Bioregional Committee Minutes, December 17

[Maria Tupper]

Bioregional Committee Meeting Minutes, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018

In attendance: Maria, Lynne, Gaianne, Bobcat, Roger, Steve, Domingo, Note taker Steve

Next meeting: Jan 7th, Chair will be Gaianne

 

Upcoming:

*Expression Monday, Never Ending Bookstore, 2^nd Monday of each month

*Herbal Friends: FUUS, Dec. 19, Juniper, 7 PM

*Evidence of Flossing: Jan. 26, 6 PM potluck and poetry reading by Jen Payne: Maria

*CT NOFA Winter Conference: Sat. Feb 23, 2019, Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport CT, Domingo will do two talks

*Living on the Earth: February 25^th at 7:30, involving readings from Bill Deusing’s book and invited guests.

*First garden planning meeting Feb 2^nd 3:30. Should we put a sign up inviting neighbors to join?

*Lynne and Bobcat are discuss doing an infiltration rain garden at UU.

*Rock to Rock January 8^th meeting 6:00 at Marsh Hall 360 Prospect St. We plan on supporting the event.

 

Walks:

*Westville, 2^nd Saturday, Jan 12th, meet at 1 PM at Manjares

 

Movies:

*The Human Element: Lynne has heard from NRDC and will reach out to find a school sponsor. 

*Birders: 2013, about obsessive birders, showed in NYC, Aaron

*Human Flow: a powerful visual expression to a massive human migration, elucidating both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal impact.  Captured over a year in 23 countries. Director: Ai Weiwei, 140 min.

*Sinking Cities: PBS live stream, perhaps do with the New Haven Climate Movement?

 

Reports:

*Bioregional Garden Potluck, Dec. 7, 6 PM.  FUUS Good food and attendees and Domingo pitched the plan for the garden for next year

*Domingo reported on Common Ground having complete the concrete bins and wood shelters for the new composting facilities and showed us a photo

*New Haven Climate Movement Emergency Resolution:  Chris Schweitzer spoke of the need for emergency action to restore safe climate and the desire for us to support the New Haven Resolution Endorsing the Declaration of A Climate emergency.   www.newhavenclimatemovement.org/emergency-resolution  We agreed to join in with our group support.

 

Announcements:

*Lynne and Bobcat will talk about and plan a rain garden in front of FUUS to capture stormwater runoff.

*Bobcat would like to revisit “Peak Oil” that we focused on 10 yrs ago with Fred’s leadership.

*CT NOFA has a new yearly award called the Bill Deusing award. 

 

 

Submitted by Steve King, Dec. 18, 2018