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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ok, fingers crossed. Just talked to Joel at Steckle Farm which would be the perfect place for this! Just seeing if we can work out a date in June! Thinking a Sunday afternoon into evening because all their Saturdays are booked for a few years for weddings. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Susan K <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> John Jackson [mailto:jjackson@web.ca] <br><b>Sent:</b> 10 March 2016 09:42<br><b>To:</b> Susan Koswan<br><b>Cc:</b> GREN Executive<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [GREN-Exec] GREN draft meeting minutes March 3, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I really like the idea of having a wall for people to write their waste reduction & elimination ideas.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>John<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br>------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>John Jackson<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>17 Major Street<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Kitchener N2H 4R1<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>519-744-7503<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mar 9, 2016, at 5:44 PM, Susan Koswan <<a href="mailto:susankoswan@execulink.com">susankoswan@execulink.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Do we need to discuss this, or am I moving forward on this event? Susan B said she’d like to help.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The only thing I’d like to add is to cover a wall or table with paper where people could write down their best ideas for waste reduction.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Susan K<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Executive [<a href="mailto:executive-bounces@gren.ca">mailto:executive-bounces@gren.ca</a>]<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></b>Susan Koswan<br><b>Sent:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>6 March 2016 12:34<br><b>To:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>'GREN Executive'<br><b>Subject:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Re: [GREN-Exec] GREN draft meeting minutes March 3, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yup, makes sense to me, John.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I will get to it shortly.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I had a brainwave this morning for an event. All your thoughts and ideas went into my brain and came out with this:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dumpster Dine and D’art: An Evening of Waste Not, Want Not<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>1)</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Social hour with local brews and wines and buffet-style food items made by local chefs from “ugly” food that would have gone to waste. (FYI, the latest National Geographic has a lengthy article on food waste and what one man has been doing to combat that – very interesting article!)<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2)</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Intersperse mini-talks on waste (garbage, recycling, human, biosolids, water waste etc) with original or not-so-original waste-themed songs, poems and short stories by local artists (and pay an honorarium to each musician/poet)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>3)</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Silent auction with items made by local artists out of recycled/repurposed materials. Half the money raised by their item goes to the artist.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>4)</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Goal is zero garbage.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>5)</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Could even have some activity tables with stuff on it for people to make their own recycled art thing that they could enter in a contest that would be judged by audience applause.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Would be nice to do it at The Museum or Victoria Park pavilion.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What do you think?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Susan K<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>John Jackson [<a href="mailto:jjackson@web.ca"><span style='color:purple'>mailto:jjackson@web.ca</span></a>]<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>6 March 2016 10:24<br><b>To:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Susan Koswan<br><b>Cc:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>GREN Executive<br><b>Subject:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Re: [GREN-Exec] GREN draft meeting minutes March 3, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Susan,<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for pulling these together so promptly. I have put my comments in the attached minutes. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>When I review the minutes I work on the assumption that these minutes could go far and wide beyond our list serve. That is the nature of the electronic world. Therefore, you will notice that the main thing I have done is to remove certain things that could be embarrassing if they went beyond us either because they aren't accurate or because they would let out a strategy that we don't want out - like who we are going to go after for funding for Hidden Valley. Also we need to make sure that we don't say things that may embarrass a person we are hoping to develop as an ally by overstating what they said to us or saying something they may not have said in a more open forum.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I trust that this makes sense to the rest of you. I urge the rest of you to take a glance at the minutes on any issue you were directly involved in to be sure that there aren't any such problems in those parts.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>John<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>_______________________________________________<br>Executive mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Executive@gren.ca">Executive@gren.ca</a><br><a href="http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/executive_gren.ca">http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/executive_gren.ca</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>