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AEA General Meeting: Minutes ~ 19 April 2022

Madx Cole - Wednesday, April 20, 2022
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こんにちは, Alternative Energetics!


Our biggest event of the year, EARTH DAY, is THIS FRIDAY, April 22, 2022, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm in front of the Student Union!

We will have a bunch of activities, tables, education, food, prizes, plants, and cool people. 😎

If you are cool, FILL OUT THIS FORM TO VOLUNTEER! We can't do this without volunteers!

We are still collecting cups for planting, and we will also have a give-and-take clothing exchange, so you can bring your old clothes to the event as well!


The following is the minutes from yesterday's meeting:

Katie began by recapping our activities from last week: We had our thrifting field trip, where we snagged some awesome finds (I got a child's shirt that fits perfectly and says "Minion Powered". Absolutely incredible). We also volunteered with Helping Hearts at the Heritage Park Zoological Sanctuary (the zoo across the street). We learned that all of the animals there are rescues who are being rehabilitated for release or cared for if they cannot be released.


EARTH DAY IS THIS FRIDAY 👁️👁️


During Sharing is Caring, Haley (Harris) shared that Lulu Lemon has a clothing exchange program where you can return clothes you don't like, they resell them at a discounted price, and you get credit to buy new clothes! 

I shared that Sprouts has pea milk! We learned at our last meeting that pea milk is the best milk for the earth, water usage, and laborers!


Sustainable Product Plug: Seek !
Seek is my favorite app. It's like Pokémon GO for real life! You can identify plants, animals, and fungi by photo, and you can post your observations to iNaturalist to help with conservation efforts and population studies!

We will also have an activity at Earth Day involving Seek... It would behoove you to download the app and get a hang of it ;3


Ary and Haley (Matthews) gave an overview of their competition presentation entitled "Eagles for Energy". They won first place when they presented their work in a competition! Their study was of residential electricity consumption.

We all know that we should turn off the lights when we leave, but what if we forget?

Ary and Haley encountered a keycard light switch that can simply stick on the wall, and you take the card when you leave. This would be great at Riddle where we need our Eagle Cards for a lot on campus.

Did you know? Wasted electricity contributes about 84 metric tons of CO2 emissions, among other pollutants, every year. The keycard switch works in homes, apartments, dorms (wink), etc. By saving a little bit of energy every day, we lower our utility costs as well as reduce waste!

Thank you Ary and Haley for a poggers presentation!


We concluded the meeting by briefly meeting with small groups to plan for our educational booths, and then we hit the sidewalk with chalk to advertise EARTH DAY!  👁️👁️


Our next meeting is Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at 7:00 pm in Room 60A.

But first, EARTH DAY is THIS FRIDAY, April 22, 2022, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm in front of the Student Union​​​​​!

If you don't participate in our Earth Day event, you are a loser who hates this planet...
-Madx, AEA Secretary 💚

Compost is Cool

Home, Apartment, Dorm, Garden, Community...

There are composting options for all of your living situations! The Garden Team is working with Earhart's to start composting their pre-consumer kitchen scraps, but we are also presenting at Earth Day how to compost wherever you may be!

Be sure to come to Earth Day and get information on how you can start composting and turning your scraps into soil!

[Images are free for commercial use. The subheader photo here is a common earthworm! I used Seek to figure that out !]

Opportunities


Volunteering:
  • Saturday, April 23: Earth Day on the Square
    Slow Food Prescott will have a table with activities:
    • Wildflower seed balls and pea planting in cups.  
    • Explaining Slow Food and signing up people for the newsletter.
    • Can you volunteer to help for a 2-hour shift?
  • Saturday, April 30: Farmer's Market Seed Exchange
    • Come help distribute seeds. Gardening experience preferred.
    • OR you can tell people all about Slow Food and ask them to sign up for your newsletter.
    • Shifts from 9:30-11:30 and 11:30-1:30
  • TO VOLUNTEER FOR ANY OF THESE CONTACT
    Molly Beverly: PrescottAZ@slowfoodusa.org

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