Why?

How much do we really know about the food we eat? When we go grocery shopping, the questions “where did this come from?”, “who were the farmers who grew it?”, and “how much fuel was used to ship it to Montreal?” don’t cross our minds. The goal of the challenge is to make people take a second look at what we eat, where it comes from, and the impact of our food choices.

How long?

For 1 month, dieters can only eat food grown and produced within 100 miles (16okm) of Montreal. Participants will be allowed 1 cheat item (choose wisely!).

What else?

We’re still in the early stages of planning, but we’d like to document the challenge- the trials and tribulations of the participants- as well as the state of local food at McGill and in Montreal. We’re also planning potlucks, workshops, and film screening to raise awareness about food issues.

If you’re interested in participating in the challenge or helping with this project, please email us at greeningmcgill@mail.mcgill.ca!

B) New plans for this school year:
1.    Continue with the 100-miles diet event:
•    Idea of making a documentary of it and showing it at one of our own film screening events
•    In collaboration with TV McGill perhaps?  Liz will look into it
•    Will try to start mid-October to beginning to November to avoid the deep freeze
•    Extending the diet from 2 week to a month
•    Need to contact possible dieters through the Greening McGill listserv as well as SSMU’s

2.    Series of film screenings:
•    Differently themed each week
•    Get professors/Grad students or other parties interested in giving a short talk before the movie – a subject of their research or otherwise
•    Provide free food (Organic Campus?) – will need to come out of the budget
•    For next week: find a list of 5 movie suggestions paired up with professors
•    Book room for movie screening: basement of SSMU

3.    Selling Green Kits:
•    Need to table more
•    Selling at Farmer’s markets will continue every Tuesday
•    Tabling at Leacock (ask AUS), Bronfman, Burnside, Y-intersection

Car Free Day
-NO TABLES!!! We need to find 15-20
-Café, chess tables, okay (except for tables)
-music on the hill, invite guitarists and acapella groups
-need more bike and stm info (contact velo quebec and opus cards?)
-make prof slide
-announcements to bring own mug and guitar(11:30)
-sidewalk chalking
-prompt for tarp
“What would a car free world look like to you?”
“What does Car-Free mean to you?”
“What does being environmentally responsible mean?”
“When does sustainability mean to you?”
“Climate Change: What will you do?”
“What can you do to be more environmentally responsible?”
-stats poster
-get another bed sheet
-tabling

October 24th
International day of action for the environment (building up to Copenhagen conference)
Want creative something
“350”

Flash Mob
Place des Arts – 5:35 set phone off, Mon 21st

Gault Nature Reserve
-winter trip
-temporary hold Jan 16th
-30 per person

Water Wars
Movie about fishing
Screening?

Monthly Movies?
Plus speaker
Free snacks
Movie ideas

1.    Sodexo contract at Mac campus
a.    Contract is up in January.
b.    Trying to get a more sustainable choice.
c.    For more information go to the McGill Food Systems Project website at http://mfsp.wordpress.com

2.    Car-Free Day planning
a.    Sept 22
b.    ~5 groups confirmed (Green Party, Animal Liberties, PGSS, Envirocomm, Gorilla Composting, STOP, maybe more)

c.    Outdoor cafe: coffee from PGSS, food(Animal Liberties, Organic Campus, Midnight Kitchen), tables, confirm tabling location
e.    chalking volunteers (we need people to arrive at school early in the morning and turn the road into a giant bike/pedestrian lane)
f.    car-free city photo display
g.   Normand King?
h.    Big canvas, invite students to share ideas and respond to prompt (to be determined)
i.    Class information slide for Monday and Tuesday before
j.    SSMU listserv next Friday (Warren)
k.    Daily and Tribune?

3.    Activities Night
a.    Next Monday and Tuesday, setup 3:30 –7ish
b.    Need people to table

4.    SSMU strategic meeting Sunday 12-3, Lev Bukman room

5.    Planning for the first general meeting
a.    Subgroups
i.    Finance
ii.    Coordinator
iii.    Secretary
iv.    Communications/creative
v.    PR
vi.    Website maintenance
b.    Green Kits
c.    Projects
i.    Car-free day
ii.    Compost bucket collectors
iii.    Oct 24th event
iv.    Copenhagen “home teams”
v.    Principled purchasing
1.    Greenwashing on collaboration with STOP?

6.    350 Climate Action Day Sept 24
a.    people who are not going to powershift can organize things?

7.    Sept 21. Avaaz “wake up call for climate change”
a.    Place des Arts. 5:35 alarms will go off, banners, etc

8.    Green Kit tabling at Farmers Market needs volunteers

9.    Gault retreat?
a.    2nd weekend of January?

10.    notebooks

We’ll also be selling “Green Kits” at the Farmer’s Market every Tuesday starting Sept. 14. The kits are a great way to sample eco-friendly products at a super low price (only $5!!!) and learn about sustainable purchasing!

…CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION…