Greenfire's Carnafall!

will be November 12th!!

stay posted for more information!

Thrift Store- we need people to man the booth in the campus center on the 3^rd floor on Friday the 12^th, Saturday the 13^th. If you can help, e-mail greenfire@lawrence.edu. If you have any ideas for names for the thrift store, e-mail us.

Here’s the tabling schedule so far…

Thursday 11th:

10 - 12 Brenna, Sophie, Jami Lin,

12 - 2 Chelsea, Henry S., Jami Lin,

2 - 3:30 Chelsea, Cori, Jeff,

Oren's coming at the end to help close and deal with $

Friday 12th:

10:30 - 12:30 Ana K, Mia, Lydia,

12:30 - 2:00 Sophie, Adam C., Holly,

2: 00 - 3:30 Chelsea (only til 3), Sophie, Ellie, Dain (til 3), Patrick 3-3:30

Saturday 13th:

10:30 - 12:30 Brenna, ______, _____

12:30 - 2:00 Bryn, Emily B., Nate,

2: 00 - 3:30 Cori, India, Adam C., Sophie (to close)

Alternative Giving Fair- Nov. 7^th (Sunday.)

Our cause is----

Equippig Tribal Families with Solar Energy (Environmental Sustainability)

Here’s who’s working:

Lydia set up @ 9:45

Jaimie 10-12

Ellie 11-12

Abby & Jeff 12-2

Chelsey 2-5

If you’re interested in working, e-mail us!

FLOW- we bought the film rights. Nov. 13^th Saturday at 4-5:30. We need to advertise.

No Waste Week- check out Adam's attachment to learn more and to see who's working! WE NEED HELP, so e-mail greenfire@lawrence.edu if you're interested!

Dorm Reps- We want to have informal Greenfire representatives for each dorm. They would be “environmental RLA’s.” Dutie’s include:

Hanging up “Little Something Greens”

Help with the recycling process

Lights- Turn of lights when appropriate.

Report problems about heat, rather than opening windows to cool down dorms in the winter.

Drying racks for laundy rooms

Push shorter showers and letting the yellow mellow.

Encourage people to unplug stuff.

Any other ideas for tasks? Let us know!

If you’re interested in being a dorm RLA, you should let us know!

We need 2 people to do Sage & 1 for Big & Small Exec. Plus…another person for each of the dorms, except Colman.

By the way….

greenfire@lawrence.edu

Minutes October 7th, 2010

Some Minutes.

10/10/10-Sunday in the garden. 10-2. Come volunteer. We’ll take a picture for 350.

You don’t have to stay the whole time.

Thrift Store-sell old clothes and stuff & donate $ to SEGA.

We should have a kick-off. We should have donations in the campus center.

Mon. 9:30 meeting about the thrift store.

ERC-sustainability survey. What is important to you? If you have questions you think should go on the survey, e-mail them to greenfire@lawrence.edu

FLOW- November 11^th, 9:30 we are showing FLOW!!

Check it out: http://www.flowthefilm.com

Looking into installing LED lights in the Greenfire house, more of the same on campus. Also, a windmill at Bjork- yes please.

Harmony Oct. 27 Match Lawrence University Groups to their community equivalents. A way of bridging the gap between campus and community. Set up like speed dating. Time to meet your match ;)

They need to know by next week how many reps are there.

Let’s have a fall day – pumpkin carving, leaf pile jumping, sweater wearing, hot cider drinking! How about the 16^th at 2:00pm? Sounds good. At the Greenfire backyard.

If you want to make a team for the Fox Valley Spelling Bee with Marika, e-mail her @ marika.c.straw@lawrence.edu

Xoxoxo

You know you love me.

Love,

Ellie & Abby

Welcome (back) to Lawrence!

Hello new students and returning students! Greenfire is gearing up for another year of successful events. Please feel free to join us at our first meeting on Thursday, September 23, at 8:30pm in the Greenfire house. If you're not sure where it's located, just head on over to our website for more information:

www.lawrence.edu/sorg/greenfire

Or just check out the map below. We hope you've all had excellent summers -- See you soon!

Meeting Updates and the CPC

-Greenfire has created 3 main goals/groups for this term: the Clean Plate Challenge, Little Something Greens, and Recycling

1. CPC is THIS WEEK. Scraping in front of the dish area during the entire dinner shift Mon-Sunday. Tabling on Mon and Tue. See the last email for shifts or to sign up. The dining hall wants to weigh waste 1 day of the week for the rest of the year to moniter food waste. (AKA to see it decrease!)

2. Little Something Greens: Many new ones are made and laminated. Stop by the living room and pick some up to post around campus. We are always making more!

3. Recycle News: LU is single stream. Work on signs for above all recycling bins on campus (ie. do's and don't's). Continue to recycle CFLs, ink cartridges, batteries, chargers, used electronics, etc. and the Funding Factory. Recycle MANIA is Jan 17th to March 27th.

-Each meeting will have a fun activity or goal for members

-Students can create green articles and short educational movies on how to be a Green Lawrentian.

-Environmental movies on Wed nights in Feb. (in Appleton Post!!)

-MOSES Conference- Feb 25-27

-Campus center-A big THANK YOU to the campus center/Grill/Cafe/etc! We should do something! Remember to BYOMug and new non-disposable dishes are in). Get morerecycling bins in the building.

-LU students get a 10% discount at Just Act Natural Store.....Stop in!

-Feel free too bring interesting news or updates to meetings!

-Stop by the house to pick up POSTERS and LSGs to hang around campus!!

-Meeting: Thursday night at 9:00pm in the Sabin/Greenfire house.

Winter Term 2010

Welcome back to campus!

The blog has been on hiatus for a while, but we're back! You can check here for meeting minutes, updates, and anything else Greenfire related. Feel free to comment and share your ideas!

If you have any questions or comments, you can contact us at greenfire@lawrence.edu

Here are a few handy links:

the Greenfire website

Greenfire on Facebook

The Lawrence Home Page