Banning Bottled Water Campaign

[Ian Elliott]

Due to popular demand for the movement to ban bottled water from
Seattle Central, we'll set up an official discussion for the topic.
If you have anything related to banning bottled water, any questions,
any rallies or ideas for means and ways to help with the cause please
post it in this discussion.

[Maria Vaynerman]

Sounds, awesome!! but what happened to composting this quarter? Someone had mentioned it last quarter and I believe that SCCC was all for it, yet there aren't any containers and people are still putting their food scraps and other compostable items into the garbage. Is there anything I or we can do change this?

 

-Maria

[Ian Elliott]

Sorry for any confusion, I just put this up as a forum for the banning
the water bottle campaign. The other projects are also going on, and
if anyone wants to put up a discussion related to them feel free to do
so.

On Jan 20, 11:24 am, Maria Vaynerman <mariavayner...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds, awesome!! but what happened to composting this quarter? Someone had
> mentioned it last quarter and I believe that SCCC was all for it, yet there
> aren't any containers and people are still putting their food scraps and
> other compostable items into the garbage. Is there anything I or we can do
> change this?
>
> -Maria
>

[Derek Welch]

A friend of mine has been assigned to write a school related news article for her ENGL101 class. Her professor, Geb Wyman (I think he's a school paper advisor?) mentioned placing them up on the website. I've gotten her interested in writing about the Ban the Bottle campaign and she wants to do it. The only downfall is he has only given them a week to complete the assignment. So if anyone is interested in communicating with her their opinions on the subject please email her at your earliest convenience.

I've added her e-mail to this thread so it should be visible to all, but just in case:

mariko.fu...@gmail.com

Thanks!

[Andrew Green]

Thats so awesome!!! What if it was a piece to show how environmentally harmful plastic bottles are? The central circut (the paper/magazine) is dying for env/sustainability article submissions too! Submitting It to that too would be a great way to do education around campus and raise awareness prior to the kick off of the ban the bottle campaign. It could get support and reach out to people interested. Really get the campus behind this before it even starts! It could highlight the alternatives and show how other places have already taken the lead on this. Let me know what you all think. Here are some great resources, and i'm down to help in whatever way i can, even if its just proofreading.

all of these are great! check them out:

http://www.banthebottle.net/
http://www.evergreen.edu/sustainability/banthebottle.htm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/09/australians-ban-bottled-w_n_228678.html
http://takebackthetap.org/
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/bottled/
http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/think-outside-bottle/


Andrew

[Ian Elliott]

Spencer from Seattle University who was responsible for the movement
to ban bottled water from the SU campus is willing to meet with us
next Monday from 12:30 to 3:30. This could be a very informative
meeting for ideas and means that we could adapt to our campaign. If
you're able to make it, please reply back to me with what time would
work best for you. and we'll set a concrete meeting.

[frid...@gmail.com]

Any time between 12 to 3:30 So far we have a few people who can meet at 200 pm.

Christina
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[Jon Morada]

I won't be available that day at all. I have class.

--
Jon Morada
greeng...@care2.com
http://seattlecentralgleeclub.blogspot.com
http://triangleclubsccc.blogspot.com

[Kathryn Mays]

I think I've received two different emails regarding the same meeting.  I can definably come between 1 and 3:30, but when is it definably going to be and where?

Thanks much,
               Kat M

> Subject: Re: Banning Bottled Water Campaign

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> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:37:26 +0000

[Anna Cheng]

I'm free all day! Yay! lol I usually have one class on Mondays but my professor will be out of town. =] I actually invited Spencer to come to our meeting this Friday so we could pick his brain but he said he's driving down to Olympia. =[  Thanks for coordinating this, though, Ian. Don't forget to plan a volunteer trip for the committee soon as well!


--
Anna Cheng
Associated Student Council
Sustainability Committee, Chair
Seattle Central Community College
ache...@seattlecentral.edu

[frida leiva]

It looks like there weren't enough people who could make it to the
meeting on Monday with Spencer Black, so I think we will have to
re-schedule the meeting.

Have a great week,
Christina Leiva

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One can sing and dance.
Or one can create an environment
in which singers and dancers flourish."
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[Kathryn Mays]

How many people did we need minimum to speak with Mr. Black?


> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:51:25 -0800

> Subject: Re: Banning Bottled Water Campaign

> From: frid...@gmail.com
> To: seattle-central-community-...@googlegroups.com

[frid...@gmail.com]

Well there was no minium...but of the six who responded only you, and 2 others could make it. I thought it might be better to have a meeting when more people could attend. Perhaps it would be beneficial for everyone if he came to the Friday meeting, when most people can be there. : )

Christina

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[Jon Morada]

I thought there was a meeting today at 5PM in the 5th floor. Only me
and Maksym came...lol

I guess I'll update ya'll on Friday.

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[frida leiva]

Jon,
Didn't know there was going to be a meeting otherwise I would have come...sorry. Let me know when you guys decide to meet next time....that is if this for the TOTB.  Nathan and I talked about starting to plan ahead of time for the Ban The Bottle Day in March. He is going to bring the pamphlet on Friday to the meeting, and hopefully we can get a plan going.
By the way how did your meeting go with Jeff? 

Christina

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[Jon Morada]

It's this Friday before our Sustainability Committee meeting.

[frida leiva]

Oh yes....that's right.

[Kathryn Mays]

OK, wait, when and where are the SCCC Sustainability Network meetings?

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:24:28 -0800

[Ian Elliott]

Hey SCCC Sustainability Network,

By now you're probably received multiple emails about this meeting on
the 25th and if you're sick of it I apologize, but I'm sure you can
take one more. This is just a reminder that we're having a network
meeting this Friday at 1 in the BE1110 Room. We've partnered together
with the Seattle Central Sustainability club, a group in student
government that's trying to make our school more sustainable, so we're
going to go over how this will help us make our school greener and how
you can help contribute to the cause. We'll also discuss Our plans to
ban bottled water sales from campus. What our current plans are, what
we are setting in motion right now and any ideas any of you have to
make this goal happen.

We hope all of you can come make it out. If you have any questions or
anything you want to talk to me about, please email me at
Bukows...@gmail.com. Don't hit reply on this message or everyone
else in the club will get the message in their inbox.

-Ian

[Ian Elliott]

Hey Everyone,

I've just gotten word that our application as an official club for
Seattle Central has finally been approved. This supports us such
benefits as the ability to use a room for our meetings as well as the
ability to make posters and hang them all over the school.

This coincides perfectly with our campaign to ban bottled water, as
we've just gotten vouchers and coupons for the water bottles sold in
the bookstore approved. This means we're just about ready to start
our campaign. The next step right now is to create banners and fliers
to hang over the school to promote banning bottled water on campus,
and this is where your help comes in. We need people to design
posters and come up with banner ideas. If you have any creative
artistic talent, or know people who do, please get started on
designing fliers we can post all over campus to help ban bottled
water.

I hope to have a have a sustainability network meeting soon Possibly
on friday at 2 this week or possibly next week. If you have any input
on a better time, or want to talk about something at this meeting,
please get a hold of me. my email is bukows...@gmail.com.

Thanks everyone and I hope to see you soon.
-Ian

[Niebler, Jason]

Congrats!!!

____________________________________________________________________________________
Jason Niebler, MSc

Director and Faculty | Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAgE) Initiative | Seattle Central Community College
Vice-President and Treasurer | Board of Directors | Pacific Bamboo Resources (PBR) Agroforestry
E-mail: jnie...@sccd.ctc.edu | Phone: 206.436.9433 | Skype: jniebler
SAgE website: www.seattlecentral.edu/learn/sage | PBR website: www.pacificbamboo.com

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Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 12:04 PM
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