We are not alone!

As we all know. There are student organizations popping up all around the country at many different schools. Ted has networked with another Student Organization, Enviro Club, that is quite active at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Ted plans to stay in contact with them to share ideas, information, success stories and bureaucratic hang-ups. Please support our friends in Florida by checking out their website at:

http://fauenviroclub.wikispaces.com/

Message from the PRESIDENT!

I hope you all had a great break! Here's all the initiatives we talked about at the meeting for the fair. Our next meeting on this Tuesday (3/25) at 11:00 AM so we should all get ideas together and assign tasks. We DEFINITELY need advertising. I will send emails out to all of the students and some SOSA design majors to see about making some posters, flyers, etc., and we should be able to get something on the monitors in Kanbar. 

We can send out school-wide e-mails to inform the entire student body about what we are doing, even if you are looking for more volunteers. Contact me if you are interested in a universal e-mail. 

 

The initiatives the LEADERSHIP has decided have our group sponsor inslude:

ORGANIC vs. NON-ORGANIC FOOD Taste Test- The thought will be mostly fruits, vegetables, simple snack recipes and small portions of meals. Viktoria will contact Weaver's Way, Whole Foods, and Dr. B for info on how to get this event sponsored or if they can at least donate or discount the food.

LIGHT BULBS- The concept is that a lemonade style stand would have a visual demonstration of the efficiency of incandescent bulbs against energy-efficient ones. Ted has a contact at IKEA so he's going to check out possible donations or discounts.

RECYCLING INSTALLATION- Don suggested that an installation made entirely of PhilaU waste would be a profound way to impress upon students the volume of waste they generate in a week. Don needs to seek the permission of physical plant and we'll send out feelers to find arch and design students who would like to help. We should be fine with the people in SOSA but we might as well extend the option to everyone.

TRAYLESS-(Jamie)- When the Leadership Team met, we decided to put the trays in the center of the dining hall on a table and take them away for 1 day a week. The plan, as it stands it to have the trays on the table for 2 weeks and then take them away for 1 day during the last 2 weeks (depending on feedback). I will to contact dining services & set up a meeting for next week. Advertising will be key in the success of this initiative. Students will need to know what exactly is happening to their trays and why. This link will lead you to an article that describes the model by which we should implement this experiment. http://media.www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2008/03/06/News/Trayless.Experiment.Successful-3256052.shtml

FUNDRAISERS

Staple-less Stapler Sale - Follow up with Elise Berrocoal

Late Night Bake Sale for Design Students in A&D and Smith House and Ravenhill Studios for Reading and Studying Session.

Night at Buckets (or somewhere else)?? ---My friend who did it for design said we just have to talk to Buckets (or wherever) and it's $20 to get in and I think open bar for a few hours and we'll get $5 from that. We would just need to advertise A LOT and it might be hard to do this semester bc there are senior grad nights and things like that going on at bars.

Another idea

I was trying to show how sustainbality is all about cycles...the way life is all inner-connected.

SOSA Logo Design???

Here are some ideas for a SOSA logo that I have come up with over the past couple weeks. Feedback of any kind would be very much appreciated. The logo will be a topic of brief discussion at the meeting on the 24th. 

SOSA LEADERSHIP IS ELECTED!

Here are the final results of the vote that took place last week. 

President: Jamie Merlino

Vice President: Ted Layton 

Sec. of Programs and Events: Kevin Byrne 

Sec. of Sustainable Options: Kyle Gronostajski

Sec. of Committees: Viktoria Unger 

Treasurer: Calla Massman

Sec. of Recruitment: Elizabeth Cozzi

Thank you for all who ran for their officer positions and all who came out to make the election process such a success. The high level of participation will continue to have a great effect!

We are now accepting nominations for leadership positions for the group. Please forward your nominations to Jamie Merlino by Monday. 

Hope to see you all there Thursday! 

Just A REMNDER, feel free to  post your nominations on here too, to let other group members know what you think.

Welcome to SOSA Talk!

Hello SOSA members and all interested parties, 

Allow me to formally welcome you to our official blog, SOSA Talk. Please feel free to use this web space to share your thoughts, ideas and contributions to the group and make suggestions and plan events with other members. If you have any questions or comments that you would not like to include in the blog, but you feel are important, you can forward them to me in an e-mail to layton2@philau.edu. 

Thank you so much for all of your interest and time thus far. I look forward to reviewing your posts and I am excited to see what we can do!