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Ethical and Environmental Committee (3rd February 2016)

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Name of Committee Ethical and Environmental Committee
Date and time 3rd February 2016, 14:30
Place The Board Room
Present Members
(voting)		 Vice President Welfare Sam Bailey
Energy and Water Coordinator (Ethics & Environment Committee) Daniel Dorey
Ethics and Environment Officer Amy Paraskeva
Recycling Coordinator (Ethics & Environment Committee) Nikol Raykova
Ed Baird
Absent with Apologies Sustainability Action Coordinator (Ethics & Environment Committee) Eleanor Davis
Absent without Apologies BEES Officer (Ethics & Environment Committee) Maxime Jullian
Biodiversity and Conservation Coordinator (Ethics & Environment Committee) Xi Lan

Actions and Decisions

TypeDescriptionWho
Action Dan to create list of the best and worst shopping places. Daniel Dorey
Action Amy to lead on growing food idea. Amy Paraskeva
Action Amy to get in touch with Ugly Animal Society. Amy Paraskeva
Action Tori to give info from Ethical Consumer to Dan. Tori Simkin
Action Amy to put up ideas for Change Your World Week on the Facebook Group asking for help and other ideas. Amy Paraskeva
Action Amy to get suggestions of films that they could show. Amy Paraskeva
Action Tori to email round the Change Your World event forms. Tori Simkin
1. Attendance and apologies

Amy welcomed everyone to the meeting. Apologies were recieved from Elle.

2. Minutes from the previous meeting

The minutes of the previous meeting were approved.

3. Updates on action points from the previous meeting

 MSC fish – to be incorporated into a wider sustainability policy.

4. Updates from Committee members

Nikol reported that she had met with Carolyn, who wants to get more students involved in Waste Wars and is also looking at contamination and food bins in halls.

Dan reported that he had attended the meeting about the Master Plan of building 42, which was interesting, but not much to act upon and feedback on.

5. Discussion

Swap Shop 2.0 – happening on 11th March during Change Your World Week which will be held in the Cube so there will hopefully be a bigger turnout. The Committee discussed having more of a message behind the event. Tori suggested drawing inspiration from her book on sustainable shopping.

Swap Shop in Winchester – waiting to hear back from staff at Winchester. Sam said that if it was to go ahead, physical marketing would probably be better to market the event.

Pop-up Swap Shop – Environmental Rock were interested in doing a swap shop for their event in May. Tori suggested a possible collaboration with other organisations that do similar events.

Change Your World - the Committee discussed several ideas:

  • A booklet on healthy eating on a budget.
  • Special deals and promotion of fair-trade products. Sam suggested easy recipes made from ethical products.
  • Growing food idea, possibly using spare equipment and soil from an event over summer. The Committee decided that this would be done on Wednesday 9th March, from 11:00-14:00.
  • Crunchy Critters idea, with a stand with information to support the activity. The Committee decided to have this on Monday 7th March from 11:00 – 15:00 and that Dan would lead on the project.
  • Something visual to show how much food is wasted.
  • A leaflet on how to be a sustainable student.
  • Sustainability and your degree idea.
  • Show a series of films related to sustainability.
Action Dan to create list of the best and worst shopping places. (Daniel Dorey)
Action Amy to lead on growing food idea. (Amy Paraskeva)
Action Amy to get in touch with Ugly Animal Society. (Amy Paraskeva)
Action Tori to give info from Ethical Consumer to Dan. (Tori Simkin)
Action Amy to put up ideas for Change Your World Week on the Facebook Group asking for help and other ideas. (Amy Paraskeva)
Action Amy to get suggestions of films that they could show. (Amy Paraskeva)
Action Tori to email round the Change Your World event forms. (Tori Simkin)
6. AOB
7. Date of the next meeting

The Committee agreed that it would be a good idea to organise a planning meeting before Change Your World week and that in future to post in the Facebook group to remind members of a meeting.

Key: P (Papers Provided), PF (Papers to Follow)