February 6, 2012 - 2nd Meeting!

Speaker Chris Martinson – excessively expensive

List of actual projects TT’s are doing elsewhere distributed

Nearby TT movement in Swarthmore, PA – will contact

Go round on what each person present would like to see happen w/ a TT movement:

1.       Networking stakeholders & relevant groups – getting them talking to one another, having them come together for an event/accomplishment

2.       Bringing together people in community; creating community. 

3.       Permaculture: creating a sustainable/regenerative relationship w/ living space

4.       Creating connection with local school; getting children involved at a young age

5.       Aesthetics: improving the aesthetic quality of the community: more trees, walking paths

6.       Having a stable steering committee form to ensure the effort survives

Decisions made:

A weblink page will be set up within the environmental ed site by Bill Nelson: info/minutes can be   posted there & can be moved to a website later!

A facebook page will be initiated by Rebecca Hammond &Tracy Lind

We will call our group “Transition Town Salisbury” and be a Transition Town Movement!

Master list of email addresses will be kept and expanded by Bill Nelson – email him further contacts to invite to participate

Minutes will be kept and typed up (for this week and last week by Eliz Marshall). Contact PA -   TT

Opportunities: 

            Create a presence at Green Earth Book Awards April 9-14,

            Attend the film screening already being held “End of Suburbia” Feb. 23 & network

            (WET & campus Smart Growth club hosting) Rebecca Hammond will try to go

Discussions:   chicken/egg issue:  create firm base to get a project going/or get a project going to create a firm base?,  Official community partnership w/ SU could be approached later once established and making accomplishments,  Ward Museum potential site for a reskilling, meeting frequency?

NEXT MEETING:  Monday, Feb. 20^th at 6pm: Bill’s office, Holloway Hall, rm 347\

What is a Good Meeting Frequency?

January 30, 2012 - 1st Meeting!

Please note – these minutes may miss significant issues/topics that were raised, as they are being reconstructed by memory, as we hadn’t decided to take minutes as of yet when we held this meeting

The 12 steps of Transition were reviewed.

Interests were voiced: 

     Networking area efforts to go green

     Creating a bike friendly town via bike lanes

     Choosing a project and jumping in with getting it up and running

     The deep nature connection perspective

     Getting campus student “green” groups involved 

Ideas Exchanged:

Possibility of getting a speaker ( esp Chris Martenson) and/or doing a film screening  potentially combined w/ an event as a means of addressing the raising awareness step.  Bill Nelson following up on CM as speaker. 

Combining SU’s Earth Day w/ the Salisbury Zoo’s Earth Day.  

Student projects/classwork assisting w/ goals.

State legislation makes it tough for organic farmer’s to thrive on a small scale due to regulations.  Previous effort of local organic farmers to create an information network to locate local supplies is ending before completion.

Building a liason w/ local government is important.  Invite other SU dept faculty to participate to create a broad community stakeholder approach: include community members, faculty, students, and gather lists of folks to invite and groups to partner with. 

Tom Horton has many local environmental contacts. 

Room space - event space can be arranged at SU. 

Wondering about the impact of local big agri-businesses on potential  efforts of a TT movement (the politics involved & how to be aware of and handle that). 

Meeting again in 1 week, same time/place.

(Recorded by Elizabeth Marshall)