1. May 21 Electronics Recycling (Need Volunteers)
2. May 26, Energy Round Table (5:30 - 8:30) : Chris K. is going.
   
3. June 1: Presentation to the Hanover Rotary - Canceled till Fall
4. September 10 Yard Sale!!
5. March 31, 2012 Community Workshop/Gathering
   

April 6, 2011 / Hanover, NH Town Hall, 8:00-10:00am

Attendees:  Lyn Swett Miller (Chair), Larry Litten (Vice-Chair), Mary Ann Cadwallader, Chris Soderquist, Rosi Kerr (Director of Sustainability at Dartmouth) Chris Kennedy.  Susan Edwards (susanedwards67@gmail.com) (Recycling & Waste Subcommittee), Brian Walsh (Selectman), Marjorie Rogalski, Peter Kulbacki (Public Works)

Guests: Teresa Oden (toden@carleton.edu) and Kelly  McGlinchey (Dartmouth Sustainability Intern),

Minutes Approved:  for Meetings in January and February.

Action Items: 

• Poster Content: Lyn will ask a group to meet as a sub-committee to flesh out content for the posters we’ll attach to it.
• Earth Day Dartmouth Event:
• Lyn will contact Kelly McGlinchey about personing our kiosk. (Rosie offered to pay Kelly.)
• Lyn will give Rosie our contacts at the schools so students can be invited before they go on vacation, making the event inclusive of a continuum of students. Rosie thought the Green Bus possibly could visit the schools and publicize the event.
• Larry will organize us to get the kiosk to the site on April 23^rd. 

The following dates were suggested for a 2012 Workshop, March 31 or April 7 (Easter is April 8).  In 2012 gas and oil will most likely be over $4.00 a gallon and we may have a large audience to show what can be done to reduce energy use. 

Kiosk Design Decision:  The kiosk will be 6 feet high.  It will have 2 panels of display space about 2’by 3’ on each of 3 sides. Posters will be latched in, not tacked. The 3 linked panels will sit on a triangular base. An info. sheet holder could be included on the bottom panel. 

• It was suggested that we could make an additional base in a Z or wicket shape.
• We agreed to use a bit more than half of our grant to create the kiosk and the rest of the money to create the content posters to go on it. 
• Lyn will talk with the designer about the base, a removable pamphlet holder and a case to transport the kiosk in.  Susan Edwards volunteered to help sew a carrying case or set of handles once the kiosk is complete . 
• Lyn will ask a group to meet as a sub-committee to flesh out content for the posters we’ll attach to it..

2011 Plan for Action will focus on residential sustainability and will continue to include these components:

-EDUCATION--Our kiosk with the theme of assuring another 250 years coordinated with our website.

We took time to thank Lyn for her vision and work on this.  Brian mentioned how proud the Town is of this, and Rosi congratulated us on it.

2012 SDAT partnership

-ENERGY—data gathering as residents try RePower at Home and My Energy Plan now on the website.

-WASTE/RECYCLING—Yard Sale, September 10 (Susan Edwards)

-TRANSPORTATION—Bike/Ped Committee’s Safe Route to Schools (Joanna Whitcomb)

-FOOD/AGRICULTURE—educating residents on composting and rethinking lawns and gardens. This might include tours of exemplary gardens, water gardens, lawns and workshops in composting etc. (Larry Litten)

-LAND--

Here is a summary of some logistical issues:

1. July 4: 250^th Celebration: To keep things simple, we will have our kiosk in front of Town Hall (maybe?) and use the next 250th as our theme for the year.
2. Thayer School update:  A student from Professor Benoit's Class will do an Impact Study of Town Hall
3. June 1, 2011 Rotary Presentation (Lyn will focus on models for promoting green businesses, etc.)
4. Chris K, Larry and Lyn are investigating getting funding from and partnering with the American Institute of Architects Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) program.  They will meet with Julia Griffin before our next meeting to discuss applying for a grant to have the Team do a charrette, write up its results and facilitate an open meeting to discuss the model.
5. May 26, 5:30 – 8:30 Energy Round Table (Lyn can not attend: Can anyone from our committee go?)

Discussion about Structure (Leadership, Meeting times, Composition of meetings):  How do we make this all happen?  Lyn is stepping down in June.  Larry will stay on one more year. 

Larry expressed his concern about our difficulty in growing the committee, about burn out, and about inclusion of Hanover’s business community, schools, and churches under our umbrella.  Is our meeting time keeping us from including these sectors of the community? Should we work to be more like the Conservation Commission and the Planning Board with strong citizen committees meeting at night and have a paid Town employee to coordinate Town efforts (looking to find sustainability in every aspect of what the Town does), and an implied policy-making mandate? 

Brian spoke to these questions; first, to the difficulty of getting people with children to serve on groups that meet at night.  He said that the Town already devoted a man-year to being sustainable.   He reminded us that the State government controls building codes and taxation.  Further, he felt it wasn’t the Town’s role to legislate sustainability in a top down manner. Sustainable Hanover’s job, then, would seem to be one of education and persuasion of citizens to adopt sustainable practices and to spread the word, as well as one of coordination of citizens’ efforts. 

In these years of ‘forming’ Sustainable Hanover, we’ve discussed acting as a steering committee for all those working on sustainability in Hanover, advocating for best practices in the Town’s use of energy, and educating other Hanover residents through a website, an annual celebration, a kiosk, etc. The Natural Step program set up several subcommittees that would have needed a steering committee to provide coordination if they’d thrived.  When they didn’t with the exception of the Bike/Ped group and the new Recycling of Waste Committee, the Committee stepped up to enlarge the group interested in sustainability.  We need to continue our efforts to engage our citizens in sustainability.

Committee members feel a tremendous urgency to see sustainable practices adopted throughout Hanover and at times feel discouraged with what appears to be slow progress despite our efforts. It is hard to know which of our efforts may bear fruit. Should we look for grant money to hire someone to advocate and coordinate the Town’s efforts to become more sustainable, knowing that we would have to take over this work when the grant money ran out? Someone suggested that our name, Sustainable Hanover, might lead the public to think that the Town is addressing the issue and doesn’t need citizens to get busy to make Hanover more sustainable.

Rosi suggested we look for models on the web that address the challenges of coordination and communication we’ve articulated.  She thought that a Dartmouth intern could go to each group in town involved in sustainability and report back so we’d have a better overall picture of the efforts being made, could facilitate sharing and consequently avoid duplication of effort.

In our search for effective ways to educate and communicate, to coordinate and build a constituency and to act and record results; we need to appreciate all the work that we’ve already done.  Thank you, Lyn, for your leadership and for getting the website up and going.  Your example has encouraged us to act and brought expertise to the Committee.  These past 2 years, we’ve learned a lot from our publicity efforts at the Farmers’ Market, involved others in our work at the Yard Sale and Naked Table, partnered more often with Dartmouth.  Joanna Whitcomb and Rosi Kerr’s attendance at our meetings has contributed greatly to this and to our information base as well. 

Earth Day/Week at Dartmouth:  Rosi invited us to have a presence, Saturday, April  23^rd at the block party near the Green that will conclude the Earth Week celebrations at Dartmouth (read more about them on Dartmouth’s website).  The event will begin after 11:00 and go until 4:00 and have free food and fun activities, ending with a concert by the Novac band behind Colis.  VINS and the Montshire will be there as the event is meant to involve both the college and Town.

We didn’t want to miss out on this even though it’s happening during school vacation and some of us will be out of town.  Lyn will contact Kelly McGlinchey about personing our kiosk. (Rosie offered to pay Kelly.)

Lyn will give Rosie our contacts at the schools so students can be invited before they go on vacation, making the event inclusive of a continuum of students. Rosie thought the Green Bus possibly could visit the schools and publicize the event.

Larry will organize us to get the kiosk to the site on April 23^rd.  We want it to advertise our website and to publicize the Yard Sale, September 10. The 5 College Book Sale would like to be able to post a sign on it as well.

Marjorie announced the NAARA workshop, June 6, 7:  It will present the state of composting in the US on day one and on Tuesday will give workshops for schools.  Marjorie will make sure that Susan Edwards has the information.

New Recycling of Waste Committee:  Susan Edwards, Joyce Knoll, Teresa Oden, and Carolyn Frye (Norwich) are the members of this new committee which is working with the Town on its recycling program,  on the Yard Sale in September and on other opportunities to recycle.  Betsy Smith would be the logical Town employee to meet with Recycling.

Planning Model update: Chris Soderquist is developing a planning tool to aid people in seeing the results of actions they might take to live more sustainably. Graphs are used to show the effect of each action chosen.  The tool will facilitate individuals’ choices of what to do by indicating what action will make the most difference and will be useful for schools to use in teaching about sustainability.

Respectfully submitted,                                    

1. Approve January & February Minutes

1. February 26 Workshop Wrap-up (Lyn)

1. Kiosk Design Decision (Lyn)

1. 2011 Plan for Action: Focus on Residential / doing what do we do well
1. Education

1. Energy: Data gathering: RePower at Home; My Energy Plan
2. Waste/Recycling: Structure & Yard Sale
3. Transportation: Bike/Ped Committee (Safe Route to Schools)
4. Food / Agriculture (Lawn, Garden, Compost)

1. Land (What is our relationship to Conservation Commission/Council)?

1. Structure
1. Lyn’s status (Committee structure & timing)
2. Council idea?
3. Businesses (Tuck Intern?)
4. Use what we have

1. Planning Model update (Chris S.)

1. Logistics (e-mail ahead)
1. July 4: 250th Celebration
2. Benoit Class – Impact Study of Town Hall
3. Dartmouth as resource for conducting studies…
4. June 1 Rotary Presentation (Concord green, Manchester rating? – Lawyer)
5. Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT)
6. May 26, 5:30 – 8:30 Energy Round Table (Lyn can not attend)

1. Chris will make 2 maps – large and detailed on foam core
2. Kids map – sheet
3. Rosi – 1-2 students;
4. HS Students – Lyn will verify
5. Lyn apply for $ from Co-op
6. Lyn coordinate with Rosi re food: sliced apples, local cheese, local bread, cider…
7. Lyn e-mail SERG, other orgs – handouts…
8. Lyn will create a small brochure to distribute at events, including the 2/26/11 event

1. Lighting – LED Main Street
2. Fire Dept – Boiler Change
3. Waste water – blower
4. Vehicles Idling technology
5. Digester rehab – 1 – 1/2 methane emissions savings

• See items listed at the end concerning our February 26th event, publicity must be done!
• Larry will talk with Bill Young about recycling at the 250th Fourth celebration.
• Someone needs to find out if event permitting includes provision for recycling
• --Zero Waste Initiative in process--
• Larry will meet with Frank Austin and Mike Chase about zero waste in town buildings. Marjorie, Peter, Julia and Larry are pursuing this idea with someone at Thayer. 
• Peter K. will give Larry his input on the best place and coordinator for the zero waste pilot.
• Peter, Frank, Julia, and Larry should meet if there are budgetary concerns with piloting zero waste in public buildings.
• Larry will look into the waste-reduction initiative in the hospital operating rooms by contacting John Leigh if apropos.
• Larry will talk to Marjorie R. about Charlie Sullivan’s input
• Lyn will speak to the junior high student who wants to do a Recycling clothing fashion show for her Bat Mitzvah project.
• Lyn will talk with the Dartmouth wood working shop about design and building of the kiosk. 

• Lyn and Larry will send out the announcement to the Town resources list.
• Lyn will arrange for Transaction Ads advertising the event.
• Lyn will write the ad and a short description as well as a schedule before the 2/2 Meeting.
• Peter Kulbacki will send Frank Austin’s talk to Lyn. 
• Lyn (& Julia) will summarize Frank Austin’s talk for ‘To Done’ part of event.

• Larry will meet with Frank Austin on waste.
• Larry will contact Gina Pollock about findings at Dartmouth.
• Peter Kulbacki will send Frank Austin’s talk to Lyn - Someone needs to summarize it for ‘To Done’ part of event--Lyn
• Chris K. will look into the cost of materials for the kiosk posters.
• Everyone needs to look below for action items listed in October and November.

• Lyn will work with Chris K. to gather data in time for the Feb workshop
• Schools project – Data Gathering, Carbon Challenge. 
• Choose what additional data we want.
• Chris Kennedy:  Town Buildings Report – Write up summary by the end of December;
• Frank Austin will make a Presentation on energy data to the Select Board (When?)
• Chris S., Lyn:  Agenda for February workshop to verify and finalize in December
• Lyn will write a draft advertisement for the Power Ten families & Contact Clean Air, Cool Planet for possible funding

• Identify all champions and agenda for February workshop;
• Food – Ask Emily for Co-op involvement
• Sign off on strategic areas…
• Families – What will the children do?
• Finalize events that will occur in January to stimulate interest/involvement

• Finalize speakers/facilitators for strategic sessions;
• Finalize food, etc.
• Finalize advertising/marketing

• Finalize presentations for the entire group

1. Lyn reported on her Rotary Presentation: Go back to Rotary for lunch to follow up with people – ask if they have additional questions; Program Chair – What could be a sequel – panel – Dartmouth’s program?

1. Feb 2011:  Focused, efficient.  4 focus – Linking to specific goals.  Transportation
1. Composting: Neighborhoods, etc.; Lawn minimization – emissions, noise; we have surrendered our right to silence
2. Highfields still doing downtown composting; Survey – farmers to receive
3. Power 10:  a. lawn; b. composting c. building efficiency d.
4. Brian: Focus – pick focus based on the places we can make the biggest difference.

1. Who/Topics:
1. Transportation in Hanover:  Patrick O’Neal in town (Bike/ped)
2. Residential Land Use: Lawns, gardens, rain gardens (Larry)
3. Buildings – Why, Context: Weatherization, energy usage, heat (Bob Walker)
4. Collaborative Consumption/Local economy/Consumerism/Consumption – Waste/Recycling
5. Saving money / saving energy / Financial planner/Physician/Carbon Planning

1. Power Ten: Families:  Ad in the paper – recruit to research studies – ad, high school student projects… Track for a year… (Lyn will create structure for this)

• Both/And:  What is the average per family…?  What are people doing to compete to be below the average…
• High School – Families: Data collection:  Focus on families…
• Carbon Challenge – spits out specific data… 500 households – science teachers – have them have their families – homework assignment in January.  Jeannie, Kurt, MS :  Gardens, Composting…
• Data:  How much square footage of home vegetable gardens?  How many compost?  Use google-maps to drop the pins in each location.

1. Faith groups: How do we get them on board?
2. Schools
3. Service Clubs (Rotary, Lions, etc., Sierra Club)
4. Business (Chamber of Commerce)

• Chris K., Larry, Marjorie are meeting next Wednesday, November 3
• Lyn and Chris S. will address website items 2. banner advertising success, 3. how we want to be represented on the Town’s new website, 5. bar graphs showing before and after energy use of Town’s projects. 5. recording Celebrations and Challenges. 7. continuing their work on the NEGEF grant for the kiosks.

• Julia Griffin will share her To Done list with Lyn.  Julia is it in your purview to ask Charlie Sullivan to redo the CPC Energy Audit of the Town as a comparison?
• Peter Kulbacki will get a summary from Kevin Mclean of the Waste Water project.

Sustainable Hanover Committee Minutes for

sustainablehanovernh.org

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Next Meeting: October 20, 8:30-9:30

Town Hall, Selectmen’s Room

Attending: Lyn Miller (chairing), Larry Litten, Brian Walsh, Mary Ann Cadwallader (secretary), Emily Neuman, Peter Kulbacki (Public Works), and Chris Kennedy, Joanne Whitcomb.

Regrets:  Marjorie Rogalski, Chris Soderquist

Dates to Remember:

·      10/10/10:  Events in White River and at Cedar Circle Farm

·      Initiative meetings: Called by Larry (Policy/philosophy section) and Lyn (practice and education section) before October 20.

·      November 13 – 14, 2010: Naked Table Project

·      February 2011: Community Workshop Reprise

·      May 2011: Pre-Town Meeting Sustainability Celebration & Call to Action

Action Items:

Larry-

·      Call meeting of policy and philosophy section

·      Gather input from Emily Neuman

Lyn-

·      Send off grant application to NEGEF

·      Call meeting of practice and education section

·      Will find out what an across-the-street banner costs and talk to the Selectmen about the status of the Town Yard Sale event.

·      Will talk with Chris S. about a one page graphic that connects action and impact and the timeline for the Vision Statement. 

• Will look at the NE Energy Challenge to research targets and percentages to find out what’s necessary and how painful.  She may bring this to her group or to Chris S. to graph a couple of scenarios.

·      Pursue sometime a conversation with Kevin Peterson of the NH Charitable Foundation about funding of our work by the Wellborn Foundation,which funds environmental education.

Joanne-will get Dartmouth’s targets for sustainability to us.

Meeting Notes:

Minutes Approved:  June 16, July 21, August 18, September 1 minutes approved.  Lyn added the Naked Table as a Sustainable Hanover activity with the same status as the Yard Sale in the August 18 minutes.

Review Yard Sale:  The Yard Sale was a great success.  Thank you, Brian and Susan Edwards for a job well-done. It’s our hope that some enthusiastic vendors will be on the planning committee next year. Lyn reported lots of positive comments and people who wanted to be vendors next year.  About half of the vendors were Hanover residents, the rest were from other towns. We may want to figure out a way to give Hanover residents preference. Students were enjoying themselves, but international students didn’t get there until 2:00 and may have missed some opportunities. Advertising for students was done electronically. 

Fifty-six vendors paid a $15 table fee which raised $840. Emily reported that they spent $100 for insurance, another $40 on publicity and supplies; leaving $700.  While the event was not meant as a fund-raiser, rather as a way to practice our reuse/recycling mission, Sustainable Hanover will ask the recycling group to let us use some of the proceeds.  Lyn has asked for $150 from the Yard Sale proceeds to include in way of matching funds for the grant she’s writing to get funds for kiosks that advertise the work of Sustainable Hanover.

Emily felt that next year we could do a better job of connecting the event to Sustainable Hanover.  She suggested keeping it simple with a big sign or banner with our name, logo, and next event.

Lyn will find out what an across-the-street banner costs, but must approach the Selectmen about the status of the event before any money is spent.  Street banners can’t be used for commercial events, although Street Fest is advertised by one.  The Committee felt the event, even though it makes some money that can be used to encourage Sustainability, should qualify as a community event as it teaches reuse and recycling through action.

NEGEF Application Review: 

Lyn recorded our input.  We recommended that if she had only 4 blanks to fill in for partners that SERG be one of them and that she put Local First Alliance and the Land Trust in parentheses if the program allowed it. She will send the grant in PDF form to avoid the strange errors that appeared in Larry’s copy.

She will pursue a conversation with Kevin Peterson of the NH Charitable Foundation about funding of our work by the Wellborn Foundation.  (See September 1 Minutes for more about this grant.)

Sustainable Hanover’s Organization:  Separate meetings for the practice/education and policy/philosophy sections of Sustainable Hanover will be called before the Committee’s October meeting.  Larry chairs the policy/philosophy group. Chris K. and Marjorie are its members.  Lyn chairs the practice/education group. Chris S. and Mary Ann are its members.  Emily will come quarterly but Larry’s group will be in close touch as her work for the Coop and knowledge encourages her to act in a research and pilot capacity.  Further, Emily plans to meet with the business community (Hypertherm), Dartmouth and DHMC so they all can share what they’re all doing in the area of sustainability.

Vision Statement Review:

These suggestions were made for the organizational map— 

·      It needs to show our unique relationship with the Town Select Board and Town Staff. E.g. Peter K. is the town staff managing us and a Select Board member sits with the Committee. 

·      It needs a separate Energy Group despite the fact that the CPC has been dismantled.

·      Add specific goals and indicators of success into the document as well as a timeline.

·      Arrows need to go both ways. 

·      Keep the Town box in there so don’t have to list its departments and which heads meet with which groups.

·      List the 3 schools.

·      Put the municipality and town groups closer together.

·      The map should make it clear that we work with residents and with the municipality so that residents can see where to jump in. 

·      Appendix could explain the map. 

These suggestions were made for the timeline—

·      Need to put forth the big things that need action early on. 

·      Graphic connecting Action and Impact needed. If you were to do X, you could get Y.

·      Include the indicators, like 0 waste=__tons to landfill. 

·      Choose 2030 as target date unless it doesn’t work with idea below, then 2040. 

We discussed target dates and the percentages that should be used.  Reaching 50% of our 0 waste goal by 2025 was first suggested.  Then, 30% reduction each decade was discussed.  Because we’re talking about volunteer steps that we’re asking citizens to do, 50% may be too discouraging.  It also doesn’t take into account the help from business and government mandate that has to kick in.  It may become a 30-50% reduction depending upon business and government response.

Lyn will talk with Chris about a one page graphic that connects action and impact and the timeline.  And then a way to show a target of 30-50%.

Speaking of business and government, Dartmouth’s benchmark goal would be helpful to know.  Joanne will get this to us.  It seems that Dartmouth’s goals are lower than some similar institutions.  It could do a couple of big things and meet its goal. Personal goals are harder because of lack of knowledge of the facts and how to proceed (This would seem to be where SH’s mandate begins.) 

Sharing the Vision:

After realizing that there wouldn’t be time this year to unveil the Vision, it was decided to have a celebration and discussion of the Vision Statement at the Black Center in February, close to the anniversary of the Natural Step gathering that first brought the community together to discuss sustainability.  The policy and education groups need to do some planning and be sure all materials like the kiosk, reports from the groups, the To Done List, and photographs documenting our activities are ready by that date.

If we have a discussion and input in February we could play some part at Town Meeting.  This, however, needs further discussion as the Selectmen could adopt the Vision Statement and Sustainable Hanover initiatives can become budget items. The Town Meeting involves a 100 people and therefore is an important place to get out the word. 

It was decided that we would offer dessert before Town Meeting and use the opportunity to have conversations with anyone interested in sustainability while highlighting our initiatives and successes.

FYI:

From 9/1/10 Minutes--Julia Griffin said that, ultimately, we need to put out a resource guide for our citizens.  The state appears to be getting the grants to do this and it would be our job to publicize our work and other resources.

--Sustainable Hanover could provide a forum for the working groups quarterly to create the Done list and then publish it.

From 9/1/10 Minutes--Grant Proposal for Displays:  We will apply for a grant from the New England Grass Roots Fund for the funds (up to $2,500) to create two movable, triangular, free-standing kiosks that SHC can use in public places like the Town Hall, the Howe, the Black Center and the schools to inform and engage others in our work.  It’s hoped that the grant will cover supplies and the work of a professional graphics designer to help us with the design and graphics for the posters advertising our work and the 6 frames that will surround the cork boards on which posters are displayed. Some of the graphics developed might be used on our website and on a bulletin board in the vestibule of the Town Hall. The possibility of the designer’s help with a new logo was not resolved as some on the committee felt we’ve already become identified with our current logo.  Lyn thought that a new logo could be developed by a high school student as well. 

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Ann Cadwallader, Secretary

• Grant: Lyn will create a draft Grant proposal for the New England Grass Roots Funds and share with Larry, Julia and all by Sept. 8, in order to send in by the Sept. 15th deadline;
• Vision: Lyn will create a draft Sustainable Hanover vision ‘paper’ that will include relevant graphics and text.  She will distribute this to the committee by Sept. 12 so that all can review and discuss at the Sept. 15 meeting;
• Yard Sale (Sept. 11): 
• Sign up sheets will be at the Farmers Market, using the packet that hangs in Town Hall;
• Lyn will bring the kiosk to the Yard Sale to showcase Sustainable Hanover’s initiatives.
• Lyn will publicize the Yard Sale in the weekly school newsletter
• Farmers Market (Sept. 8): Emily and Lyn will do set up and Mary Ann and Lyn will breakdown.
• Sept. 14 Polling Location:  We may bring the ‘kiosk’ to the gymnasium.
  
  Farmers Market (Timing):
• Marjorie and Larry redid our posters and have assembled everything.  They will set up and take down at the market today. 
• Thanks to Joanna Whitcomb for helping with the printing.
• Marjorie will leave the materials at Lyn’s for the following week.
  
  Yard Sale: We have 24 registrations for the Yard Sale, September 11 from noon-4:00.  Some research could be done at the sale to find out how people heard about it.  Publicity to date has consisted of our Farmers Market kiosk, posters placed around town and one in the Town Hall with registration forms attached.  Julia offered Emily Penny’s help with a Transaction ad and the possibility of assistance with an insert to advertise the event that could go out with the Town’s mailing about street lights.

• We need to have a regularly updated  “TO DONE” list. 
• We need to have work for both kinds of groups; ones that are action oriented and ones that are interested in citizen education.  Sustainable Hanover could provide a forum for these groups quarterly to create the Done list and then publish it on their website. 
• We need to continue our positive conversations with the principals and teachers at the various schools about their work. Julia agreed that having goals was critical. 
• She said that, ultimately, we need to put out a resource guide for our citizens.  The state appears to be getting the grants to do this and it would be our job to publicize this and other resources.
• Julia felt that the committee has been branded, Sustainable Hanover, and should stay with that name rather than call itself a ’Counsel’. 
• We will need to recruit people interested in action and those interested in education as we move forward.

• Lyn will meet with Judith Esmay to continue the discussion begun at the Planning Commission.
• Lynor her designatewill meet with the school board, middle school faculty and Ms. Kornfeld at the high school in the fall about disseminating the Carbon Challenge.