald (david.gray-donald@mail.mcgill.ca)

Saturday lunch: Katie Lund (katie.lund@mail.mcgill.ca), Derina (derina.man@mail.mcgill.ca) and Emma (Derina's roommate--I don't know her email)

Saturday dinner: Saima (saima.sidik@mail.mcgill.ca), Michelle (fonanne@yahoo.ca) and Marianne Marcoux (marianne.marcoux@mail.mcgill.ca)

Sunday breakfast: Tim (timothy.dowling@mail.mcgill.ca), Mary (maryzzz@gmail.com) and Warren (warren.huard@mail.mcgill.ca)

Snacks: Boe (bo.liu2@mail.mcgill.ca) and Sarah (Sarah--I don't seem to have your email, so please email Boe!)

Please include drinks with your meal. The Saturday lunch group should probably concentrate on portable food like sandwiches incase we want to go on a long hike. You can buy food before we leave the city or at the grocery store near the reserve--whichever you prefer.

Activities:
Everyone please bring board games, instruments, balls for sports, music and boom boxes/stereos/ghetto blasters if you have them. Marianne is bringing paint to make Greening McGill t-shirts, so please bring a white shirt. Also, be sure to bring boots and lots of extra clothes as we'll probably want to go outside and it will probably be wet. Tim would like to do some knitting, so if you have needles and yarn, bring them. Derina is organizing a game of murder, which is a weekend-long game that she'll explain in more detail when we get there.

Miscellaneous:
Everyone should bring a sleeping bag and a pillow.
This event is BYOB.

That's it for gault!

Other news;

The plate Club:
Derina is checking out prices on second-hand cutlery and asking Trevor about the possibility of storing all the materials in SSMU.
I will bring the logo that Sunny made to the next meeting for everyone to see, and we can talk about whether or not we'd like to put it on our cups.

Activities Night:
Activities night is Jan. 11th. Here's the lineup:
4-6: Saima and Sophie
6-8: Derina and Warren.
I will go to QPIRG beforehand and get tabling materials.

Lug-A-Mug:
We'll start giving cookies away to people who bring their own mugs again next Friday. Gabrielle will call the organic cafe at her old sejep and ask where they get their cookies. We'll organize shifts next week.

Kyoto's Birthday:
Kyoto's birthday is Feb. 16th, and we'd like to do something in conjunction with other campus groups to celebrate. Ideas include a birthday cake, showing An Inconvenient Truth again and a debate among the campus political groups.

QPIRG Movie month:
QPIRG is asking its working groups to show movies, so we need to come up with a good environmentally related one. We'll probably show the Recycling Documentary that was made over the summer by two MSE graduates, but that's short, so we could show something else, too. Ideas include: The End of Suburbia and Oil On Ice. Everyone should try to think of other good enviro-movies.

Notebooks:
We need to be more aggressive about collecting scrap paper for our one-sided notebooks because there's a big demand for them. I will write to various people and ask them to put an announcement on their list servs. Next meeting, we'll make signs to put in the photocopy rooms where the boxes are in order to make them more noticeable.

General Assembly:
A bunch of campus groups are planning to bring the idea of a sustainability policy to this semester's GA. This means we need to publicize a lot. We're thinking of tabling, writing letters to the editor, postering, doing class announcements and advertising at Midnight Kitchen and activities night. Stay tuned for more information!

Take care everyone,
Saima

Minutes from our last meeting of the year

2006-11-29T20:58:00.000-05:00

We had a short meeting tonight. Here are a few items that we discussed:

1. Cookie giveaway
Next semester, we'll continue giving away cookies at Tim Hortons to people who bring mugs. Hopefully it would encourage and remind people to do so.

2. Utensil Rental Project
We can order 100 plates and cups with a student group at University de Montreal who is doing a similar project. This way we can get a better price. We'll also be getting forks, knives and some kitchen supplies from second hand stores. And also some bins to carry and store the utensils.
QPIRG can give us a maximum of $250 and the rest will possibly be funded by SSMU campus life fund.

3. First meeting next semester
We'll have our first meeting next semester on Friday, Jan 5th at Benelux, which is a funky pub located at 245 Sherbrooke O.

Good luck on your exams. Don't study too hard!

Sunny

Carolling & today's minutes

2006-11-22T21:14:00.000-05:00

1. Buy Nothing Day Carolling
We will be singing Buy Nothing Day songs to the tunes of Christmas carols tomorrow at Shatner and Friday in the Eaton Centre.
Meeting times and place:
Thursday Nov 22, 12 noon, 2nd floor Shatner (cafeteria)
Friday Nov 23, 4pm, in front of Carlton Cards in the McGill metro station (exit Maisonneuve & McGill college)
Everyone is welcome to join us. Lyrics will be provided. No experience necessary!

2. An Inconvenient Truth
Screening of the movie will be at 6:30pm, Nov 27 (Monday) at Adams Auditorium. Afterward, there will be food and a letter-writing campaign.
The letters will be aimed towards persuading the government to respect Kyoto protocol.

3. Plate Rental Project
Storage space: In order to get a storage place in SSMU, we need to be a SSMU club. In order to become a club, we need 5 initial members. Then after a 3 months interim period, we will need to have 25 members and 3 club activities to become a formal club. It's decided that our club will be called "The Plates Club"! Mariam will fill out the necessary forms.
Funding: We need around $750 to buy utensils. Greening McGill can contribute $200 from our budget. The rest we can get through either Campus Life Fund or QPIRG. Sunny will look into applying for Campus Life Fund and Saima will contact QPIRG.

4. Trip to Gault nature reserve
We will leave Friday night (Jan 12) and come back Sunday morning (Jan 14). Transportation will be by bus and car. Cost: approximately $25. Email us to sign up!

5. One-sided paper collection
Not many people are putting paper in our green boxes. Maybe we need better signage to tell people what it's for. We also need to put one in the life sciences library and one in McLellan.

6. Cookie give-away
Our third cookie give-away will be held this Friday 9:30-11:30 at Tim Hortons. Anyone who brings mug gets a free cookie!

Happy Buy Nothing Day!

Sunny

Pre-Buy Nothing Day

2006-11-22T21:13:00.000-05:00

:: Buy Nothing Day ::

Buy Nothing Day is a celebration of life beyond the fluorescent glare of consumerism. Together we will provide meals, clothes, music, art and more, in a spirit of community, rather than consumption.

:: Thursday 11 -4 :: Shatner (2nd floor) :: Lunch at 12:30 pm.

Please join us for Pre-BND, a lunch-time festival of ethical alternatives.

Barter Fair and Clothing Exchange! Bring old clothes and old junk to trade with other students. If you're no longer using it, why not give someone else a chance; and you can bring home something new for your troubles.

Skill Swap! Trade your knowledge, empower your community. Anyone can share; for example, we could cover bike repair, button-making, MLA citations, web design and more.

+++ Free Music by CKUT
+++ Free Arts&Crafts by QPIRG McGill
+++ Free Films from the library
Midnight Kitchen and Organic Campus will provide free, vegan, community-based lunches for all!

Everything is totally free! Buy nothing dude.

For more info, environment@ssmu.mcgill.ca

No public funding for the Alouettes

2006-11-22T21:12:00.000-05:00

If you don't want your tax money going towards the expansion of the Alouettes' football stadium, and subsequently the encroachment of our precious Mount Royal, please sign the petition and pass on.

PETITION AGAINST PUBLIC FUNDING FOR THE MONTREAL ALOUETTES

We, the undersigned, are opposed to any public monies (municipal,
provincial or federal) that could be awarded to the Montreal Alouettes for
the expansion of McGill University's Percival-Molson Stadium.

The expansion project in question will cost $27 million of which $23
million is expected to come from public sources. We believe that a private
project should be financed in major part by private interests. This
privately owned football club that belongs to Bob Wetenhall from the U.S.,
has accumulated deficits over the past several years and we further believe
that our money should in no way serve to support such a business.

If our governments and business community wish to remain coherent with
their current thinking on reducing state intervention, they should ask that
this project from the entertainment sector be financed in large part
through private investors.

www.ipetitions.com/petition/ALOUETTES2006

Th Principal's in for a surprise!

2006-11-22T14:46:00.000-05:00

TIRED OF CARS TRYING TO RUN YOU OVER ON CAMPUS???

Come out to Town Hall tomorrow at lunchtime, where Greening McGill will be presenting its massive written-on-bedsheets petition for a car free campus! Come show the Principal you support the cause!

See you all at 12 in the Strathcona Music Building!

Yours truly,
Greening McGill

Sent on behalf of The Principal's Office
Subject: McGill Town Hall Invitation

Principal Heather Munroe-Blum invites all McGill students, faculty and
staff to attend a Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006.
The meeting, which is a part of an ongoing series of open forums with
the Principal, will provide an opportunity to discuss issues of
relevance to the McGill community.

Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Time: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Location: Schulich School of Music, Strathcona Music Building, 555
Sherbrooke St. West, Tanna Schulich Hall A202.

Information:
Meira Terk
Office of the Associate Vice-Principal (Communications) (514) 398-2078
meira.terk@mcgill.ca

Nov 15 Minutes

2006-11-16T14:03:00.000-05:00

First of all, there are two announcements:

We are planning to present the Car Free Campus petition to Principal Heather Munroe-Blum at the Townhall meeting on Wednesday Nov 22. We need as many people as possible to carry down the lonnnngggg... bedsheet petition. Meet on the front steps of new music building (next to Queen Victoria statue) at 11:40. Please come and support us!

The McGill Green Party is organizing a vegetarian lunch to talk about visions of the Green Party in Canada. David Chernushenko, Deputy Leader for the Green Party will be there for discussions and questions.
When: Sat. Nov. 18, 2006 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Where: Le Commensal, 1720 Rue St. Denis (at Ontario) Metro: Berri-UQAM

Here's the minutes:

1. Cookie give-away
There's another cookie give-away at the Tim Hortons (Redpath basement) this Friday from 9:30 to 11:30. Anyone who brings a mug gets a free cookie!

2. Buy Nothing Day (Friday, Nov 24)
We will be carolling Buy Nothing Day songs next Friday. We will start in Shatner at around 11:30, then we will meet again to carol in Eaton Centre at around 4pm. Check next week's minutes for exact meeting time and place.

3. Notebooks at EUS
EUS general store would like to carry re-used paper notebooks. We would need to get more one-sided paper. Michelle will ask the music library if it's okay to put a box there to collect one-sided paper.

4. Computer task force
They have 75 computers to recycle/give away. If anyone has any ideas for where they can go, please tell us.

5. Gault Nature Reserve
We are planning an overnight trip to the Gault Nature Reserve on Jan 12-14. Check out this website if you don't know what Gault is: http://www.mcgill.ca/gault/ . If you are interested in coming, please let us know. Please also mention in the email whether you can drive or have a car.

6. Utensil Rental Project
We would like to offer free utensil rental to faculty and student events. Concordia has a similar program with plates, mugs, glasses, forks, knives and spoons. They spent an initial investment of $750. When utensils are rented out, the renting party signs a contract and puts down a 5% deposit. Issues to solve: we would need a space to store the utensils and to wash them afterwards. Creating a new SSMU affiliated club would give us access to a locker in Shatner but it would take about 3 months to become a formal club.

See you at the townhall!

Sunny

Cookies, smoothies & Nov 8 minutes

2006-11-08T22:00:00.000-05:00

First of all, there are a few announcements once again:

1. Save Westmount Park
The government wishes to uproot the natural grass in Westmount Park and replace it with artificial turf, which has deleteriouos effects both socially and environmentally. The environmental hazards include that recycled rubber granules are released into the air, leaching chemicals into the groundwater. It will also result in excluding park-users and enjoyers to a very select few, instead of being a park that can be shared by everyone. Also, the predicted $1.7 MILLION cost can clearly be redirected in more beneficial causes than redoing a soccer field.There is a petition being passed (and emailed) around to preserve the natural grass of Westmount Park. This should not be a concern for only Westmounters, but also to both local and international Montrealers who have enjoyed the park's beautiful fields.
Save Westmount Park's website and petition as well as further info is found at www.savewestmountpark.com

2. Cookie Give-away
We are giving away cookies to people who bring their own mugs to Tim Hortons (the one at Redpath basement) and we need volunteers to be cookie givers! We'll be doing this from 9:30-11:30am (in hourly shifts) every Friday in November. This Friday, we need volunteers for the 10:30-11:30 shift. If you are free this Friday or any other Fridays, please email us.

3. Car Free Campus Petition, Notebooks & Bike Blender all in one!
Next Tuesday, Nov 14, we are tabling in McConnell. We'll be displaying the petition for car free campus (on a longgggg... bedsheet), selling recycled paper notebooks and also smoothies made with a bike-powered blender! Please come help us out if you are free any time between 10 to 2:30. Or come try out our fabulous bike blender!

November 8th Meeting Minutes:

1. Meeting with McGill printing services
Michelle and Saima met with the head of McGill printing services this Monday. He confirmed that all black & white printers and photocopiers in libraries and McGill printing services now use 100% post-consumer paper. And soon all library printers will set their defaults to print double-sided too! He also agreed to try to set up a photocopier that uses one-sided recycled paper. In return, Greening McGill agreed to help them raise awareness about double-sided printing in departments (give tutorials about how to reset defaults, etc.) and provide some publicity.

2. Otesha Workshop
Since inviting the Otesha group to come and give a workshop requires a certain amount of fundraising ($500-$1000), we decided to forgo the idea for now. The idea of inviting a guest speaker instead was also briefly discussed.

3. Free Utensil Rental
An idea was suggested to offer free rental of reusable utensils on campus. Concordia has set up a similar program successfully on their campus. The utensils will be rent out to department and student events for free (with them leaving a small deposit). We are looking at buying around 200 plates, mugs, forks and spoons. Funding to purchase these utensils will be the first issue. We can possibly get some money from SSMU's campus life fund or a QPIRG grant for student initiatives. The second issue is to have a permanent space to store the utensils.

4. Collaborative Meeting on Sunday Nov 5th
The second collaborative meeting among all McGill student environment groups took place last Sunday. The meeting discussed several ideas. One is to have a referendum to introduce a paid position on environment in SSMU. This paid employee will work with the current SSMU environmental commissioner (an unpaid position) to provide more continuity and support. The second idea is to have a proposal at the next SSMU general assembly for the establishment of an senate committee on environment.

5. Buy Nothing Day (Friday, November 24)
Trevor, the SSMU environmental commissioner, is planing several events around that day, including a clothing SWAP and moving Midnight Kitchen down to the Shatner cafeteria. We will be carolling "Buy Nothing Day" songs on campus as well as in Eaton centre. So keep tuned for upcoming events!

6. Hillel
Hillel, a Jewish student society, has a house on Stanley and they would like our help to make their house more environmental friendly. We agreed to be their consultants.

that's all for this week,
-- Sunny

Student Rally & Nov 1 Minutes

2006-11-02T20:16:00.000-05:00

Hi,

Here's what we talked about tonight:

1. Rally against Green Plan II
- Stephen Harper announced the Clean Air Act on October 19th. In which, he promises to reduce greenhouse gas emission by 2050! By which time, we will all be over 70 years old and it's doubtful whether we will have a planet to live on. So come out this Saturday to protest against this so called "Green Plan!"
- meeting time & place: 12:00 on Saturday Nov 4, at Roddick Gates
- you can also help us make signs and props for the rally: meet at 5pm on Friday, QPIRG 2nd floor (it will be a potluck, so bring some food if you can)

2. Recycled paper notebooks
- check the box in Schulich library: Saima
- talk to EUS about selling the notebooks there: Michelle
- a new box to collect one-sided paper will be put in the geography library

3. Campaign to reduce campus paper use
- McLennan library now uses 100% post-consumer paper for their printers and photocopiers!
- Michelle is meeting with the person responsible for library printing services on Monday Nov 6, at 1pm to discuss several topics:
~ set up a photocopier that uses one-sided recycled paper
~ set photocopiers to print double-sided by default
~ education for professors and department heads on the importance of paper use reduction

4. Otesha
- we will offer the Otesha group $200 for them to come to Montreal and teach us their play in early January
- participants needed: 10 people
- duration: one weekend
- will be a separate event from the Gault retreat

5. Car Free Campus petition
- book a table in McConnell next week: sell notebooks and display the petition
- lay the petition on the floor in the cooridor
- give the petition to the SSMU student caucus afterwards

6. Mugs Compaign
- in November, we will be promoting mug use in school cafeteria
- hand out cookies at Tim Hortons to people who bring their own mugs for coffee
- takes place every Friday

7. Coalition meeting
- there's a second meeting for all campus environmental groups this Sunday Nov 5th at 3:30pm
- it will take place at Saima, Michelle and Sunny's home: 4304 Ave. Earnscliffe. Take the metro to Villa-Maria, then walk along Monkland for 3 blocks and you'll find it.
- everyone's welcome!

8. Climate Change Youth Coalition
- Greening Mcgill will be joining the CCYC as part of the student movement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- CCYC is set up by the Sierra Youth Coalition

see you at the Rally!

Sunny

Green Drinks this Hallowe'en Tuesday!

2006-10-30T19:58:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

Green Drinks is tomorrow! This is a good opportunity to discuss environmental issues in general, and with Green Plan II just having come out, this is a good time to talk about possible actions. See below for details.

-Saima

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Greetings and Salutations,

Come join us on Hallowe'en night for another Green Drinks Montreal get-together. Be sure to wear your wackiest (and recycled, of course) costume and bring along your eco-friendly ghouls and ghosts! There will be tricks and treats too (well, maybe just the treats)!

WHEN:
Tuesday, October 31st, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

WHERE:
Brutopia
1219 Crescent (between Ste. Catherine and Rene Levesque)
Montreal
(514) 393-9277
http://www.brutopia.net

CONTACT:
Questions? Please email greendrinksmontreal@gmail.com.

See you soon,

the Green Drinks Montreal team

ps - With the aim of improving Green Drinks Montreal, in the next week or so we will be contacting you via email to ask that you to participate in a very brief online survey. Please forgive us in advance for the extra email.

QPIRG McGill's Open House

2006-10-21T10:32:00.000-04:00

QPIRG MCGILL'S OPEN HOUSE AND SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING

Wednesday October 25, 2006, 5-7pm
3647 University St., 3rd Floor

Join us for free refreshments, drinks, music and interesting conversations.

This Wednesday October 25th all students are invited for a 5 a 7, meet and greet. The aim of this event is to introduce the wider McGill community to the personnel, campaigns and working groups that function under the umbrella of the QPIRG. McGill students will also have the opportunity to influence the internal structure of the organization through the selection of new members for the Board of Directors.

Refreshments will be provided. Don't miss this chance to take an active part in your social and environmental justice organization on campus.

Quebec Public Interest Research Group at McGill University
3647 University, 3rd Floor
Montreal, Quebec, H3Z 2P8
Tel. 514-398-7432
Fax. 514-398-8976
http://ssmu.mcgill.ca/qpirg

Green Plan II & Minutes for Oct 18

2006-10-19T00:59:00.000-04:00

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Stephen Harper is releasing the government's environmental program, Green Plan II, tomorrow (Oct 19). However, it is expected to be anything but "green". The Campus Climate Challenge is planning to stage a funeral for the planet earth in front of James McGill's tomb on Friday. They will dress in black and hand out condolence cards to passers-by. These cards are to mourn the death of our beautiful planet and they can be sent to MPs as protest against Green Plan II. Anyone who is interested in helping out can meet on the front steps of the Arts building at 10am, 12pm, 2pm. Please bring or wear black clothes.

A reminder that the waste audit is happening on Thursday (tomorrow) at 5:30pm in Gerts. There will be food and music!

Here's the minutes for October 18th's meeting:

1. Homecoming weekend
- bringing Car Free Campus petition for McGill alumni to sign
- Oct 21st, this Saturday: meet at 11:15 at McGill Bookstore 3rd floor (where the cafe is)
- Saima will get signs about the petition from QPIRG, and markers

2. Waste Reduction Week
- Get Caught Recycling progress report: the recycling bins in Shatner are labelled very confusingly; the compost bin that used to be there is not there anymore.
- There might be a screening of An Inconvenient Truth on Monday, Oct 23, 4-6pm

3. Gault trip
- one chalet is booked from 3pm Friday, Jan 12 until noon on Sunday, Jan 14.

4. Table for selling notebooks
- one table was booked for Oct 30th

Happy waste reduction week!

-- Sunny Zhai

An opportunity to get involved!

2006-10-17T09:45:00.000-04:00

Here's a neat thing that's going on:

ETHICAL ALTERNATIVES DAY

How do our actions, what we wear, what we eat, the things we buy, how
we live, impact our environment and communities? Ethical
alternatives day is an event hoping to mobilize student groups on
campus, in order to raise awareness about alternative ways of living
that reduce harm and promote respect in our daily decisions.

GOAL

To provide information that empowers individuals, through awareness, to
make lifestyle choices based on respectful and democratic values.

Many students wish to make ethical choices but do not know how to put
into action the values they hold. Or, they may not even realize that a
choice exists. The focus of this event is therefore to provide
concrete information upon which individuals can act.

VISION

· A day-long event with tables set up in Leacock Hall

· Student groups provide researched information about existing
alternatives for individuals who wish to consume responsibly and to
live ethically

· The compilation of this research into a student handbook of
ethical alternatives

· The promotion of related products ex: fair trade sales/samples

· Other related awareness opportunities for community groups

· To sustain these efforts to promote ethical living by
publishing further information, hosting subsequent workshops, etc.

As student groups, we are strong advocates for the environment, for
human rights and for community health. In collaboration with one
another, we can help to enable, in ourselves and our peers, healthy and
ethical living.

Let's work together!

If your group is interested in participating in this event, please contact:

ethicalpurchasing@gmail.com

*** MEETING for all interested groups on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 . ***
€
Please RVSP for more information.

Recycling Week Schedule

2006-10-17T09:44:00.000-04:00

Thank you to everyone who volunteered to stand in Shatner cafeteria and help people recycle and compost! Here's the final schedule:

Monday-- 11:30-12:30: Tim and Rei 12:30-1:00: Rei 1:00-1:30: Rei and Marianne

Tuesday-- 11:30-12:30: Danielle, Samantha and Lesley 12:30-1:30: Sophie, Saima and Rei

Wednesday-- 11:30-12:30: Tim and Marianne Marcoux (NB--different from the Marianne who is volunteering on Monday) 12:30-1:30: Samantha and Marianne Marcoux

Thursday-- 11:30-1:30: Saima and Sunny

Friday 11:30-12:30: Tim, Michelle and Sophie 12:30-1:30: Saima, Michelle and Sophie

Everyone should meet at the main doors to the Shatner cafeteria, right at the top of the stair. That's where the trash cans are, as well as the the recycling bins, and I *think* Gorilla Composting also has a composting bucket in the vacinity. One of the people volunteering will have pamphlets about recycling that you can use both for your reference and to give to interested people. Someone will also have a t-shirt for you, and maybe candy to give to people if Tim and I get around to buying it. During your shift, just stand by the trashcans and if you see people throwing out something that could be recycled or composted then politely explain to them that it's National Waste Reduction Week, and that we're encouraging people to think about reducing their waste, and then give them some candy and a pamphlet. People who are on the 11:30-12:30 shifts: please wait around for the 12:30 -1:30 people and pass your pamphlets, candy and shirts off to them.

There will also be a waste audit of the Shatner building happening this week. If you're interested in wearing a space suit and sorting through trash from Shatner to see how much of it could actually have been recycled or composted, meet at Gertz at 5:30 on Tuesday and/or Thursday of this week. Please email Rachel at rachel.laurin@gmail.com if you're planning to go. There will be FREE FOOD AND MUSIC!!!

-Saima

Announcements & Minutes for Oct 11

2006-10-12T11:38:00.000-04:00

First of all, there are a few announcements to make.

1. There is a potluck this Thursday as a "green mingle" event for all who want to come. Email sylvia.action@gmail.com for more information.

2. As part of the Waste Reduction Week, there will be a recycling audit next week to find out how much garbage McGill students throw out can actually be recycled or composted. Anyone who is interested in helping out can meet in Gertzon next Tuesday and Thursday at 5:30pm. There will be food and music!

3. Mini tabling fair is happening on Tuesday, October 17th from 12-4pm in Tomlinson Hall (McGill Sports Complex). Anyone who want to table are more than welcome to come.

4. There will be a meeting this Sunday (Oct 15) at 3:30pm at Saima's apartment to talk about forming a coalition of campus environment groups and possibly lobbying SSMU to be more sustainable. Everyone is welcome to come. The address is 4304 Ave. Earnscliffe. You can take the orange line metro to Villa-Maria then walk west on Monkland. The apartment is only a few blocks from the metro station.

Minutes from October 11th meeting:

1. Waste Reduction Week (Oct 16-20)
- we got t-shirts and pamphlets from Kathleen
- volunteers will be at Shatner cafeteria from 11:30-1:30 everyday to inform people about recycling and composting
- waste audit will happen on tues, thurs at 5:30pm at Gerts. Food and music will be provided.
- mini tabling fare will be on tuesday at Tomlinson Hall for environmental groups who want to table
- possibly a movie showing of An Inconvenient Truth and the McGill recycling documentary

2. Petition for a Car Free Campus
- Homecoming schedule of events present two opportunities: at a meeting for female alumni at RBC on Oct 21 from 12-2pm; at the lunch & livres at McGill Bookstore from 11:30-2pm on the same day
- ideas: table in front of the bookstore; have a petition at each event for alumni to sign

3. SSMU's environmental policy
- meeting on Sunday to discuss how to lobby SSMU to be more sustainable
- can make changes to the policy at general assemblies
- can modify/add to SSMU's constitution through referendum: make an environmental committee part of the constitution?

4. Other issues
- Gault is free for two weekends in January; we'll book the earlier weekend for a retreat
- Campus Climate Challenge would like to organize a meeting of students of talk about consequences of Stephen Harper's Green Plan II (due to be released any day) and what we want to do about it.
- Car Free Day is now an official McGill event! Campus will be automatically closed to cars on that day from now on.
- Rez Project: floors fellows are required to talk to students about social issues at beginning of the year; a component of environmental education can be added to it.
- Blender: the old hand-powered blender is missing so we need to buy a new one from MEC in order to use the bike blender; order online or send someone to the store?
- QPIRG is up for referendum this year. If enough students vote "no" for funding it, QPIRG can disappear. We've been asked to include a QPIRG logo on all publication and promotion materials, and to raise awareness of QPIRG in general.

That's all. Good luck on the midterms!

-- Sunny Zhai

October 4 Minutes & a Call for Volunteers!

2006-10-04T23:00:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,

Call for volunteers:
We are planning a "Get Caught Recycling" campaign during the Waste Reduction week on Oct 16-20. And we need volunteers to stand in pairs in the Shatner cafeteria during lunch time to stop people from throwing away recyclables and/or compostable food scraps, and educate them in general about recycling and composting. You can email us to sign up for 1-hour shifts between 11:30 and 2:30 during that week. Your help will be very appreciated!

Issues discussed in this week's meeting:
1) Recto-Verso campaign
2) Car Free Campus petition
3) Gault nature reserve trip
4) Otesha workshop
5) Waste Reduction Week (October 16-20) - not next week!
6) Report from the Sustainable Campuses Conference in PEI

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1) Recto-Verso campaign
- responses from libraries and computer labs for putting a one-sided paper collection box next to printers:
~ Schulich Library: yes
~ Redpath Library: waiting for an answer
~ Life Sciences Library: need to ask the janitor
~ Management computer lab: can send someone to collect paper but cannot put a box there
- book a table at McConnell for selling notebooks
- Rethink would like us to launch a campaign to set photocopiers on campus to print double-sided on default

2) Car Free Campus petition
- Gorilla compost asked: are we giving it to the SSMU president or the senate caucus?
- Lay it out on campus again on October 20th (friday)
- October 21st (saturday): Homecoming for McGill Alumni
~ find out their schedule of events
~ have the petition ready at various events and have alumni sign it
~ should make a new stretch of bedsheets just for alumni

3) Gault nature reserve trip
- no answer from Environmental Law
- chalets are fully booked for Oct 14, 15
- one chalet available on Oct 28, 29
- decision: postpone the trip until January since it's going to be winter anyway by end of October; plan a big retreat for all McGill environmental groups in the first couple weeks of January

4) Otesha workshop
- Otesha has a new play for educating adults about a sustainable life style
- they can teach it to us then we can perform it for McGill students
- requires a 3-day retreat for training purposes (possibly combine it with the Gault trip in Jan)
- where and when should we perform it?
~ in a classroom
~ in residences
~ at the three bares, or on the lower field in the spring
- number of people required for the play: 8-10

5) Waste Reduction Week (October 16-20)
- the previous minutes said October 10-13, which is WRONG!
- waste audit: see how much of the garbage ppl throw away on campus can actually be recycled or composted
- "Get caught recycling"
~ uniforms? made t-shirts last year that people can wear
~ the plan: a pair of students can stand in Shatner cafeteria during lunch hour and give people prizes for recycling or punish them for throwing away recyclables
~ need volunteers to sign up for 1-hour shifts from 11:30-1:30 on October 16th to 20th.

6) Report from the Sustainable Campuses Conference in PEI (from Sophie)
- McGill has many student environmental groups compared to other Canadian universities
- McGill administration is not very good for initiating environmental actions
- the student groups should coordinate with each other more in order to gain stronger lobbying power
~ idea: set up a committee with representatives from each group
~ lobby SSMU to institutionalize a sustainable policy
~ tasks: research the existing policy and check to see whether they are implemented; come up with specific targets

have a great thanksgiving weekend!

--Sunny

QPIRG Job Postings

2006-10-02T23:25:00.001-04:00

1) Resource Centre Coordinator
2) Media Collective Coordinator

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Committed to social justice?
Need a job?

QPIRG-McGill is now hiring a Resource Centre Coordinator. In order to
qualify you MUST be approved by McGill as a work-study student.

Resource Centre Co-ordinator

Responsibilities:
To co-ordinate the overall activities of the QPIRG-McGill Resource
Centre:
- Assist volunteers, students and the general public in accessing
the library's resources (books, magazines, movies, CDs, etc.);
- Manage and update subscriptions;
- Keep track of borrowed items and maintain/update the library
database;
- Order new books, videos, etc.;
- Co-ordinate with other QPIRG staff members;
- Coordinate with other alternative/radical libraries to update an
online/searchable database of resources.

Applicants Should Have:
- Strong organizational skills;
- Excellent interpersonal skills;
- Knowledge of social justice issues/ literature;
- Good research and data management skills.
- Previous library experience an asset.

Details:
$12.85/ hr., 10 hours/ wk (Fall and Winter semesters)

QPIRG recognizes and welcomes the unique contributions that
individuals from diverse communities bring to our organization, and
invites individuals from these communities to apply.
We encourage participants to describe the unique contributions
they, as individuals with diverse experiences, would bring to the
QPIRG-McGill organization, in their cover letter or resume

Please submit your cover letter and resume before the APPLICATION
DEADLINE: Monday, OCTOBER 16, 2006, 5PM. Submissions can be made via
email, please submit all attachments in Rich-Text Format - .rtf) or
can be dropped off at our office from Monday to Friday 11-5pm

QPIRG-McGill
3647 University Street - 3rd floor
Montreal, QC
H3A 2B3

For more info, please contact Indu at 398-7432. For more
information on QPIRG and its library visit our website.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Committed to social justice?
Need a job?

QPIRG-McGill is now hiring a Media Collective Coordinator. In order
to qualify you MUST be approved by McGill as a work-study student.

Responsibilities:
- To provide research and other support to the QPIRG Media Collective;
- To identify and recruit new volunteers for the Media Collective/
radio show;
- Coordinate volunteers producing QPIRG's radio show/zine;
- Co-ordinate with other QPIRG staff members;

Applicants Should Have:
- Strong organizational skills;
- Excellent interpersonal skills;
- Knowledge of social justice issues/ literature;
- Good research and data management skills.
- Previous radio or layout experience an asset.

Details:
$12.00/ hr., 10 hours/ wk (Fall and Winter semesters)

QPIRG recognizes and welcomes the unique contributions that
individuals from diverse communities bring to our organization, and
invites individuals from these communities to apply.
We encourage participants to describe the unique contributions
they, as individuals with diverse experiences, would bring to the
QPIRG-McGill organization, in their cover letter or resume

Please submit your cover letter and resume before the APPLICATION
DEADLINE: Monday, OCTOBER 16, 2006, 5PM. Submissions can be made via
email, please submit all attachments in Rich-Text Format - .rtf) or
can be dropped off at our office from Monday to Friday 11-5pm

QPIRG-McGill
3647 University Street - 3rd floor
Montreal, QC
H3A 2B3

For more info, please contact Indu at 398-7432. For more information
on QPIRG and its library visit our website.

Quebec Public Interest Research Group at McGill University
3647 University, 3rd Floor
Montreal, Quebec, H3Z 2P8
Tel. 514-398-7432
Fax. 514-398-8976
http://ssmu.mcgill.ca/qpirg

Pictures from Car Free Day!

2006-09-29T20:37:00.000-04:00

I hope that everyone enjoyed the festivities last Friday (September 22) and please come out again next year!

The Greening McGill and Rethink display tells of various actions we can take to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Not driving a car is one of them!

Students signing the petition made of used bedsheets in support for a Car Free Campus at McGill.

The McGill Post-Graduate Students' Society Environment Committee (PGSSEC) shows off an electric snowmobile.

Right to Move, a bike co-op run by Concordia students, gives a free bike repair workshop on campus.

Louis-Philip, a member of Greening McGill, gives away sunflower plants and touch-me-not in used Boreal beer cups to passers-by.

Students celebrating Bike Power during a synchronized bike show.

Minutes - September 27, 2006

2006-09-27T22:59:00.000-04:00

1. Feedback for Car Free Day (last Friday)
- it was great!
- security costed a lot more than expected
- the naked bikers were cool
- Norman King speech went well
- the plants give-away was a success
- no need for a microphone
- what to do with the petition for a Car Free Campus: keep adding to it until it's amazingly long, then people can carry it around campus (like how Olympic atheltics carry the flag) for a day before handing it to SSMU to give to the Senate

2. Plan for the year
- overnight trip to the Gault Nature Reserve
~ collaborate with Environmental law
~ set on October 14th & 15th tentatively
~ check for chalet availability
~ car situation: renting cars or does anyone own a car? (possible help from Enviromental law?)

- Recycling week (October 9-13)
~ Kathleen: wants to do a waste audit
~ people holding recycling signs
~ "Get caught recycling" campaign: give people awards when they are caught recycling on campus; maybe with theatrical effects
~ signs for what can or cannot be recycled
~ promote use of mugs in coffee shops

- Recto-Verso campaign
~ formed a subcommittee to focus on issues such as:
~ use post-consumer paper for photocopiers
~ give post-consumer paper to faculties to try and build relationships with faculty members
~ recycled notebooks:
pick up and distribution
bringing one-sided paper to Copie Nova
put boxes in libraries and computer labs to collect one-sided paper
how to design these boxes to prevent people abusing them?

- other ideas:
~ putting the paper policy on the syllabus
~ do Otesha skits on campus (they have a new adult version)

thanks everyone for coming out on Car Free Day!
-- Sunny Zhai

Minutes - September 20, 2006

2006-09-20T22:32:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,

Here's the minutes from tonight:

1. Introduction of new members

2. Car Free Day(Sept 22, this Friday!): volunteers and other stuff
- set up at 8am-10am
- take down at 3pm-5pm
- meet at the crossroads if you want to help out
- improv show at 11:45
- Synchronized Biking: if you want to join, bring your bike and meet at crossroads at 12:30; no prior experience necessary!
- Street hockey/soccer: bring your hockey sticks and play on the street!
- button-making: come make your own buttons and help spread the word for environmental activism!

3. New ideas for the year
- a trip to the Gault nature reserve
- promoting city-wide composting; putting compost bins in McGill cafeteria
- creating a newsletter about the different environmental initiatives at various universities/colleges
- guest speaker topics: environmental engineering; off-grid buildings (w/ self-generated electricity) on campus
- an online message board for Greening McGill

Come join us this Friday, Sept 22 to celebrate Car Free Day! And bring your friends!

--Sunny Zhai

Volunteers Needed!

2006-09-17T20:38:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone,

This Friday, Sept. 22nd, Greening McGill will be having its annual Car Free Day celebration. We'll be closing off the main drive from the Roddick Gates to the Arts building. From 10 to 3, groups will be tabling and people will be playing games in the street. We really need people to volunteer to help us out, especially during set up and take down. Key times will be 8am to 10am and 3pm to 5pm. Anytime that you can help out during the day would be greatly appreciated, though. Please send us an email if you can help!

-Saima Sidik

Minutes - September 13, 2006

2006-09-13T22:35:00.000-04:00

Here's the minutes from our meeting tonight (Sept 13,2006):

1. Activities Night Agenda
- recruit volunteers for Car Free Day
- sell notebooks made out of recycled paper ($1.50 each)
- talk to other student groups about tabling on Car Free Day
- set up at 3:45pm

2. Results from Re-orientation (Sept 9)
- made a list of all environmental groups on campus
- all groups agreed to communicate with each other via SMP's message board
- all environmental groups should have joint events regularly, starting with Car Free Day
- suggestion: attach several bedsheets together and use it to write a petition for a car free campus

3. Green Party
- would like to hold a debate on campus in late november
- possibly a debate between all party groups at McGill

4. Car Free Day Updates
- roads close from 6am to 4pm
- activities are planned from 10am to 3pm
- invite professors and students to play hockly or soccer on the street
- SACOMSS will be tabling
- no reply from the bookstore
- Louis-Philip will bring seedlings
- can possibly get house plants from Steward Bio
- invite SSMU to table
- get microphone and chalkboard for the day's schedule
- idea: make your own buttons

5. Car Free Day Tentative Schedule
8:00am Greening McGill set up
9:00am student groups come and set up
10:00am start of activities
soccer/hockey game on the street
10:30am improv show
11:30am vermicompost demonstration
12:30pm soccer/hockey game on the street
1:00pm synchonized biking
2:00pm Norman King speaks on "The Health Effect of Cars"
3:00pm end of activities/tabling

6. Publicity for Car Free Day
- send out information on the list serve
- make announcements in classes
- press release to campus newspapers (Daily, Tribune, etc.)
- talk to CKUT, TV McGill
- send out information on faculty newsletters
- advertise on the running red sign at Shatner
- put on a notice on the McGill online calendar and the QPIRG calendar

--Sunny Zhai

Minutes - September 6, 2006

2006-09-07T22:25:00.000-04:00

Here's what we discussed during our first Greening McGill meeting this year:

Meeting will be at 6pm every Wednesday at QPIRG

1. Election of offices
Co-coordinators: Saima, Sophie
Treasurer: Michelle
Secretary: Sunny (Fall term)
Derina (Winter term)

2. Plans for this year
September: Car Free Day
October: recycling campaign
Throughout the year: paper campaign, guest speakers, bike blender
Other ideas: debates/discussions, involve students from other faculties

3. Budget (Michelle)

4. Car Free Day
- movie: "Bill Nye, the science guy"
- street hockey: getting nets (Sophie), inviting intramural (Michelle)
- painting on canvas bags: contacting Dix Milles Villages, SSMU for bags (Sunny)
- vermicompost: demo or sell
- sell bargain books: Mcgill bookstore, library
- sell gym stuff
- arts & crafts
- putting household plants and furnitures on the street
- giving away sunflower plants: getting seeds (Danielle), getting cups (Louis-Philippe)
- invite student groups individually (Sophie)

5. Activities Night
- 4~6pm: Sunny, Samantha
- 6~8pm: Sophie, Danielle

Happy Fossil Fools Day!

2006-03-30T21:29:00.000-05:00

Celebrate Fossil Fools Day this coming Friday and Saturday!! All over
North America and across the oceans people will come together to
celebrate a low-carbon life on Earth. On Friday evening, festivities
will be held at 1221 Crescent Pub, with music, slam, song and dance;
this event is doubling as a fundraiser for a group of young activists
heading to the Climate Campaign Conference at Yale University in
Connecticut on April 6. The door is pay what you can and we will have
great clothes with silkscreened prints available for sale, plus
bookmarks, buttons, etc.

On Saturday, afternoon Fossil Fools Day festivities will be held at
Union Square from 2-4pm, with face-painting, recycled art,
silkscreening patches and clothes, eco-recipe book making, bike repair
and decoration, and a local food picnic(byo). Child friendly, people
friendly, earth friendly!

Fossil Fools' Day!

2006-03-19T19:43:00.000-05:00

Please join us for our last meeting of the year on

Wednesday March 22nd
6pm
QPIRG (3647 University, 3rd floor)
(Buzz QPIRG to get in.)

On the agenda:

1. Planning for Fossil Fools' Day, which we are celebrating early on March 24th
2. Drawing pictures for another batch of beautiful notebooks

Volunteers needed!

If you can spare half an hour or an hour on Friday March 24th in the Burnside basement to sell smoothies, hang out with the bike blender, watch Bill Nye the Science Guy, and hand out information about energy efficiency, if would be enormously appreciated! Please give us a hand with education. E-mail us ASAP at greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca to volunteer! People are expecially needed to help us set up around 9:30-10:00.

Cheers,
Greening McGill

meeting change! reminder and other notes

2006-03-12T13:55:00.000-05:00

1. Meeting this week: CHANGE OF LOCATION! The meeting this week will take place at 6:30 Michelle's house for a baking party. We are baking to show our appreciation for caretakers who pick up our recycling (and to encourage them to keep doing it!) Write here (greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca) to get my address.

2. SSMU Referenda: Greening McGill encourages you to vote Yes for the CKUT referendum question. We also pass along a message from the Yes committee for the General Assembly referendum question. See below for details.

Vote Yes for C-Kut.
From March 10th to 15th- Log onto
www.electionsmcgill.ca/vote
Keep Radio McGill at McGill.

Radio McGill has been part of the McGill landscape
since the 1950s. In 1987 McGill students voted to
support and help finance a campus-community radio
station. Since then CKUT Radio-McGill 90.3fm has
developed a reputation in the Montreal and
international communities as a launching platform for
underground music currents, as a source for news
produced by and for the community, and as a hub of
cultural events. CKUT remains the only primarily
anglophone campus- community radio station in
Montreal. 100,000 people a week testify to CKUT's
value and broadcasting excellence by tuning into CKUT.
The station has won numerous broadcasting awards,
including being repeatedly voted Montreal's best radio
station by the annual Montreal Mirror Reader's Poll.

Above all, CKUT provides students with the unique
opportunity to be heard; to share their own creative
and academic work while learning techniques of media
production. The station is extremely accessible and
offers hands-on training and educational opportunities
for McGill students all provided free of charge.
McGill students volunteer and are trained as
programmers, interviewers, technicians, archivers,
library helpers, producers and more. The station has
a weekly McGill student on-air training show, giving
new student volunteers the opportunity to test their
skills as soon as they are trained.

Each week, the events and activities of McGill groups
are announced free of charge over the airwaves. CKUT
also sponsors and promotes as many student, local and
grassroots events as the production studio can handle
(including concerts, lectures, fundraisers, festivals,
theatre events, film screenings, etc). McGill
students benefit from this direct connection to the
activities of the Montreal community and at the same
time gain the possibility to learn from, and network
with individuals from many backgrounds, experiences
and talents.

The mandate of CKUT has remained to be 'people-powered
radio'. News and culture programming focuses on
marginalized issues, communities and viewpoints that
would not ordinarily be granted a voice through
mainstream media. CKUT broadcasts in English, French,
Spanish, Creole, Korean and Filipino and therefore
connects a diversity of interests and communities
through a common interest in creating great radio.

CKUT can be heard from the Laurentians to Upstate New
York by tuning into the FM dial at 90.3 fm, 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week. The programming is also heard by
an international audience through livestreaming and
archives on the website (www.ckut.ca). You can stream
radio as it happens on your computer or ipod, and even
listen to the last two months of programming by
downloading your favourite shows. Music programming
at CKUT has always supported local, independent and
underground music spanning a wide range of musical
genres: from rock, to hip hop, bluegrass, electronic,
funk, reggae, ska, rai, folk, salsa, blues, bhangra
and more. Many local artists have blown up
internationally as a direct result of promotion and
airplay at CKUT.

Through CKUT, students get great programming, access
to events and promotion, and a vibrant, independent
media voice on-campus. All this for only $4.00 a
semester the equivalent of 2 cups of coffee,
certainly less than the price of a CD. For over 20
years CKUT has brought together students, journalists,
artists, Djs, poets and performers. Anyone with
something to say has been welcomed through the doors.
Help keep this opportunity available to you and McGill
students 20 years from now.

PLEASE HELP CKUT TO CONTINUE MAKING GREAT RADIO.

PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR CAMPUS/COMMUNITY INDEPENDENT
MEDIA.

PLEASE VOTE YES AND ENCOURAGE YOUR FELLOW MCGILL
STUDENTS TO DO THE SAME.

FYI:

CKUT ALUMNI:
Adrian Harewood CBC
Stuart Greer(sp) Global News
Ronnie Love Writer for CSI
Josey Vogels - Writer
Loraine Pindera - CBC

LOCAL ARTISTS PLAYED FIRST ON CKUT:
The Arcade Fire
The Stills
Wolf Parade
The Butta Babees
Sam Roberts

**General Assembly Referendum question.**

This election period's slate of referendum questions will include a student-initiated question asking whether there should be a change to the SSMU constitution that would mandate the Student Society to hold one general assembly (GA) per semester for the purpose of discussing and voting on issues relating to SSMU, its decisions, and its policies. The agenda for the general assemblies could include items brought by both council and student petitioning. The question also asks to change the quorum for a regular GA to one hundred members of the society from 200 while raising that of strike GA's to 500 members. Should a GA fail to meet quorum, it would then be turned into a consultative forum whose decisions would be taken into account by SSMU council without being binding in the same manner as those of a GA. For further details regarding the referendum question itself, please see the attached motion.

Whereas undergraduate students lack an open, accessible forum for discussing and determining the policy and positions of the Student Society of McGill University;

Whereas General Assemblies encourage debates on issues important to students and provide them with a means of directly participating in democratic decision-making;

Whereas regular General Assemblies have been and are successfully held by student associations both in universities (at UQAM, for instance) and in the vast majority of CEGEPS across Québec;

Whereas McGill students have recently demonstrated an increased interest in General Assemblies;

Whereas the creation of a culture of General Assemblies would foster continuous engagement of the members in the operation of the Society;

Do you agree with the following amendments to the Constitution of the Student Society of McGill University?

Amendment to Section VI General Assemblies

Current text: Article 23 Procedures
23.1 The Speaker of Council shall call a General Assembly if requested to do so in writing by no fewer than eight (8) councillors or two hundred (200) members of the Society from at least four (4) different Faculties or Schools without more than fifty percent (50%) being from any one Faculty or School.

23.2 Quorum for a General Assembly shall be two hundred (200) members of the Society from at least four (4) different Faculties or Schools. A maximum of one hundred (100) members from a particular Faculty or School are counted for purposes of quorum.

23.3 General Assemblies shall be chaired by the Speaker of Council and governed by Roberts Rules of Order and any special rules of procedures established by Council.

Parts in bold are proposed additions or changes to the Article 23 of the constitution.

New text: Article 23 Procedures
23.1 The Speaker of Council shall call a Special General Assembly if requested to do so in writing by no fewer than eight (8) councillors or two hundred (200) members of the Society from at least four (4) different Faculties or Schools without more than fifty percent (50%) being from any one Faculty or School.

23. 2 The Speaker of Council shall call a Regular General Assembly to be held during the fifth week of the fall and winter semesters. Items on the agenda shall be submitted in writing to the Speaker of Council two weeks before the date of the Regular General Assembly, either by no fewer than four (4) councillors or one hundred (100) members of the Society from at least four (4) different Faculties or Schools without more than fifty percent (50%) being from any one Faculty or School.

23.3 Regular General Assemblies and the process leading to the adoption of their agenda have to be widely publicized by the Society with all the necessary effort so that quorum is reached. For this purpose, the Society shall use the following communication tools: emails, website announcements, publicity in campus media, and posting. As soon as the agenda for a Regular General Assembly is known, the Society shall announce it in The Tribune, The McGill Daily and Le Délit.

23.4 Quorum for a Regular or a Special General Assembly shall be one hundred (100) members of the Society from at least four (4) different Faculties or Schools. A maximum of fifty (50) members from a particular Faculty or School are counted for purposes of quorum.

23.5 Quorum for a Strike General Assembly shall be five hundred (500) members of the Society from at least four (4) different Faculties or Schools. A maximum of two hundred and fifty (250) members from a particular Faculty or School are counted for purposes of quorum.

23.6 Should a Regular General Assembly fail to reach quorum half an hour after its scheduled time, the Speaker of Council shall turn it into a non-decisional Consultative Forum addressing the items on the agenda. The Speaker of Council shall report the minutes to next Council meeting so that a discussion can be held on the issues debated at this Forum.

23.7 General Assemblies and Consultative Forums shall be chaired by the Speaker of Council and governed by Roberts Rules of Order and any special rules of procedures established by Council.

MEETING CHANGE next week; talk on Climate Change

2006-03-02T10:34:00.000-05:00

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT: Next week's meeting is changed so that we can all attend the talk at New Rez about Climate Change. Meet at New Rez at 6 for the talk; meeting to follow.

How did humans first alter global climate?
6 PM | Mini Beatty Lecture: Dr. William Ruddiman, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia. (Co-sponsored by the Dept of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, the Green Crop Network and the McGill School of Environment.)
Sponsor: Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) [calendar for this unit]
Sponsor: Beatty Memorial Lectures Series [calendar for this unit]
Location: New Residence Building, 3625 Parc Avenue, Ballroom A
More information: A. Mansi [email], 514-398-3759

See below for some action items!

Mission: Make a box to collect some old paper
Date: whenever you feel like it
Location: any computer lab, library; or anywhere people are generating scrap paper
Time required: about an hour
Objective: to collect one-sided paper for making more notebooks
Details: Get an old photocopy paper box, decorate it, label it as a box for one-sided used paper; put a
slot in it for the paper to go in (Like a mailbox.) please contact us for specific instructions.
People needed: as many as volunteer!
If interested: write here: greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca

Mission: Encourage a department to buy 100% post-consumer recycled paper!
Date: whenever you feel like it
Location: your department's office
Time required: less than an hour
Objective: to get people to buy 100% post-consumer recycled paper!
Details: You will deliver a package of nice 100% post-consumer paper to a department chair. It is a
present! It is accompanied by a card that encourages this department to buy this good paper.
People needed: as many as volunteer!
If interested: write here: greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca

Minutes from March 1st

2006-03-01T21:34:00.000-05:00

Dear Greening McGill!

Here are the news:
1. Fossil Fools' Day
2. Recycling
3. Recto Verso
4. Rethink Conference
5. SUS Environment Week

1. Fossil Fools' Day
-March 31st, 2006
-to raise awareness about energy consumption and conservation!
-Derina - look into getting energy related fortune cookies made
-Michelle - get those energy flyers from Rethink
-Derina - negotiate with SUS about using Burnside basement and projecting Bill Nye!
-Derina - get us a projector
-Michelle- - bring speakers
-Marianne - ideas for some posters (but we'll look at what's in the closet first)
-Derina - bike blender
-Derina - think about a poster that tells the energy history of a frozen strawberry (for example)
-some action about people who take the elevator too much!
-Michelle - see if Rethink has any leftover t-shirts; if not, then we will print on our own old shirts
-Michelle - look into getting some lightbulbs
-everybody - think about some fun energy games

2. Recycling

We all are excited about having a caretaker appreciation event (e.g. bake them cookies and say how much we appreciate their collecting our recycling.) This is both sincere and strategic. Some guy who is in charge of the caretakers hates recycling. So we want the caretakers on our side! More details after confirmation with the recycling coordinator.

3. Recto Verso

-the Arts Computer labs are going to change their defaults to double-sided printing! YEAY!
-notebooks: great!
-Michelle will deliver 20 to Engineers; Derina will deliver 10 to MBSU
-we will draw a new cover next week for our next order.
-Michelle will make a box for scrap paper for the Arts lab
-we adopted departments to deliver presents of recycled paper.
-Michelle will buy the paper from QPIRG and let everybone know where it is.
-Derina: SSMU, Bio, Chem
-Marianne: Mac campus
-Sunny: Management, Education, Languages
-Michelle: Political science, Economics

4. Rethink Conference

-we will be making a presentation along with other student groups. a future meeting will include brainstorming on what we want our message to be and what other students are saying, to make a good presentation.

http://www.mcgill.ca/rethink/events/#RETHINK06

5. SUS Environment Week

Science Undergraduate Society is having an Environment Week. We are going to see if we can get that to coincide with Fossil Fools' day.

That is all! Have a lovely day!

Stop the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline! and other announcements

2006-02-28T12:09:00.000-05:00

Hope you are well rested from reading week. Our next meeting is on
Wednesday March 1st, 6pm, at QPIRG (3647 University.)
We'd love to see you there!

Also, there is a film screening of Oil on Ice tomorrow (Feb 28th). See below for details. Oil on Ice is a doumentary about the effects of drilling in the Arctic.

And a very big thank you to everyone who helped out with Get Caught Recycling week!!!

Here are various announcements:

1. Stop the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline: please take action!
2. QPIRG Newsletter seeks submissions
3. Socio-environmental conflicts and self-determination-Development issues on the american continent

***Please disseminate widely***

The Sierra Youth Coalition is going to Stop the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and we want your help!

A coalition of five multinational oil companies is seeking permission to put a series of gas
pipelines in the Northwest Territories. The planned pipeline will run through the Mackenzie River
Valley to the
Althabasca Tar Sands in Alberta. Planned gas field development includes an International Bird
Sanctuary, a National Heritage Site and the area on earth most effected by climate change.
Because the permafrost is melting construction will be unreliable. Tar sands is the most
poisonous type of oil refinement for the atmosphere- if the pipeline goes through, it will be
nearly impossible to reach our Kyoto obligations ( www.syc-cjs.org/mackenzievalley).

WE CAN STOP THE PIPELINE.

SYC volunteers hit the streets of six major Canadian cities, and we found that most Canadians
don't even know about the Pipeline. Check out our awesome photos of volunteers educating the
public:

www.generationkyoto.org/mvpevents.php

The Berger Commission stopped the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline in the 70s. We can stop it again.

STAY CONNECTED!

Email the campaign at mvp@syc-cjs.org to join the MVP listserv

Check out the Sierra Club's blog on the hearings at:

www.mackenziewild.ca/postings/index.html

TAKE ACTION!

Letter writing, street action, educational roleplaying, giving the campaign a space on your
website....To find out what you can do, visit:

www.syc-cjs.org/mackenzienews

START RIGHT NOW!

Sign the MackenzieWILD declaration at www.mackenziewild.com

Participate in our first letter writing campaign, a response to the information in this article:

www.permafrostmedia.ca/?q=node/164

Send the following letter to the Minister of Natural Resources Gary Lunn at:
Gary.Lunn@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca
or by post to:
Minister of Natural Resources Canada
580 Booth Street, 21st Floor, Room: C7-1
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1A 0E4

Honorable Minister of National Resources:

As public hearings commence in Canada's North to debate the merits of the proposed Mackenzie
Valley Pipeline, our Nation listens and readies to pronounce itself on the pivotal energy decision
of its time. In a recent press conference, Imperial Oil decried the feasibility of the project,
claiming that the "economics are thin." This can be, and has been, interpreted as an ultimatum to
the Federal government by the project's proponents, a request for further tax breaks and even
lower
royalty rates in exchange for building the pipeline.

The culture of corporate welfare so prevalent in the oil & gas industry must be reversed. If the
$7.5 billion Mackenzie Gas project is deemed by its proponents to be uneconomic, then so be it.
Imperial's parent company, ExxonMobil, has a net-worth of $378billion (US) and made $36-billion in
profits in 2005 alone. We need to invest in the North, but we need to invest wisely. Canadian
taxpayers should not be made to shoulder the financial burden of such destructive and exploitative
practices. This government was largely elected on pledge of greater accountability to its
citizens, but it must also be made to account for the external costs of development on the
ecosystems that sustain life. Ultimately, the gifting of this country's natural resources to one
the world's wealthiest corporations is as reprehensible an act as multi-million dollar handouts to
political
friendly ad agencies in the name of federalism.

Furthermore, while it is understood that Canada's international agreements are well outside the
scope of the NEB and Joint Review Panel's set mandate, it would be foolish for this government to
consider the merits of the proposed pipeline project in isolation from its broader international
implications.

In November 2002, in response to overwhelming popular support and demand for action on climate
change, the Government of Canada released its Climate Change Plan, in which it outlined its
approach to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada. Future expansion of the Tar
Sands and the consequent increase in emissions, enabled by the provision of Mackenzie Gas, would
render Canada's plan virtually ineffective. The easiest and most likely solution would be to buy
"credits" under an international carbon trading scheme. This backwards and costly measure, would
prohibit our country from investing instead in the emerging fields of energy efficiency, renewable
energy and clean technologies at a time when these investments are most needed to deal with
dwindling world gas stores.

We ask this government to pay heed to the long term health of local communities and to the impact
on the global commons, rather than to short term demands for energy in a world increasingly bent
on freeing itself from the shackles of a fossil fuel economy. Let us combine the
promise of a new government with the promise of a future economy based on increased efficiency,
renewable energy and appropriate technologies. Canadians are calling for it, will this government
answer?

Sincerely,

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***veuillez faire suivre***

La Coalition Jeunesse Sierra veut empêcher la canalisation de la Vallée Mackenzie et elle a besoin
de votre aide!

Un regroupement de 5 compagnies pétrolières multinationales cherche présentement à obtenir la
permission de construire une série de pipelines dans les Térritoires du Nord-Ouest. Les pipelines
en question traverseraient la Vallée de la Rivière Mackenzie pour finalement aboutir aux sables
bitumineux de l'Athabasca en Alberta. Les champs de gaz envisagés empièteraient sur un
sanctuaire international d'oiseaux, un site d'héritage naturel et une des régions les plus
vulnérables aux changements climatiques au monde. La fonte du pergélisol, un effet attribuable au
réchauffement planétaire, rend douteux l'intégrité structural de la pipeline et augmente
clairement les risques de sécurité. Le pétrole retrouvé dans les sables bitumineux compte parmi
les plus polluants pour l'atmosphère, son extraction résultant en deux fois plus de gaz à effet de
serre comparée aux sources conventionnelles. Évidemment, une expansion majeure des sables
bituminuex, facilité par l'approvisionement du gaz Mackenzie, renderait impossible nos engagements
internationals dans le cadre du Protocol de Kyoto. Voir le www.syc-cjs.org/mackenzievalley pour
plus d'infos.

Prenez action dès maintenant!

Rédaction de lettres, actions populaires, activités de mise en situation, présentations
interactives, mise en évidence de la campagne sur votre site web...pour encore plus d'idées,
visitez le:

www.syc-cjs.org/mackenzienews

Signez la déclaration "Mackenzie Sauvage" au:

http://mackenziewild.ca/declaration/index-fr.html

Participez à notre première campagne de lettre, soit une réplique aux informations retouvées dans
cette article:

www.permafrostmedia.ca/?q=node/164

Envoyez la lettre qui suit au Ministre des Ressources Naturelles, M. Gary Lunn.

Par courriel: Gary.Lunn@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca

Par poste:
Ministre des Ressources Naturelles du Canada
580 Rue Booth, 21e Étage, Salle: C7-1
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0E4

Honorable Ministre des Ressources Naturelles,

En ce début des consultations publique sur les mérites du projet de canalisation de la Vallée
Mackenzie dans le Grand Nord Canadien, un peuple écoute et s'apprête à se prononcer sur la plus
importante décision énergétique de son ère. Lors d'une récente conférence de presse, la
compagnie pétrolière Imperial Oil dénonça la faisabilité du projet, exprimant que "les économies
sont minces". Cet énoncé peut-être interpreté comme un ultimatum au gouvernement canadien par les
compagnies pétrolières - une réquisition pour encore plus de répits sur les impôts et
les droits monétaires en échange de la construction de la pipeline.

Si le projet de canalisation, estimé à $7.5 billion, est jugé non rentable par ses propres
partisans, il doit être oublié. La valeur nette de ExxonMobil, la compagnie père de Imperial Oil,
est de $378 billion. Elle connu plus de $36 billion de profit en l'an 2005. Certes, nous devons
investir dans
le Nord Canadien, mais non à tout prix. Les contribuables de ce pays ne doivent pas être tenus à
supporter le fardeau financier d'un projet de nature si dévastatrice. Ce gouvernement fut élu en
grande partie sur une promesse de responsabilité face à ses citoyens. De même, il doit aussi
assumer responsabilité pour les coûts externes de son développement sur les écosystèmes desquels
la vie sur terre dépends. En fin de compte, l'offre de nos richesses naturelles à quelques unes
des compagnies les plus profitables au monde est un acte autant reprochable que les millions de
dollars de dépenses non-fondées au nom du fédéralisme.

Nous comprenons très bien que les engagements internationals du Canada tombent à l'extérieure du
cadre de référence de l'Office national de l'énergie et de la Commission environmentale, toutefois
nous croyons que ce gouvernement aurait tard d'évaluer les mérites d'un tel projet tout en
ignorant ses implications globales.

En novembre 2002, répondant au support et à la grande demande du publique canadien, le
gouvernement pris position sur les changements climatiques et communiqua son Plan d'Action,
élaborant l'approche envisagée pour la réduction de gaz à effet de serre dans ce pays. L'expansion
future des sables bitumineux de l'Alberta facilitée par l'approvisionement de gaz Mackenzie et
l'augmentation conséquente en gaz à effet de serre renderait le plan canadien inéfficace. La
solution la plus probable serait dacheter des "crédits" dans un marché international de carbone.
Cette mesure coûteuse et arriérée empêcherait au Canada d'investir au lieu dans les secteurs
énergétiques naissants, tels que l'éfficacité énergétique, les énergies renouvelables et les
technologies dites propres, et tout cela à un temps où de telles mesures sont nécessaires afin de
répondre au stock de gaz en diminution perpétuelle.

Nous demandons alors à ce gouvernement de mettre en priorité le bien-être de la communauté locale
et la santé de la planète entière au delà des demandes d'énergies à court terme. Combinons la
promesse d'un nouveau gouvernement avec la promesse d'une économie future basée sur une plus
grande éfficacité énergétique, les énergies renouvelables et les technologies appropriées. Les
canadiens font appel, ce gouvernement saura t'il répondre?

Sincèrement,

2. QPIRG newsletter

Interested in social justice? Concerned about local and community issues?

Submit to Kelele, QPIRG McGill's fresh/ly revived quarterly publication! This newsletter aims to provide a forum for social justice and environmental debate. It offers a literary channel for engaging and informative voices. Kelele is the Swahili word for noise, and we want a ruckus of essays, articles, poetry, photography, pictures, and anecdotal whims pouring in.

Please send all submissions before March 13th 2006.
Email: zahra_moloo@yahoo.ca

3. Socio-environmental conflicts and self-determination-
Development issues on the american continent

A public, bilingual symposium

March 23, 2006
Place: UQAM, Room SH-2800
200 Sherbrooke West, Montreal

Metro Place-des-Arts
and

March 24, 2006
Place: Concordia, Cinema De Seve
1400 de Maisonneuve West
Metro Guy-Concordia

For more information on the symposium,
visit www.ccdhal.org

Calling all artists! To paint reusable canvas bags!

2006-02-13T22:23:00.000-05:00

Hello,

I'm coordinating a student-run project that is selling decorated canvas bags around campus as reusable grocery bags to students. I'm looking for artists interested in helping out with the decorating- the aim of this project is to support the artist community at McGill by giving people a chance to get their name and artwork out there, while reducing the amount of waste created by grocery shopping.

Could you could send the following message out to your mailing list? We could use all of the creative help we can get! Thanks-

++ Calling all artists! Want to support a good cause while getting your work out to be seen? I?m looking for people interested in decorating plain canvas bags (however many you like) that will be sold in the McGill community as reusable grocery bags. This student-run project is not looking to make a profit- our only goal is to reduce plastic bag waste and support you!

All you need to supply is your creativity and a little of your time. The plan is to have a mass painting gathering sometime after break! We'll supply the bags, some paint (if you have your own acrylics and brushes, that?s great!), the heat-activated base to make the acrylics suitable for fabric, and the iron to finish it all off. If you have all of the materials and would rather do it on your own, let me know and I can get a bag for you.

So if you want to come and meet some new people and play with paint, or want more information, please send me an email at caroline.kral@mail.mcgill.ca. And if you know any creative people that might be interested, please send them my way!

take care,
Caroline

No Meeting This Week

2006-02-13T22:22:00.000-05:00

Since we have been working hard on the recycling stuff, and since a lot of you are in exams and wouldn't show up anyway, there is NO MEETING THIS WEEK. And since next week is reading week, there is no meeting next week either. See you on March 1st!

Meanwhile, if you want to help out with any of the recycling activities, you can see a list of volunteer jobs by visiting www.mcgill.ca/rethink. Give a few minutes of your life for the cause; it is well worth it!

Cheers,
Michelle and Derina

QPIRG MCGILL'S WORKING GROUP FILM FESTIVAL

2006-02-08T21:19:00.000-05:00

Feb 16th 6pm
El Despojo (Dauno Totoro, 73 mins, Chile, 2004)
This multi-award winning film examines the multiple dimensions of the resistance of the indigenous Mapuche people in Chile over the last 120 years.

First exploring the proud history and traditions of the community (both rural and urban), the film then looks at ongoing conflicts with the Chilean government and various companies who look to exploit their land.

Discussion will be held in French and Spanish.
Cultural Studies Building, Rm 101 (3475 Peel St.)
Sponsored by: CAPMA

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Feb 28th 6pm
Oil on Ice
The battle to protect one of America's last, great wild places and change our energy future. Oil on Ice connects the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to critical decisions America makes about energy policy. Caught in the balance are the Gwich'in Indians and the migratory wildlife in this fragile ecosystem.
Arts 145 (853 Sherbrooke St)
Sponsored by: GREENING MCGILL

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March 2nd 6pm
Caracoles: New Paths of Resistance

(Spanish with English subtitles, 42 minutes, 2003) Produced in August 2003 in the communities of Oventik and Morelia by 18 Zapatista video makers, Caracoles is a celebration of the death of the Aguascalientes and the birth of the Caracoles and the Good Government Assemblies. Various members of the Zapatista leadership discuss how these changes will affect internal political and economic processes, gender relations, and their relationship to international civil society. The video is an open call to join with the Zapatista communities in their struggle for recognition of their autonomy and in their fight against neo-liberal economic policies and globalization.

In addition to the video, we will have a talk on what has been happening in Chiapas recently with their "Other Campaign" parallel to the national elections.

Cultural Studies Building, Rm 101 (3475 Peel St.)
Sponsored by: STAC (Students taking action in Chiapas)

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March 7th 6pm
"Pills Profits Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS M ovement"
is an up-to-the minute documentary about AIDS treatment activism. It examines the national and international grass roots response to an epidemic that has already overshadowed the Black Death in terms of human lives lost. The demand for access to affordable treatment for 40 million people living with HIV, most of whom live in poor countries, represents one of the most successful political movements of contemporary history.

This documentary examines critical junctures in the battle for access to HIV treatment as the poorest and most marginalized individuals confront larger powers, including governments, corporate bodies and a multinational drug industry that is motivated by profit. The fight for AIDS drugs is taking place in tandem with a growing anti-globalization movement; the latter provides a backdrop for examining AIDS through a lens of poverty, socioeconomic injustice and human rights.

At the heart of this documentary is a thorny question: Can the world afford universal HIV treatment? At what cost? What will be the global cost if we fail to treat and save 40 million people now? Pills, Profits and Protest are the three thematic touchstones of our film, each reflecting an important aspect of the current battle. Behind this movement are people, personalities and lives. Our film weaves their personal stories with a larger chronicle of history-in-the-making.
Leacock 14 (855 Sherbrooke St)
Sponsored by: MGAC (McGill Global AIDS Coalition)

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March 9th 6pm
Flag wars AND Operation Ivert

1) Shot over four years, "Flag Wars" is a poignant 90-minute account of economic competition between two historically oppressed groups, seen through the politics and pain of gentrification. The setting could be any city with a once stable working and middle class black community, now aging and economically depressed, in danger of losing control of their neighborhoods as wealthier home buyers gentrify block by block. In this case, the neighborhood is in Columbus, Ohio and the home buyers are largely white and gay.

The resulting conflicts are a case study of differences in perception. Where realtors and buyers see run-down homes, black residents see evidence of institutional racism that steered resources away from this community. What newer residents see as a beneficial effort to renovate and restore value, veteran residents see as an assault on their heritage and a threat to their ability to hold on to their homes.

The events in "Flag Wars" unfold against a backdrop of racism, homophobia, and tensions between privilege and poverty. Mix in government zoning boards, the court system, lending institutions, and civic leaders, and you've got a film that literally hits people "where they live." "Flag Wars" explores the complexity of gentrification, and the contradictions between intention and result, belief and action. It goes beyond merely assigning blame or labeling people as "good guys" or "bad guys" to examine the relationship between housing, heritage, and public policy.

2) Are gender outlaws considered the new biological terrorists seeking weapons of mass bodily destruction? Operation Invert compares the different regulations mediating botox-related plastic surgery and gender reassignment "sex change." Historical medical assessments of the invert (homosexual and transsexual) "condition" reveal seemingly outdated absurdities about outsider deviance. Nonetheless, current institutional loopholes governing gender re-assignment surgery suggest a fresh resurgence of loony pathology and diagnosis.
Cultural Studies Building, Rm 101 (3475 Peel St.)
Sponsored by: QUEER BOOKFAIR and TRANS/GENDER ALLIANCE

Quebec Public Interest Research Group at McGill University
3647 University, 3rd Floor
Montreal, Quebec, H3Z 2P8
tel. 514-398-7432
fax. 514-398-8976
http://ssmu.mcgill.ca/qpirg
qpirg@ssmu.mcgill.ca

Announcements! - Feb 8th

2006-02-08T21:04:00.000-05:00

1. CKUT and QPIRG Open House
2. Gorilla Compost wants your worm castings!

1. CKUT and QPIRG Open House

This Thursday, Feb. 9th
Connect with your community... CKUT + QPIRG Open House
Looking for a way to get involved?
Want to learn more about the work of CKUT and QPIRG?
Add some play to your work?
Come and join us for a 5 Ã 7,
QPIRG + CKUT OPEN HOUSE
3647 University
Thursday, Feb. 9th, 2006, 5pm-7pm
2 floors, DJs, food, drinks and merriment.
Bring interested friends and acquaintances, this is a great chance for
them to see CKUT + QPIRG in full swing.

I hope you'll drop by,

Rachel Doran

McGill Promotions Coordinator
CKUT 90.3 FM Radio McGill
tel: 514-398-8991
promo@ckut.ca
www.ckut.ca

2. Gorilla Compost wants your worm castings!

Dear friends, The Gorilla is coming to reap the golden spoils of your personal war on waste!
Yes, Compostage Gorilla Composting wants your worm castings! (Please)
Your little wormies have been toiling away in their subterranean tupperware lair, munching down veggies and turning out rich, beautiful dirt(castings).
Don't let their work languish in darkness!
Donate their castings to us, and we will package it with the official GC Welcome Bucket (every new member receives a bucket for holding kitchen scraps, with bonuses like sawdust, stickers, pins, and with your help, fertilizer!)
Drop off castings at the McGill School of Environment. There's a bucket in the basement lounge. Or get in touch with the PR Team by emailing gorilla.compost.pr@gmail.com to make alternate arrangements.

The gorilla thanks you!

Learn about Gorilla Composting by checking out-
Office hours:
MSE (3534 University)
Mondays & Thursdays
10:30 - 1:30
(514) 398-6780
gorilla.compost.pr@gmail.com
www.gorilla.mcgill.ca

Get Caught Recycling Week! Volunteers needed!

2006-02-08T21:00:00.000-05:00

Next week is Get Caught Recycling week! Now I know you're all busy and have papers and exams, but I also know that that the pathetic recycling system at McGill, and the apathetic students who don't recycle properly, drive you up the wall. So here is your chance to put in between five minutes and one hour of your life to do something about it!

The vision: Get Caught Recycling week is week to promote waste diversion. There will be a huge banner hanging on campus, volunteers everywhere rewarding people who recycle properly, and random acts of recycling promotion. See the missions below for details on how to get involved! The success of this campaign depends on you!

Mission: Arts and crafts!
Date: Sunday February 12, 1pm
Location: QPIRG (3647 University, 3rd floor; buzz QPIRG to get in.)
Time required: an hour or so, whatever you can spare
Objective: To prepare for Get Caught Recycling Week!
Details: We will be making: t-shirts for our volunteers, signs that spell "RECYCLE", posters, various other things that we need for the week.
People needed: The more the merrier!
If interested: Come by QPIRG on Sunday afternoon! RSVP greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca.

Mission: Catch people recycling!
Date: Anytime, February 13-17
Location: We will assign you a spot next to a recycling/garbage station
Time required: We will give people one-hour shifts and assign them to a spot.
Objective: To spread the word about recycling!
Details: You and a buddy (we will pair you up according to your availability; you can also choose your buddy, just let us know) will hang out next to the recycling station and watch people throw stuff out. Anyone who recycles something in the right compartment gets a prize (e.g. a sticker and a cookie). We provide you with the prizes and possibly with nifty t-shirts.
People needed: As many as possible!
If interested: Contact greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca or everyone.recycle@gmail.com with your availability during the week (i.e. preferred day and time to volunteer.)

Mission: Spell the word RECYCLE
Date: Some time February 13-17, between classes
Location: on campus, everywhere
Time required: 5 minutes, a few times throughout the week
Objective: To spread the word about recycling!
Details: You need: six teammates, and a sign with a letter on it (we will provide). Each person chooses a letter from the word RECYCLE and carries that letter around. At various times a day, you casually get together in a high-traffic area, stand in a line so that your letters spell RECYCLE, allow people to look at you, and then disperse. Act like this is nothing out of the ordinary. Bonus points if you stand on tables and chairs, press yourselves up against a window, or stand up on those big windowsills in the McConnell hallway. The weirder the better.
People needed: As many as possible. We will help you make teams. Please forward your availability so we can assign you to groups with the same periods off.
If interested: Contact everyone.recycle@gmail.com . If you are willing to be a team leader (this just involves coordinating with your group to find a few times during the week when you can spell RECYCLE together), please say so.

Mission: Recycling Carnival game
Date: February 15, from 9:30 to 3:30
Location: Redpath library entrance
Time required: an hour, anytime between 9:30 and 3:30
Objective: To spread the word about recycling!
Details: We have "recyclables" and "recycling boxes". Students who sort and aim recyclables into the right boxes will win a prize. Your job is to encourage people to play, let them know when they make a mistake, and reward them when they get it right. Then offer them a pamphlet that explains how to recycle.
People needed: As many as possible. Lately a few people have been doing all the tabling. Be a friend, please give us a break!
If interested: Contact greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca with your availability during the day of February 15th.

Mission: Recycling Flash mob
Date: 11:25, February 16th
Location: Crossroads
Time required: 5 minutes
Objective: To spread the word about recycling!
Details: A whole lot of people suddenly arrive at the crossroads. Many of them may spell "Recycle" with their signs. Others will hold a sign that says "recycle". Feel free to dress up as something recyclable and hold a sign that says "I'm recyclable." Do fun stuff.
People needed: As many as possible.
If interested: Be there!

Mission: Sing a recycling song with Michelle
Date: depending on your availability! during the day, when people are eating in the cafeteria.
Location: Various cafeterias
Time required: five minutes
Objective: To spread the word about recycling!
Details: I have a song about recycling to the tune of "I got rhythm". I am willing to go stand on a table in a cafeteria and sing it. You should come too. Maybe we will write out the words on big cardboard to make sure everyone gets it.
If interested: Contact greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca

Minutes- Jan. 25, 2006

2006-02-08T14:08:00.000-05:00

Greening McGill Minutes- Jan. 25, 2006

1. Gault Trip
- Fri. Feb. 10 in the evening until Sun. Feb. 12 in the morning
- times allow people to do work on the Sunday
- $380 for chalet + transportation
- $25/person
- Greening McGill will subsidize the transportation

2. Tabling
- Friday Feb. 2 @ Leacock from 10AM-2PM
- will promote Recto Reverso (similar to McConnell tabling)
- banner, petitions, notebooks (if available) at the table
- Michelle will try to get reusable bags from Kathleen

3. Bike Blender
Three options exist:
i) Stand with Interchangeable Bike
- anyone can bring in a bike and use it
- there is friction, reducing the efficiency
- can be bulky
- can be flipped for transport (like a wheelbarrow)
ii) Stand with a Permanent Bike
- blender is attached to the bike and placed on a stand
iii) Stationary bike
- bike is attached to stand
- already partially assembled

- we decided on ii
- Sebastian offered to collaborate with Patric
- aiming for finishing before reading week

4. New Recycling System
- new round of publicity promoting it
- will get info for table

5. Notebooks
- want to sell more notebooks (keep it an ongoing project)
- books will cost $1.50 to break even
- Marianne will contact EUS and McGill printing to see if we can get it cheaper

6. Staff Orientation
- Derina will look into whether incorporating Recto Reverso for faculty introduction will be feasible

8. Film Festival run by QPIRG
- will be suggesting ‘Oil on Ice’ as Greening McGill’s movie
- QPIRG will front the money

9. Web stuff
- Sunny will do it!

late minutes - from February 1st 2006

2006-02-07T14:24:00.000-05:00

Sorry about the minutes. Briefly, here is what happened on February 1 2006.

1. Gault
Molly will look up some cheaper rentals. We discussed various strategies to save money, e.g. ferrying people from Longeuil. Michelle will e-mail Marty trying to hitch a ride. [In the end, Marty is not goign up this weekend.] The trip will be fun!

2. Get caught recycling week!
-Volunteers will be needed to hang around garbage cans/recycling bins during the week of February 13-17 to reward people who recycle properly with stickers and cookies!
-also we decided to book a table [a table is now booked in Redpath for the 15th of February] and have a recycling carnival game, where if you sort and aim recyclables into the appropriate bins, then you win a prize. The prize is still undetermined.
-we will construct the boxes etc for the game at next meeting (Feb. 8)
-we will also have some guerilla theatre.
-More news to come!

3. QPIRG film fest
-Molly is taking care of it. We are showing Oil on Ice somewhere on campus on February 28th. Stay tuned!

4. Recto-Verso
Arts is going to change their defaults! Michelle will meet with them soon. GM will help with promotions so students don't get upset.
Marianne is working on getting double-sided printers at Mac.
Molly is going to ask printing services.
Michelle is trying to get an icon on the desktop at the libraries that explains double-sided printing.

News

2006-02-05T12:46:00.000-05:00

Much news this week:

1. Trip to Gault Nature Reserve: Places still available!
2. Greening McGill secret missions!
3. Announcement: IDS Week; Sustainable Development Day

1. Trip to Gault Nature Reserve: places still available! (If you signed up and did NOT get any messages about it, e-mail me ASAP!)

2. Greening McGill secret missions!

All of these have to do with Get Caught Recycling Week, which is February 13-17, and which Greening McGill will be taking part in with the Recycling coordinator, Recycling ambassadors, and the Environmental Office. Also stay tuned to hear about volunteering to run a recycling carnival game (with prizes!) and to "Catch people recycling" (e.g. hang out near recycling boxes and give prizes to people who recycle properly.) Details of those missions coming soon...

Mission: Design a sticker to promote recycling
Date: Due Sunday February 5th (sorry short notice!)
Location: Wherever you like to draw
Time required: As long as it takes for you to design a sticker
Objective: To spread the word about recycling!
Details: Greening McGill is teaming up with the Recycling Coordinator for "Get Caught Recycling" week, which is February 13-17. We want to make a flashy, visible and stylish sticker that promotes recycling. It will serve two functions: we will ask as many people as possible to wear the sticker so that the "Get caught recycling" campaign will receive maximum visibility; and it will be given as a reward to people that we catch recycling. Bonus points if you can figure out how to print them from a computer directly onto sticker paper.
People needed: One person, who is good at drawing.
If interested: Contact greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca

Mission: Guerilla theatre for Get Caught Recycling Week
Date: Any time February 13-17
Location: Somewhere on campus
Time required: 5-10 minutes, plus a little preparation
Objective: To spread the word about recycling!
Details: Greening McGill is teaming up with the Recycling Coordinator for "Get Caught Recycling" week, which is February 13-17. If you are interested in doing some guerilla theatre (i.e. doing something creative in a public space on campus to entertain passersby and promote recycling) we can get you in touch with other students to plan something fun.
People needed: As many as possible!
If interested: Contact greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca

Mission: Spell the word RECYCLE
Date: Some time February 13-17, TBA
Location: on campus
Time required: 5 minutes, a few times throughout the day
Objective: To spread the word about recycling!
Details: You need: six teammates, a t-shirt, and some construction paper. Each person chooses a letter from the word RECYCLE. At various times a day, you casually get together in a high-traffic area, stand in a line so that your shirts spell RECYCLE, allow people to look at you, and then disperse. Act like this is nothing out of the ordinary.
People needed: As many as possible. We will help you make teams. Please forward your availability so we can assign you to groups with the same periods off.
If interested: Contact greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca

Mission: Recycling Flash mob
Date: Exact time TBA, stay tuned.
Location: on campus, TBA.
Time required: 5 minutes
Objective: To spread the word about recycling!
Details: At (exact time), in a high-traffic area, a whole lot of people suddenly arrive in one place with pop cans. They go individually to throw them in the garbage, then say loudly, "oh wait, that's recyclable!", and take it a few steps away to a nearby recycling station. Shy people can go in twos and threes. Really shy people can just hold signs that say "recycle".
People needed: As many as possible.
If interested: Be there!

3. Announcement: IDS Week; Sustainable Development Day

**PLEASE CONTACT juniper_belshaw@hotmail.com**

Hello greenies!

Next Tuesday, February 7, is the "sustainable development" section of International Development
week, put on by the international development students association. I am writing to see if any of
you would be interested in sitting at an information booth in leacock on that day, sharing your
expertise on development and how it can be done without harming the earth! The table's purpose is
to spark peoples interest on the topic and to spread info.

It would be wonderful to have your involvement! If you are interested, please drop me an e-mail at
this address, specifying the time during which you would like to be there. (The table is going to
be set up from 10-4:30 ish.)

Cheers!

--Juniper

Trip to the Gault Nature Reserve! February 10-12

2006-01-27T16:41:00.000-05:00

Please join us for a trip to the Gault Nature Reserve! The Gault Nature Reserve is a beautiful park owned by McGill. We are renting a chalet in the park for a weekend of hiking, snowshoeing, strategizing about environmental progress at McGill, communal cooking, and just enjoying being out of the city.

Here are the details.

About the Gault Nature Reserve (check out some nice pictures!): www.mcgill.ca/gault
Cost: $25. Your contributions for transportation are highly appreciated but not required.
Date: 10-12 February. (Friday night to Sunday morning.)
Will I have to miss class? No. We will leave Friday evening, exact time TBA.
What if I need to study? You can study in the chalet while we are out on the trails. Also we will be back on Sunday morning so you can study on Sunday.
How will we eat? We will organize meal teams and bring groceries with us. Communal cooking is fun!
Who can come? Sixteen people total. First come first served!
I have never been to a meeting but I want to come. Should I feel awkward? No! Please come!
Can I bring a friend? Sure.
I like snowshoeing and cross country skiing. Can I rent those? Yes, among other things. See http://www.centrenature.qc.ca/en/activities/equipmentrental.html
Is it really far away? No. Just 45 minutes' drive.
When do I have to let you know? As soon as possible; space is limited!
I want to come and I have a car. Should I write to you ASAP? YES! (we would pay gas, etc.)
I have an in with a bus company. Should I write to you ASAP? YES!

I have more questions. What do I do? Write here ASAP. greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca.

Minutes, January 14th

2006-01-17T16:44:00.000-05:00

Greening McGill Minutes- Jan. 14, 2006
1. GAULT TRIP: Feb. 10-12
We are taking a trip to the Gault Nature Reserve from Feb. 10 to Feb. 12. It is
a great chance to snowshoe or explore the area. We will be staying two nights at
the chalet. Bring a couple of friends and come enjoy one of McGill’s (pleasant)
little secrets! If you are interested, please e-mail
greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca by Sun. Jan. 22, 2006.

For more information on Gault, please visit: http://www.mcgill.ca/gault/

2. Recto Reverso
It’s a new semester and we are at it again with raising awareness about Recto
Reverso. For anyone who is not familiar, Recto Reverso is McGill’s new paper
use policy (a copy of this policy has been attached to this email). Some of our
initiatives for this semester include:
- Working with the new Taskforce started by the Senate Sub-committee Work Group
to deal with the academics-related issues outside of Ancillary Services
- Pressuring the Faculty of Arts Computer Labs to change their defaults to
double-sided
- Raising awareness of the discount for double sided printing at the FACL
- Getting the message out about Recto Reverso on the desktops of the library
computers (run by Ancillary Services)
- Pressuring Ancillary Services to switch to PC paper in the library (they are
currently using Eco-logic paper, which is ~50% recycled and ~10% post-consumer)
- Making class announcements to help spread the word- If you are interested,
please e-mail greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca for a blurb. It would really help
us out!

Michelle will be getting the instructions for double sided printing for Molly to
make posters for the labs. Michelle will also get in touch with CKUT, who has
offered to work with us on raising awareness about the implementation of
environmental policy at the university.
Sophie will be contacting all the departments who have agreed to Recto Reverso
(Philosophy, Geography, MSE, Office of Environment, Health and Safety, QPIRG)
to check to see if the PC paper jams the machines.

3. What’s Going Down At Mac Campus?
Mac Campus is:
- Trying to get a larger number of bowls into the cafeterias to help reduce the
amount of Styrofoam being used
- working on making and distributing Care packs
- working on a trading post, a way for students to bring in things and trade
them with others
- working on getting all the printers on a double-sided default
- selling canvas bags that have been painted around campus and at grocery stores
- putting bottles in toilet tanks around campus to reduce the amount of water
waste
- aiming to run workshops promoting eco-friendly options, eg. The diva cup,
reusable batteries, etc.

4. Enviro-law McGill
This semester, Enviro-law is focusing on activities to bring all the members
together and continuing their work from last semester. A weekly magazine is
published about environmental issues. They are also working on improving the
recycling situation in their building (increasing the number of bins from 2)
and are selling American Apparel items.

5. Social Justice Activities Night- Jan. 19, 2006, 4-7PM
This will be a chance for socially-conscious groups to present their
ideas/initiatives and to keep informed of what others are doing as well. The
activities night will be held on the Thursday after the SSMU activities night
at Shatner.

6. CARE Packs
Care packs are back an available all over campus! These eco-friendly coiled and
covered notebooks (with printing on one side of the page) cost only $1 and are
great for notes, scribbling, scratch work, etc. They are available now at the
Engineering General store in McConnell, at the MBSU in Stewart Bio, and
hopefully soon at the SUS office in Burnside (we’ll let you know).

7. Tabling at McConnell- January 17, 2006
Greening McGill will be tabling in McConnell Engineering on the 17th of January
to help raise awareness about Recto Reverso and also sell Care packs. If you
have a few minutes, you should come by!

The Tabling Schedule:
10-11:30 AM: Molly, Michelle (set up)
11:30-1:30- Sophie
11:30-2:30- Michelle
2-3PM- Derina (take-down)

We will also be tabling on Feb. 2 at Leacock.

8. Budget
It’s boring so we put it off until next week. Come by if you want to have a
say.

9. Bag Busters!
This is an anti-plastic bags campaign that we are running at the bookstore to
try and reduce the number of new plastic bags that are being used. We will be
running time slots next week on:

Monday, January 16
10:30-11:
11-11:30:
11:30-12:00:
12-12:30:
12:30-1:
1-1:30:
1:30-2:

Tuesday, January 17
10:30-11:
11-11:30:
11:30-12:00:
12-12:30:
12:30-1:
1-1:30:
1:30-2:

Wednesday, January 18
10:30-11:
11-11:30:
11:30-12:00:
12-12:30:
12:30-1:
1-1:30:
1:30-2:

If you have clean plastic bags and can drop by at any of these times (or another
one that works better for you), please e-mail us at
greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca. It would be greatly appreciated!
Note: If you don’t have plastic bags, there will be a bunch stashed in a box in
the corner of one of the rooms of QPIRG. Swing by!

10. Recycling @ McGill
The entire system is going to be overhauled for the better. The plan is to
install new wall units ~100m apart from each other. The pilot project will
eventually be running in Bronfman. There is still a lot of room for
improvements, so if you have any comments, please forward them to the Senate
Subcommittee for Environment.

11. SSMU Activities Night- Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Activities Night will be running from 4-9PM at Shatner. Come by and see us!

Tabling Schedule:
4-6: Michelle
5-7: Samantha
6-8: Derina

No meeting Wednesday! Come play at Gault! Recto Verso Day!

2006-01-14T19:51:00.000-05:00

Dear Greening McGill,

**no meeting on Wednesday the 18th**

Wednesday the 18th is Activities night, which means no meeting. Come check us out at the QPIRG table at Shatner! 4pm-8pm.
Also, if you can't make that, we will be at the Progressive Activities Night on Thursday the 19th in the Lev Bukhman room (Shatner). 4pm-7pm.

Did you know that McGill owns a beautiful nature reserve just 40 minutes from Montreal? Did you know that if we laid all the paper used by McGIll in a year end to end, it would reach halfway around the world? I bet you didn't!

The minutes will be coming shortly, but in the meantime, some quick announcements about events coming up:

1. The Gault trip! sign up to come play in the nature reserve!
2. Recto-Verso Day! let's save some trees!
3. Vote for the environment!

1. The Gault trip! sign up to come play in the nature reserve!

Greening McGill is pleased to announce a little trip to the Gault Nature Reserve, from Friday the 10th to Sunday the 12th. The cost is less than $25 per person, plus transportation. We will also do a potluck type thing for food. Depending on what people tell us is affordable, we will subsidize the costs, so please don't let cost be an issue!

We will go out to Gault Nature Reserve to enjoy the hiking trails, play in the snow, and perhaps ski and snowshoe (those things are available for rent in the park.) We will also do some planning for Greening McGill activities. There will be lots of free time so if you are going to have midterms, just bring your books and enjoy being out of the city.

There are sixteen spaces available so write back to greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca asap to tell us you are interested!

2. Recto-Verso Day! let's save some trees!

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!

We are tabling at McConnell on Tuesday January 17th to sell the lovely reused paper notebooks. Also, we will have a big display about how much paper McGill uses, and lots of paper facts. The ai is to educate people about consuming less paper and also the new paper policy that requires professors to accept our homework double-sided. We will also hang up our enormous banner that says: Recto Verso: Reduce your paper use!

But in order to do this we need you! It's an easy job: sell notebooks, and tell students about paper waste (all the information you need will be there for you.)

Please write back to greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca to say if you can fill any (or even part) of the following shifts, ESPECIALLY setup and cleanup:

setup:
9 a.m.-10 a.m., meet at QPIRG
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. (clean up at quarter to 3:00.)

ALSO, if you can make announcements about the Recto-Verso policy in your classes, that would be great! There are 500 people on this list. If we each took 5 minutes to spread the word in our classes, it would be a huge accomplishment. :) Write me at greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca.

3. Vote for the environment!

Well the federal election is coming up, so it's worthwhile to look at the environmental (and other) platforms of all the parties. Here are links to platforms/environmental platforms for the parties, in alphabetical order by party, for your convenience:

http://www.blocquebecois.org/archivage/blq-depsyntese-anglo.pdf
http://www.conservative.ca/EN/2326
http://www.greenparty.ca/sustainable_canada.html
http://www.liberal.ca/issue_e.aspx?itype=63
http://www.ndp.ca/page/2993

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Welcome to a new semester! Check out our fancy new e-mail address! (greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca)

2006-01-05T12:26:00.000-05:00

Dear Greening McGill,

Greetings from this semester's coordinators, Derina and Michelle.

Hope the new semester is treating you well. We have lots of fun stuff to begin the semester, including reused-paper notebooks, a trip to the Gault Nature Reserve, a new e-mail address, and possibly a long-awaited overhaul of the recycling system by the university!

Come and see what we are about and what we are up to:

Wednesday January 11, 6 pm, QPIRG (3647 University 3rd floor; buzz QPIRG to get in)

Other neat meetings:

Senate Subcommittee on the Environment: Monday January 9th, 1:30pm, New Chancellor Day Hall room 617. A good chance to get involved in some projects aiming for institutional change at McGill. Also, you can find out about the Paper Workgroup which is going to be pushing to make sure that the Paper policy is respected.

Prethink: A mini-environmental activities night in an interactive, productive, and collective format.
Thursday January 19, 2006, Lev-Bukhman room of Shatner from 4-7pm, in conjunction with social justice/ alternative activities night held in the Shatner Ballroom.
Prethink 2006 will feature short presentations by student environmental groups and clubs, tabling, and guest speakers. We hope to bring together the study body, to promote a cohesive student collective, using environmental issues as the common theme.

1. Budget
2. A trip to the Gault nature reserve
3. Notebooks
4. Other Recto-Verso
5. Web volunteer needed!
6. Monthly themes
7. Announcement: New Alternative Canadian University call for Delegates
8. Political parties environmental debate
9. STUDENTS MARCH TO DEMAND THAT CANADA MEETS 0.7% FOREIGN AID TARGET
10. From Greenpeace: against commercial whaling

1. Budget
-We made a list of budget items: conference subsidy (for students going to the Colloque in Rimouski); lightbulbs; subsidize notebooks; subsidize Gault trip; photocopies and supplies
-we will be actually budgeting our money next week. bring your budget ideas!

2. A trip to the Gault nature reserve

Would you like to get out of the city? Snowshoe? Play in a nature reserve? We thought so. We are planning a little trip out to the Nature reserve so we can all get to know each other and have fun in the snow. We should be able to keep it under $30 for an overnight trip on the last week of January. If this sounds appealing to you, even if you are not sure you would be able to make it, please write so that we know if there is enough interest.

Meanwhile, Michelle will look into exact rates and logistics and the possibility of commandeering the Mac campus shuttle.

3. Notebooks

The reused paper notebooks are here!! They are 100-page books with spiral binding and a cheerful cover. They cost us $1.50 to make but we are selling these lovely books for $1. Look for them soon in campus stores, or come by the meeting next week. They may also be on sale at a table at McConnell next week.

Derina will check with EUS, MBSU, Sadies, SSMU and the SUS to find us some distributors. She will pass on Marianne's contact info. Marianne continues to be in charge of notebooks.

Derina is also looking into booking the McConnell table for the 10th or 11th. Michelle will find the data for setting up a display about how much paper we use. We will sell notebooks and have paper-waste information at the table. Michelle will be waiting to pounce on Leacock tables, as soon as they become available.

4. Other Recto-Verso

Priorities for the semester:

-Faculty of Arts Computer labs should set defaults to double-sided!
-Department defaults - we will need volunteers to help us push the departments to set their defaults and to buy 100% PC paper
-class annnouncements to spread the word: if you can make announcements in your class about the Paper Policy, please write Michelle at greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca
-notebooks

-also, the banner we painted could go up soon; we could pressure SSMU and human resources to reduce their paper waste; and promote 100% PC paper to students

5. Web volunteer needed!

No special skills needed! Just someone to update our blog and promote the wiki. It is an easy but important and ongoing job.
Express your interest by e-mail or in person at our next meeting.

6. Monthly themes

Tentatively:

January
-recycling
-bike blender
-Gault trip

February
-Recto-Verso
-recycling

March
-energy

ongoing:
recto-verso
cafeteria waste - Marianne is looking into cups

7. EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT / CALL FOR DELEGATES

A New ALTERNATIVE CANADIAN UNIVERSITY -
2nd Founding Meeting, Arundel, near Montreal QC, Canada
Jan 14-16, 2006 - Call for Delegates, Jan 8 deadline

CALL FOR DELEGATES FOR THE NEW UNIVERSITY PROJECT!

The second meeting of the New University Project is being
held from January 14th-16th at Arundel Nature Center,
near Montreal. This meeting will continue the visioning
and organising process begun at the founding meeting in
August of last year.

The New University Project seeks to create a new Canadian
post-secondary institution that embraces principles of
ecology, social justice, and accessibility, providing students
with a meaningful and engaged university education.

Help create on of the first ecological and alternative post-
secondary places of learning in Canada! Please visit
http://www.newuniversity.net for application forms and
more information regarding the meeting. The event is
open to anyone interested in attending.

Deadline for registration forms is JANUARY 8TH 2006.

Contact: lherbert@riseup.net

8. Political parties environmental debate

Friday January 6, 2006, 4-5 p.m. (Ottawa time), on CPAC (cable TV)
> > >>
> > >>A live, televised debate on environmental
> > >>issues amongst Canada's five leading political
> > >>parties.
> > >>
> > >>WHO:
> > >>Hon. Stéphane Dion, Environment Minister, Liberal Party
> > >>Bob Mills, Conservative Party Environment Critic
> > >>Bernard Bigras, Bloc Québécois Environment Critic
> > >>David Chernushenko, Green Party Deputy Leader
> > >>Gord Perks, NDP Candidate, Davenport
> > >>
> > >>Issues likely to be discussed include:
> > >>
> > >>§ Integration of environmental, economic, and human health strategies
> > >>§ Protection and restoration of Nature, i.e. biodiversity, wild spaces
> > >>§ Protection of humans and the environment from toxic chemicals
> > >>§ Climate change and energy
> > >>
> > >>Panelists will include:
> > >>
> > >>§ Julie Gelfand, Chair, Green Budget
> > >>Coalition, and President, Nature Canada
> > >>§ Rick Smith, Executive Director, Environmental Defence
> > >>§ Pierre Sadik, Senior Policy Advisor, David Suzuki Foundation
> > >>
> > >>The debate will be broadcast on CPAC (cable
> > >>TV). They also broadcast via Internet, via
> > >>Windows Media Player at:
> >
>
>>http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3§ion_id=22&template_id=22?=e
> > >>
> >
> >

9. *MONTREAL** STUDENTS MARCH TO DEMAND THAT CANADA MEETS 0.7% FOREIGN AID
> TARGET *
>
>
>
> On Monday, January 9 the leaders of Canada's four major political parties
> will meet in Montreal for the second round of debates. This provides an
> important opportunity for students to voice concerns about our government's
> failure to meet the target 0.7% of GDP it has pledged to foreign aid.
> Currently,
> Canada gives just over $3 billion per year to foreign aid, or 0.26 % of the
> GDP, despite a $9.1 billion budget surplus in 2004. **A collective of
> student groups will be marching to Maison de Radio Canada, the location of
> the debates, and holding a candlelit rally to draw attention to this broken
> pledge. We are demanding that our national representatives prioritize
> fulfilling the 0.7% target.
>
>
>
> *MARCH DETAILS*
>
> * *
>
> *Monday, January 9, 2006*
>
> * *
>
> *Meet to March: *
>
> *Leave from Roddick Gates, McGill University—6pm *
>
> *Leave from Berri-UQAM Metro station (Berri exit)—6.45pm *
>
> * *
>
> *Final Destination: *
>
> *La Maison de Radio Canada, 1400 Renée Lévesque Est—7pm *
>
>
>
> Let's send our government representatives our MESSAGE loud and clear: Canada
> must respect its global responsibilities and the MDGs and live up to the
> 0.7% commitment!
>
>
>
> For more information contact: jessica.moe@gmail.com or
> vanessaredditt@yahoo.ca

10. From Greenpeace: against commercial whaling
> >
> > I've been writing to you for weeks about Gorton's,
> > the fisherman you used to trust. But you know now
> > that Gorton's parent company plans to slaughter
> > nearly 1,000 whales this year. We can't stand by and
> > let that happen.
> >
> > Gorton's has the power to persuade its parent
> > company to end whale slaughter once and for all.
> > It's up to YOU to persuade Gorton's to act now.
> >
> > We've done our part - two of our ships, the
> > Esperanza and the Arctic Sunrise, put themselves
> > between the harpoons of the Japanese whaling fleet,
> > and the whales they were attempting to slaughter:
> >
> http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/whalers-caught-in-the-act
> >
> > Now it's up to you to follow through here in the
> > States and apply some real economic pressure to
> > Gorton's. There are 1,000 whales counting on you to
> > act.
> >
> > Register Now!
> > http://www.partylaunch.com/greenpeace/index.cfm
> >
> > On January 27, join me, and my friend Nathan onboard
> > the Esperanza, for a national conference call and
> > whale watching party.
> >
> > Tell your neighbors, your friends, your family, and
> > your local grocery store shoppers, that buying
> > Gorton's directly contributes to commercial whaling.
> >
> > We've made it easy for you to get involved. Just
> > register online, and we'll send you everything
> > you'll need, including fact sheets, stickers,
> > postcards and video footage of our confrontation
> > with Japanese whalers. Then join me, and my friend
> > Nathan onboard the Esperanza, for a national
> > conference call. We'll answer any questions you have
> > about the campaign, and together, we'll make a plan
> > to get THOUSANDS of postcards to Gorton's signed at
> > grocery stores across the country:
> >
> http://www.partylaunch.com/greenpeace/hostparty/index.cfm
> >
> > So please, register right now - your actions today
> > could help us save whale populations around the
> > world.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > John Hocevar
> > Oceans Campaigner
> >
> > P.S. There's power in numbers, so be sure to bring
> > your friends and family with you on January 27.
> > Please forward this message and spread the word
> > about Gorton's:
> >
> http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/greenpeace/tellafriend.jsp?tell_a_friend_KEY=579
> > ~~~~~
> > 3 Ways to Help
> >
> > 1: Help Greenpeace Take a Stand. Become a Member
> > Today.
> >
> https://secureusa.greenpeace.org/securedonate/index.php?from=010306
> >
> > 2: Take Action. Visit our Action Center and take
> > action today.
> > http://members.greenpeace.org/action
> >
> > 3: Tell a Friend. Forward this message to a friend.
> > Help spread the word.
> >
> http://hq.demaction.org/dia/organizations/greenpeace/tellafriend.jsp?tell_a_friend_KEY=579
> > ~~~~~
> > EXTRA STORY.
> > ~~~~~
> > Greenpeace
> > 702 H Street, NW
> > Suite 300
> > Washington, D.C. 20001
> > (800) 326-0959
> > ~~~~~

Happy New Year!

2006-01-05T12:25:00.000-05:00

Dear Greening McGill,

We will have our first meeting of the semester on Wednesday January 4th at QPIRG at 6pm. It will
be an organizational meeting to get ready for the semester. All invited!

Also, a few announcements:

1. Call for delegates - the New University Project
2. Vote for Darfur

!!!CALL FOR DELEGATES THE NEW UNIVERSITY PROJECT!!!

The 2nd meeting of the New University Project is being held from January
13th-15th at Arundel Nature Center, near Montreal. This meeting will
continue the visioning and organising process begun at the founding
meeting in August of last year.

The New University Project is a grassroots non-profit initiative that
seeks to create a new Canadian post-secondary institution that embraces
principles of ecology, social justice, and accessibility, providing
students with a meaningful and engaged university education.

Help create on of the first ecological and alternative post-secondary
places of learning in Canada! Please visit www.newuniversity.net for
application forms and more information regarding the meeting. The event is
open to all who wish to attend.

Deadline for registration forms is JANUARY 8TH 2006.

Contact: lherbert@riseup.net

2. Vote for Darfur

TELL CANADA'S LEADERS TO TAKE ACTION TO SAVE DARFUR
> Dear Concerned Canadian,
>
> The crisis in Darfur, Sudan has been called the "worst
> humanitarian crisis in the world" by the United
> Nations. Since February 2003, 400,000 people have died
> and 2.5 million are currently displaced due to the
> aggression and crimes of the government of Sudan and
> janjaweed militias. The Canadian government has the
> ability to make a difference for the people of Darfur,
> but it has not yet felt the public pressure to do so.
>
> As Canada heads to the polls, candidates should know
> that there will be political consequences for
> inaction.
>
> Please join STAND (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur)
> Canada, Canadian Students for Darfur, the Genocide
> Intervention Network, STAND US, and many others in
> ensuring that Darfur stays on the radar screen of all
> candidates this election.
>
> Here's what you can do:
>
> 1. Complete our short online survey. Your responses
> will be presented to candidates in ridings across the
> country – demonstrating to Canada's political leaders
> that their constituents do care about Darfur, and that
> their inaction will come at a price.
>
> 2. Check out the Candidate Report Card. STAND Canada
> has sent your candidates a survey regarding their
> position on the issue of Darfur. We will post their
> responses on our website as they arrive so that you
> can make an informed decision on Election Day. Check
> the site before January 23 to see what your candidates
> said.
>
> STAND encourages you to visit www.avotefordarfur.org
> and to forward this email to family, friends, and
> co-workers to help give this issue the attention it
> deserves.
>
> Thank you for your vote for Darfur.
>
> The STAND Canada Team
> www.standcanada.org

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Hello, blog

2005-12-27T13:45:00.000-05:00

Hi there,

Well it's been a while, but this blog is going to get some attention again. I have put up minutes for the entire semester so anyone who wants to read up on our activities can go nuts. Hopefully we can keep this updated.

Stay tuned for: more news for the upcoming semester, etc.

:) michelle

Organic No-Till Agriculture talk; Petition against plastic bags!

2005-12-27T13:38:00.000-05:00

Hi list,

A quick message...

1. Organic No-Till Agriculture talk POSTPONED
2. A petition for you to sign - against plastic bags!!!

***************
Due to the snowstorm, the talk on Organic No-Till Agriculture will be postponed until WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 21, at 1:00 pm.
The room will be later confirmed.
Thank you for your understanding, and I apologise for any inconveniences this may have caused. I
hope to see you Wednesday!

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Title: Pushing the boundaries of sustainable agriculture: The
intersection of no-till and organics

Research will be presented examining how no-till farming
techniques are being adapted to improve the sustainability of organic
agriculture. While most no-till agriculture is dependant on fossil-fuel
based inputs and pesticides, which cause various side-effects on
ecosystems, organic agriculture is often criticised for its dependance
on
tillage, which can lead to soil quality and erosion concerns. Finding
suitable
farming techniques w hich integrate the 'best of both worlds' could
have
significant implications for improving the sustainability of
agriculture
on a
large scale.
Refreshments will be provided.

Time: 1:00 pm (13h00), WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21
Place: Barton Building, Rm. B1-016, Macdonald Campus

2. Petition against plastic bags! (from Sophie, thanks :) )

This petition at http://www.ecocontribution.com/ aims to support Bill 390 presented to the
National Assembly by Stephan Tremblay. It would ban non-biodegradable plastic bags.

Over 1000 billion plastic bags are distributed every year and it takes 400 years for them to break
down. The number of plastic bags used in Ireland after a similar law was passed in 2002 went down
by 90%.

Thanks for taking a few seconds to sign the petition and support the legislation against plastic
bags!

Cette pétition sur http://www.ecocontribution.com/ vise à soutenir le projet de loi 390 présenté
à l'Assemblée nationale par le député Stéphan Tremblay. Ce projet de loi porte sur l'interdiction
des sacs en plastiques non biodégradables qui sont en train d'envahir notre belle planète.

Pensons-y : il s'en distribue plus de 1000 milliards par année et ça leur prend 400 ans à
disparaître... La quantité de sacs utilisés en Irlande a été réduite de 90 % près qu'une loi
semblable ait été votée en 2002.

Merci de la signer en ligne, de faire suivre et de contribuer à faire de cette pétition un
happening collectif québécois ! Simplement cliquer sur ce lien et y inscrire les renseignements
demandés. Cela ne prend que quelques secondes.

Fiddling while the earth burns

2005-12-27T13:37:00.000-05:00

>
> Fiddling While the Earth Burns
>
> We need YOUR help for another media event happening along side the UN Climate
> Change Conference.
>
> The event is called Fiddling While the Earth Burns, and is happening on December
> 5th from 8-10am. This creative action is based on a historical
> reference to Emperor Nero who is said to have fiddled while Rome
> burned in 64 A.D. The purpose is to portray the U.S. administration
> as both a pariah in the climate negotiation process and as out of
> touch with citizens of the U.S.
>
> The plan includes two main aspects. First, huge puppets of a burning
> globe and a Bush puppet, which will always have its back turned to
> the globe (there will also be flyers etc explaining the
> significance).
>
> The other aspect is that we're trying to organize for a huge
> delegation of fiddlers to play during our demonstration. This is
> where we most need YOUR help.
>
> If you are a fiddler. If you know a fiddler. If you have an old
> fiddle. If you know where to get an old fiddle. Or if you just want
> more information. Please please please... email elizabethacfraser@gmail.com
>
> Cheers,
> Elizabeth
>

INTERNATIONAL MARCH FOR THE CLIMATE! and other news, 29 November 2005

2005-12-27T13:36:00.001-05:00

Dear Greening McGill,

Please forward this message far and wide!

INTERNATIONAL MARCH FOR THE CLIMATE! DECEMBER 3rd!

Join thousands of people on December 3rd for the International March for the Climate!

Meeting point at McGill at Roddick Gates at 11:30. March begins at noon at Dorchester square
(Peel/Rene-Levesque) and at the exit of Papineau metro, with March finishing at the Palais de
Congres where the UN Climate Conference is being held.

The purpose of the March is to show our concern as citizens for climate change and to pressure the
governments of the world to set concrete actions to meet Kyoto goals. Bring drums, bring friends,
bring everyone you know!!!

For more information, please visit www.3dec2005.org

Please print out this blurb and read it in your classes!

In other news:

1. Help poster for the big march!
2. Represent Greening McGill in Rimouski!
3. Help McGill come up with a Recycling promotions strategy

1. Help poster for the big march!

Drop by the Sustainable McGill office today to pick up a few posters about the march, and put them
up around school. Sustainable McGill is in the basement of the McGill School of Environment, 3534
University (next to Birks.)

2. Represent Greening McGill in Rimouski!

There is an inter-university environmental conference in Rimouski at the end of January (around
the 28-30 or so.) The purpose is to share ideas and coordinate action. Sustainable McGill is going
and have asked if we are. Are we?

If you would like to represent Greening McGill, contact me ASAP!!! And we will work out with
Sustainable McGill who will get to go for McGill (there are 4 spots per university.)

greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca

3. Help McGill come up with a Recycling promotions strategy

Recyc-Quebec, a provincial agency, is accepting proposals for funding for promoting recycling.
(Not the actual infrastructure, which will soon hopefully be provided by the university; but the
promotional materials.)

Basically, send me ideas of how we would promote recycling if money were no object! Get them to me
by Thursday noon! greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca

Here are some ideas we have, to get the ball rolling:

-a work study position (recycling coordinator)
-paid recycling ambassadors to make class announcements and talk to people in the cafeterias
-big posters to explain the recycling system
-big posters about why recycling is awesome
-big banners
-a mural about recycling? (maybe one of these ugly industrial hallways?)
-trips to the recycling plant?
-pamphlets, magnets, etc?

Information - Climate Change Convergence Centre

2005-12-27T13:36:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

Here's an update from Cameron about what's going on at the Climate Convergence center!

-Saima and Michelle

> Hey Everyone,
>
> UPDATES
>
> Our address and phone number!!!
> the CJCC: 2074 Rue Clark (between sherbrooke and ontario)
> ph. #: 514-843-5247
>
> CJCC:
> This is a final call out for help with getting the convergence centre
> furnished. We need:
> - lamps
> - strings of christmas lights
> - material/fabric
> - art/photos for the walls
> - press clippings
> - interesting reading materials
> - tables and chairs and sofas
> - help with set up and cleaning
> - carpeting and rugs
> - plants
>
> If you can lend any of the above materials, or help us find them,
> please email Guillaume at guillaume_marcille@hotmail.com. We will be
> making rounds with a truck to pick stuff up on Saturday (tomorrow).
> Remember, this is not donating, this is lending. all your stuff will
> get back to you safely and soundly, i promise. AND I WILL LOVE YOU
> FOREVER AND DECLARE YOU A CLIMATE WARRIOR.
>
> MARCH PREPARATIONS:
> - There is ongoing banner and placard making for the March at the
> climate centre, and we are open and running pretty much all the time
> now. The only thing missing is you!
>
> SAVE HOCKEY:
> - A group called Global Exchange and the Sierra Youth Coalition want
> to stage a fun action called Save Hockey
> (http://www.youthinmedia.com/acc2_psa_savehockey.htm,
> http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/3605.html) and they need
> help. They need hockey equipment, people to play the hockey game, and
> people to help raise awareness about the game. The game will be on
> December 1st in the morning, and should be a lot of fun. If you've got
> equipment you can lend or any ideas about where we can get it, drop by
> the CJCC anytime or give us a call here.
>
> CJCC SUPERVISION:
> - we need to set up a roster for people to supervise the centre. if
> you can help, come by and sign up on the calendar set up near the
> kitchen.
>
> THE LORAX:
> - Another fun action: The Lorax. On the 29th, a group of puppeteers
> from the US will stage a production of the famed Dr. Seuss story the
> Lorax, which details the destruction of the truffletrunk trees at the
> ruthless, ignorant hands of the Onceler. If you'd like to be a part of
> this please come by the centre (do I sound like a broken radio?) and
> sign up on the sheet near the front door. It's gonna be great!
>
> OPENING PARTY
> - Tuesday, the 29th at 7pm. Please come on down and join many people
> from all around the continent in officially opening the centre. Dinner
> and music!
>
> Please send this message along to all the people you know. Talk to you soon!
>
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Minutes, 23 November 2005

2005-12-27T13:35:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

Here are the minutes from our Nov. 23rd meeting.

1) Kyoto stuff
-Flyering at tomorrow's talk
-Climate Convergence Center postering
-Class announcements
-PGSS awareness campaign
-Results from drawing
-McGill meeting point for going to the Dec. 3rd march

2) Buy Nothing Day

3) Recto Verso
-Scrap paper books
-Exam books
-SCE workgroup
-Banner
-Course pack readings

4) Things to do next semester
-bag busting
-Bike blender
-Recycling
-Fossil Fool's Day

5) Announcements

1) Kyoto

Tons of stuff is going on!
There will be several speakers presenting about climate change tomorrow. This event has been
organized by the MSE, and will take place from 5pm to 7pm in the ballroom at New Rez. (New Rez is
near the corner of Parc and Pin. Get there early if you plan on attending--it'll probably be
packed!) Michelle, Marianne and Joanne are going to be passing out flyers advertising the Dec. 3rd
march.

The Montreal-wide group planning the Dec. 3rd march and related activities have rented a space
that they're calling the Climate Convergence Center. They're having various workshops and talks
there over the next few weeks, and we all have some posters that we're going to put up to help
them advertise. They're really nice posters!

Class announcements: Please make them to advertise the march! Info you need to know: It's on Dec.
3rd, and the McGill contingency is meeting at 11:30 at the Roddick Gates to walk over to the
starting place together. If you feel like going alone, the two starting spots are Dorchester
Square (corner of Peel and Rene Levesque) and the exit of metro Papineau.

A bunch of PGSS environmental committee members were at this meeting, and they agreed to take some
of our Dec. 3rd flyers up to Thompson house to pass out. Apparently it's pretty busy there on
Thursday and Friday nights.

We have some winners from our drawing! Our first winner is Daniel Brown, and our second winner is
Ben Adler. Daniel gets his choice of a programmable thermostate or a light timer, and Ben gets
whatever Daniel doesn't choose. I'll be calling you two in the next couple days.

Just to reiterate, everyone should come to this really super cool march on Dec. 3rd, and if you
want to come with other McGill people, meet us at 11:30 at the Roddick Gates.

2) Recto Verso

We're going to have Copy Nova make scrap paper notebooks for us. Right now we're passing around a
piece of paper on which we're all making a little piece of artwork, and when it's done, Marianne
is going to collect it and bring it to Copy Nova and tell them to use it as a cover for the books.

Exam books will be printed double sided for April, 2006 exams! Woopie!

An SCE workgroup has been formed to deal with implimenting the Recto Verso campaign. Ancillary
services is technically in charge of implimenting it, but they actually don't have jurisdiction
over a lot of things, like all the paper ordering, which is done by department. So this new SCE
workgroup will delegate Recto-Verso relate tasks that ancillary services can't do to people who
can do them. Michelle will act as the liason between MSE and Greening McGill.

We still are trying to hang up our Recto Verso banner. We tried hanging out of QPIRG's window,
which kinda worked, but not very well because it flapped around in the breeze. We're going to try
to contact CKUT and ask if we can tie it to their window also so that it'll stay in place.

Alisa mentioned that we should be encouraging professors to post readings on WebCT. This will be
a good project to follow up on next semester.

Joanne (from PGSS) mentioned that she knows the guy who prints course packs, so it's possible that
we could get a little message put on the back cover of all of them, if we wanted to. We decided
that Joanne will ask him to put Rethink's website on the back of them.

4) Bag busting
We're hopefully going to do a lot of advocating of using cloth bags and reusing plastic bags early
next semester. Joanne is going to inquire at the bookstore as to whether it would be possible to
set up a bin where people can drop off their used plastic bags and shoppers can pick them up
rather than taking a new bag. Marianne is going to find out what's going on with bag busting on
Mac Campus and see if they're selling canvas bags. It might be cool if we could get in on that.
We'll probably need lots of volunteers for this project, so look for our emails early in the
semester!

We're still working on this bike blender thing. Derina is going to take over the project since
I'm not going to be at McGill next semester. She'll be looking for a lot of volunteers in January
to help with exciting things like welding, so keep a lookout for emails on this subject, too.

In February, we plan to focus on promoting recycling. PGSS is already doing some work on this
subject, and they say that McGill has a vague plan to improve recycling, but they need to be
bugged so they actually stay on top of it. We're good at bugging people!

Then in March, we'll work on energy awareness stuff in cooperation with Kathleen. This project
will culminate on April 1st, which is Fossil Fool's Day.

4) Announcements!

Here's some more info about the march: By the way, their website is www.3dec2005.org. The French
version is good, the English version is kinda sketchy.

Bonjour,

Comme vous le savez peut-être, le 3 décembre 2005 est la “Journée
internationale d’action pour le climat? Dans le cadre de cette journée,
les citoyennes et citoyens inquiets des changements climatiques diront
clairement aux décideurs rassemblés ?Montréal pour la Conférence des
Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques qu’ils exigent des actions
et des engagements importants pour prévenir les changements climatiques
dangereux. ?ce jour, près de 28 pays planifient des actions populaires
dans le cadre de cette journée.

Avec votre aide, la plus grande de ces actions sera la “Marche mondiale
pour le climat, Montréal 2005? Cette marche, organisée par un collectif
de groupes environnementaux, étudiants et syndicaux québécois et
canadiens, a pour porte-parole artistique le chanteur Florent Vollant et
le conteur Fred Pellerin, et vise 15 000 participants.

Les participants se rejoindront le 3 décembre 2005 ?12:00 devant la
station de métro Papineau et au Square Dorchester, marcheront les uns
vers les autres sur Ste-Catherine (la rue sera entièrement fermée par la
police) et se rejoindront pour le rassemblement final devant le Complexe
Guy-Favreau. Il y aura un sablier géant, des discours, des prestations
musicales, des percussions, peut-être une montgolfière, etc, ce sera
SUPER. Vous pouvez obtenir plus d’informations au sujet de la marche au
site www.3dec2005.org.

Pour que cette marche soit un succès, je sollicite votre aide pour les
aspects suivants:
* MOBILISATION: Aidez-nous en mettant tout de suite le 3 décembre
?votre agenda, et en mobilisant vos réseaux pour amener le maximum de
participants ?la Marche! Invitez vos amis, vos chums, vos blondes, vos
voisins, etc. ?venir marcher avec vous! Si vous faites partie d’un
groupe et que vous pouvez nous confirmer le nombre de personnes que vous
amènerez ?la marche, merci de communiquer avec
mobilisation@3dec2005.org au plus tard le 29 novembre pour nous en faire
part.

* AFFICHAGE: Aidez-nous ?rejoindre le maximum de gens! Nous avons
produit de très belles affiches et “flyers?pour la marche et avons
besoin de votre aide pour les afficher/distribuer dans votre quartier,
sur votre campus, etc. Pour recevoir des affiches ou flyers imprimés,
contactez Elodie, ?emantha@equiterre.qc.ca.

* COMMUNICATIONS: Aidez-nous ?diffuser l’information sur la
marche le plus largement possible! Si vous pouvez mettre de
l’information au sujet de la marche et un lien vers notre site
(www.3dec2005.org) sur vos sites Internet ou dans vos publications,
envoyez un courriel ?info@3dec2005.org pour obtenir une trousse de
communication (visuel, petit texte, etc.).

* BÉNÉVOLES: Aidez-nous avec vos bras! Nous aurons besoin d’une
vingtaine de bénévoles pour 2 soirées de distribution de “flyers?aux
sorties de métro et autres lieux stratégiques de Montréal (ex: Centre
Bell), le 22 novembre et le 1er décembre. Nous aurons également besoin
d’une dizaine de bénévoles pour faire des appels téléphonique le 21, 22,
28 et 29 novembre. Finalement, nous cherchons 75 bénévoles pour assurer
l’encadrement de la marche, le 3 décembre. Merci de communiquer avec
info@3dec2005.org si vous pouvez donner un coup de main!

Merci de nous prêter main forte! Le succès de cette marche est crucial,
autant pour sensibiliser le public ?l’enjeu important que sont les
changements climatiques que pour réussir ?créer une pression citoyenne
que les décideurs ne pourront plus ignorer!

Au plaisir de collaborer ensemble,

Elodie

The Faculty of Law is having a symposium about international cooperation and climate change. See
the attachment!

Many enviro-events related to Kyoto are taking place at UQAM in the next couple of weeks. These
include workshops, debates and lots of informational kiosques. See
www.rendez-vous-citoyen-kyoto.org for more information.

Here's an announcment from some people who have a petition asking Tim Horton's to waste fewer
resources:
Especially in the province of Quebec, Tim Hortons goes through the motions in being
environmentally friendly by offering its customers a ridiculous measly 5 cent discount for travel
mug users. In our recent survey, over 85% of people are not even aware that these incentives
exist. Perhaps it is for the reason that their advertisements promote one to buy-- not to save. As
the franchise grows, so does the litter. In a study of solid waste from Nova Scotia, it had been
accounted that 20% of the provinces litter was accounted from Tim Hortons. A surveyist pointed out
that we drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut for about 20 minutes, but the litter is here to stay
for much longer than that.

In Montreal, the Tim Hortons on the corner of University and Sherbrooke street is an entity of an
endless flow of customers and litter. In our observation analyses for this location, it has been
found that approximately half of the number of dine-in customers were using paper cups during peak
hours! Speaking of unneccesary waste, in a phone conversation in October of this year with Greg
Skinner, (manager of corporate affairs of Tim Hortons), Greg blindly denies that Tim Hortons has
any policy to double-cup, a standard practice that everybody knows happens regularly at Tim
Hortons, whether it is written down in their corporate practices or not. Since Tim Hortons refuses
to incorporate paper sleeves, a customer handling a paper-cup too tall and too hot to hold, will
have no choice but to obtain a double-cup.

Travel-mugs are not promoted enough, double-cupping happens all too often, roll up the rim
promotes paper waste effecting dine-in customers to obtain a paper cup, and even customers dining
in are not even given a dine-in mug all the time. These problems, when multiplying by the
multitude of Tim Hortons franchises out there, are destructive to the sustainbility of our
environment. With billions of annual revenue being projected off of their balance sheets and
expansions to the USA, Tim Hortons is becoming hungrier for growth and not for sustainability of
the environment.

Ultimately, we would like to eliminate the option to use disposable paper cups and instead serve
hot beverages in reusable travel mugs for all quick-serve restaurants. However, this long-term
solution can happen if there were a complete shift in current societal mindset which can only be
made possible a step at a time. Therefore, we have created a petition that asks Tim Hortons to be
more socially responsible in reducing paper waste by 1) ensuring that all dine-in customers are
using dine-in mugs 2) better promoting the use of travel mugs.

Please help us help the world. Please add a short blurb to your publication with the link to our
petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/232854687
With your help in just spreading the word, we can together effect change and create a positive
impact in our environment.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this further, please feel free to contact us.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

- Jacqueline Leung and Loretta Lau
students of McGill University

That's it! This was our last meeting of the semester, so we'll talk to you all in January!
Take care, everyone. Good luck on exams!
-Saima and Michelle

Greening McGill needs your help! News from 16 November 2005

2005-12-27T13:34:00.000-05:00

Dear Greening McGill,

There is lots to be done as the big Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP-11)
approaches. It's a crazy time of year for all of us, but if you can just spare an hour or so, it
would be HUGELY appreciated. If everybody pitches in a little bit, no one will be too heavily
burdened. Please help and accumulate some good karma.

Our last meeting of the semester takes place this Wednesday at 6 at QPIRG as usual. Please join us
in wrapping up this semester and planning for the next.

Here are two lists. The first is of things where we need help. The second is of neat events
happening that you might be interested in.

**Help wanted!**

1. Tabling
2. Bike flags for a Kyoto critical mass
3. Get involved in the Montreal-wide mobilization
4. Posters

**Fun events**
1. Kyoto and the Environment: Context, Realities and Beyond
2. Bike workshop
3. Buy Nothing Day Carolling
4. Global march for our climate

**Help wanted!**

1. Tabling

Monday November 21, Leacock, 8:45-3:30
Wednesday November 23, Redpath, 8:45-3:30

We are tabling on Monday (in Leacock) and Wednesday (in Redpath) this week with info on climate
change, petitions, smoothies and prizes. Helpers for set up (meet at 8:45, at QPIRG) and clean up
(meet at 3:30, at the tabling location) are ESPECIALLY needed. If you can offer just a half hour
to help us put our things away, then it means our few volunteers will not be straining themselves
carrying too many things and will get to attend class on time. We also need people to help us
table during the day. It consists of giving people information (all provided on the table), making
smoothies, and encouraging people to sign petitions against federal subsidies to gas projects. If
you can help in any way, please write greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca.

2. Bike flags for a Kyoto critical mass

Monday November 21
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Climate Convergence Centre (2074 Clark)

Among the many things planned for the lead-up to the Kyoto conference is a critical mass ride. I
will forward more information on it as it arrives. But to prepare for it, we are making a large
amount of bike flags for people to attach to their bikes, with messages about climate change and
Kyoto.

However, before we can put flags on our bikes, we have to actually make them. The flag-making
party will take place TOMORROW (Monday) at 6:30 at the Climate Convergence Centre, a centre set up
for Climate change activism during the Kyoto conference. Please come in for a little while to
paint flags. It will be easy and fun and the more people show up, the less flags I have to make
all by myself. I would greatly appreciate that. The Climate Convergence Centre is at 2074 Clark
(between Sherbrooke and Maisonneuve.) Let me know if you are coming: greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca.

3. Get involved in the Montreal-wide mobilization

Ongoing!

There are TONS of things out there for people who want to be involved in the big mobilization.
First, go to Yahoogroups.ca and join the group:"montrealensemble". Then you will get all sorts of
news. You can also look on the calendar for things that are happening. You can also sign up to be
a marshall for the big march and do other things like that. They would also appreciate a hand at
the Climate Convergence Centre, which is being cleaned up and set up by volunteers. They are
cleaning today (Sunday) so drop by 2074 Clark anytime during the day to help out with that and
join the larger movement. They also have a list of things they need to furnish the space. If you
can donate a computer, a sofa, a mattress, a futon, etc for three weeks, they would LOVE it. They
can pick it up from you and drop it off again after the conference. Write to
guillaume_marcille@hotmail.com.

4. Posters
Lots of help is needed to put up posters around campus for the big march on December 3rd. If you
can put up a few posters, please visit Sustainable McGill during their office hours. If you can
hand out some flyers or make some class announcements that would be great too! Come by the table
please.

**Fun events**
1. Kyoto and the Environment: Context, Realities and Beyond.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 22, Leacock 26, at 6:30.

Thanks to Jesse Gutman for organizing this neat event. Come and hear speeches by Peter Brown
(Professor in the MSE) and Geoffrey Garver (from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, a
body under NAFTA).

2. Bike workshop

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 23, at 6:30.
1st floor, McGill School of Environment, 3534 University Av.

You are invited to the McGill Coalition Against Climate Change Bicycle Discussion & Workshop

We will discuss:
Climate change and transport, how it affects you and how you can affect it.
Winter biking, gear, clothes, riding style
How to bike safe in the city, in all weather

We will also have a basic mechanics demonstration, what tools you should have and how to use them.
Space pending, it will also be possible to practice on your own bike

It should be a great chance to learn and share ideas, so come out and tell all your friends!

3. Buy Nothing Day Carolling

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26, 3 pm, outside the Carlton Cards in the McGill metro (near McGill College
exit)

This is an event not to be missed! We have a great collection of Christmas songs (and a few Bob
Dylan) with the lyrics changed to say things about overconsumption and the environment. We will be
singing for the people shopping in the Eaton centre. Please bring all your friends and also a
shopping bag with a message written on it about consumption, climate change, etc.

4. Global march for our climate

Meet: Noon, December 3rd, at either Dorchester Square (Peel and Rene-Levesque) or outside Papineau
metro.

Last but not least!!! The Global March for Our Climate takes place on December 3rd. Yes, it's just
at the start of exams. But can you pass up the opportunity to join thousands of people in the
streets calling on world leaders for stronger action on climate change? I didn't think so!

For those of you who are wary of marches, this is a completely peaceful march and the purpose is
not to condemn and demonize the politicians, but to urge them to make their negotiations fruitful
and to take real actions to fight climate change.

More info is at www.3dec2005.org. See you in the streets!

-Saima and Michelle

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Next week: meeting change!

2005-12-27T13:33:00.000-05:00

Hello Greening McGill!

A reminder that next meeting will be TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15th (NOT WEDNESDAY); this is because there
is a Montreal-wide Kyoto organizing meeting on the Wednesday, which many people will want to
attend.

Volunteers are needed! For various events ranging from handing out flyers to putting stickers on
photocopiers. Please read the minutes for more details. It's a busy time of year, but if you can
give us just an hour each, it will be amazing what we can get done. If you don't have time to read
this massive e-mail, please just look at items 1 and 2.

To recap:

Greening McGill: TUESDAY November 15th, QPIRG, 6pm (3647 University; buzz QPIRG to get in)

Organizing for the Kyoto Conference: WEDNESDAY November 16th, Concordia, Hall Building, 7th floor,
exact room TBA.

Tons of announcements today! check it out!

-Saima and Michelle

Minutes, 9 November!

1. Kyoto - pamphleting - volunteers needed!
2. Kyoto: tabling - volunteers needed!
3. Kyoto: tabling - other tasks
4. Kyoto: speaker/debate night
5. Kyoto: happenings around Montreal
6. Recto-Verso: stickers on photocopiers!
7. Recto-Verso: making reused-paper notebooks!
8. Recto-Verso: bugging the Faculty of Arts Computer Labs
9. Recto-Verso: other news
10. SUSTAINABLE MCGILL PROJECT SEEKING ARTISTIC INSPIRATION!
11. SPCA tour
12. Charity film screening - Born into Brothels
13. Master Plan Forums
14. Internship opportunity: contact Equiterre

1. Kyoto - pamphleting - volunteers needed!

This is important! Please read!

As you all must know, the big Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP - 11) is taking
place in Montreal at the end of this month. This is an ideal time to show our governments that we
care about climate change and that more action has to be taken, fast!

As part of the mobilizations, people are coming from all over to join in the Global March for the
Climate on December 3rd which will lead us to the Palais du Congres, where our leaders will be
negotiating the next phase of greenhouse gas emissions. The purpose of the march is to demand
stronger action on climate change. For more details, see http://www.3dec2005.org/fr/
(Unfortunately their English site is much much smaller...)

Where do you come in? WE NEED PEOPLE TO HELP SPREAD THE WORD. If you can give out flyers on Monday
November 14th (this Monday!) at the crossroads on campus, please write us at
greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca and sign up for a shift. The flyers will advertise the big march on
December 3rd on one side, and the One Tonne Challenge on the other. (For those of you who haven't
seen it: the One Tonne Challenge is a government program. check out
http://www.climatechange.gc.ca/onetonne/english/)

2. Kyoto: tabling - volunteers needed!

We need volunteers! Tabling days are November 17, 21 and 23. Please write us here to let us know
when you are free. All you have to do is sit at the table, encourage people to take information
about climate change, and play cool videos on the laptop. (We are going to have Bill Nye episodes.
It's totally worth it.) Volunteers please write to greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca.

3. Kyoto: tabling - other tasks

To plan for the tables, the following tasks have been divided up:

Reserving laptops for the three days:
Nov 17 - Saima, Nov. 21 - Molly, Nov. 23 - Marianne. (Where to reserve the laptop? The office
behind all the computers near the Redpath entrance.)

Pictures for a photo display at our tables - Saima please get in touch with Molly.

Bike blender - Saima is on it. She will send exciting news soon. There might be some welding going
on.

materials to distribute and displays for the climate change day (17th) in McConnell - Marianne

materials for the transportation day - Saima

materials for household energy - we already have in the office, and Michelle will pick up more
from Kathleen

lightbulbs - Michelle is working on it. we might rebudget some money; we might get some donations.

cool videos to show on the laptop - Michelle

4. Kyoto: speaker/debate night

Jesse has got Peter Brown to agree to speak on the 22nd. He is going to confirm shortly about a
room, and a possible second participant for a debate style presentation.

5. Kyoto: happenings around Montreal

Join the listserv to find out more about things:
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/montrealensemble/
There is a calendar there with events.

The big march is happenieng December 3rd!

Other happenings: keep an ear out for news on critical mass, pamphleting cars, tabling in grocery
stores.

Also we are calling out for anyone and everyone: write a letter to the Daily, the Tribune, the
Globe, the Gazette, (why not just copy all of them?) and express concern about climate change and
or suggest ways for people to do something about it!

6. Recto-Verso: stickers on photocopiers!

The new stickers have arrived! They are colourful and fancy and explain how to make double-sided
copies on the library copiers. We have divided up the stickering as follows:

Marianne - Education, Management, Law
Derina - Math, Health Sciences, Schulich
Molly - Geography
Michelle - Islamic Studies, Music

Thanks - expect an e-mail soon with more detailed instructions.

7. Recto-Verso: making reused-paper notebooks!

The engineers who used to make reused-paper notebooks don't have enough people power to do it. But
we do. We are going to contact copy shops and other places that have copying mistakes, and ask
them to save them for us.

Marianne - Copie Nova
Copie Smart, Galeries du Parc, Konica Minolta - Molly
McGill Printing, CopiEUS - Michelle

trying to get a good deal for binding from CopiEUS - Michelle

At some point we'll need someone to design an awesome cover packed with environmental tips...

8. Recto-Verso: bugging the Faculty of Arts Computer Labs

Please continue to put comments in the FACL comment box asking for double-siding to be put as a
default. Michelle will find out the name of a sympathetic person in AUS, and Molly will then get
in contact with that person to see if AUS can help us pressure the FACL.

9. Recto-Verso: other news

In other news, Michelle is pursuing an ongoing investigation into exam booklets. At some point
(when the old ones run out) they should start buying new ones that are made of recycled paper and
lined on both sides. No one seems to know when this is happening, and some administrative types
have shown a shocking lack of enthusiasm for this idea. (Gasp!) I will post updates.

Also, soon an e-mail will go out from Ancillary Services to all departments instructing them to
set their copiers to double-side. After that we will need some volunteers to do follow-up visits
bugging them and walking them through the process to make sure they do it.

10. SUSTAINABLE MCGILL PROJECT SEEKING ARTISTIC INSPIRATION!

The Sustainable McGill Project is now in mid-production of an Ecosystem
Assessment of the downtown campus of the university. We are calling out to the
community for submissions of photography and art for our report-anything along
the general themes of nature and McGill, or a combination of the two is
welcome! If you have any photos, art or are interested in taking photos for us,
please get in touch with Alex at alexandra.swann@mail.mcgill.ca

The Project is having a general meeting on Tuesday, November 15th at 6:30PM in
the basement of the McGill School of the Environment (3534 University). Main
topics on the agenda are layout, printing logistics, and launch planning
(scheduled for early January). All are welcome!

For more information, visit our website www.sustainable.mcgill.ca or e-mail us
at sustainthis@riseup.net

yours,
The Sustainable McGill Project

11. SPCA Tour

The SPCA in Montreal looks after all of Montreal's cats and dogs regularly and finds thousands of
them homes every year that they would not normally find.
The SPCA Club at McGill will be holding a guided tour of the SPCA this Thursday, November 10th at
6:00 p.m. The tour is at the SPCA at 5215 Jean-Talon, two minutes from Namur metro. We'll be
meeting at the Roddick Gates at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday and travelling down together and all are
welcome! please rsvp to spcaclub2004@yahoo.ca Thanks!

12. Charity Screening - Born into Brothels

On November 14th, Ashraya Initiative for Children (AIC) Canada will
be screening Born into Brothels, a 2005 Academy Award winning
documentary about the lives of children growing up in the red-light
district of Calcutta. The movie will be shown In the Lev Buckman room
(2nd floor Shatner) at 6pm and 8pm. Admission will be $3, which will
include a raffle ticket for an assortment of prizes, including dinner
gift certificates and pashmina shawls. All profits will be going
towards the AIC home for street children in Pune, India.

Ashraya Initiative for Children was started by 7 college students in
2004 to open a home for street children in India. The home opened in
early 2005, and currently houses 4 children. The Canadian chapter runs
out of McGill University, with many student volunteers, as well as 3
of the directors.

For more information on the organization, or to find out about getting
involved with AIC McGill, visit our website at
www.ashrayainitiative.org

or e-mail Kaminika Morjaria at kaminika@gmail.com.

13. Master Plan Forums

What will McGill look like in 20 years? It is an important question for the
University and future generations of students, as well as for the larger
community. Attend the Master Plan Forums and let your voice be heard:

NOVEMBER PUBLIC FORUMS – SCHEDULE

November 15, 9:30 am - Amphitheatre M1 in the Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry
Building, Downtown campus;

November 15, 3:00 pm - Centennial Hall Ballroom, Macdonald Campus;

November 16, 9:30 am - Leacock 232, Downtown campus

Please take time to review the Explorations paper, a document which addresses
preliminary planning considerations and principles about the McGill campuses
at: http://www.mcgill.ca/masterplan/documentation/explorations/

14. Internship opportunity: contact Equiterre

2177 Masson # 317
Montreal (Qc) H2H 1B1

Tel : (514) 522-2000 poste 222
Fax : (514) 522-1227
Web : www.equiterre.org

Équiterre contribue à bâtir un mouvement citoyen en prônant des choix
individuels et collectifs à la fois écologiques et socialement équitables.
Ses quatre champs d'intervention sont le transport écologique, l'efficacité
énergétique, l'agriculture écologique et le commerce équitable.

Équiterre (from the french words equity and the earth) contributes to
building a citizen's movement by promoting individual and collective choices
that are both ecological and socially just. It works in four sectors:
Sustainable Transportation, Energy Efficiency, Ecological Agriculture and
Fair Trade.

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News- 2 November 2005

2005-12-27T13:32:00.001-05:00

Dear Greening McGill,

There is lots of exciting stuff going on to prepare for the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto
Protocol which is taking place in only a few weeks! At McGill and across Montreal, various actions
are being taken to spread the word to the public and to our governments that we are concerned
about climate change. For more, please read on!

The next Montreal-wide meeting for action on climate change takes place on Wednesday November 16th
at 5 pm at Concordia. To make attendance possible, I propose that we move the Greening McGill
meeting just for that week, to TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15. Our next meeting remains on WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER
9, 6 pm, QPIRG (3647 University; buzz QPIRG to get in the front door).

Finally, as always, please visit and contribute to our wiki: www.green.schtuff.com

-Saima and Michelle

1. Kyoto news: McGill
2. Kyoto news: Montreal
3. Recto-Verso
4. QPIRG Open House
5. Town hall Nov. 16th!
6. Note on Greenpeace employment

1. Kyoto news: McGill
a) Speaker/debate - Jesse has got Peter Brown, a professor in the School of Environment, to agree
to a talk. He may also get someone else, in which case the talk would become a panel/debate.
Jesse, please confirm some details, especially the date and format. We will need some publicity
people to make this work. We are hoping to have this event on the week of the 21st.

b) Tables!

At all of these tables we can have flyers with information about events going on around Montreal,
general stuff like One Tonne Challenge, and also the big march on December 3rd! We will be calling
for tabling volunteers shortly!

Climate change (McConnell, November 17th)
- Saima has got permission to use Greenpeace and other photos for a display.
- Michelle can get a Bill Nye video about climate change that we can show on a computer.
- Does somebody have a pile of one-tonne challenge pamphlets? Or we could order some.They would be
handy.
- Marianne is looking up some good climate change information (and coordinating this table?)

Transportation (Leacock, November 21st)
- Michelle will get a Bill Nye episode about Transportation! (yeehaw, Bill Nye!)
- also there are some good videoclips from the internet we can play
- bike blender will hopefully be done then! (smoothies!)
- someone from Equiterre will also be bringing us some materials
- there's lots of car-related stuff floating around from car free day
- Saima is coordinating this table

Energy in your house (Redpath, November 23rd)
- ecological footprint survey (we have some)
- lightbulbs - free if we get them donated; otherwise perhaps we can just buy a few and give them
as draw prizes for filling out an ecological footprint??
- Sophie is coordinating this table

c) Pamphleting/shouting at the crossroads (November 14th)
- Saima will organize some pamphleting and petitions at the crossroads, to spread the word on
climate change

d) The bike blender!
Tentatively mark your calendars for the weekend of the 12-13 for some bike building. Apparently
there will be welding involved. It will be great and at the end we can make smoothies.

2. Kyoto news: Montreal

A neat meeting took place Wednesday night with representatives from many universities and cegeps
across Montreal. Lots of stuff is going on around the city. Possible initiatives: giving windmills
with energy tips on them to little children, pamphleting cars with "climate violation" tickets;
and of course the massive march on December 3rd! And has anyone got great ideas of neat things to
do with old bus passes? I have so many, and they seem to have potential for creative use. I
suggest joining the Yahoogroup to get updates: http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/montrealensemble/
Next meeting: Wednesday November 16th at Concordia, 5 pm. Exact location TBA.

3. Recto-Verso

a) Announcements
To join the announcements team (spreading the word on double-sided printing), write
greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca

b) Maskings (stickers on photocopiers)

Stay tuned for an announcement soon on when we need a team of people to attack all the
photocopiers on campus and put on stickers that instruct people how to double-side. There are 80
copiers so we will need a lot of hands. It's coming up this week!

c) Paper buying
100% post-consumer recycled paper can be hard to find. We can buy through QPIRG for a good price.
However, a coordinator for this project woudl be nice. All you need to do: communicate with QPIRG,
take orders, and then arrange for people to receive their paper. It would be simple but a great
service for people who want to buy more responsible printing paper but can't find it at Bureau en
gros. Interested? greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca

d) Notebooks
Reused paper notebooks: no update just yet, but hope something will turn up soon.

e) Listservs
Alisa is going to send a blurb to the AUS list and also the main SSMU list. Thanks Alisa.

4. QPIRG Open House

Next Thursday QPIRG is having an open house! QPIRG is great and has so many great services to
offer like their awesome library so go enjoy the open house and represent Greening McGill. I
believe the hours are 5-7. Hope you can make it.

5. Town hall November 16th!

November 16th, Moot Court (Law faculty), 13h-14h, a Town Hall with the Principal. Bring your
environment (and non-environment) related questions!

6. Note on Greenpeace employment

Seisei wrote to say that she has worked with Greenpeace before, and would like to share her
experience with anyone considering working for Greenpeace. If you want to hear a first-hand
account
of what it was like, write her at stateb1@po-box.mcgill.ca. (Thanks Seisei!)

Reminder: Meeting Change! Kyoto Meeting!

2005-12-27T13:32:00.000-05:00

Hello friends,

My apologies for the second e-mail. Below are the details for tomorrow's meeting at UQAM. As I
said earlier, we are going to attend this meeting rather than hold our regular Greening McGill
meeting, and get involved in some of the Montreal-wide activism surrounding the upcoming
Conference of the Parties on the Kyoto treaty and climate change.

It's going to be a great big movement, come be a part of it!

See you there!

Michelle

Wednesday November 2, 2005
5:00 pm

Universite de Quebec a Montreal

209, Sainte-Catherine E
Pavillon V Building, room V-R830
Metro berri-UQÀM station
Sortie Sainte-Catherine exit

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Meeting change! And some neat events this week!

2005-12-27T13:31:00.000-05:00

Dear Greening McGill,

As the big Kyoto conference approaches, it's time for us to get organizing for climate change
activities!

I propose that in lieu of our regular meeting, we join in with the other schools across Montreal
for a big organizing session for big climate change action! This includes: workshops, critical
mass, and the huge march on December 3rd. It's going to be exciting.

This meeting will take place at UQAM on Wednesday, November 2nd at 5pm. The exact location is to
be determined, but I will certainly post it to the list as soon as I have it! Stay tuned!

(I will be late, as I have a class, but I encourage everyone to be there and get involved in the
larger Montreal-wide movement to fight climate change.)

It will be great - see you all there!

-Michelle

Announcements:
1. Greenpeace semester - apply now! Deadline Nov. 11
2. Fair Trade talk

1. Grenpeace semester

The Greenpeace Organizing Term is a semester of ACTION, TRAINING, and
TRAVEL

Get the skills to protect the planet... apply now at
www.greenpeaceusa.org/got

"The Greenpeace Organizing Term is a really unique opportunity for students
to experience true activism. It's the only training like it: three months of
some of D.C.'s best environmental leaders training you and then getting out
of the classroom to apply your new skills to real-life campaign work. We
learned how to hold press conferences, plan campaigns, develop media
strategies, influence companies and Congress, drive motor boats, climb and
repel off a wall. If you want the best training out there for students you
should do the GOT."
-- Anca Giurgiulescu, University of California, Berkeley

ACTION
We give you hands-on experience with a real Greenpeace campaign. We have the
best trainers come and give you trainings here in our DC headquarters and
then you hit the ground to work with a real Greenpeace campaign to implement
what you've learned. You'll put your organizing skills into action, play a
critical role in organizing on-the-ground Greenpeace events, and make a real
impact fighting to protect America's last remaining forests, promoting clean
energy and saving our world's oceans. You'll learn how to climb, drive
Greenpeace boats on the Chesapeake Bay, use advanced communication equipment
and practice peaceful direct action.

TRAVEL
We travel abroad for a week to meet with international Greenpeace activists.
During past trips, students have traveled to Greenpeace headquarters in
Amsterdam, to Paris to take part in a 500-person peace symbol, and to
Germany where they joined a 6,000-person march in to protest of nuclear
waste shipments. We give people a few days to just relax and explore Europe
as well.

TRAINING
We provide over 50 cutting-edge trainings in grassroots organizing, campaign
skills, media strategy, and direct action. America's top environmental
leaders will train you in everything from recruiting volunteers and
developing leaders to creating a campaign plan. You'll learn how to climb,
drive Greenpeace boats, hold press events and plan national campaigns.

APPLY NOW
Only a few spots are left for the upcoming Spring 2006 term. If you are
passionate, bold, smart, visionary, strategic, savvy and ready to stand up
for the environment, join us! We are currently accepting applications for
the spring 2006 semester based at the Greenpeace USA headquarters in
Washington, DC. The application deadline is Friday, November 11th. To learn
more and to apply, visit www.greenpeaceusa.org/got

To contact program staff with questions, contact Amy Faulring at
202-319-2436 or got@wdc.greenpeace.org

2. Fair trade talk

Bonjour !

J'aurai le plaisir de présenter une conférence sur le commerce équitable à l'école Polytechnique

Jeudi le 3 novembre

Heure : 12h45 à 13h30

Local: Amphithéâtre Bell (C-631)

Commerce Équitable : Le Sucre et le Riz.

Avec le phénomène de la mondialisation, on serait tenté de croire que le commerce international
est en voie d’être totalement libéralisé.

Bien à l’inverse de leur discours politique, les pays industrialisés imposent encore d’énormes
freins au développement économique des pays pauvres à travers deux politiques dévastatrices :

les subventions et le dumping.

Dans une conférence portant principalement sur le commerce équitable, Marc-Henri Faure nous
présentera l'exemple du sucre et du riz, deux commodités lourdement subventionnées par les U.S.A.
et l’Europe.

Des milliers de producteurs des pays pauvres subissent de plein fouet cette concurrence déloyale
et viennent joindre les rangs des déshérités.

Bien que cette situation doit être décriée sur toutes les tribunes possibles, il existe un autre
moyen pour contrecarrer activement ces pratiques commerciales déloyales : le commerce équitable.

Merci !

Marc-Henri Faure

Equita, d'Oxfam-Québec

Equita from Oxfam

(t) 514 925 6001 # 4 / (f) 514 925 6065

sans frais/toll free 1 877 925 6001 # 4

www.commerceequitable.com

www.oxfamfairtrade.ca

Minutes - 26 October 2005

2005-12-27T13:30:00.001-05:00

minutes -- 10/26/05

Hi everyone,
Sorry about the other email! I sent it by mistake before I finished writing it (obviously).

Topics discussed at this week's meeting:
Kyoto:
1)themes for tabling events
2)bike blender
3)debate
4)petition

Recto Verso:
5)banner placement
6)Announcements
7)Stuff related to Ancillary Services
8)Random Recto Verso things

9) Stephan Dion talk
******************************************************

1) We decided on themes for each day of tabling.
Nov. 17th in McConnell: General climate change information. We hope to have a photography exibit.
We have some pictures from a bike trip across the country that we'll use in conjunction with an
article about the bike trip. I will also write to Greenpeace because they tend to have cool
pictures and they may want to give us some. We'd also like to put something on the floor because
we have lots of floor space, and people would look at it. Maybe we'll get some big paper and draw
pictures of things that are affected by climate change and say things to walkers-by like, "Hey,
you're stepping on some polar bears!" or whatever.

Nov. 21st in Leacock: Transportation's effect on climate change. Hopefully we'll have the bike
blender finished by this time! Michelle is also looking into getting some sort of short films we
can play on a TV that we can borrow. Bill Nye the Science Guy has some good episodes that we'd
like to use, but they're costly.

Nov. 23st in Redpath: Energy in your home. We'd like to give out free compact flourescent
lightbulbs again if it's economically feasible. Michelle is writing to the government and Hydro
Quebec to see if we can get ligthbulbs for free or cheap. We can also get lots of tabling
materials from Kathleen Ng to pass out. Sophie will search for additional tabling information.

2) The bike blender! Our project to build a bike-powered blender is moving forwards! We went to
Mountain Equipment Coop last weekend and picked up the hand-crank blender that they gave us for
free. (Yeay MEC!) Tomorrow (Thursday) I'm meeting with Patric, our volunteer engineer, and we're
going to scavenge for parts in the labs in the engineering building. Also, Nyssa is asking Right
To Move about getting the parts for the bike that we can't scavenge. We're going to schedule a
weekend day to work on actually putting the bike together pretty soon. Anyone is welcome to come
and help! We'll send out an email with the exact date later.

3) Debate. Jesse Gutman: are you out there? Are you still planning a climate-change-oriented
debate? Please let us know what you're planning!
If we don't invite professors to have a debate or panel discussion regaurding climate change, we'd
like to have a movie night. Michelle suggested showing the movie Oil On Ice. We may also just go
to the library and see what sorts of environmental movies they have.

4)I think it would be exciting to stand in the crossroads between classes for one or two days
before the conference and get people to sign some sort of petition to urge some coorporation or
government body to combat climate change. We need to find an appropriate cause, though. I'll
work on this, as will Michelle.

5)Recto-Verso banner. Mary S. asked the SSMU execs if we can put our recto verso banner up in the
Shatner building, but they said no. I'm going to ask the people at the circulation desk in
McClennan if we can put the banner up in the entry way to McClennan. If anyone has ideas for
other prime banner spots on campus, please let us know!

6) Recto-Verso announcements. We're still trying to get people to make class announcements
publicizing Recto Verso. If you make one to one of your classes, please let us know! If you want
to make announcements but don't know what to say, write to us and we'll send you a short script.

7) Recto-Verso stuff related to Ancillary Services. Ancillary services says it'll be rather
expensive to make scrap paper notebooks through them. We would have to pay $300 to get 100 books
of 200 pages each. Michelle will write to Nora Kirkpatrick, who used to make scrap paper
notebooks for a group called Care, and ask her how they made it economically feasible. We'd like
to have these done for the beginning of next semester when people are buying their new notebooks.

8)Random Recto Verso Stuff:
The Arts Lab has a comment box in the corner. It would be awfully cool if tons of people would
put comments in asking them to change their default to doublesided. If people are willing to sign
the comments and put their year and program on them so that the Arts Lab people know it's not just
Greening McGill memebers putting the same comments in over and over, that would be even cooler.

Nyssa, our QPIRG liason, is looking into how costly it would be for Greening McGill to start a
buying club in which we would buy 100% post consumer paper through QPIRG.

9) Stephan Dion talk! Stephan Dion, Canada's environmental minister, will give a talk on
environmental issues tomorrow (Thursday the 27th) in Otto Maass 112. We'll be there at 7:00
handing out paper windmills to people. We plan to ask people to raise their windmills when he
says certain words, then at the end someone from the McGill Climate Change Coalition will explain
the point we're trying to make with our windmills is that Canada needs to take a stronger stance
on climate change. Everyone show up! Bring your own windmill if you can (see Sustainable
McGill's website for instructions on building one), but if you can't, we'll have some extras to
hand out.

That's all! Have a great week, everybody.

-Saima

Windmills for Stephane Dion! And other news!

2005-12-27T13:30:00.000-05:00

Greetings to everyone who is concerned about climate change!

This THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27th at 7:30 pm, Stephan Dion, our federal minister of the Environment,
will be speaking in OTTO MAASS 112.

Please attend the speech and bring with you a paper windmill to symbolize your support for
stronger government action on climate change. For instructions on how to make a paper windmill,
see www.sustainable.mcgill.ca. How amazing it would be for the minister to see a sea of paper
windmills in the audience, challenging him to take stronger action on climate change! Hope to see
you there!

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Our Greening McGill meeting takes place as usual on Wednesday at 6:00 at QPIRG. Buzz QPIRG to get
in.

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Finally, another Kyoto event that might interest you, at U de M.

Bonjour,

Vous êtes cordialement invité à assister à la première séance d'un
séminaire sur le Protocole de Kyoto, mis en place grâce à un
partenariat entre le CREUM, le Centre de recherche en droit public
(CRDP) et le Centre d'études en relations internationales de
l'Université de Montréal (CERIUM).

Un lunch sera servi durant la séance. Prière de réserver auprès de la
coordonnatrice, Céline Nègre: celine.negre@UMontreal.CA

Voici le descriptif du séminaire:

Séminaire sur le Protocole de Kyoto
Université de Montréal - jeudi 27 octobre 2005
Le Centre de Développement de la Recherche Internationale en
Environnement (CEDRIE) organise durant l'année 2005-2006 un séminaire
interdisciplinaire sur "La mise en application du Protocole de Kyoto"

La première conférence aura lieu le jeudi 27 octobre, de 12 h à 14 h
et portera sur :

"Le Protocole de Kyoto : une étape nécessaire"

Avec:

M. Alain Bourque, climatologue, institut Ouranos (Montréal)
M. Steven Guilbeault, responsable de la campagne climat et énergie,
Greenpeace

Cette première conférence permettra de faire le point de manière
précise et pragmatique sur le phénomène des changements climatiques
et de ses incidences concrètes, ainsi que sur le contenu du Protocole
de Kyoto, afin de déterminer comment et pourquoi les Etats sont
parvenus à cet accord désormais applicable.

La conférence sera l'occasion d'échanger avec des spécialistes des
changements climatiques et du Protocole de Kyoto, à l'issue des
conférences.

La conférence est ouverte à tous et un lunch sera servi.

Adresse:

Salon des professeurs
Faculté de droit
Pavillon Maximilien-Caron
Université de Montréal

Minutes: October 19

2005-12-27T13:29:00.000-05:00

Hello Greening McGill,

So much is going on that we are sending you an event calendar before the minutes (which are
below).
There is also a flyer attached about a lecture by Stephan Dion, Minister of the Environment.
Please come out in great numbers with your paper windmills to show the government that students
care about climate change. (Details below; see October 27th).

Also, please check out the Wiki that Alisa set up. It is really cool and will get even cooler if
you post your environmentally friendly ideas. It's at green.schtuff.com.

Cheers,
Saima and Michelle

**Thursday October 20th**

-Our table in Leacock. We have free lightbulbs and energy saving tips! Come check us out, if it is
still Thursday when you read this. Leacock lobby, 10:00-4:00

-Meeting of a Montreal climate change coalition, Shatner lobby, 6:00
A meeting of students from across Montreal taking some action on climate change.

-Fundraiser for QPIRG. El Salon, 4388 ST. LAURENT, $5 (doors at 10 pm)
A night of food, dancing and visual stimulations, DJ TASHISH (hip hop) JIVA PRODUCTIONS AND DJ
BLAZE (bhangra and bollywood sounds).

**Friday October 21st**

- Demonstration against industrial pig farming, Roddick Gates, 11:30
A demonstration against the environmental impacts of industrial pig farming

- Budget meeting, Greening McGill. Second Cup, Paragraphe Bookstore, 2:15.
A meeting to plan the year/sort out our finances. All welcome.

**Saturday October 22nd**

- Field trip! Cremazie metro, platform for bus 100, 10:45.
We are visiting Mountain Equipment Co-op to pick up a hand-crank blender for the bike blender
project. Please write greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca if you plan to come along. MEC is a cool place.

**Sunday October 23rd**

-Bike blender design! If you are interested in helping us (ahem...our engineer friend) design the
bike blender, write greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca. Time and place TBA.

**Tuesday October 25**

- Meeting of a McGill climate change coalition, Leacock basement, 6:00
A meeting of McGill students preparing action on climate change for the upcoming Kyoto conference
in Montreal

**Wednesday October 26th**

- Greening McGill meeting, QPIRG, 6:00
Our meeting. On the agenda: preparing action on climate change, including bike blender project,
windmills for the minister, etc. Arts and crafts! Please come.

**Thursday October 27th**

- Speech by Stephan Dion, Otto Maass 112, 7:30
Stephan Dion, Minister of the Environment, is giving a talk at McGill entitled: "Linking a Healthy
Environment to Competitive Economy"/" Viser un double objectif: un environnement sain et une
economie competitive". Please come to hear the speech. Bring a paper windmill to show support for
stronger measures on the part of the government to reduce grenhouse gas emissions. (See the flyer
attached.)

Now, minutes!

1. Table, October 20th, Leacock
2. Other Kyoto plans
3. Recto-Verso
4. Budget meeting
5. CKUT and QPIRG greening
6. MSEC rep
7. Bikes and Bike survey
8. Wiki
9. Jane Goodall Institute Talk
10. Get a job at the Kyoto Conference
11. Speech by an American War Resister (QPIRG)

1. Table, October 20th, Leacock
We planned for our table on the 20th (today). We decorated the boxes that the lightbulbs come in.
Also made some posters and copied some pamphlets.

2. Other Kyoto plans
We have more tables coming up. We hope to have lots of energy awareness going on. Ideas:

-bike blender. Saima has got an engineer on board who is going to help us build a bicycle powered
blender. It will be really cool. You are all invited on our first bike blender field trip and
design session (See October 22nd and 23rd in the calendar) More info on the bike blender project:
greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca

-Bill Nye the Science Guy - has some stuff on transportation and climate change and population
that is really good and also in a format that people are willing to watch. Michelle will see if
the Education library has them.

-speaker / movie night. This is in the works. More details soon...

-windmills for the minister of environment. See October 27th, above!

3. Recto-Verso

-announcements. Thanks to those who have made some. Anyone who can make announcements in classes
about the paper policy (i.e. that students can hand things in double-sided), please write
greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca. This is the simplest, most effective thing you can do at the moment to
help McGill save trees. We have a script all ready for you. It's easy. Please help!

-Green photocopier - Printing Services did not like the idea of a photocopier with reused paper
because they were afraid of paper jams. I propose that we do a little research into schools that
have "green" photocopiers (i.e. UBC) and let Printing Services know how it can be done without
paper jams. Anyone able to help out with this, write greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca

-Professors - why don't they all know about the policy? Michelle will ask Kathleen (environmental
officer of McGill) to send a mass e-mail to professors.

-SSMU - Adela is on them to quit wasting paper.

4. Budget meeting

Friday the 21st at 2:15, Second Cup on McGill College (Paragraphe bookstore). All welcome.

5. CKUT and QPIRG greening

3647 University has requested a vermi and also some big recycling bins. Michelle is on the
recycling; Derina is on the vermis.

6. MSEC rep

Marianne has volunteered to be our MSEC rep. Thanks Marianne!

7. Bikes and Bike survey

Steph has a survey about bike use for the Sustainable McGill Project which will circulate on this
list shortly. She is also planning some bike workshops for November. She would love your input
into: what kind of bike workshops you would like (repair, winter cycling, etc?). Also she would
love volunteers. Questions, volunteers, comments: stephanie.palmer@mail.mcgill.ca

8. Wiki

Check it out. green.schtuff.com

9. Jane Goodall Institute Talk

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
5165 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 301
Montreal, H4A 1T6

Learn about the complex human and environmental issues threatening Great
Apes and the holistic community centered conservation approach taken by
the Jane Goodall Institute in improving long-term conservation and human
security in Africa.

What: Chimpanzee survival through community centered conservation
Where: McGill University faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street, Moot Court
Room
When: Tuesday, November 1, 2005 / 5:30 pm
Who: The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, Student Animal Legal
Defense Fund
Contact: Gail Grolimond, Executive Director, the Jane Goodall
Institute
(514) 369-3384 or gail@janegoodall.ca: www.janegoodall.ca

10. Get a job at the Kyoto Conference

Du 28 novembre au 8 décembre, Montréal accueillera l'ONU pour la
première conférence des états membres du Kyoto sur les changements climatiques.

But : identifier les moyens à développer pour atteindre une
économie propre et respectueuse de l'environnement.

Télé-Ressources s'occupera de l'embauche des 110 personnes rémunérées
qui travailleront tout au long de la conférence. Les postes à combler
sont variés : préposés à l'information, administratifs, techniques.

Qualifications : bilingue (anglais/français), flexible et disponible,
à l'aise avec l'informatique, avoir de l'entregent, Maîtrise d'une autre
langue un atout. !

Contact : Patrick Lavallée, (514) 842-0066, poste 266

11. Speech by an American War Resister (QPIRG)

REFUSING TO KILL

A War Resister Speaks Out

Darrell Anderson arrived in Toronto from Lexington,Kentucky in January
2005. He served 7 months inIraqand was awarded a Purple Heart after
being wounded by a roadside bomb. When faced with a second deployment
to Iraq, he chose instead to come to Canada.

His experience in Iraq convinced Darrell that the war was unjustified.
Innocent civilians are being killed, and young soldiers are dying for
an illegal war. "Coming to Canada doesn't ruin your life," said
Darrell, "it saves lives."

He will be speaking in Montreal on

Monday October 24
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Concordia Schoolof Community and Public Affairs
2149 MacKay (Guy-Concordia Metro)

Tuesday October 25
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
McGill Thompson House
3650 McTavish (above Doctor Penfield Ave.)
Peel Metro

Organised by:
McGill Refugee Project

Sponsored by: QPIRG-McGill and ConcordiaSchoolof Community & Public
Affairs

Announcements!

2005-12-27T13:28:00.000-05:00

Dear Greening McGill,

Sorry for the extra e-mail, but there is some important news for this week that I thought should
go out before Wednesday.

Next meeting: Wednesday October 19th. The theme is energy: planning for our table this week and
for Kyoto actions throughout the month! (Details in items 1 and 2 below). There will be arts and
crafts involved. :)

1. Tabling THIS THURSDAY for energy efficiency - volunteers needed!
2. Stephan Dion at McGill! Oct. 27
3. Demonstration against industrial pig farms - Oct. 21

1. Tabling this Thursday for energy efficiency - volunteers needed!

This Thursday Greening McGill is holding a table in Leacock with information about energy
efficiency. We will have pamphlets on energy (printed on old paper of course!) as well as treats
for sale. We will also be giving away free compact fluorescent lightbulbs, with tags attached that
explain why these lightbulbs are good and other tips on saving energy; and we will also have
postcards or petitions urging our government to take stronger action on climate change. If you can
volunteer a little time to be at the table promoting energy efficient lightbulbs, it would be
appreciated! write greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca.

2. Stephan Dion at McGill!

Lecture by Minister of Environment, Stephan Dion ---27 Oct 2005 (Thu)

McGill's Chemistry Department is holding the Regional Chemical
Institute of Canada (CIC) Meeting on Thursday October 27, 2005 at 7:30
pm. in the Otto Maass Building Room 112.

The invited speaker is the Honourable Stephan Dion, Minister of
Environment Canada. The title of his talk will be: "Linking a Healthy
Environment to Competitive Economy"/" Viser un double objectif: un
environnement sain et une economie competitive".

Contact: Sandra Aerssen in the Chemistry Department,398-6940

Students at McGill who are organizing campaigns on climate change for the upcoming Kyoto
conference (including some of us from Greening McGill) are going to use Stephan Dion's visit as
our first opportunity for action. We encourage everyone who cares about climate change to show up
to this lecture in order to show support for strong action on climate change on the part of the
Canadian government. The plan is for all concerned students to bring a paper windmill. We will be
making some windmills at our meeting this week. There are lots of us on this list - we could make
a strong impact on our government if we showed up and demonstrated our concern about climate
change! More details to follow, including instructions on how to make your own paper windmill. :)

3. Demonstration against industrial pig farms

Salut tout le monde,

there will be a demonstration AGAINST industrial pigfarms in Québec and FOR a real and complete
moratorium of the pigfarm industry until the government applies effective measures to protect the
Québécois-es from the massive destruction of our environment.

This demonstration is in solidarity with L'Union Paysanne - a Québec union actively involved in
many issues related to agriculture over here: food sovereinty, sustainable agriculture, political
consideration of paysans, ... They are currently trying to offer an alternative to Québec's
official
agriculturalist (which are in fact agro-industrialists) union, l'Union des Producteur$ Agricoles
(UPA), which is a huge lobby towards the government and pro-pigfarms.

Pigfarms have large scale consequences over here ranging from contamination of the Fleuve
Saint-Laurent (the water you are drinking every day) and other major water bodies in the province,

exhaustion of land productivity, releasing of significant amount of methane (which is a greenhouse
gas),
eutrophication (algae bloom) of lakeshores to the concentration of money and power in the hands of

a few (i.e.- we are going back to a feudal land system).

In fact, in a memorandum on pig industry from the Bureau d'Audiance Publique sur l'Environnement
(BAPE; Office of public audience on the environment), the Association Médical du Québec (medical
association) let us aware to be prepared for risks of a wide-spread poisonning tragedy; let's be
precautious and avoid a Walkerton-II.

We are meeting Friday, the 21st of October, at the corner of McGill College and Sherbrooke (two
steps from McGill) at about 11:30 am.

En espérant vous voir réagir à nos côtés,
Simon-Pierre

Minutes - 12 October 2005

2005-12-27T13:10:00.000-05:00

Hello Greening McGill,

Our next meeting is Wednesday October 19th, 6pm at QPIRG (3647 University; buzz QPIRG to get in
the door)

In this e-mail:

1. Tabling event next week! Volunteers needed!
2. QPIRG needs your help!
3. McGill Students' Environmental Council (MSEC)
4. Prethink conference
5. Recto-Verso!
6. Kyoto
7. Colloque universitaire sur l'environnement
8. the Wiki
9. Bagbusters
10. Principal's Task Force on Student Life and Learning
11. Internship opportunity: Canada World Youth
12. Job opportunity: recycling (in Cambridge, Mass.)

1. Tabling event next week! Volunteers needed!

We have a table booked in Leacock for October 20th (next Thursday).
**I did believe that we had it booked for samosas, but it turns out we do not. So we may not be
selling samosas.**

Needed: volunteers to staff the table between 9:30 and 4:00. It is very easy; give away lightbulbs
and explain to people that they will save money and energy. Please e-mail greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca
if you can offer some time.

What we can do, however, is celebrate a Day of Action on Energy (which is taking place in some US
schools on the 19th.) The plan is to give out (free or cheap, depending on the cost!) compact
fluorescent lightbulbs with a little tag attached that describes why people should buy compact
fluorescents.

Tasks:
-Samosas - Derina (Derina I will confirm with you if we are allowed to sell samosas!)
-lightbulbs - Derina
-tags about compact fluorescents - Michelle
-little flyers on information on energy conservation - Marianne
-old paper to print the flyers on - Michelle
-letters or petitions to the Canadian government on the subject of energy/climate change -
Michelle

We could also make a pretty poster at the meeting next week.

2. QPIRG needs your help!

QPIRG, our parent organization that gives us money and meeting space, is in danger of losing its
funding. You can help. If you feel that QPIRG is important, please write a personal reference
letter explaining how QPIRG has helped you or contributed to student life on campus. QPIRG's
website: www.ssmu.mcgill.ca/qpirg. Send submissions to: qpirg@ssmu.mcgill.ca

Deadline: Friday October 14th! Please support QPIRG; without them, there is no us!

3. McGill Students' Environmental Council (MSEC)

MSEC is a body that is being ressurected by the noble efforts of Mehdi from PGSS. Every
environmental group on campus sends a representative to this body, which acts to coordinate
efforts and to help us all work together on big issues in the university. Greening McGill needs a
representative. Requirements: come to Greening McGill meetings regularly, go to MSEC meetings
(monthly) regularly. If you are at all interested, please e-mail greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca to get a
copy of the terms of reference (constitution). We will be making a democratic decision next
meeting, so declare your candidacy before then by writing: greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca

4. Prethink conference

Violet from the environmental office and Caitlin from SSMU are organizing Prethink, a conference
of all environmental organizations on campus. They welcome your suggestions to make it a
constructive and productive exercise. Please pass them along to greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca. The
meeting will take place in late October/ early November.

5. Recto-Verso!
a) Class announcements. I hope they are going well for you and Professors from the dark ages are
not giving you the evil eye. Please e-mail greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca to report any announcements you
have done already so taht I can check them off. If you are interested in helping with class
announcements (i.e. read a script that instructs students to double-side their assignements; it's
very easy and effective!) e-mail greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca.

b) Ways to bother Ancillary services
We have thought of many. Michelle will e-mail them asking about: exam books and the possibility of
a "green" (scrap paper) photocopier. And bug them about their other promises while I'm at it.

c) SSMU. We hear they are really bad. If anyone wants to help make SSMU better about paper use,
please write greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca so we can form a SSMU attack team. :)

6. Kyoto

a) Bike blender
Saima and Michelle are meeting some engineers on Friday. Some day soon we will have a bike
building party. Hurray!

b) Sophie has got us some tables on the 17th, 21st and 23rd of November. Great timing for the
Kyoto conference. We will plan those tables shortly.

c) speech? movie? debate? these are still all possibilities...

7. Colloque universitaire sur l'environnement

This is going on January 26-29; a meeting of enviornmental groups across Quebec. I think it
involves travel. We could send a representative (who will be around Greening McGill regularly).
French is necessary. Keep it in mind for the future...

8. the Wiki

Our Wiki is so pretty. Please contribute at green.schtuff.com. More info:
alisa.poulin@mail.mcgill.ca

9. Bagbusters

One of the original Bagbusters is at Mac doing graduate work and wants to work on Bagbusters. I
saw it in the Reporter. Alisa I will send you more details. Sounds like a collaborating
opportunity.

10. Principal's Task Force on Student Life and Learning

Greening McGill and Sustainable McGill are preparing a joint submission to the Principal's Task
Force, basically pushing for greater environmental responsibility on campus. Information on what
is going on can be found at the following link.

http://www.mcgill.ca/studentlife/submissions/

Please send your suggestions for the submission by Friday! Or they will not be included!

11. Announcements!

Job opportunity:

Internship Opportunity With Canada World Youth

For Fall or Spring

POSITION TITLE: Environmental Intern

DUTIES/JOB DESCRIPTION:

Canada World Youth designs and delivers international educational programs for youth (aged 17-29)
with a focus on volunteer work and community development in a cross-cultural setting.

Canada World Youth’s mission is to increase the ability of people, and especially youth, to
participate actively in the development of just, harmonious and sustainable societies.

The environmental intern will work in the Canada World Youth head office in Montreal and will
develop a plan for a tree plantation project for participants in the CWY programs. The project
will help CWY reduce its Greenhouse Gaz emissions (GHGs) caused by national and international
transportation.

The main tasks of the intern will be:
1. to do some research on CWY’s transportation situation;
2. to contact suppliers and organizations in the reforestation field in Canada to gather
information on their projects and build a database;
3. to make a “tree plantation” guide for the supervisors and the participants including general
information, the main steps of a project, the listing of suppliers and organizations.

HOURS:

Flexible schedule. The intern will have to work at least 150 hours in CWY offices during the
organization’s business hours: Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. The exact schedule
(part-time or full-time) and the length of the internship will be discussed afterwards with the
selected candidate.

REQUIREMENTS:

Skills, knowledge and attitudes sought:

 Great knowledge of the environmental field;
 Knowledge of computer applications such as MS Office and a database software;
 Ability to speak and read French and English and ability to write in one of the two
languages;
 Capacity to work as part of a team;
 Autonomy;
 Abilities in research and writing.

COMPENSATION: This is a voluntary position.

HOW TO APPLY:

Students interested in this position should submit a cover letter and resume directly to Canada
World Youth. Your resume must be received by 9:00 am (Montreal Time), Friday, October 21, 2005 by
the Hiring Committee, Canada World Youth, 2330 Notre-Dame Street West, 3rd Floor, Montréal
(Quebec), H3J 1N4, Fax: (514) 939-2621, e-mail: cyber-jobs@cwy-jcm.org.

Canada World Youth is an equal opportunity employer.
We would like to thank in advance all the candidates
for their interest in Canada World Youth.
Please note that only candidates invited to an interview will be contacted.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Eve-Amélie Towner-Sarault
Program Officer
Tel: (514) 931-1614 ext. 330
e-mail: eatowner-sarault@cwy-jcm.org

12. Job opportunity:

NOTICE OF POSTING

POSTING DATE: 10/05/05
CLOSING DATE: 11/02/05

Recruitment of external applicants is underway concurrent with this posting.

Applications are available at City Hall Room 309. Send résumé via
mail, email or FAX (617-349-4312).

Cambridge residents are especially encouraged to apply.

POSITION & Recycling Intern (Part-time)
DEPARTMENT: Department of Public Works

JOB CODE/POSITION # K090

HOURS OF WORK: 15-19 hrs/wk; temporary position

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the supervision of the Recycling Director, the intern will:

¨ Outreach to residents on recycling procedures
¨ Send information to new residents and homeowners
¨ Recruit residents to educate their neighbors about how, what
and why to recycle
¨ Monitor recycling participation in targeted neighborhoods
¨ Enter data as needed (appliance records, blue bin requests,
curbside statistics, missed pick ups, waste oil, invoices (when
needed)
¨ Help develop education center at Drop-off Center
¨ Help prepare toters for delivery
¨ Help maintain office supply of blue bins and composters
¨ Assist with special projects and assignments as needed
(database development, supervising volunteers, outreach at community
events, market research)

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform essential functions.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Excellent communication and interpersonal are required, customer
service experience preferred. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office,
databases and web research. Database, marketing and bilingual skills
strongly desired. Essential abilities include reliability, attention
to detail, self-motivation, flexibility, and ability to follow
instructions accurately. Must be a quick learner. A valid
Massachusetts Drivers License Class D is required.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Must be comfortable doing work outdoors as
needed. On occasion, the job requires lifting including bending,
squatting, stretching, pushing, dragging, pulling, using a handcart
and/or pallet jack to move heavier loads and using simple hand tools.

RATE: $13/hr

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Internal applicants, submit job bidding form
and 2 copies of both your resume and letter of interest; external
applicants, submit 2 copies of both your resume and letter of interest
by 5:00 pm on the closing date to: Personnel Dept, Room 309, City
Hall, 795 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139. Fax: (617)
349-4312. Email: employment@cambridgema.gov.

THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
EMPLOYER. WOMEN, MINORITIES, VETERANS AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. CITY OF CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTS ARE ESPECIALLY
ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

_______________________________________________________________

Randi Mail
Director of Recycling
Cambridge Dept of Public Works
T 617.349.4866 F 617.349.4814
rmail@cambridgema.gov
www.cambridgema.gov/theworks/departments/recycle

The Recycling Division's mission is to encourage people to consume
less, reuse and donate materials and recycle what cannot be eliminated
or reused!

Have a good week everyone!

Saima and Michelle

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Minutes - 5 October 2005

2005-12-27T13:07:00.000-05:00

Hi all!

Here are the minutes from our 10/5/05 meeting.

1) Budget
2) Recto Verso stuff
3) Kyoto
4) Bike blender
5) Vermis
6) Announcements

1) We got $1800 from QPIRG! This is really good! Molly has offered to be our treasurer this
year, so if anyone has receipts from car free day, etc, give them to Molly.

The bad news is that we didn't realize that we had to pay for the security at car free day, and
now they want $500. Michelle has written to Kathleen to ask if SCE wants to help cover the costs.
We may also apply to Campus Life Fund to see if they'd be interested in helping out. If all else
fails, we'll hold a samosa sale.

2) Recto Verso!

Michelle has a very cool spreadsheet on which people can sign up to do announcements publicizing
Recto Verso to classes. It's really easy: just write to us and we'll give you a room in which to
make an announcement and send you a script containing information you can tell the class. Or if
you want, you can just tell your own classes. If you make an announcement, please tell us so we
can keep track of what classes have gotten the information, and we don't annoy people by doing
multiple announcements in the same class.

Ancillary services is the McGill body that has been charged with implimenting the Recto Verso
policy. They have lots that we can do to help! Here's a list:
-they have little stickers to put on all the printers around campus explaining how to print double
sided. They have eighty printers to put them on, so if we could help out, they'd greatly
appreciate it.
-Ancillary Services will probably send a memo, either in email or paper form, to all the
departments asking them to set their printer defaults to double sided. We can help by calling the
departments and asking them if they've set their defaults yet. Then if they say they haven't, we
can say, "Oh, let me guide you through it! It only takes a minute." Ancillary services will tell
us how to instruct them to do such things.
-We can make official looking posters for computer labs encouraging people to double side.
-Ancillary Services is going to try to get something on the desktops of all the computers in all
the libraries asking people to double side.
-Selling notebooks made of scrap paper is a possibility. More information to follow.

In other Recto Verso news, Alisa will try to contact Roz Freeman and see if we can get an email
sent out to all students about the policy. Alisa will also bug AUS to change the default to
double sided in the arts computer lab. They've been bugged before, but are unwilling to change.

We have a banner that says, "Recto Verso--Reduce Your Paper Use." We'd like to put it up
someplace. It can't go in the crossroads because the flagpoles are broken, and no one is allowed
to use them right now. We were thinking of maybe hanging it outside of QPIRG, or someplace in
Redpath or McLennan. Mary S. will follow up on these ideas.

Someone had the idea of making a whole Recto Verso week in which we'd concentrate our efforts and
try to really reach as many students as possible. We didn't set dates or anything, but it's
something to consider.

We're still trying to figure out who we can contact to ask getting Recto-Verso related questions
on course evaluations. Michelle will ask at the next Senate Committee Meeting (which is next
Tuesday at 1:30 in New Chancellor Day Hall--everybody go!) how this might be accomplished.

3) Kyoto!

We have a whole bunch of ideas for what we could do to educate people about the COP 11 conference
that's coming up in a couple of months. What it all boils down to is that we want to be a big
presence on campus in the last two weeks of November. We'd like to have various tabling events
where we'll use the bike blender as well as a possible art exibit of some kind. We'd also like to
give away free compact flourescent light bulbs.

Right now, we're going to book some tables. Sophie is going to try to get tables in Leacock,
Redpath and McConnell for late November. We'll decide exactly what we're doing with them later.
Also, Alisa is talking to people at the arts building about booking a room for a lecture. Jesse
will look into finding a room for free because he's in the History Student's Society and has the
power to do that. Here are some ideas for what we could use the tables and rooms for:

-Give out postcards for people to send to MPs encouraging them make steps towards reducing carbon
emissions
-Give away compact flourescent light bulbs, possibly in conjunction with a bake sale. (Have a
light bulb with your brownie!)
-Getting a stamp that says something like, "COP 11--Reduce Carbon Emissions" or whatever and
stamping people's hands with it.
-A lecturer or a debate? Michelle says there's an economics prof at McGill named Prof. Naylor who
is very into reducing personal consumptions and might be willing to speak.
-A debate? Jesse says he can probably get someone to argue against Kyoto.
-Push eco footprints and the David Suzuki and One Ton challenges. People seem to respond to these
well.

Mary S. will be contacting the environmental group "Series" at the MacDonald campus to see what
they're up to in regaurds to Kyoto. Maybe we can collaborate.

4) Bike Blender!

Team iSun has agreed to give us technical help with the bike blender. I'm meeting Victor, the guy
who will help us, on Oct. 14th at 1 pm. Email me if you're interested in attending and I'll let
you know where the meeting will be.

5) Vermis!

Derina got a bunch of vermicomposters built. Go Derina! The worms should be delivered tomorrow,
and they'll be available for pickup soon. Stay tuned for more info!

6) Announcements!

The Jane Goodall institute is having a lecture about endangered chimpanzees in Uganda on Nov. 1st
at 5:30 in the Moot Court Room at 3644 Peel St. Email valerie@janegoodall.ca for more
information.

Équiterre, en collaboration avec les Éditions du Boréal et l’UQAM, présente Alerte climatique, une
grande conférence d’Hubert Reeves et de David Suzuki. Pour la toute première fois, les deux plus
grands environnementalistes et vulgarisateurs scientifiques au Canada seront réunis sur la même
tribune afin de nous faire part de leurs préoccupations à l’approche de la Conférence des Nations
Unies sur les changements climatiques. La soirée, à laquelle participera également Laure Waridel,
sera animée par Hélène Raymond.

Où : Palais des Congrès de Montréal, 1001, place Jean-Paul-Riopelle (rue de Bleury) - Métro
Place-d’Armes

Quand : Le mercredi 26 octobre à 19h30

Coût : Étudiant : 15 $
Régulier : 20 $
À la porte : 25 $
Taxes et frais de service en sus

Service d’interprétation simultanée disponible (anglais et français)
Billets en vente par l’intermédiaire de Ticketpro sur leur site Internet ou par téléphone au (514)
908-9090 ou, sans frais, au 1 866 908-9090.

Pour en savoir plus sur la Conférence des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques et sur les
événements organisés par Équiterre dans le cadre de cet événement >>>

My French isn't great, but I think it says that Equiterre, les Éditions du Boréal and l’UQAM will
present a conference addressing the issue of climate change, facilitated by David Suzuki and
Hubert Reeves on Oct. 26th at 7:30 at Palais des Congrès de Montréal, 1001, place
Jean-Paul-Riopelle (rue de Bleury) - Métro Place-d’Armes

That's all! Have a good Thanksgiving everybody.

-Saima and Michelle

Greening McGill minutes - Weds. Sept. 28, 2005

2005-09-29T13:20:00.000-04:00

Hello there,

Our next meeting is Wednesday October 5th, 6 pm, at QPIRG (3647 University; buzz QPIRG to get in.)

In this message:

0. Senate Committe on Environment
1. Car Free Day - lost and found
2. Treasurer
3. Recto-Verso project (paper campaign)
4. Kyoto plans
5. Wiki (website)
6. Bagbusters
7. Municipal elections
8. Announcement from Oxfam-Quebec - Fair trade rice

0. Senate Committee on Environment.

Many people were interested in hearing about the Senate Committee on Environment (SCE). This is an official university body made up of staff, profs, and students. Anyone can attend and it is a great way to find out what the university is up to with regards to environmental stuff, and to find people who are helpful in getting things done in the university. Meetings are monthly. Next meeting: Tuesday October 11, 1:30 pm, in New Chancellor Day Hall room 617. If you are attending, e-mail rethink@mcgill.ca (Kathleen Ng, McGill's Environmental Officer.)

1. Car Free Day - lost and found

First of all, a HUGE thanks to everyone who helped out at Car Free Day, especially people who ran around and hauled tables, chairs, awkwardly shaped cardboard creations, heavy broomball nets and other stuff in the morning and afternoon. It could not have happened without you!

Also, some items were left behind. These include: a tupperware container with a cute dessert fork inside it, a pencil case with Singaporean currency, and a pen. These things are safely in QPIRG. Please write greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca to reclaim your things.

2. Treasurer

We needed a treasurer, since our previous treasurer has gotten a position in PGSS. Molly volunteered. Thanks, Molly.

3. Recto-Verso project (paper campaign)

There are various projects to continue work on this project to reduce paper waste.

a) Class announcements. People who signed up for announcements, you will receive an e-mail shortly with a schedule and a script. Anyone who wants to do class announcements promoting paper conservation and publicizing McGill's Paper Use Policy, please write Michelle at greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca. If you want to see the actual policy, here it is: http://www.mcgill.ca/rethink/policies/paperuse/

b) Meeting with Ancillary Services. The paper use policy is to be implemented in the University by Ancillary Services, so Greening McGill is going to see how we can help out. Michelle is setting up a meeting with them next week. Anyone who wants to tag along and meet the friendly people at Ancillary Services, write greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca.

c) Reuse-paper notebooks. Wouldn't it be cool to have notebooks made of reused paper? This may happen in collaboration with Ancillary Services. Details after that meeting.

d) Enforcement. How to deal with profs who are obstinate and insist on single-sided printing? Michelle will raise the question at SCE. Also, Mary will investigate how to get relevant questions on the course evaluations so we can shame those who do not comply. Michelle will send her some draft questions.

e) Tyler is going to investigate recycled/post-consumer content of notebooks in the McGill bookstore.

f) Alisa is going to see if we can get a Recto-Verso message in the next SSMU mass mailing. She is going to write Roz Freeman.

g) Various people are going to investigate paper practices in the labs.

h) Did you know that in the arts computer labs, it is cheaper to print double sided than single sided! Tell all your friends!

4. Kyoto plans, including the bike blender!

Kyoto/energy/emissions is planned to be the theme for November, but now is a good time to start planning. We are not going to be heavily involved in the demonstration/protest side of things (although we will pass along news whenever that is going to happen) but focus more on education on campus. Ideas:

a) Tabling in Leacock. We could have postcards to politicians, cheap/free compact fluorescent lightbulbs, information, and smoothies from the bike blender. (More on bike blender below.)

b) A big art display in Leacock. This could be a great educational tool.

c) A film night about climate change.

d) The bike blender. We are going to modify our original plans for an electricity-generating bike, due to budget constraints (i.e. we don't have $500 to spare). Instead we might go for a cheaper project: getting a bike to mechanically turn a blade on a blender. This would be an environmental education tool as well as (eventually) a fundraiser. Michelle will write Team iSun about whether this is feasible and whether they can help us out. Saima will write a letter to Mountain Equipment Coop asking for a free hand-crank blender. If Team iSun is too busy, we could also ask MEC for technical help.

e) A stamp about climate change, to stamp people's hands.

5. Wiki (website)

Alisa has been working on a wiki, which is a website where people can post information. It is designed to be a guide to green living in Montreal. But in order for it to work it needs some content! Please help get this off the ground. You can visit http://green.schtuff.com and see what areas need more info, then post anything that might be helpful to people in Montreal (or anywhere). For information, write aliasalisa@gmail.com

Our other website, hosted by QPIRG, is in a sorry state. If anyone loves websites, please write
greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca.

6. Bagbusters

a) Alisa would also like to revive the Bagbusters project, which was a project to decrease the use of plastic bags by selling stylish reusable canvas bags. If you are interested, please write Alisa at aliasalisa@gmail.com

b) Related to this, we hope to hand out old plastic bags at the bookstore again next semester.

c) Also related, someone suggested a big display of tons of plastic bags. We all agreed we have plastic bags to contribute to the cause. :)

7. Municipal elections

Disclaimer: Greening McGill is not associated with any political party. Most of us can't even vote in Quebec. But for those of you who can, and who are planning to vote in the upcoming municipal election, Trevor would like you to know about Projet Montreal, which is a municipal political party. Trevor suggests checking out their environmental (and general) platform at
www.projetmontreal.org. You can also visit other platforms at: http://www.tremblayformayor.com/ and http://www.visionmtl.com/

8. Un evenement d'Oxfam-Quebec:
Au programme : Pourquoi les pays pauvres restent-ils pauvres ?
L'injustice du commerce international ; la révolution du commerce équitable ; de superbes photos de nos coops, et dégustation de café et de chocolat équitables gratuits !

A discussion at the cafe La Retenue of the University of Montreal (80 rue Vincent D'Indy, Pavillon
Marie Victorin), 10 am on Wednesday October 5th.

If you are still reading, wow!

That's all folks,

Saima and Michelle

Other quick announcements:

2005-03-16T01:38:00.000-05:00

Wednesday, March 16:

- David J. Wolfson, partner in the global corporate group at the New York law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, is giving a presentation at New Chancellor Day Hall's Moot Court, titled "Foxes in the Hen House: Animals,
Agribusiness and the Law". All students welcome, law or not. 12:30 PM

- "A Place Called Chiapas" screens at Wilson Hall, brought to you by the McGill Nurses for Global Health. Suggested donation $3. 6:30 pm.

Amnesty International is holding a film festival. All films screened at the Cultural Studies Building Theatre (3475 Peel), suggested donation $2, 7-9 PM.
Wednesday, March 16: "Promises"
Thursday, March 17: "Inside Burma, Land of Fear"
Friday, March 18: "Ten"

All three of these movies look to be quite amazing, so you should go see them! No real environmental focus. To see the enviro-movies, you will have to come to Greening McGill's last meeting, where we'll screen both Princess Mononoke and Baraka, time permitting! More details on that are to come. :)

- Alisa

Conference

2005-03-16T01:37:00.000-05:00

Hello all,

There is an environmental conference this coming weekend that brings together many universities in Quebec. It would be a neat thing to attend. If you want to represent McGill at this conference, please write me ASAP (by Tuesday). The only requirement is that you be interested in working with other universities on the issue of climate change. French skills would definitely be useful here.

see info below and then write me!!!

Greening McGill can probably help out with the $25 conference fee.

cheers,
Michelle

Who Loves the Sun?

2005-03-16T01:24:00.000-05:00

... apparently, not Montreal. But spring is on its way, tentatively scheduled for... July?

But whining about the weather is not the purpose of the Greening McGill blog. The Greening McGill blog is here to inform you of Greening McGill stuff. So, without any further ado...

- Alisa

March 9 Minutes
Hello there,

next meeting: Wednesday March 16th, 6 pm at QPIRG

1. Rethink
2. Fossil Fool's Day
3. Recto-Verso
4. Recto-Verso banner party
5. Environmental film night: Baraka and Princess Mononoke!
6. A same-sex marriage letter writing party

and lots of announcements from the Sierra Youth Coalition
7. Sustainable Development and the Wealth of Nations - e-Conference Invitation
8. Job Opportunity: SYC
9. Volunteer Opportunity with the Sierra Youth Coalition Excomm!

1. Rethink
Michelle and Sarah are giving the Rethink presentation on Friday. See you all there!

2. Fossil Fool's Day - April 1st
Sarah got lots of materials from Kathleen, and we have some other stuff, so we are all set for tabling.
We can borrow the bike blender from MEC! We just need some volunteers to help pick it up from there and bring it back.
We will be using the blender to sell vegan smoothies. Michelle will find out about buying bananas and strawberries from the organic food coop, and also see where we can borrow a fridge.
Kathleen has a light sensor that we could raffle off. Also, if we have the budget, we could buy some compact fluorescent lightbulbs and give them away.

3. Recto-Verso
a) harrassing the Senate.
Michelle is still waiting to find out where in the process the paper policy is. Once we know that it is headed to Senate, we can get a list of Senators and start bugging them.

b)meanwhile we can try to do something concrete - set defaults in departments.
We have selected two to be our targets: Geography and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Michelle will try to get in touch with the Geography chair about setting their photocopier. Saima will try to get in touch with Earth and Planetary Sciences. And we will report back next week.
Michelle will also contact Ancillary services about getting their cooperation in setting defaults.

c) photocopier posters.
We took some pictures of people having a party around a photocopier, to make posters about how awesome it is to double-side. Alisa will take some pictures to demonstrate how it is done and put the poster together. Alisa will contact Ancillary services about putting up posters. (Alisa, should maybe one or the other of us be in charge of talking to Ancillary services? instead of both of us?)

d)Paper buying:
Alex is working on setting up a paper-buying system where students can buy the 100% PC paper. She is goign to arrange with QPIRG and see if we can buy paper through them, and also talk to Organic Food Coop about selling our paper there. We might sell the paper in smaller packages, rather than 500 sheets at a time, which might be more convenient for students.

4. Recto-Verso Banner Party.
We want to be ready with a big banner to celebrate when the paper policy gets passed. We could get it hung up in the middle of campus. Tentatively: Michelle's house, Wednesday March 23rd, in the evening. (Unless anyone knows another good spot.) Michelle will look into getting some big sheet or canvas to paint on, and some paint.

5. Environmental film night.
We will end the year with an environmental film night. Wednesday April 6th, location t.b.a. We will be watching: Baraka and Princess Mononoke (sp?) Everyone is welcome!!!

6. A same-sex marriage letter writing party.
Okay, this is not Greening McGill news, but if anyone wants to come write some letters to MPs in support of legalizing same-sex marriage, come by Cafe Rencontre (Milton and Parc) tonight
(Thursday March 10) around seven. Bring a pen and your indignation.

7. Sustainable Development and the Wealth of Nations - e-Conference Invitation (From the SYC)

As part of our Sustainable Campus Program we invite each semester a keynote speaker to talk about a sustainable development- related issue. In this semester our honor guest is Sir Partha Dasgupta who will talk about Sustainable Development and the Wealth of Nations.

We invite you to listen and watch the conference, the encounter with the community and the preliminary course and interact with us via internet.

Internet broadcast in real time: http://ruv.itesm.mx Canal 3 US East Time

March, Thursday 31st
13:00 to 14:30 Keynote lecture
Sustainable Development and the Wealth of Nations
SIR PARTHA DASGUPTA
Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge

March, Thursday 31st
16:30 a 18:00
Encounter with the Community
How to asses in an integral way the wealth of Nations?
Panel:
Sir. Partha Dasgupta, Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, Keynote Speaker
Dr. Carlos Galindo Leal, Woods Program Coordinator, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) México
Lic. Eugenio Clariond Reyes-Retana, Founder Member and Vice-president, Word Business Council for
Sustainable Development, WBCSD; President, Grupo IMSA
Dr. Jorge Soberón Mainero, Executive Secretary, National Commission on Biodiversity; President of
AMS Chair
Dr. Ernesto Enkerlin Hoeflich, President, National Commission on Protected Areas
MC Nelly Correa, Professor, Center for Environmental Quality; Director, AMS Chair, Moderating
Room 3 Virtual University, 1er floor, CEDES Building

March 29 and 30, 2005
15:00 a 17:30
Values of Biodiversity
Preliminary course about ecological, evolutionary an ethic aspects
Dr. Carlos Galindo Leal, Woods Program Coordinator,
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) México

Info: http://www.catedraams.org/catedra
Internet broadcast in real time: http://ruv.itesm.mx Canal 3

8. Job Opportunity: SYC
JOB OPPORTUNITY, Deadline April 29, 2005

Ontario Regional Project Coordinator
Sustainable Campuses
Sierra Youth Coalition

JOB CLASSIFICATION: Full-time Position (approximately 40hours/week)
START DATE: May 15-21 (negotiable)
May 2005 to June 2006
POSITION TITLE: Regional Coordinator, Sustainable Campuses
APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 29, 2005
WAGE: $2,100/month salary, with benefits
LOCATION: SYC National Office, Ottawa Ontario

SYC is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from members of traditionally oppressed or underprivileged groups.

The Ontario Regional Coordinator for Sustainable Campuses is integral in spreading and building the tremendous successes of the Academia to Action project (formerly Greening the Ivory Towers) in the province. The ideal candidate is a motivated, inspired and knowledgeable youth, has been active in the sustainable campuses movement, and has previous experience with SYC programs.

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

The Sustainable Campuses initiative is currently one of SYCs main focus areas and most successful national initiatives. The project seeks to inspire, inform, train, and support Canadian students in the pursuit of social and environmental change on and beyond their campuses. The Sustainable Campuses initiative aims to promote a systematic approach to change in campus academic and operational practices. It supports students efforts to work within their educational institutions to create permanent, institutionalized mechanisms to ensure sustainability.

In 2003, the Sierra Youth Coalition launched this innovative project to assist students, faculty and administration in increasing the sustainability of Canadian post-secondary institutions through improved understanding of their ecological, economical and social impacts. That is the goal of the Academia to Action (previously the Greening the Ivory Towers Project).

This project uses the Campus Sustainability Assessment Framework (CSAF) to assist universities in accurately understanding their socio-economic and environmental impacts. When implemented in combination with collaboration among the many campus stakeholders, a sustainability assessment can allow members of the university campus community to develop solutions that address overarching structural problems that will not only benefit the university, but society at large. The Academia to Action Project offers support, resources and assistance for students working to measure sustainability and plan for change. This project is seeking to facilitate institutional and lifestyle changes at universities and in communities across Canada.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1) To offer training, resources and support to a minimum of 7 participating campuses working to implement the Academia to Action Project;
2) Actively recruit a student representative from each university active in the project to be part of the Provincial Action Committee (PAC);
3) Assist campus community members in developing a strategic plan and a work plan for implementing Academia to Action on their campus;
4) Provide ongoing support throughout the school year to campuses working on Academia to Action this support consists of phone, email and campus visits.
5) Document evolution of project in your region, share learning process with other Regional Coordinators and the SYC national office, and participate consistently on Regional Coordinator calls;
6) When possible, participate in opportunities to represent SYC at local and regional meetings, conferences, workshops and events that are relevant to SYCs mandate and program areas;
7) Write and promote a Report on the status of past and current plans to reduce GHG emissions/energy use on Ontario universities and progress made to date in implementing these plans (to be released May 2006)
8) Support and promote the creation of feasibility studies on how best to reduce GHG emissions on Ontario campuses;
9) Manage the current Academia to Action Ontario budget and seek to secure ongoing funds for the project regionally;
10) Assist the National Coordinator in securing funds for the GITP nationally;
11) Actively participate in Academia to Action project staff team (calls, email communication, etc.)
12) Assist in ongoing office maintenance; and
13) Attend all project planning and SYC evaluation retreats, the Sustainable Campuses Conference and other project team face-to-face activities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
* B.A. or B.Sc. in Environmental Studies or a related field;
* Experience working/volunteering in the campus sustainability movement;
* Knowledge of the Sierra Youth Coalitions and its programs;
* Experience in greenhouse gas inventories and emissions reductions planning
* Bilingual (French/English);
* Strong writing, research and communication skills;
* Capable of working in a flexible work environment;
* Ability to work independently but also as part of a team;
* Quick learner; and
* Strong organizational and project coordination skills.

For more information please see the Academia to Action website: www.syc-
cjs.org/gitp and the Academia to Action Ontario website: www.syc-cjs.org/a2a

IT IS PREFERRED THAT CANDIDATES SEND THEIR CV, COVER LETTER AND A SHORT WRITING
SAMPLE ELECTRONICALLY! (to help save paper). Put YOUR NAME Regional Coordinator CV in the subject area and email to jeca@syc-cjs.org

Suite 412 - 1 Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 7B7
(613) 241-1615, 1-888-790-7393; FAX: (613) 241-2292

9. Volunteer Opportunity with the Sierra Youth Coalition Excomm!

The Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC) is looking for nominations for 3 new positions on the Executive Committee (EXCOMM) for the 2005-2006 year! The executive committee is a fun and active group of youth from across the country, responsible for the vision and direction of SYC and all major decisions concerning the organization.

If you are interested in learning about what it is like to sit on a consensus-based board of a non-governmental organization, and work on a wide variety of environmental and social justice issues with progressive and committed youth, than this is the opportunity for you!

Responsibilities for every board member include:
-monthly conference calls
-a mandatory week long visioning and strategising retreat during the first
week of May 2005 and a second face-to-face meeting in the fall (all-expenses
paid).
-taking leadership in developing SYC projects, campaigns, communications and
membership
-creating and approving policies and procedures
-communicating through e-mails over the course of the year
-any extra tasks that arise such as facilitating conference calls or
communicating with staff

All applicants must be under the age of 26 and a current member of the Sierra Youth Coalition. (If you are interested in applying but are not yet a member -- call us). For more information about the Sierra Youth Coalition, please visit www.syc-cjs.org. If you have questions concerning the election please contact Kate Charuk at SYC: 1-888-790-7393 or kate@syc-cjs.org.

Candidates are required to write a short statement about themselves (approx 75 words!) that you would like included in the election mail-out. You also need to fill out the nominations form attached. You can nominate yourself or someone you know. Send the forms to kate@syc-cjs.org and include "excomm nomination" in the subject line. Nominations close March 18th 2005. Elections close April 4th 2005.

- Michelle

First week back's news...

2005-03-04T14:43:00.000-05:00

The last meeting we had wasn't that well attended, with 3 showing up (and me showing up shamefully late after the meeting had already ended.) However, there is some stuff to report...

Michelle found something on the internet: Ancillary Services page on how to set your photocopier to doublesided. http://www.mcgill.ca/ancillary/photocopier/tips/#DOUBLE. Who's down for a guerilla campaign to eradicate non-doublesiding on campus? I haven't had enough use for my ninja mask lately.

And, the minutes, from Michelle, who recycles more with her pinky finger than you do with both hands, but is cooler than Arnold Schwarzennegger because she doesn't have five gas-guzzling Hummers. Huzzah.

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hello there list,

here is the news:

next meeting: Wednesday March 9, 6 pm , QPIRG

1. Website
2. Fossil Fool's Day, April 1st
3. Recto-Verso
4. Rethink
5. Animal Liberties Day
6. Recycling
7. Car Free Day
8. MSE Town Hall
9. Film screening: "Oil for Ice"
10. Festival ecolo de Montreal, volunteers needed
11. Peace Train Canada
12. Canadian Youth Climate Change Conference
13. GMOs: Views from the South: Free conference at Concordia
14. A radical listserv you can join

1. Website
Michelle and Alisa will be meeting with Trevot, the QPIRG website guy, to start getting the website going.

2. Fossil Fool's Day, April 1st
Adela and Sarah and many others have returned from the Northeast climate change conference all ready to get some energy action going. We discussed doing a table, perhaps in McConnell:
-Michelle: track down bike blender, for smoothies
-Sarah: get some energy-related materials from Kathleen
-more to come!

3. Recto-Verso
-The arts lab says it is going to start giving financial incentives for double-siding, but is not interested in setting defaults to double-side. Michelle wrote them an e-mail urging them to set defaults, and volunteering help them spread the word and promote the double-siding option. Hopefully that will go well.
-We want to keep harassing departments about the soon-to-be-adopted paper-use policy. Michelle will research: who is in charge of setting defaults in departments, where teh policy is in terms ofbecoming official
-Saima reminded us we should be ready with banners to welcome the paper use policy. this means we should have a banner-making party to put a banner up in the middle of campus! yeah!
-Saima also said we should sent thank you notes to departments that set their defaults, etc.
-Saima is also bringing her camera so that next meeting we can take a picture of how cool it is to double-side on photocopiers, for poster-making purposes. there will be party hats.
-not sure if the paper buying idea (to sell 100% PC paper to students) is going ahead. any news from that department?

4. Rethink
Go register NOW! http://www.mcgill.ca/rethink/events/#REthink05 (ignore the fields that don't pertain to you.)It's your chance to have some input on McGill's 20-year plan. There will be student presentations, including Greening McGill. Michelle and Sarah have expressed interest in being a part of the presentation.

5. Animal Liberties Day
Planning begins tomorrow (Thursday March 3rd) at 5:00 in the Arts Lounge, Conference room 3, for Animal Liberties day, 21 March 2005. More info: jessegutman@gmail.com

6. Recycling
There is a recycling awareness day in the works, organized by Kathleen Ng (McGill's Environmental Officer.) If you want to help, write kathleen.ng@mcgill.ca Also, there is a really awesome poster at QPIRG that we should totally copy and post around. it has Arnold Schwarzenegger (sp?) with a can saying: "I recycle more with my pinky finger than you do with both hands. Recycle Hard." Awesome.

7. Car Free Day
Interested in being on the organizing committee? write me: greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca. Even if you wrote me before, please write again because I forgot.

8. MSE Town Hall
Next Wednesday, March 9, 6pm, MSE. To discuss and give suggestions for improving the MSE: programs, core courses, etc. It conflicts with our meeting time unfortunately. For those who can't make it: send me your comments about the MSE and I will pass them along to the Town Hall people.

9. Film screening: "Oil for Ice"
The MESS is screening a documentary called "Oil on Ice" about the Arctic Wildlife Refuge on March 15th at 6:00PM at the MSE. It's about an hour long, is quite recent and is very good and thought provoking/inspiring.

10. Festival ecolo de Montreal, volunteers needed
It seems there is a really awesome big street festival planned for next September 20-24 and they seek volunteers for organizing. (Don't forget we need you at Car Free Day McGill on the 22nd!)
Contact:
André Boulanger
514-528-1439
festivalecolodemontreal@moncanoe.com

Daniel Bouchard
(514) 528-5152
danielbouchard1er@hotmail.com

11. Peace Train Canada
Peace Train Canada is a youth organized trip across Canada, from Vancouver to Halifax. It will be happening from Aug.19 to Sept.4, 2005. The idea behind the project is to engage youth in a dynamic forum on issues that are of concern to us. At
most major cities along the way, there will be a thematic event planned for youth to attend. These include, but are not restricted to, themes such as environment, governance, economics, aboriginal issues etc. The events will include speakers and activities to involve youth in a discussion on ways to address these issues. The goal is to produce a common vision statement and plan of action for Canadian youth. Currently, we are looking for active youth leaders who want to get involved in the planning and coordinating of this trip. We need a committee of youth at cities across the country to organize the events and get local youth out. As well, we want a core group of youth who want to travel on the trip and participate in this exciting
dialogue. For further information, contact Patrick at
questforpeace04@yahoo.ca

12. Canadian Youth Climate Change Conference
Come Change the world in 4 Days
Check out http://www.yc3.net/ to get involved
Be inspired * Create New visions * Generate Energy & Action * Ignite Change * Learn from
Likeminded people * Discover Beautiful BC * Have Fun!
Canadian Youth Climate Change Conference (YC3)
3rd to 6th July 2005
Royal Roads University, Victoria BC
JOIN US!
Climate Change is Huge and Happening: It's the challenge of a generation and the opportunity of a lifetime. This summer, join other 15-20 years olds with inspiring World leaders to develop solutions to climate change.
Initiated, organized, driven and attended by YOUTH!

13. GMOs: Views from the South: Free conference at Concordia

Moderator: Daniel Pinard
Three international guests (Iran, Mali and Zambia)

Monday, March 7th, from 6.30-9pm
UQAM, 400 Ste-Catherine east Street
Auditorium AM-050 (next to the Central Library
Pavillon Hubert-Aquin, (metro Berri-UQAM).

Admission free, everyone welcome.

Simultaneous translation English/French.

For more information, please contact
Ph: 514-933-0021 extension 14

A unique opportunity to learn about the interconnections between biotechnology, food security, and rural development in the countries of the Global South.

14. A listserv you can join

d'Intérêt Public...
l'Alter Monde en réseau

laquelle reçoit chaque mardi soir (généralement) des informations militantes de toutes sortes (forums, manifestations, soirées-bénéfices, tables rondes, rencontres citoyennes, etc.)?

Qui plus est, cette lettre inclut des annonces et requêtes de logement à louer ou sous-louer, que me livrent de temps en temps des amies. Nouveauté aussi: Solidarité routière, un service de covoiturage.

to join, write dinteretpublic@hotmail.com

that's all!

peace,
michelle

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Also, some more announcements:

1. MSE Town Hall
2. Seal hunt
3. Simple Living discussion group.

1. MSE Town Hall

Calling all Environment students, majors and minors -

Have you ever felt frustrated with MSE courses or curriculum?
Do you have any ideas about how to make it better?

If you've ever complained about the core courses or the structure of the MSE, now is your chance to be heard!
Wednesday March 9, at 5:30 pm is the first ever MSE Town Hall. Refreshments will be served so you can come straight from class.
Bring along all your suggestions and ideas for how the McGill School of Environment can provide us with the kind of education that will be most effective.
Your suggestions will be recorded and taken to the administration. We are lucky to belong to such a small, young, and flexible school that is ready and willing to hear from us and accommodate our needs. This is your chance to make changes : Please come out and join us.
Room 426 Burnside
Wednesday March 9, 2005-03-01
5:30 pm
Refreshments will be served.

2. Seal hunt: film and demonstration
a) Film: Wed, 9 March at 8:30 pm. Screening of "Seal Wars" presented by the Concordia Animal Rights Association. Produced by the History Channel, this documentary chronicles the ongoing controversy surrounding Canada's infamous seal hunt, an annual slaughter of over 300 000 seal pups. Followed by a presentation by Rebecca Aldworth, Canadian Director for the Humane Society of the United States. Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. Room 435.
For more information visit www.gan.ca or 514.939.5525

b)Join the protest against the seal hunt in Ottawa

This spring, the ice floes off the east coast of Canada will once again run red with the blood of harp seals, many of them only 12 days old. Canada's annual seal slaughter is the largest hunt of marine mammals anywhere in the world, and more than 300,000 seals will be clubbed and shot to death this spring.

To make our protests heard by the Canadian government, Global Action Network, along with a coalition of other concerned organizations will be holding our first International Day of Action on March 15, 2005. We will be joining protesters in over 40 other cities around the world.

If you live in Montreal:
When: The bus leaves at 9:30 am on Tues, March 15 and will return to Montreal by 3:30pm.
Where: 372 St Catherine W. suite 308

The bus is free!

There is a limited amount of space on the bus, so please reserve your seat by contacting us at
regina@gan.ca or 514 939 5525.

If you live in Ottawa:
When: Tues, 15 March at noon
Where: Parliament Hill

3. Simple Living Discussion Group
The Regroupement québécois pour la simplicité volontaire now has an English-speaking discussion group, hosted by Kim and Didier. People from all walks of life meet downtown once or twice a month to discuss issues and share personal experiences on simple living. Topics of discussion include consumerism, work, money, happiness, relationships, the environment, social justice, alternative transportation, and fair trade.

A first introductory meeting will be held Monday, March 7th at the YMCA.
Details and contact information can be found on the group's Web site at:
http://pages.videotron.com/msl/ (confirmation appreciated).

To SUBSCRIBE to this list: send an email to
LISTSERV@LISTS.MCGILL.CA
leave the subject blank
and type the following into the body: SUB GREEN firstname lastname
(firstname lastname refers to your first and last names!)

To UNSUBSCRIBE: send an email to
LISTSERV@LISTS.MCGILL.CA
leave the subject blank
and type the following into the body: SIGNOFF GREEN

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That's all... for now!
Also, I'm interested in compiling a directory of environmental links. If you want to send any my way, post in the comments or email me at aliasalisa@gmail.com, or something. Whatever's most convenient for you...

Take care,
Alisa

PANELS AND DISCUSSIONS

2005-02-17T11:03:00.000-05:00

TODAY, 5:45 PM

CISDL Discussion Panel - Entry into Force of the Kyoto Protocol: Issues and Implications

Thursday, February 17th, 5.45 pm
Common Room, New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill Faculty of Law

The Kyoto Protocol will enter into force on February 16th, 2005.

The panel will be chaired by Hon. Charles Gonthier, Wainwright Senior Research Fellow, McGill
Faculty of Law, Counsel, McCarthy Tétrault & Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Our distinguished speakers include:

Prof. Christopher Green, McGill Department of Economics & Centre for Climate and Global Change Research, on the impact of the entry into force on efforts to stabilize climate

Elizabeth Harvey, CIDA, Climate Change Unit, on the implications for development programming

Prof. Hélène Trudeau, Université de Montréal Faculty of law & CISDL Senior Research Fellow, on the constitutional issues of the entry into force

Xueman Wang, Convention on Biodiversity Secretariat & CISDL Lead Counsel, on the advancement of international efforts to be taken after the Kyoto Protocol
All Welcome, RSVP preferred.
Light refreshments will be provided.

RSVP to Emily Wheeler at ewheeler@cisdl.org.

***********

--
Emily Wheeler
Assistant Manager
Centre for International
Sustainable Development Law
3661 Peel, Montreal
Quebec H3A 1X1
Tel.: +1.514.398.8918
Fax: +1.514.398.8197
ewheeler@cisdl.org
www.cisdl.org

FRIDAY, 1 P.M.

Hey everyone,

I want to invite you all to a meeting that we're having on Friday at 1:00 at the School of Environment to talk about the position of environmental officer at McGill.

This position has existed for 2 years now and is largely a result of a big push by students who, at the time of the creation of McGill's Environmental Policy, demanded that a full time environmental officer job exist.

Two years later, this position is being reviewed for the first time. Up until now, neither the appropriateness of the original job descripation nor the effectiveness of the current environmental officer have been addressed, and students have not had any input into whether or not their needs are being addressed through this position.

Within the next week, a committee will be meeting to review the position's mandate and create a more permanent job description. Kim D'Souza, the environmental rep to SSMU, is on this committee and he's going to consult with students on Friday afternoon to make sure that our voices are represented at this committee.

This meeting is extremely important, as the decisions that are made by the review committee are likely to have a huge impact on the future of the environmental movement at McGill. I urge you to attend and to spread the word to anyone who you think might be interested.

If you have input to give but can't attend the meeting, feel free to contact Kim D'Souza directly at kdsouz@po-box.mcgill.ca and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask either him or myself. I hope to see many of you on Friday!

Liz McDowell
Assessment Coordinator
The Sustainable McGill Project

3534 University
Montreal, PQ H3A 2A7
514.398.4947
csam@riseup.net

- Alisa

Greening McGill Minutes

2005-02-17T11:02:00.000-05:00

Greening McGill Minutes, February 16, 2005

1. Recto-Verso - good news!
2. Liberal McGill event followup
3. Conferences this weekend, and Rethink
4. Handbook and handbook mini-listserv
5. Kyoto and Greening McGill
6. Bikes: now, not just for transportation!
7. René-Levasseur Island
8. Recycling Plant Trip

1. Great news in Recto-Verso:
- Mehdi reported that our policy was adopted officially and unanimously by the Department of Physics!
- In (similar) news, Principal Heather Munroe-Blum is apparently taking an interest in the SCE document, which is great to hear as well.
- We discussed the photocopy posters, which will be digitally photographed by Saima. Extras with party hats are needed for an "I saved paper!! YEAHH!!" shot. I party every time I double-side at the photocopier, don't you?

2. The Liberal McGill event
- We talked about why the Green Party, who we were confused with on occasion at the Liberal McGill even a week or two ago, have problems getting elected in Canada as opposed to in places like Germany.
- Liberal McGill still wants your viewpoints on the event, the environment in general, what you would like to see happen at the federal level, etc. Email Alisa (aliasalisa@gmail.com) with any thoughts you would like to send along.

3. Conferences:
- Sarah volunteered to find out how many people are attending the Climate Change conference in Burlington this weekend from Greening McGill, so we can figure out how to distribute some funding to conference attendees.
- The Rethink Conference is March 11, and the registration deadline is March 4 (http://www.mcgill.ca/rethink). Everyone is highly encouraged attend, since it is FREE (unless you don't show up, at which point they charge you $10). Greening McGill will be presenting, along with the other environmental groups on campus. WE NEED TO ORGANIZE THE PRESENTATION AMONG THE STUDENT GROUPS PRESENTING. Please get in touch with greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca to arrange a time to meet and organize the presentation.

4. Handbook:
- I discussed the framework I've started to develop for the handbook. This will be sent out to people who want to contribute to the handbook - please email me
(aliasalisa@gmail.com) if you'd like to be on the handbook mini-listserv. All of your ideas, contributions, etc. are welcome!

5. Kyoto
- We talked about the first day of the Kyoto accord, and about how Canada is dead last in reducing emissions, still doesn't have a detailed plan to reduce them, and how any plan is likely weeks (or more) away. Despite this track record, Canada will host a UN conference on the topic in December, and right here in Montreal. This gives us a lot of opportunities and visibility (in 10 months), and next meeting, we will hopefully do some brainstorming about what role we should play while the conference is in town.

6. Green design contests and superbikes
- As has been habit the past couple of meetings, the concept of building a bike that could power something came up. Powering a blender, so we could all have smoothies, is still a popular idea. We decided that doing this for Car Free Day would be optimal. However, we still have to a) find out how to do this and b)find out where to get the equipment!

7. René-Levasseur Island
- The fate of René-Levasseur Island is currently being decided in the courts, and Mehdi suggested that we have another event (like last year's conference) to raise awareness of this amazing part of Quebec. There was some discussion of Domtar, L'Erreur Boreale, and Richard Desjardins (is he coming out with a sequel to L'Erreur Boreale? I can't find any info!) If anyone is interested in such an event, or has one in the works, please let us know.

8. Trip to the recycling plant
- PGSS will be funding a trip to the recycling plant on March 31. Although it will be a PGSS event, any student can go, and it will be free! More details to follow.

Thanks everyone, and take care!
Alisa

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Minutes - Feb. 9th

2005-02-12T15:00:00.000-05:00

hello greening mcgill friends,

hope you are doing well and midterms aren't getting you down!

**next meeting: wednesday february 16 at 6pm, QPIRG (3647 University, 3rd floor)

here is all the exciting news from february 9th:

1. Us in the (McGill) News; and our lovely stamp
2. Liberal McGill seeks your advice
3. Recto-Verso
4. Gault Nature Reserve
5. Website/Handbook
6. St. Michel Recycling plant
7. Car Free Day
8. Animal liberties day
9. Many conferences:
a) RETHINK conference
b) Colloque Universitaire: En route vers la reduction des gaz a effect de serre
c) Socially responsible purchasing and investment
d) Northeast Climate Change Conference

1. Us in the news, and our lovely stamp
There is an article in an issue of the McGill Alumni News about Car Free Day, including a picture of the Organic Food Co-op's SUV rotten tomato target. It was admired by all. Also admired by all was our Buy Nothing Day Stamp, which Michelle finally remembered to bring to a meeting. We will have it all ready for next year.

2. Liberal McGill seeks your advice.
Liberal McGill thanks us for our attendance at last week's very successful environmental policy debate. They seek comments and suggestions about the event, as well as your ideas about environmental policy: ideas of legislation, budgets, timetables, how to measure success, and how generally to tie all of our climate change initiatives into a "national vision". They will be using our feedback to develop a policy document for the Liberal Convention on March 3-6. Please send your comments to Alisa at aliasalisa@gmail.com

3. Recto-Verso
a) education:
Not enough people know or bother to find out how to double-side on campus or print two pages on one sheet. We are going to do some postering (using reused paper, of course) to spread the word. Alisa is making a poster to instruct people how to double-side with photocopiers. Michelle will make one about computers and is targeting the Arts labs. We will develop a "paper reduction kit" with posters and suggested actions, which will soon be available for anyone to take to their favourite computer lab to request changes in practices, including:
-putting up posters about double-sided/multiple page printing
-getting instructions clearly put on the desktops
-financial incentives for double-siding
-purchasing better paper
-getting good recycling/reuse systems going
-getting photocopiers/printers that are stocked with old paper
-anything else good environmental

b) paper-buying club:
I think Alex volunteered for this. We were concerned about how there is nowhere on campus to buy 100% PC paper. We could try to buy good paper ourselves and resell it at cost, to provide students with good paper. Perhaps a good place to start is to get QPIRG to put some paper in its store.

c) document with paper info:
I think Josie said she would be willing to look at our current research and fill in some holes.
Michelle will send an electronic copy to her.

4. Gault Nature Reserve
a) field trip
It has been cancelled, due to lack on interest. However, there is still interest in a day trip on a later date, perhaps at Easter weekend. Some people volunteered to drive. So, maybe we will do that later.

b) Mural:
We have approval! to paint on a wall in Stewart Bio. But we need to submit a design. I guess we'll have some kind of design contest or something. Stay tuned.

5. Website/Handbook
The idea is to gather all sorts of information about environmental things in Montreal and at McGill (e.g. what you can recycle and what you can't) and distribute it to students via a website and a handbook for those who prefer printed copies. We would liek this to be ready for next year's frosh.
-We would like to make magnets to get in frosh bags and everywhere else, with our website on it, once we have one.
-basic ideas for website are below. everyone is welcome to adopt one and slowly accumulate information about it so that it can be compiled by Alisa and put on the website. Trevor from QPIRG will be happy to help us tear down the old one and put up the new.
-environmentalism/ groups on campus
-environmental servies on campus
-residences - (we think ERC can cover this one)
-montreal groups
-things to do at home
-recycling guide, translated from city of montreal
-book list
-ethical shopping - Katie, Saima
-where to get fair trade and organic things in Montreal
-water saving - Sarah
-fun activities that require no energy or money
-feel free to add other things

-meanwhile, once we get to start fixing things, we will put up a new website with our info and meeting times, with more content to be added later.

6. St. Michel recycling plant
yay! field trip! Tentative date of this trip with PGSS: morning of 31 March. more news to follow.

7. Car Free Day.
I'm serious, it's going to be AWESOME. If you want to get in on the organizing, contact: Michelle
(greeningmcgill@yahoo.ca)

8. Animal liberties day,
Someone is organizing for the animals: contact jessegutman@gmail.com if you want to help out at an awareness day about animal welfare/animal rights.

9. Many conferences:
a) RETHINK conference
Rethink conference!
The annual Rethink conference, hosted by the Senate Subcommittee on Environment, takes place on Friday March 11th.

Learn about the latest green McGill projects and engage in dialogue with the Master Plan Task Force. Voice your opinions about your vision of McGill 20 years from today! Participate in our breakout sessions: a truly unique opportunity to help guide the future. Presentations by

* the Sub-Committee on Environment
* the McGill School of Environment
* student groups, including:
o SSMU
o PGSS
o Greening McGill
o Sustainable McGill Project
* the McGill Master Plan Task Force
.

McGill staff, students, faculty and community welcome. SPACE IS LIMITED and available on first-come first-serve basis: pre-registration is required.

WHEN/WHERE:

* 11:00 Registrants' check-in
* 11:30 Lunch served in Faculty of Law Atrium - entrance from Nahum Gelber Law Library)
* 12:00-5:00 p.m. New Chancellor Day Hall, Moot Court

COST: Free of charge; cancellations should be made by March 8 to accommodate those (if any) on waiting list. A penalty of $10 will be levied for no-shows - this will cover the cost of refreshments).
TO REGISTER: Online, via e-mail or snail mail.

* Online registration (McGill ID/PIN required)
* E-mail registration: Please include full name, title(or student if applicable,
faculty/department and contact information (phone, email).
* Snail mail: Complete the form in our Brochure (draft) [.doc]

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 4, 2005

b) Colloque Universitaire: En route vers la reduction des gaz a effect de serre

(Probably going to be in French, at HEC: a conference of all Quebec schools. If you want to represent McGill, write me or just write Amelie directly; e-mail at the end of this announcement)

Vendredi 18 mars 2005

18h Accueil
20h Présentation concise des comités de 10 minutes (critères : originalité, créativité, meilleurs
coups (actions, succès) de lannée)
Bilan de la campagne Recto-Verso par Martin Frankland
22h - 23h Sortie dans un bar !

Samedi 19 mars 2005

9h Présentation de lhoraire de la journée
9h30 Conférence
10h Pause
10h15 Conférence
11h Atelier : projets/outils à développer pour réduire les GES
12h Dîner
13h Atelier : Monde Café / Commenter la Charte
15h Mise en commun : voilà où on est rendu bilan/réflexion sur les universités québécoises
16h Pause
16h15 Conférence de Mélanie McDonald, coordonnatrice québécoise de la Coalition Jeunesse Sierra
17h Au revoir ! et à lannée prochaine !

Je vous envoie le tout pour que vous puissiez commencer à en parler entre vous et à présenter cette invitation à votre conseil exécutif. Nous avons besoin d'une liste des membres qui souhaitent participer au colloque pour que nous continuons à travailler sur les préparatifs : Noms, prénoms, courriel, allergies quelconques svp.

Pour les prix, nous avons établi, approximativement :

45 $ : avec l'hôtel
25$ : sans l'hôtel

Je vais recommuniquer avec vous dès que le prix et la date limite pour répondre soient définitifs.

Je vous remercie, et passez une très belle journée,

Au plaisir de se rencontrer,

Amélie Picard
Responsable logistique HumaniTERRE
amelie.picard@hec.ca

c) Socially responsible purchasing and investment (probably in french)

QUOI : COLLOQUE SUR LES ACHATS ET PLACEMENTS SOCIALEMENT RESPONSABLES

QUAND : 18 ET 19 FÉVRIER 2005 / Ouverture à 13h00 le 18 février

OU : SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTS ET TECHNOLOGIES [SAT] / 1195 ST-LAURENT

COÛT : GRATUIT / INSCRIPTION REQUISE

Programmation et inscription : www.scrute.ca

d) Northeast Climate Change Conference
If you want to get in on the bus going down, contact: radicalnewthoughts@riseup.net

that's all folks!

peace and love, michelle

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Update

2005-02-08T18:56:00.000-05:00

- Greening McGill was one of the clubs tabling at Open House, demonstrating the variety of student groups at McGill. Perhaps 8 other clubs were there in a truly overwhelming show of club diversity. Many people walked by, a couple talked to us, and we worked on a great poster, which someday will be complete once I learn accurate mapmaking.

- Greening McGill participated in Liberal McGill's excellent forum on green policy in Canada, along with the NDP, Conservative Party, and non-Conservative Party conservatives. There was some confusion as to whether or not we were the Green Party, but all turned out well with stellar debating performances by our Greening McGill representatives.

- Things in the works: the Rethink conference (March 11), next September's Car Free Day, a possible trip to Gault, if transportation things work out.
- Also in the works: a handbook for McGill students on living more sustainably, with info on everything from how to recycle to how to minimize energy consumption, and more. If you want to help out with this project, which will hopefully be unveiled in time for Frosh 2005, email aliasalisa@gmail.com

- If you missed out on ordering a vermicomposter from Derina, you can drop off organic matter between 8 am and 2 pm Thursdays (not during reading week) at the Shatner basement coat check (where you find the Organic Food Coop usually); it will be composted at Mac.

Take care,
Alisa

Greening McGill minutes, 19/01/05

2005-01-20T16:45:00.000-05:00

1. St. Michelle Recycling plant trip
2. Tree day tabling
3. Open House
4. Vermis
5. Rectro-Verso
6. Gault Nature Reserve

1. We are planning a joint trip with PGSS to the St. Michelle recycling plant in March. It will be
free, and there will be 45 spots. 3 hr trip. We'll announce more later.

2. We are tabling, with Hillel, on Jan. 25 for Tree day. 10:00- 4:00 pm.
I will hopefully be bringing Gault apples, and we will showcase some of the gault stuff. Also,
Michelle will bring some rectro verso stuff, and we'll have a vermis signup.
Here's the volunteer list:
10:00-11:00- Andrew/Kirsten
11:00-12:00- Dorina
12:00-1:00- Alisa
1:00-2:00- Alex
2:00-3:00- Sarah
3:00-4:00- Saima [take-down]

3. Open House- We will be tabling for the McGill open house on Jan. 30. from 11:00-1:30. Michelle,
Alisa, and Saima are going to handle this.

4. Vermis. Dorina has gotten the vermis project rolling again. Because the price of worms has
increased to $50/lb. the prices have gone up:
$38 for a 1 person composter
$52 for a 2 person composter
$63 for a 3 person composter

5. Rectro Verso- Not much to report. Michelle says that Geography and MSE are going well. Kirsten
has decided to tackle Bio-Chem.

6. Gault- Also not much to report. We revised the mural design. The plan is to paint the mural and
have 2 sections beside it, showing students who donated towards it, and large donors with
permanent names, ie. on a plaque or something. At present we still need an artist, and permission
to use Stuart Bio. which appears to be the most likely site.

Nothing else this week....

-Andrew and Michelle

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Greening McGill minutes - Wednesday, January 12

2005-01-13T19:42:00.000-05:00

[note from Alisa: sorry this blog hasn't been updated for a bit! But it's back on active duty. :)]

Minutes - January 12 2004

Welcome to all our new members. This weeks meeting was quick, although we all sat around afterwards socializing....
Here's what we discussed:

1-Money for Sustainable campuses conference
2-Gault Nature Reseve
3-Rectro Verso
4-McGill open house
5-Energy Week

1-Money for the Sustainable campuses conference: We decided that despite our reduced budget, we will be giving the $200 we promised to those who went to the sustainable campuses conference in Winnipeg. We will not be able to give them money for the extra costs they incurred on the way, sorry.

2-Gault Nature Reserve: In order to move forward on the adopt a tree program we've set out two things which need to be done to start the project; we need an artist, and we need to find a location to paint and start sorting through the red tape to get that done. Michelle will be looking for an artist, and I will find a location and ask for approval.

3-Rectro Verso: Management has announced that they will set the default on the printers in their labs to double side. Several new people have announced that they will take on departments to harass to adapt the policy. These include:
Alisa-History
Adella-Philosophy/Microbiology
Andrew-Physics

4-McGill Open house: Jan.30, McGill has asked us to table at the open house. Michelle, Saima, and Alisa have tentatively stated that they can be there.

5-Energy week: Kathleen is looking for people to help her organize energy week in March. If you are interested write her at kathleen.ng@mcgill.ca

Thanks to everyone who braved the rain and brought food!

-Andrew

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