COME CELEBRATE THE EARTH

MONDAY, April 19:

- Distribution of the “Free Bikes”: Time: Noon Place: Meet at the ADK experience house (Broad St. )

- Public Discussion, “Bush & the Environment”: Time: 7 pm Place: Shelter from the Storm (Clinton St. ) 

TUESDAY, April 20:

- Movie Showing: Koyaanisquatsi + Columbians Speak Out about Violence & U.S. Policy  Time: 7-10 pm Place: Yokum 202 

WEDNESDAY, April 21:

- Saranac River Cleanup  Time: Noon Place: Meet outside main entrance of ACC

- Lecture Panel addressing Renewable Energy: with Dr. Kate Joyce, Dr. Fritz Kissner, Dr. Gary Kroll

Time: 7:30 pm Place: Hawkins, 153 b 

THURSDAY, Earth Day, April 22: Hybrid & Electric Cars on campus all day…(outside the ACC )

- TREE Planting: Time: 9 am Place: Meet underneath the “Big Head” sculpture next to Beaumont

- Drum Circle with unveiling of the new Compost Bins … … bring drums!!

Time: 12:15  Place: Underneath the “Big Head” sculpture next to Beaumont

- Jeff Cochran presents: “Walking with the earth”

Time: 7 pm  Place: Amnesty Room upstairs in the ACC

FRIDAY, April 23: Festival Set Up. Volunteers Wanted. (Call 562-3169 OR meet down at the McDonough Monument @ 1pm)

SATURDAY, April 24: - City Cleanup Time: 9 am Place: Meet on the steps of city hall downtown 

EARTH WEEK FESTIVAL on the banks of the Saranac.

12-8 pm @ McDonough Monument (Across from City hall in Downtown Plattsburgh)

4/8/04
Volunteers were confirmed to meet our guest speaker: Nicaraguan Fair Trade Coffee Farmer, Cesar Zeledon at the train station 3p.m. on April 15 and to bring him to meet his host. We will also be having a potluck following at 4p.m. at Kim's house to celebrate his coming here to speak for us. He will be speaking at 7pm, at Krinovitz Auditorium in Hawkins Hall.  Mr. Zeledon will talk about the situation of coffee farmers in the global economy and the benefits of Fair Trade. Mr. Zeledón is a coffee producer and co-op leader with experience speaking on coffee production, Fair Trade, the world market, organic farming, and related issues.  Fair Trade Coffee will be provided! Bring your mugs!  At 2p.m. Friday we will be having yet another round of bike maintenance at the ADK building.  Saturday April 17th 7-11 p.m. singer/songwritere Eddy Lawrence will be performing at the North Country Co-op
25 Bridge St.  Open stage 9-10 p.m.  Please bring a donation of $2,4,6, or 8 dollars to show your appreciation.  Coffee, tea, and cookies will be provided. A sign up for tabling for next week was passed around.

4/1/04
The Fossil Fools day celebration went extremely well we met at the Angell College Center Amite Plaza at noon and painted bikes for our community bike program as Harold, James, and Ian spoke about the importance of sustainability & Bush's energy plan at the press conference on Channel 5.  We also passed out info on  sustainability, biodiesel/wind, and  Bush's energy plan along with origami windmills and the Greenpeace newspapers as people  took shots at  the SUV pinata.  

Instead of having a meeting we went as a group to see Celebration Free Jazz at the Coffee Kat to preview them for Earth week and  revelled over the success of our Fossil Fools day celebration.

3/25/04
We went as a group instead of having a meeting to see the movie about the untold secrets of the war in Iraq.     

3/18/04   

Final touches were made  for the Fossil Fools day celebration on April 1st. Tabling volunteers were also confirmed

3/11/04
Fossil fools day planning. 

3/4/04
Fossil fools day and Earth week planning.

2/26/04
Further planning for Earth week.

2/19/04
We are going to be having Nicaraguan Fair Trade Coffee Farmer, Cesar Zeledon speak April 15th at 7pm, at Krinovitz Auditorium in Hawkins Hall. Arrangements for his coming were made.  We also began planning for the rest of earth week.    

2/12/04

We finally voted to have the guest speaker for Earth Week and got the money to do so.  El Pueblo is also going to do a forum on their heritage on the same night or the night after.  We further discussed  the shirts including the company and the rough prices.  We will be leaving campus for the SEAC Northeastern Climate Conference at 1 p.m. to be at Harvard at 7:45 p.m.  Please bring a sleeping bag, since we will be staying in the dorms or other student housing.  The cost for attending is on a sliding scale, hopefully James can get it totally waived in registering us as a group.  Transportation is being covered by college vans and food is going to be provided.  We have decided upon the subcommittees and they are as follows:
*Finance
*Public Relations (P.R.)
*Events
*Recycling
*Gardening
*Fair Trade
*Sustainability Alliance
*Alternative Energy
We have also decided that if members have an intiative that they feel strongly about that they can follow up on it and come to us with a developed plan. 
Ian also approached the group on whether or not we would be interested in recycling batteries on campus. Our theme for Earth Week is going to be Alternative Energy.  The idea of a bike program in which people donate bikes and they will be fixed up with a plaque showing the College's ownership was proposed as an idea for where part of the money will go. Whoever borrows a bike will have to sign a log before and after using the bike for the day.  Maintenance will be done by a student run program perhaps it will be made into a few workstudy jobs.  Another idea for a place for the money to go towards getting alternative modes of energy unto campus such as biodiesel and windmills, etc.  Perhaps we will be better informed as to how to do this after attending the Northeastern Climate Conference.  Three locations have been proposed for the Earth Day benefit concert:
1. The Farmer's  Market
2.  The field near the Naked Turtle
3.  By the monuement again
We will research the details and discuss them further at the next meeting.
Kathy Cantwell is also going to be holding a Lip Balm workshop at 10 a.m. on either Saturday or Sunday for more info call her at 561-6191.
On April 30th Students for Direct Democracy is going to be holding a Bash Bush Bash please come and speak out about Bush! 

2/5/04
We discussed hoodies and shirts.  Jeff Cocrane spoke about the New Land Trust, Project help, getting college credit for working on projects there and holding events there, how he is holding a Traditional Environmental and Medicinal Teachings with taoism and buddism in the mix, and about the Red Hummingbird Foundation.  The North Country Co-Op is having a coffee shop and an open mic night Feb 28th at 7:30.  

1/30/04
At our meeting last night there was sign up for those wanting to go to the next SEAC Northeast Climate Conference at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. For those of you who missed the meeting and would like to go please email the group or go to the next meeting.  We are going to try to get a college van to go down there with. 

We also discussed plans for a speaker during Earth Week and the formation of a subcommittee that will plan all of Earth Week's events including our annual Earth Day Benefit Concert.  In an attempt to find the best way to address the plethora of things that we as group would like to concentrate more on we have opted to form several subgroups of which plans for will be discussed at the next meeting.  If you have any ideas that you think might need to be further addressed by a subcommittee please feel free to bring them to the next meeting.  We also discussed the need for fundraising to be done ahead of time for the Earth Week and to fund composting, more recycling bins and signs for the bins to be placed around campus, and all the other things we have been meaning to do around campus.  We need more ideas besides hoodies and a bake sale.  Please come to the next meeting with ideas for fundraising.