Student Assembly Environmental Committee

Attendance:

Present: Mike, Emma

Excused: Aileen

Minutes

Updates:

• Divestment meeting yesterday
  • With CIO and Chair of Investment Committee
  • Meeting was a great start to open communication, meeting was positive
  • Sustainable investment
  • Ideas from Mike professor: since we are large stakeholders, we can pressure fossil fuel companies to be more sustainable
• Debate about divestment in the future, we should make a showing
• Letters to Skorton Campaign
  • About divestment
  • You can write a letter if you want to!
• Plastic Bag Update
  • Dining is using Paper bags! No plastic bags!
• GRF meeting tomorrow
  • I will let you know�
  • Invite Jacob to the meeting next week
• Invite him for booth at springfest
• Emma — sustainability hub
  • Springfest on Earth Day
• Confirm the booth
• Ag quad

New projects:

• Paper towels
  • Energy use
• Sustainability of paper could be better than hand dryers
  • Majority of germs come off with paper towels?
• Not true, or true?
  • Mike — invite facilities to our meeting (whenever they’re around to talk about possibilities for this initiative)
• Composting
  • Invite composting club to our meeting
  • Decide how we want to do this and take it to food focus team
  • Research
• Emma: UCs dining halls
• Mike: shape thing
• Sarah: cities with composting