Saturday, March 21, 2009

March 19, 2009 Meeting Minutes

So, for our meeting yesterday Thursday, March 19, 2009 we discussed the projects that the club would like to pursue:
  • setting up a formal recycling program for Shiprock's Dine College campus--involves observing the flow of municipal waste that the college creates
  • creating a "pick'n'haul" recycling program to complete the neglected recyclables storing up in campus storage
  • create week-long series of events to focus on environmental awareness week
Sadly our guest speaker from the Navajo Green Jobs Initiative was not able to show...hopefully we will be able to catch them in the future (for our environmental awareness week?)

Also check out the global initiative that is Earth Hour (http://www.earthhour.org/home/). All lights out for ONE HOUR (8:30-9:30) on Saturday, March 28. 

 Thanks for everyone showing up to the meeting to hear what we had to share and consuming some awesome 5 ft. deli sandwich with us :D

Here is also a flyer for the upcoming Dooda Desert Rock event:





Monday, March 16, 2009

Guest Speaker at our Next Meeting!

Next Meeting: Thursday, March 19, 2009
Where: Either in Large Conference Room or in lobby near it
When: 12pm to 1pm
What: BlackMesa Water Coalition's presentation about the Navajo Green Jobs Initiative 
Please Plan to Come there will be food provided on behalf of DECO!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Recycling in Shiprock? Earth Day Week?

Two major projects that we have decided to work on is creating a recycling facility/program and planning for Earth Day Week activities. 

We have received word that maintenance has been throwing away recycles at the school when they used to store the recyclables until someone could take them to the recycling facilities in Farmington or Cortez. So, the DECO officers have decided that creating a program or planning for development of a recycling is one of the first priorities to tackle.
How you can help:
  • research how other recycling programs work (maybe in Farmington or Cortez)
  • where could we locate the program or facility?
  • what should the program recycle?
  • any federal/Navajo Nation policies we should know about?
 We would also like to integrate ourselves into the community by hosting Earth Day activities. Some activities we would like to host are:
  • Environmental terms defined presentation (hopefully at either skool or the chapter house)
  • National Bioblitz participation (24 hour monitoring of a specific area to witness the effects of climate change with other national SEEDS chapter)
  • presentations
  • hang out with kids at skools
  • have any ideas? 
Earth Day Week is from April 16-April 22 ending on April 22, actual Earth Day.

For other projects--we were also thinking of doing some research in Monument Valley in accordance with the uranium phytoremediation site
 Possibly order SEEDS t-shirts for Earth Week

NEXT MEETING: Thursday, March 19, 2009 12 pm- 1 pm (Hopefully in large conference room w/out AISES)

If you have any suggestions, questions, comments please reply to this email address decoclubshiprock@gmail.com or