Winter Recycling Schedule

Weekend Duty for 12/1 & 12/2:
Brenda Godwiin, Josh Norris, Sue Rochon, Peter Southworth, Anne Swayze, Tom Morgan

Weekend Duty for 12/8 &12/9:
Morgan Salathé, Matt MacKenzie, Terry Stoecker, Bill Wightman, Karl Methven, Patty Pond

Weekend Duty for 1/5 & 1/6:
Lynne Kenney, Brenda Godwin, Michael Littman, George Emeny, Chris Bartlett, Alan McIntyre

Weekend Duty for 1/12 & 1/13:
Alejandra Young, Bev Berton, Jim Cox, Tom Eslick, Kathy Noble, Scott Allenby, Dani Lejnieks

Weekend Duty for 1/19 & 1/20:
Michele Koenig, Chris Young, Ian Hamlet, Sarah McIntyre, Drew Donaldson, Tom Morgan

Weekend Duty for 2/2 & 2/3:
Erik Cole-Johnson, Kris Johnson, Kyle Tremblay, Sue Houston, Mike Henriques, Patty Pond

Weekend Duty for 2/9 & 2/10:
Greg Allen, Mike Koenig, Sarah Whitehead, Sarah Will, Ted Mastin, Alan McIntyre

Weekend Duty for 2/16 & 2/17:
Eric Viandier, Ross Young, Patty Pond, Alan McIntyre, Nancy Schoeller, Dani Lejnieks

Weekend Duty for 2/23 & 2/24:
Daved Pilla, Sue Eslick, Jane Barban, Brooks Bicknell, Patrice Martin, Tom Morgan

Spring Recycling Schedule

Saturday March 31
Dani L., Mike K., Patrice M, Heide Johnson, Annie McKenzie, Chris B , Ted M

Saturday April 7
Tom M. Dani H, Doug H., Sue R., Megan H., Bert C., Kris J., Phil Goodnow

Saturday April 14
Alan, Mike W, Scott A., Ale Y., Mike H, Dave K, Sarah M, Sue Houston

Saturday April 21
Tom M, Lindsay A., Kathy N, Steph K, Lynne M, Bill W, Brian K, Eric V

Saturday April 28
Dani L, Ross Y., Robyn A., Sue E., Micheal L, , Sarah Will, , Chuck Reid, Swayze

Saturday May 5
Tom M, Kyle P, Bert H./ Mark T., Dave Pilla, Jane B, Karl M., Matt M, Patty P

Saturday May 12
Alan M, Chuck W, Drew, Christina D, Josh N, Gregor M, Sue R., Brenda G, Pete S

Saturday May 19
Dani L. Sarah Wh, Tom Eslick, Lee C, Phil H., Patrice M, Nancy S, Michele K.

Saturday May 26
Alan M., Greg Allen, Ian H, Dave K, Morgan S., , Terry S, Erik Cole-J, Laurie Z.

Green Cup Challenge

This month Proctor Academy is involved in the interscholastic Green Cup Challenge. The goal of the Green Cup Challenge is to see which school can reduce its electricity load the most during the coldest month of winter. This is the second year of the Green Cup Challenge.

If you want to find out more about the challenge CLICK HERE

If you want to view the videos that each school made for the Green Cup Challenge CLICK HERE

Here's a still shot from Proctor's entry, featuring Tommy Chester and Alex Tierney

PEA Recycling

In the past few months, PEA has transformed the recycling system on campus. We no longer mix our recycling, but asked the community to sort their bottles, cans, aluminium, and glass. We have also decided to pick up the recycling allover campus ourselves, taking on more of the responsibility and reducing the work load on the maintenance department. These new changes save the school a great deal of money, while providing students and faculty the opprotunity to get involved with a necessary community service project.

Here are some pictures from this week's recycling crew. Each week, the process gets a bit smoother.

Energy Efficiency Brainstorm

A few assemblies ago, the whole school brainstormed a list of things that we could do to reduce energy consumption around campus. Typing up the list, I was impressed at the level of seriousness and creativity expressed by the student population. Here's the list:


ENERGY EFFICIENCY BRAINSTORM
JANUARY 2007

THINGS PEA IS WORKING ON
• Install light sensors in buildings
• Using non-toxic cleaning supplies
• Instituting rolling brown outs around campus (dorms during the day, other buildings at night)
• Installing clothes lines at each dorm
• Sponsoring a light bulb buy back program
• Off-setting the carbon from Blackwater Ski Hill
• Changing over outdoor lighting to make it more efficient.

THINGS INDIVIDUALS CAN DO
• Turn off hallway and other unnecessary lighting
• Close classroom doors, so magnets aren’t activated.
• Turn lights off
• Walk or run to the ski hill
• If it’s yellow, let it mellow
• Use powerstrips and switch them off when not using them
• Turn off lights in Music Studio
• Play hockey on the pond (at least every once in a while!)
• Turn off the 2nd floor dining room lights during lunch
• Close lights when not in room
• Unplug microwaves and TV during the day
• Take quick showers
• Don’t use hair dryers
• Lower thermostats at night
• Hang laundry to dry
• Wash clothes in cold water
• Use a real coffee mug, not a disposable one
• Don’t buy bottled water
• Use direct lighting instead of many lights when studying
• Don’t throw away old clothes; give them away, instead
• Walk or ride or skate or unicycle… But don’t drive around campus!
• Shut off bathroom lights when not in use
• Recycle
• Close microwave door
• Avoid paper or plastic disposable cups, plates, utensils
• Open shades instead of turning on lights
• Don’t block windows in rooms
• Shut off power in dorms and buildings (2am – 6am)
• Un-plug lava lamps when not in use
• Carpool if you are a day student

THINGS WE NEED FACULTY TO COMMIT TO
• Drive buses only when full. (faculty)
• Assigning paperless assignments (faculty)
• Having class without lights, when bright enough
• Faculty shouldn’t drive around campus
• Switch off faculty room computers

IDEAS TO LOOK INTO
• Circuit breaker shut off in
• Making a commitment to buy only hybrid and/or alternative fuel vehicles
• Installing low flush and/or composting toilets
• getting rid of the faculty room computers
• Installing solar water heaters
• posting more lights out signs in dorms/buildings
• Install water filters around campus
• Generating power from exercise equipment
• Solar and wind and micro hydro power
• Less Lawn!
• Using push mowers when possible
• Only buy printers that can print double sided
• Once and for all, fix the heat in the dorms!!
• Supplying every student room with two power strips
• Lights out at in room time!
• Making sure ski hill lights are necessary every time they are on
• Check light bulbs around campus… Make sure all are compact florescent
• Off-setting the carbon the school uses
• Wind power on Ragged or Blackwater
• Increasing South-South-East windows
• Decreasing North-North-West windows
• Sell more power strips and other ecofriendly products at the bookstore
• Look into how efficient washers and driers are.
• Conducting a nighttime audit

Top 10 Green Schools

One of our goals for this year is make significant gains toward becoming one of the nations top 10 Green Schools. The first step in this process is to understand the criteria and the competition. Click Here to see an article on the Top 10 Green Schools in the country. The PR team will be finding out more about this list—the specific criteria, what hoops we have to go through to be considered for the list, etc. Any questions about the list can be fielded by the PR Crew (Ali, Raf, Lucy, Olivia, and Jaelyn).

Happy reading,
Tom

PEA Meeting Times (Nov. 3, 2006)

This is the first week of small group reports. So far only the Waste and Energy Crews has submitted a report. I'd like for each group to give me this kind of report each week. Go Waste and Energy!! Thanks.

This is the Waste Crew's Report:

- Recycling- We are still trying to figure out the new recycling system and how to streamline it. Tucker is going to write some fool-proof instructions for advisors for community service to try to make it run smoother on the weekends. We also want to sit down with Alan and figure out his master plan for recycling. We will probably need to sit down with the PR group soon and have you guys present something.

- Eco-friendly whiteboard markers- There is a free sample kit of AusPens on the way. They are made from recycled aluminum and are refillable from non-toxic ink. Dani is in the process of figuring out how/when to present to faculty (she will call on the PR group when she figues that out), and how the buying should work.

-Water waste toilet project- Paddy is working on writing an email to faculty suggesting this for a community service idea. He will the coordinate their responses and help them organize this project. They would go around and put bottles in the toilet tanks to reduce the amount of water each flush uses.

- Swap Shop- Irene and Ashley are in the beginning stages of trying to organize and on campus swap shop, to eliminate waste from the construction dumpster among others. Their first step is to talk to maitenence to figure out if we have a location to house donations, and how the drop-offs would work.

We have decided that our next meeting will be another brainstorming meeting, because we are hungry to find more waste solutions. If you have a brain that is stormy, come on over to King House Tuesday at 6pm.

Here is the Energy Crew's Report:

• CFB implementation (need to talk with Will Ames)
• Use of a “Wats Up” meter to identify energy consumption (in progress)
• Energy representatives will attend the Green Cup conference at PEA. (Daniel and Leah)
• Possible wind energy opportunities on Nov. 15th
• Meeting with John Penny in winter term to discuss the school’s energy audit (efficiency of steam plant, electrical use,
building envelopes, and general energy consumption)
• Get Lida to sell CFBs in the bookstore

PEA Meeting Times

PEA meets weekly in small groups and bimonthly as a large group. We meet 5:20 p.m. upstairs in the Dining Hall on Fridays.
Large group meeting dates:

• November 10, 2006
• December 1, 2006
• December 12, 2006 (Green Cup Meeting)

Small groups meeting schedule:

Food Crew:
Wednesday morning at 7:45 in the Dining Hall

Energy Crew:
Fridays in Dining Hall @ 1:00 p.m.

Waste Crew
Tuesdays in King House @ 6:00 p.m.

Toxins Crew
Tuesdays in Dining Hall @ Dinner

PR Crew
Thursday nights @ ECO dorm

Spudware in the Wise Center

Howdy all - You all had some great critical questions about funding the purchase of compostable cutlery (knives, spoons and forks) in the Wise.

I took your questions to Ed.

I talked to Ed again tonight about the lifecycle of knives, spoons and forks in the Wise. He cleared up any concerns about sustainability and economics.

Here is a paraphrasing of our conversation:

ALAN: Ed you mentioned that you have washed spoons before to save them. Why can't we simply purchase some flatware and wash them?

ED: Well, currently we are not using the dishwasher at all. We don't need it. Most of the stuff we wash we wash by hand. This saves use lots of money in electrical costs.

ALAN: Is it really that significant of a savings?

ED: Yes. Plus I don't want them. Flatware will end up in the trash, broken and lost. It won't be a one time cost.

ALAN: But how often will you have to buy new flatware?

ED: Anyone in the food service business is gonna tell you what I am telling you. Flatware is a major hassle- getting the flatware returned and cleaning them- I simply don't want to deal with it.

ALAN: Even when the spudware you are hoping to purchase is twice as expensive as plastic or flatware?

ED: Listen, you have to understand something. We don't use up much cutlery in general. These several cases are not really that expensive.

ALAN: Well that was my next question. How long do regular forks and spoons last?

ED: Do you mean how fast will I go through a case of 1000?

ALAN: Yeah.

ED (pulls out case of spoons) This case I ordered 2 years ago. I have about 250 left.

ALAN: So two years.

ED: No. That case was a case of 500.

ALAN: OK so how long does 1000 pieces last.

ED: It depends but most of will still be here by the time I retire.

ALAN (shocked): When is that?

ED: Around 8 to 10 years.

ALAN: Really?

ED: Yes. Most of our products don't need utensils. They are restricted with specific items. Spoons go with sundaes - which don't really sell that often. Knives with cream cheeses...

ALAN: Ed, this sounds like this purchase could be sustainable if you incorporate it into you next budget.

ED: It will take us so long to go through our inventory I can see why we can't accomplish that.

ALAN: Excellent.

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