March 26, 2014

Proposals

Structure

1. Internal board of directors
2. SPARC Fellows  
3. General Members 

• Co-Chairs (+newsletter)
• Social media / marketing and outreach coordinator
• Blog coordinator
• Events coordinator
• Advisors (ex. MAJR magazine)

Meetings

1x / mo. internal core / planning
1 x / mo. general body / networking
1x / mo. themed meeting 

1x / year - conference

Constituency

• 1 admin rep from each area school
• 2 lead students from each school - 1 of which should be an underclassman (nominations) "we'd like to nominate you"
• 5-10 point-people from each school - experts on certain initiatives 

mIssion

MIssion statement

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To Do

Make Initiative grid 
Map similar groups at schools 

5 Core goals

1. Knowledge and information sharing 
2. Annual conference for students, by students 
3. Working with University administration 
4. Uniting resources
5. Working groups / committees on topics 
6. Partnering on campaigns to increase influence at schools 

5-10 key initiatives

1. Compost / zero-waste
2. Waste reduction 
3. Divestment
4. Banning bottled water
5. Veganism / vegetarianism
6. Hand Dryers
7. Tradepal
8. Bike advocacy / bike sharing
9. Student / community gardens
10. Curriculum integration 
11. Energy reduction
12. Fair Trade
13. Skill building  

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February 5, 2014

Agenda

1. Introductions
2. Overview and goal review for new attendees 
3. Website overview
4. Presenting/discussing logos
5. NEES Conference
   
6. Roots and Media Divestment Roadshow
7. Organization: steering committee, external newsletter, tiered structure, working groups, etc.

Goals for Group

Goals:

1. Annual conference for networking, etc. 
2. Collaboration
3. Philly sustainability career fair potential 
4. Sharing information, collaborative atmosphere (AASHE website and listserv hosts most of the info out there for Philly-area admin group)
5. Larger listserv for communication 
6. Collaborative events, support planning, 
7. Educational push - more of a fact based message out 
8. Go to place for all things student dusty 
9. Leverage the group to increase attendance at things like AASHE student summit 

To Do's

Julian - send us link to listserv hosted by Ursinus 
Sara - make more general listserv / newsletter / calendar 
-embed twitter feeds
-add Arielle to google group
Emily - make logos digital 
Dinah - send out blurb for blog
Nicole - make ticket leap for FEb. 19 
Katy - work on proposal for NEES symposium 

WEbsite

• Blog posts 
• Each organization posts one thing per semester? 
• Forum / message board? 
• Make a Meetup site? 

Returning attending

1. Sara Allan - UPENN student
2. Nicole Koedyker - Drexel Alum
3. James - Drexel student sierra coalition
4. Michael Shostek - UPenn, SSAP
5. Emily Wei - UPenn, SSAP

New Members / friends attending

1. Julian Goresko - UPENN Admin
2. Arielle - Penn student, SSAP
3. Dinah DeWald - Roots and Media Divestment Roadshow, Recent Swarthmore grad, 
4. Kim - Students for Environmental Action, Temple 
5. Katy - Outreach Assistant for Office of Sustainability at Temple, coordinator of Green Council 

Structure

Committees / working groups

• Steering committee 
• Divestment / sustainable investing
• Garden groups
• Umbrella groups
• Vegan clubs 

What are schools lacking?

• engagement at Drexel 

Roots and MEdia - Co-produced by SPARC

• Wednesday Feb. 19
  
• about 2 hours 
• at 2401 Walnut!! 
• 12-3 p.m. 

January 20, 2014

Quick Links

Conference Brainstorming
Contact google doc
When2Meet for regular meeting times
Google Group
Google Group Email: SPARC-internal@googlegroups.com
Philly Green Groups Survey (from Nicole)

Notes

Goals for this group:

1. Enhance collaboration and push all schools to go further
2. Co-host events
3. Share resources, best practices, and advice (avoid reinventing the wheel)
4. Show support for each other's campaigns 
5. Get new and fresh ideas from what others are doing 
6. Create annual student conference

Attendance / TAsks

Katy: Temple- Sustainability Outreach Coordinator; President, Temple Community Garden
Kaitlyn: St. Joe's - Science Outreach Organizer
Emily Wei: Penn - Co-Chair, Student Sustainability Association at Penn (SSAP)
Michael Shostek: Penn - Co-Chair, SSAP
Sara Allan: Penn: student coordinator of Eco-Reps, former co-chair SSAP
Christian: MAJR Magazine
Emily: Drexel - Treasurer, Drexel Sierra Club
James: Drexel - President, Drexel Sierra Club
Nicole: Drexel - Former President, Drexel Sierra Club

Background

Drexel

• Successful Meatless Monday
• Currently working on Take Back the Tap campaign 
• Want to work more with food service providers

St. Joe's

• St. Joe's is in its infancy, wants to jump in
• 5 or 6 years ago got a dept. of energy grant and built a green room on science center --> sustainability department created from that, though still going through governance changes
• Greenfund program is active (water refill stations, composting, community garden)
• Wants to learn about umbrella structure

Penn

• Basically, there's a lot going on. 
  
• Link to SSAP (umbrella group) - has 18 constituents
  
• Penn Environmental Group was first group on campus 
• Greenfund is active (penncycle, hand dryers, Penn Sustainability Review, Green Acorn etc.)
•  Green Campus Partnership link
  

Majr magazine

https://majrmagazine.com

• Started in August, connecting with groups around Philly
• Wants to facilitate collab around the city and amplify things already happening 

Temple

• Sustainability movement has exploded since groups have been collaborating 
• First solar project off the ground
• 10-13 organizations on the Green Council, around since 2010, becoming more of a collaborative platform
• Event each month - Potlucks with a purpose - topics each month 
• Campus Sustainability Week each semester with 15+ events and a Green Fair at Fall CSW