Monday, February 23, 2009

Club's First Meeting

Our first combined meeting with AISES was on February 19, 2009. We had a awesome potluck that attracted interested as well as uninterested students. 

However during the meeting we talked about our mission to be active and educational in our community about decreasing our carbonfoot print. Some ideas in the agenda were:

  • Future projects:
    • Community/school-related
      • A community-wide recycling day
        • Possibly bring trucks from Farmington recycling to haul recyclables
      • Start a student             run recyclable hauling program
        • Have a reliable person take some of the college’s recyclables to Farmington or Cortez recycling facilities
          • Since the college does not have enough funding to send maintenance

      • Possibly adopt a highway
      • Look into alternative and safer products for the school to use such as biodegradable food ware (Styrofoam does not biodegrade and releases ozone-depleting molecules into the air)
        • Have sustainable luncheons to educate?
    • Education
      • Possibly borrow or buy own display case set to show and display information about recycling, reusing, and reducing.
      • Contact Chelsey Chee of the Black Mesa Water Coalition to give a open-community presentation about Navajo Green Jobs
      • Other presentations for community
    • Club projects
      • Work with AISES on a number of fundraisers
Some ideas that came up during the meeting (not on the agenda) were:

  • Earth Day Week, a week's full of presentations and activities that are related to Earth Day in April. 
  • DECO club needs faculty advisors

How to Use this Website




As you can see the blog consists of two vertical rectangles. The rectangle on the left (lighter green) is dedicated to stories/posts/updates about the club. Whereas the rectangle on the right (darker green) has a history of blog posts, links to environmental issues on/off the Navajo Nation, food for thought (articles) links, and helpful ecological information website links.





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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Dine Ecology Club (DECO) is born.

(DECO's current officers (from left to right): Rita W., Roberta H., Dez D., and Bobby J.)

Currently the DECO club has combined with the local AISES chapter at the Shiprock campus. For now we are having combined meetings as well as fundraisers.