Meeting Minutes: Monday, July 6, 2009 at 6:00 PM

Hi Green Coalition Folks,

Out next meeting is on Monday August 3rd upstairs in room D. in the main Public Library on Monroe Street at 6:30. Thanks Anna, for getting us this room!!

I am sorry it has taken me all month to get these notes out, but better late than never.

Our last meeting was in room A&B on July 6th at the main library.

We discussed Green U at the Huntsville Botanical Gardens on Sept. 26th. Green U is a day that will promote green activities, events, booths by various groups, business concern going green, vendors and the like. We were asked to be a part of this event several months ago. Our main focus will be on recycling. We will be demonstrating what is found in people's garbage, by using simulating bags of trash as examples. Dixie Bray of the Huntsville Solid Waste Disposal will let us share a display with a glorified recycling bin, handouts and other things we can use for a booth.
We should have a

• compost display
• an activity for children
• tee shirts to sell
• a free give away
• rain barrel display
  

We need more people to sign up for this day's event. So far, Angela and Lynn will be setting up 8:30 to 11. Sandy and Margrit will man booth for two or so hours. Paul will help set up and man booth, Doug will help when he can and also tear booth down. Allison said she could also help. We need to have at least four more folks to step forward and help at this very visible event.

It was decided, we need to form a recycling committee to become experts on all questions about recycling to be an additional resource for the community.

It was brought up that the Monday night music in Big Springs Park did not provide recycling bins. Sandy, Margrit, Anna, Doug and myself went to the event the following Monday and were pleasantly surprised to see recycling bins out beside the trash cans. Someone does need to do oversight to make sure the city will provide the same coverage during Big Spring Jam.

We learned we could hand out fliers without a permit.

It was discussed that some of us were getting too many emails from Green Coalition. I am still unsure how to use the blog page. I will be discussing this with Cathy soon.

It was brought up that we could have a rain barrel display on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Coalition-for-a-Green-Huntsville-and-Madison-County/84956101835?ref=ts

Treasury report: There is a positive amount in the account.

It was discussed to bring in Unity Church as a new member

Our Articles of Incorporation papers have been filed at the courthouse and the Sec. of State

We still have work to do about getting our 501c3 status

Oct. 24th is a grassroots day of awareness to reduce our carbon footprint. We can choose to take part in this with the national event www.350.org or as individuals.

Please try to attend our next meeting. Our name is getting around as an important networking organization. We are making a difference in our community.

Thank you for your support. best regards, Lynn

Meeting: Monday, August 3, 2009 at 6:30 PM

Main Public Library on Monroe St. upstairs in room D on the 2nd floor

Agenda:
The main point of discussion a will be around Green U on Sat. Sept. 26th at the Botanical Gardens. We have had good response for folks signing up for booth duty but we need at least 3 to 4 more volunteers. This meeting should get into the nuts and bolts of what our demonstrations are going to be and how the booth will look. I will not be able to attend because of a prior commitment. I will be in contact with our Green U volunteers next week. Talk to you all soo

Note: Meetings are every first Monday of the month.

Event: Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium - Sunday, July 5, 1:30-4:30

Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium
Sunday July 5, 1:30 pm --4:30 pm
Unity Church on the Mountain,
1328 Governor's Drive SE, Huntsville.

The purpose of the Awaken the Dreamer, Change the Dream Symposium is to explore an emerging world vision built on sustainability, spiritual fulfillment and social justice. Through dynamic group interaction, leading edge information presented in a multimedia format, participants will explore the state of our industrial world and the thinking that got us where we are today and critical concerns of our times, new ideas of what really matters, greater realization of our deep connections, the new global paradigm that is emerging to reclaim our planet’s future, how each of us is part of it, and the synthesis of surprising new answers empowering individuals to make a global difference through actions in one’s own back yard.

Awaken the Dreamer, Change the Dream Symposium was designed through the collaboration of some of the finest scientific, indigenous, and activist minds in the world in partnership with The Pachamama Alliance. Among the leaders who have come together and given this symposium, which began in 2005, in dozens of countries are South African cleric and activist, Desmond Tutu, Budhist monk and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hahn, environmental activists Paul Hawken, Julia Butterfly Hill,social justice advocate, Van Jones, author, cosmologist and educator, Brain Swimme, artist, environmental and social activist, Majora Carter, Achauz leader Domingo Paez and others. This collaboration explores our plante’s biggest challenges and opportunities from a new perspective and connects the participants with a powerful global movement to reclaim the planet’s future. This symposium is meant to shake up, inspire and move participants to action in accelerating an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet.

Event: The big green bus visits UAH campus June 30, 2009

A group of Dartmouth students is touring the country in a bus powered by vegetable oil
spreading the word about climate change awareness and action.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009: 1pm Event at the University of Alabama campus.

Wednesday, June 31st, 2009: Depart for Memphis, TN.

Please spread the message.

http://www.thebiggreenbus.org/

Event: Household Hazardous Waste Collection - Huntsveille/Madison Co - July 4, 2009

Household Hazardous Waste Collection (free)

Solid Waste Disposal Authority of Huntsville/Madison County
4100 Leeman Ferry Road, Huntsville, just south of the Leeman Ferry and Johnson Road intersection

Saturday, July 4 (8 am to noon)

http://www.swdahsv.org/household.html

Event: Saturday, June 20th @5:00 First Annual Green Coalition Potluck at the Yurtgarden

Your invited to the first Annual Green Coalition Potluck at the Yurtgarden.

Come around 5:00 and stay until....

Directions to the Yurtgarden.

From Governor's Drive. Go over Monte Sano mountain, the road turns into Hwy 431. Make a left at the Exxon Station at the corner of 431 and Old 431 at the Hampton Cove sign. Stay on Old 431 pass Hampton Cove on the left. Get far right lane at ball field, and continue on Old 431 approximately 2 miles. Make a left on Cherry Tree Rd. Stay on Cherry Tree 2 or so miles, left on Horse Cove, stay on Horse Cove, it turns into Shooting Star. See the sign for the Yurt garden pointing down a gravel driveway on the left. The next house on the right is 307. If you pass it, turn around and go back to the first driveway on the right. Follow it around the garden, and the barn and park beside the barn.

You can also go over the Cecil Ashburn road which brings you through the intersection of 431, staying straight on it, as it turns into Old 431 at the Publix Shopping center

You can travel Hwy 72 from town. Head towards Gurley, pass the High School on the left. See the Mc Mullen Cove sign, take the next right on Rock Cut road. Make a right on Little Cove, go down until you see Mc Mullen, left on Mc Mullen stay on it until it comes out on Cherry Tree. Left on Cherry Tree, left on Horse Cove.

If anyone has any questions e-mail me at lynnaleach@gmail.com. Can't wait to see everyone on Sat. June 20 at 5. Bring your favorite food to share and the beverage of your choice.

Meeting: Monday, July 6, 2009 at 6:00 PM

Main Public Library in the Community Rooms A and B at 6:00

Agenda:

We have been asked to partcipate at Green U, Botanical Garden, September 26.
They would like us to have an interactive booth on solid waste and recycling. It is an excellent opportunity for us to increase public education on these issues. Attendance should be large and composed of people interested in the environment.

At our meeting we will brainstorm possibilities for the booth.


Note: Meetings are every third Monday of the month.