Guelph Students for Environmental Change

The Meeting

1. ESSE Symposium (environment and media)
2. Get involved with Sustainability Program on campus
3. Wasteless Wednesday reusable mug and coffee giveaway

Time Sensitive

4. Soup social
5. Clubs Days
6. CSA Free Films: Bullshit, We Feed the World, The Fight for True Farming

Not So Time Sensitive

7.Otesha Cycling and Presenting Tour and Change your World!
8.Sustainable consumption guide really easy to read
9.Deep sea trolling Petition in Canada [online]
10.Spirit Bear Petition [online]
11.Climate Change petition [online] to the Canadian government (great declaration)
12.Items GSEC has taken on so far and items that have been brainstormed. E-mail the GSEC account if your interested any of these ideas or have new items (items from SLEF brainstorming and disposable brainstorming).
13.UofG Sustainability Coordinator as a resource for some of the ideas

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ESSE Symposium

-Sat. Jan 27
-please email if you are free to sit at a gsec display (gsec@uoguelph.ca)
-tell us what hours you can do between 9-5

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Get involved with Sustainability Program on campus

-email volunteer@pr.uoguelph.ca to help out educating students on composting, recycling and green living
-if you want to do project porchlight (distributing energy efficient bulbs in the
community for ppl’s porch lights) email sustain@pr.uoguelph.ca

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WASTELESS WEDNESDAY IS BACK

-more free coffee and encouragement of reusable mugs
-we will be talking about what week day to have it on, etc at the social

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Soup Social

(who wants to be the emcee? I dont think we decided!)
-Where? In Mountain Student Lounge in South
-When? Wednesday January 17 at 5:30pm
-to be advertised at clubs days on Mon and Tues of that week
-posters (Peter)
-Listserv ads (Kristi)

-Agenda:
-intro/history of GSEC (Gillian and Pete as backup)
-icebreaker game (Lisa)
-soup (Janet and Lina)(meet 3:30pm day of at GSEC office to help)
-intro to subgroups (see below)
-free time to talk and sign up for groups
-wrap up game (Lisa)

-subgroup presentations:
-Dump and Run (jonny)
-Lug A Mug (Meg)
-Env. Reps (Izzy – not Ziggy)
-Retrofit (Jenny – will be contacted)
-Env. Radio (kristi)
-Clean Ups (Lina)
-GSEC ‘Merchandise’ (Lisa)
-Ethical Purchasing Policy (Peter)
-Recycling, Composting (Gillian and Lisa)

-TO BRING for the soup (and other exciting contributions!)
-spices (Jonny)
-large pots (the cooking kind folks!)(Kira, Gillian, Dave)
-carrots (Zoe)
-potatoes (Jon -some) (Kristi – some also)
-pasta (Liane, Lisa)
-tomato sauce or paste (Janet et Stephanie)
-garlic (Jon)
-onion (Lina)
-leek (Denver)
-veg stock (Janet)
-apple crisp (Meg)
-beans (almost wrote brains)(Dave, Jon)
-mini corn! (Dave)

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Club Days…

Those who signed their souls over… we need more souls!!

MON
8-9 (set up) Gillian and Dave (dave just first half hour)
9-10 Kira
10-11 Kristi
11-12
12-1
1-2
2-3 Dave
3-4 Dave
4-5 (take down) Lina

TUES
8-9 Gill and Izzy (for first half hour)
9-10 Jonny
10-11 Stephanie
11-12 Megan
12-1 Denver
1-2 Liane
2-3 Janet
3-4 Kira
4-5 Zoe

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CSA Free Films

“BULLSHIT” – Tuesday Jan 16, 6pm, Mackinnon 115

Her opponents call her “The Green Killer”. They gave her “The BullshitAward” for sustaining poverty. TIME says she is a hero of our times, an icon for youngsters all over the world. The film is about Vandana Shiva, UofG graduate as well as Indian environmental activist and nuclear physicist, who was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. It’s a film on globalisation and patenting, on genetic engineering, bio-piracy, indigenous knowledge.

“THE FIGHT FOR TRUE FARMING” – Wednesday Jan 17, 6pm, Mackinnon 117

In this documentary, crop and animal farmers in Quebec, the Canadian West, the US Northeast and France offer solutions to the social and environmental scourges of factory farming. Driven by the forces of globalization, rampant agribusiness is harming the environmemt and threatening the survival of farms. The proliferation of GMO crops is a further threat to biodiversity as well as to farmers’ autonomy. In Europe as well as North America, a current of resistance bringing together farmers and consumers insists that it is possible–indeed imperative–to grow food differently. *The Fight for True Farming* is a film of grim lucidity but also irrepressible hope.

“WE FEED THE WORLD” – Thursday January 18, 6pm, Mackinnon 115

*WE FEED THE WORLD* is a film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow-a film about scarcity amid plenty. With its unforgettable images, the film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us.

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Join an Otesha Cycling and Presenting Tour and Change your World!

Looking for an opportunity to live sustainably in a mobile community, volunteer, explore Canada, gain leadership skills, public speaking skills, and make a real difference in the world ? All from the seat of your bicycle? Are you between 18 and 30? Read on!

Applications are now being accepted for the Otesha Project’s 2007 cycling and presenting tours. This coming spring, summer and fall, over 80 young cyclists (15-20 per tour) will transform Canada, delivering inspiring and information-packed theatrical presentations to schools, camps and communities, challenging audiences and themselves to improve their environmental and social impacts.

The Otesha Project (www.otesha.ca) uses theatre to mobilize young people to create local and global change through their daily consumer choices. Since 2003, Otesha has run five cycling and presenting tours, and this year we’re running 5 more two-month tours!

“I know this experience will have a lasting and deep effect on my life when I go back home. I will take further action in my life to live more sustainably and I will be empowered to continue making a positive impact on the world. This is only the tip of the iceberg, only the first few steps in a lifelong journey. This is only the beginning..” – Alicia, 2005 Tour Member

“I am currently in my 5th year of post-secondary education, but I believe that I learned more in my two months with this team than I have through all my years of formal schooling” – Brook, 2003 Tour Member

Tour members receive training and valuable experience in public speaking, facilitation, theatre, bike touring, bike maintenance, group living, media relations, consensus decision-making, sustainable living, and becoming vehicles of positive change. This is your opportunity to spend two months with a close-knit group of inspiring change-makers!