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Wednesday June 5th, 2013...our final Get REAL Green Group meeting for this year... What
are you most proud of? What do you want to accomplish next year?
Wed. May 8, 2013
Off the Grid Youth Summit and Music Festival Friday May 24th at Royal Roads...
http://www.offthegridfestival.ca/ Heather can take 6 people for the day!
Garden Work Parties on Mondays...
Special Meeting Next Monday... U-Vic/UBC Post
Carbon Youth Tour http://www.postcarbonyouthtour.com/ ... might be good for Action Now members and Green Group Members as well.
Theme for next year: Oceans??... Have you watched Revolution?---
sea salt from it... sustainable food harvest, ACIDITY and Coral Reefs...some field trips, letter writing.... awareness campaign....
other...
Big focus on our garden.... worms... etc....
Year End 100-Mile Potluck at our last meeting
in June out in the courytard??
Wednesday April 10, 2013
- Reynolds Wins BC Green Games for 5th Year in a Row!!
- Compost Workshop a success
- Emily Morin Environmental Award--applications...
- Tree and Bench Memorial for Emily in courtyard
- Chickens
- Raising Worms next?
http://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-farming/raising-earthworms-zmaz73sozraw.aspx#axzz2PMeTaQud
http://www.greengeek.ca/how-to-get-started-with-vermiculture/
http://www.newworldseedcompany.com/articles/makingsalt.htm
- Water collection system in courtyard?...gr. 9/10 Science project...
- Course opportunities Next Year... 4 credit courtyard management... 4 credit salad bar... other?
- Secret Garden Part(ies)
- O.U.R. Ecovillage May 4th
http://ourecovillage.org/events/youth-and-community-convergence-2/
- Creatively United for the Planet Apr. 20-21
http://creativelyunitedfortheplanet.com/
- Off the Grid Music and Art Festival Friday May 24th, 2013
http://www.offthegridfestival.ca/
- FARM Camp July 2-9 2013 Linnaea farm Cortes Island
www.farmcamp.ca
- ECO-FAIR Sat. Apr. 13th...this Saturday!!... report out on details, helpers, set up etc...
Rough Summary
of Monies brought into the school through Get REAL Green Group
· Grants for
Green Spaces project (courtyard garden, stage, school front Gary Oak area benches split rail fence, trees and other plants)…
http://www.greenspacesproject.org/
-$879.68 Victoria Foundation
-$2000.00 Toyota Evergreen
-$3000.00 PAC
-$700 SPARK LifeCycles Grant
-$2,500 TD Friends of the Environment
-$16, 435 Trees for Tomorrow
-$950.00 BC Hydro Community Champions
-$8, 856.50 Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation
-$500.00 ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd.
-$6,000 LADR Landscape Architects
-$3,000 Powell and Associates BC Land Surveyors
Total: $44,821.18
· BC Green Games
http://www.bcgreengames.ca/
-2009 Reynolds Secondary-Zero Waste + Reynolds Secondary Courtyard $2,000
-2010 Reynolds Secondary RECYCLES + Reynolds
Secondary RECLAIMS $2,000
-2011 Reynolds Secondary L.U.N.C.H. Program Vision $1,000
-2012
Reynolds Secondary Chicken Fostering Program + Reynolds Secondary Salad Bar 1st Year $2,000
-2013
Reynolds Secondary Eco Fair Vision $1,000
Total: $8,000
· STAPLES award
for Ipad Lab $24,000
· BC Green Games
Solar Panel Award $26,000
· Recycle Depot
2008 to present on average $5000 per year ~ $30,000 to date
Grand Total Approximately: $133,000
Wednesday March 6th, 2013
- Wednesday March 27th... 2:30-4:30 Compost Workshop in Courtyard for Green Group... at 3:30...others will be part of a
clean up work party
- Saturday May 4th...O.U.R. EcoVillage... 9-5 Special Education Day with workshops and lunch... $40... bring Heather
money and she will register
- Courtyard Garden Planting Planning for April... Set a date
- Chickens Hatch around March 26th
- Haliburton Farm Stand Painting Project
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REYNOLDS IS ENTERED IN THE BC GREEN GAMES AGAIN THIS YEAR…PLEASE VOTE
FOR US TO HELP US WIN $$ FOR OUR SCHOOL –VOTING NEEDS TO BE IN BY END OF MARCH.
~Thank you!!
1. Got to: http://www.bcgreengames.ca/
2. Click on the VOTE NOW Panel
3. If you have registered before go to step 4, if not click on Register …top right corner and fill in details
4. Login using e-mail and password created
5. Choose Gallery and 2013 Entries from top menu
6. Type in Reynolds for School then click on SEARCH button top right
7. Our two projects will show up… please check them out and VOTE for us… when on project
page click VOTE
top right
8. Spread the word (face book, twitter, e-mail,
talking to people) and get others to vote!
- Eco Fair Update:
-Speakers confirmed
-Workshops confirmed
-27 booths confirmed... 40 is how many we had at career fair
-What gift cards/others do we have confirmed?
JOBS
-Making gift tags with home made paper--Fiona
-Making Thank you packages with chocolates--
-Creating Program with Oranization information--Julia
-Set-Up crew for gym coordinator (tables/paper to cover)--
-Making Organization signs for tables--
-Setting up Hallway Entrance with our display, plants, large poster--
-Shifts at door coordinator--
1-1:30, 1:30-2:00 2:00-2:30 2:30-3:00 3:00-3:30 3:30-4:00
-Introduce/Thank Elizabeth May--
-Introduce/Thank Brandy Gallagher--
-Shifts in courtyard with workshops coordinator--
1-1:30, 1:30-2:00 2:00-2:30 2:30-3:00 3:00-3:30 3:30-4:00
-Shifts in gym coordinator--
1-1:30, 1:30-2:00 2:00-2:30 2:30-3:00 3:00-3:30 3:30-4:00
-Clean up Crew Coordinator-
-Flier Delivery sign up for area
March 26, 27, 28
-Other
Wednesday Feb. 6th, 2013
Planning for Eco-Fair..."Where We Live" Sat. April 13th
Finalizing Green Games Entries... take some group photos...
Visit from Judy Fainstein YES BC http://www.yesbc.ca/
Painting Design Project for Haliburton Farms
SEEDY SATURDAY Feb.16th 10am-4pm at Conference Centre
Creatively United for the Planet April 20-21 www.CreativelyUnitedforthePlanet.com
Incubating Chicken eggs again... Hatch for March 27th
Hi Heather - glad I happened across your old email and that you are still in your role at Reynolds and able to connect
by phone!
http://ourecovillage.org/courses-events/education-at-our/
is OUR ECOVILLAGE's new educational programming details. We have been supported by government to become an
extension classroom for public/private schools (from wide and far). With this in mind we now have curriculum for half/full
day tours (with a hands-on learning project if requested), weekend programs, and 3 to 5 day residential immersion programs.
It would be great to host your school still and we can arrange this for any time March 2013 onwards. We also
have the "Youth and Community Convergence" here as a weekend program on May 4/5th, 2013. This is a full weekend of multiple
programs and many schools and youth groups coming together. It has extremely positive feedback from all the teachers
and facilitators who attend the weekend.
Looking forward to talking to you in the new year.....hoping you have a great
holiday in the meantime.
Brandy Gallagher brandy@ourecovillage.org
Wednesday Jan. 9th, 2013
- Eco-Fair poster complete--Check it Out
- Eco-Fair letters, response...e-mail follow-up
- BC Green Games Entries
- Ready, Set, Go Challenge... Transportation one made it to the second round...
- Getting new towers out with signs...
- Other... sharing readings and discussing??
Wednesday Dec. 5th, 2012
Guest: Deb Morse
- Publicist at Elevation PR Corp/ Direct Marketing
- Publicity/Marketing Consultant at YES Media
- Coordinator Organic Islands sustainability Fair
- Company Website
Deb's goal is to "create and inspire social change by celebrating changemakers and
help them tell their stories. There are so many ways to tell a good story and there are so many stories that haven't yet been
told. "
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Aaron's promotional design to share.
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Letters to get out for Eco-Fair "Where We Live"
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CRD campain... how did it go?
#1 We do a good job of recycling at Reynolds...but what about REDUCE 1st?
How do we really get staff and students (beyond one-off campaigns) to stop buying Starbucks coffee
in disposable cups (as an example)? ... or avoid packaging in general... one possible specific challenge could be to help
us form some kind of unique partnership with Starbucks... operate out of school at lunch with reusable mugs, having a deposit
on the mug that you get back when it is returned?
#2 Transportation Challenge...Dr. Andrew Weaver (Climate Scientist from U-Vic) says that here
in Greater Victoria, the single most important change the average person could make to positively impact Climate Change is
to use cars les... how can we address this in a high school as a starting place for the community? How can we positively
effect behavourial change in teachers, parents and senior students who are driving to school? Get our automotive students
to fix up dontated cars to starr a car share program? Hmmm?
* will get answer if our challenge is chosen by Jan. 19th, 2013
BC GREEN GAMES ENTRIES THIS YEAR
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Interview Video for Salad Bar- Michaila (kitchen management), Emma (local, seasonal cooking
creations), Hannah (Courtyard food preservation), everyone (mentoring)
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ECO-FAIR...Power Point of Visioning/Planning Process
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Other??
New Recycle Station Drawers... who can help tape on labels one day after school?
Wednesday Nov. 7, 2012
Guest Presenter:
Kimiko Foster, visiting us on behalf of the Capital Regional District CRD to offer a partnership opportunity with your
schools “Green Team” in our current laundry detergent reduction campaign that is running through October and November. Please
see the link below for more information regarding our Laundry Detergent Reduction Campaign. http://www.crd.bc.ca/wastewater/sourcecontrol/residents/detergentreduction.htmFor the next two months I will be going out to local Laundromats and washing machine distributors to educate residents
about soft water and surfactants. I have 1000 T-shirts with the logo, “Half the suds, Cleans your duds”,
and recipe cards for two do-it-yourself chemical free laundry detergent. To further the effectiveness of this campaign I am
interested in meeting with your schools Green Team to offer them the opportunity to educate their peers. Ideally I would like
to come to the school, meet the team, and educate them about the soft water and some issues around having excess surfactants
in the wastewater. I would give each student a T-shirt if they wanted one. If there was a lot of interest within the group
I am open to leaving a set amount of T-shirts, recipe cards, and information sheets for them to take into the school and educate
their peers. Here is another link to our Clean green cookbook with chemical-free cleaning recipes including the laundry
detergent recipes. http://www.sustainableu.ca/courses/clean-green-101.aspx
Report out:
- Shoreline Clean-up-- Tavii
- Ocean Wise Fish Project Plan-- Fiona
- Sierra Club-- Emma & Aldyn
ECO-FAIR "Where We Live" Planning:
- Facilities are booked with the school district for Sat. April 13, 2013
- Mrs. Charlton has approved and signed all our letters
- Aaron Lutsch is here to take our vision ideas to make up a marketing design to use in media, posters, etc.
- Collecting final list to invite... dividing up to contact... Month of November...
Looking for a Team of 2-4 People to give the Recycle stations a "face lift"... New signs on front...replace towers that
are broken... new signage on wall above... anyone interested?
Now Accepting Challenges
for Ready, Set, Solve
Capital
Region non-profits and institutions are eligible.
Ready, Set, Solve is a fun, applied learning program focused on  getting post-secondary students to help solve small, but real, climate-related challenges that exist in the Capital Region,
starting in January 2013.
Throughout November we are accepting challenges to be included in a pool
for student teams to choose from. All sustainability related challenges are accepted - think energy efficiency, emissions,
waste, water, food, and transportation.
Eligible organizations include community
associations, non-profit societies, charitable societies, schools, universities, colleges and municipalities. If your challenge(s)
is selected, you will have a team of students working on your project starting in late January until late March 2013.
Learn more on our website at: Ready, Set, Solve.
We will be recruiting student teams at the beginning of December.
Attached is the challenge submission form with
a list of FAQs: Application or contact Nikki for a Word version.
Wednesday Oct. 3, 2012
-Eco-Actions...
-Brainstorming Eco-Event
-Courtyard Garden as a course...connection with Glenys and Curtis Purdy...
Great meeting today...thank you to everyone who was able to make it... if you were not there, please
see me if you need to clarify anything
1) Thank you to Kieran from Sierra Club for joining us (Kieran's e-mail
is cc'd here so you all have it if you need to contact him)--Emma and Aldyn will be on the youth steering committee this year...
would be great to have someone else not in gr. 12 too.
2) Tavii-- Shorline Clean-up ... idea to check with Mme Puckett
to do with Sc. 9 class next semester (look at Mechosin Bio-Blitz, or Surf Rider Foundation as resources)
3) Fiona-- Ocean
Wise Fish Idea... booth for "our event", create an information display after researching?, check in with actionNOW group?,
Kieran good resource (sea choice, sacred salmon)
4) Offer to connect to outside programs and opportunities...check out
SLUGS for upcoming workshops... http://slugsyouth.com/ --Heather happy to support you attending
5) "Our Event" Saturday April 13th 11am to 4pm
Plan
so far... Everyone is researching local lists of people we could invite for booths in the gym, keynotes in the theatre, workshops
in the courtyard
Keynote ideas (e.g. Elizabeth May), Non-government organizations (e.g. Sierra Club), Green Businesses
with Sustainable Practices (e.g. City Green), Government agencies and schools (e.g CRD, Camosun), Other (e.g. Madrona Farms,
Swan Lake)... anything connected to the environment and sustainability... and some food companies who could serve local, organic
food...
Bring lists to meeting at lunch Wed. Oct. 17th... so we can decide who will contact whom... Heather will make
a "script" to help with points to bring up when inviting guests to event...
Idea--
11am arrive... food available
from vendors... can go and check out booths in gym--booths will include one for Reynolds Highlighting our main projects and
giving mini "how to" guide for each one
Keynotes.. 1 at 1pm and one at 3pm in the theatre
Workshops between 1-4pm in
the courtyard (composting, canning, mason bees... )--- ask SLUGS to put on...
BIG thing for us will be getting people
here...then orchestrating a quality day..
Proposed Budget:
Thank you gifts $500
Table decorations/signs $100
Advertising
$200
Speaker Gifts $200.00
Workshops $200
*sourced from recycle depot $$
6) Sierra club also offering outings...
connect through outdoor club and Sara Lax--- potential workshop at Reynolds on a Friday after school in April to learn outdoor
camp cooking ideas
7) Sierra club also good connection for actionNOW group
Welcome to Reynolds Get REAL Green Group
Anyone at Reynolds is welcome to attend this group -- leadership students or not....staff too!
This year we will be holding one official meeting each month for sharing information and organization... other planning
meetings will be held by individual groups when required at times determined by the group.
Our monthly meetings will be held on Wednesdays:
Sept. 12
Oct. 3
Nov. 7
Dec. 5
Jan. 9
Feb. 6
Mar. 6
Apr. 10
May 8
June 5
We have many awesome activities to carry on:
- Courtyard Garden
- Recycling
- Salad Bar
- Chicken Fostering Program
- Free Store
- Courtyard Garden Parties
... what do you want to be involved in? What new projects do you want to see happen?
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