Attendees: Steve Mital, Chuck Kalnbach, Evan Kleiman,
Jesse Hough, Lynn Giordano,
Jim Blick, Art Farley,
Leslie Hinkle, Paula Staight, William Cresko, Christine Thompson,
Kay Coots
Sustainability Director,
Steve Mital, chaired the meeting.
Chair Election
Steve asked for committee
chair nominations. Jim Blick nominated
Chuck Kalnbach, and it was seconded. The
vote to elect Chuck was unanimous. He
will begin his term immediately following this meeting.
Climate Commitment and GHG Study
Copies of the American
College & University President’s Climate Commitment were distributed. In support of this climate challenge, Frances
Dyke has asked Steve to develop an action plan that would help the university
significantly reduce green house emissions.
She would like the EIC to provide assistance, feedback, and review the
plan so that a set of policies would be ready to send to her office by the end
of the academic year.
A portion of the OUS Green
House Gas emission report conducted by Good Company, an independent research
group, was distributed. Specifically,
pages 59 through 64, provides a snapshot of UO’s emissions status. Steve will e-mail the full report to the
committee.
Part of Steve’s job is to
provide staffing support to the EIC in terms of research and/or arranging for
experts to meet with the committee.
EIC List Serve, 2006-07 Annual Report, & Revised
Charge
The committee discussed
approving changes to the list serve, and it was agreed that only current EIC
members would be on the list. Jim
suggested creating a second list serve for non-committee members or to add them
to the environmental coordinators list. The
committee asked Steve to forward these e-mails to Karyn Kaplan.
There was concern about
the status of recommendations submitted in the annual report. Steve will relay this question to Frances
Dyke and request feedback.
Changes were made to the
charge at the conclusion of last year.
New committee members expressed a desire to discuss the charge in
greater detail during the next meeting.
The next Environmental Issues Committee meeting will be
held from 11:00 - Noon in the EMU Alsea Room on Wednesday, November 28, 2007.