CEAP MINUTES

May 7, 2009

 

Attendees:

Jeb Eddy

Lisa Altieri

Robin Dugy (College Park Neighborhood)

Ben Hammett

Sharon Keating-Beauregard (new Liaison for nonprofits)

Lauren Swezey

Bret Andersen

Mark Sabin

Carroll Harrington

Beth Colehower (Carroll’s daughter)

Kris Hanson

Walt Hays

 

A. Public Comment and Announcements.

1. Carroll:

            a. The Chamber is sponsoring a program on 6/4 entitled “Greening Your Bottom Line.”  She will email an announcement.

 

            b. Beth has organized a “Red Meets Green Community Day” at Stevenson House on June 6 from 11-2. Among other things, it features cooperation between segments. Carroll will also send an announcement of this.

 

            c. She passed out copies of her magnificent display about CEAP, which will be up in the lobby at City Hall through May.  Subject to funding, she also intends to put the material in a booklet, to publicize CEAP and inspire similar actions in other cities.

 

2. Lauren: With funding from CEAP she organized a successful conference called “Nonprofits Go Green.”  Over 100 people attended, the talks were inspiring and informative, many vendors displayed, and it laid a great foundation for making the segment more active

 

B. Speaker on Water Conservation at June 3 Meeting.

Walt stressed the importance of generating a good turnout, and asked for suggestions from each segment.  Responses included the following:

 

Try  to get the Weekly to run a story on our launching a speaker series.

The Business segment has an e-blast, as do PAN and other groups.

Peter Drekmeier has a huge listserve.

The Water District may have items to be given as incentives to attend.

 

 

 

Other suggestions for the program:

Distribute ideas on what people can do.

Have Segment Liaisons raise their hands, and ask the audience to sign up.

Kris: (1) If we can’t get a suitable City  facility, she can probably get the Lucile Packard Auditorium; and (2) that hospital might report on its recent extensive water audit.

 

C. Further Discussion on New Meeting Plan.

Walt suggested that since our focus is on encouraging the segments to meet on their own, perhaps the CEAP Liaisons need not meet every month.  After discussion, the group agreed to the following plan:

(1) a speaker each quarter.

(2) a meeting the following month to (a) debrief; and (b) plan the next speaker.

(3) take the following month off.

 

D. How Quantify Progress by Segment.

Walt noted that the City’s Climate Action Plan sets specific and measurable GHG reduction goals for each department, and he inquired how we could so something similar.

Responses included the following:

Business:  Number of businesses certified as green

Neighborhoods:  Actions taken by green teams, with estimates of reductions

Schools:  Plans are under way for schools to receive monthly reports on their utility use in comparison with others, as incentive to reduce

Faith Groups:  actions taken by congregations, with estimates of reductions

Nonprofits: An effort is being made to recruit Maikhanh Nguyen of Connect the Dots, who spoke at the nonprofit conference, to be the Wave One for nonprofits.

Medical:  Kris has estimates of savings by Stanford hospitals.  She and Mark are working with a local pediatrician and a group called Teleosis to come up with a certification checklist for medical offices.

Stanford:  Maintains ongoing quantification.

 

The group also agreed that each segment should be asked to report on progress at the meeting following each speaker.      

 

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