Hi All!

Here is a lecture series going on at BU that you should really try to get to this semester! Space is limited, so be sure to RSVP at pardee@bu.edu:

more information can be found at:

http://www.bu.edu/pardee/research/sawyer-energy-transitions/

http://www.bu.edu/pardee/news-events/

http://twitter.com/BUPardeeCenter/

World Challenge- Please Vote!!

So this company is competing in the BBC's World Challenge and if they win they will get a lot of money to further the project. They construct buildings (mainly homes and schools) out of recylable materials! If you want to learn more about the company their website is: www.longwayhomeinc.org/en/index.

Please Vote here: www.theworldchallenge.co.uk/2010-finalists-project06.php

You can look around at the other finalists, but this company will do the most good with the money and is the most relevant to ESO!

Hope you all have a great long weekend!

-Alex

Meeting Minutes

Hi all!

Unfortunalty, I tried to upload meeting minutes via video (as promised!) but I'm having some technical difficulties, so hopefully for next time!

Here are the happenings of yesterday's meeting:

Up-coming events:

On Sunday, 10/10/10, there will be an open house for a Green house (meaning a zero emission house) in Jamaica Plain. The event includes tours of the house/garden, food, music and you can even help out with the garden if you like!

Another BU green group (leadership campaign/SJSF) are leaving as a group at around 1:30 (most likely in front of Warren) to take the T out there.

here is the website for more info:

http://www.350.org/en/node/16674

if you are interested please email Samantha (Sam) Akiha at snakiha@gmail.com

At the meeting:

Sorry to say that the greeroof is not a plausible option for our group. After talking to a green architect at Sustainability@BU who is currently pushing for a greenroof on 100 Bay State Rd. the administration is not going to retrofit any green roofing and is focusing on other avenues (light sensors, white roofs etc).

Instead we had a discussion about moving forward with out Think Outside the Bottle Campaign, but we will be taking it in a new direction! We brainstormed ways to educate the student body and work up to a greater event/week with out plastic. Next time we will start outlining specifics of the campaign and begin working on it!

Also, be sure to do class raps for the Cutler Cleveland talk if you signed up! Also we will be doing some chalking in classrooms for the event, email Becky at rlmorgan@bu.edu if you are interested.

FINALLY - put up the event picture as your facebook profile picture for more publicity! (it's the one with the BP logo on a previous post)

'till next time!

Hannah, ESO e-board

You Down With TOTB?

What's that, you say?

Think Outside the Bottle (TOTB) is a nation-wide campaign started by Corporate Accountability International, the same people fighting for healthier lunches in our public schools and challenging big tobacco companies. The goal of the campaign is to spread awareness about the environmental impacts of supporting bottled water companies and advocate for improved public water supply systems here and around the globe.

As BU students, ESO adopted the campaign on campus in the Spring of 2010 with the goal of reaching out to the BU community and joining the cause to stop the purchase and sale of bottled water here on campus. So far, we've distributed free "BU Taps That" water bottles and have participated in awareness festivals on campus.

What's going on this semester?

We are increasing our presence on campus by hosting water taste tests in the GSU every Thursday, performing water fountain audits in the major buildings, surveying students on their knowledge of bottled water, and communicating with faculty and administrators about the future of bottled water contracts on campus.

How can I get involved?

Visit http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/students-think-outside-bottle to learn more about the campaign. If you're interested in getting involved or simply have a few good suggestions, e-mail us at environmentalstudentorg@gmail.com.

As always, ESO meetings are every Thursday at 7pm in CAS 442.

GSU Tabling Information

Hi everyone,

Here are a few links that I promised to send out.  I strongly suggest taking an hour and watching the documentary and reading the article.  This information will help you speak to people when you table on Thursdays.  We will provide you with some materials to show people and we will also have our advertisements to give out for the Cleveland lecture.

Thank you all for your help!

http://www.documentarywire.com/flow-for-the-love-of-water/

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Health/story?id=728070&page=1

Deep Waters: Inside the BP Oil Spill with Professor Cutler Cleveland

October 14^th at 6pm, the Environmental Student Organization will be hosting an informal lecture by Professor Cutler Cleveland, founder of the online Encyclopedia of the Earth and leading expert on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. He’ll discuss the ins and outs of the largest oil spill in history –what went wrong, how the government and private business fell short of preventing the disaster, and what we can learn from its destruction. There will also be free food and complimentary coffee if you bring your own mug.


PHO 205 is located in 8 Saint Mary's Street, Boston MA.

RSVP for the event on Facebook here.

Meeting Minutes

Hey guys! Here are the going-ons of our last meeting:

Upcoming events:

There is the Boston Local Food Fest on Saturday, October 2nd at the boston harbor. SMG's undergrad chapter of Net Impact will be meeting at 11:30 am in front of SMG and going over as a group - feel free to join them! The festival will have free food, beer tasting, and local food groups.

On Monday, October 4th in the GSU alley @ 5:30 pm there will be a pot luck with all the green groups on campus! Bring something yummy and your own plates and utensils!

During the Meeting:

-The Cutler Cleveland talk: We've continued with our advertising campaign - we passed around a sign up sheet for people to talk in their ecology related classes. We also passed around sign up sheets for tabling at the GSU next Thursday from 1 to 4 (tabling would be for both our bottled-water campaign and the Prof. Cleveland talk). If you want to get involved in either and did not sign up send us an email! Also, we made some paper cranes at the end of the meeting.

- The Green Roof: We are pushing forward with the green roof! Be sure to come back with facts about precedents/current construction of green roofs in boston/other universities. Also, if there are any faculty members who would be interested in supporting us, try to get in contact with them this week.

Have a good weekend!