Application Information

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• Application for the 2011-12 Warren Green

Applications are due by Wednesday, March 30, 2011 to the Student Affairs Office in Bates on the 2nd Floor. Students currently abroad can also email their applications to Bobbie Smolow.

Spring!

Meeting Notes Sunday 6th of March 2011

Sunday 6th of March 2011-03-06

Warren Green House Meeting 7pm

Missing: Nellen, Poppy

1. Beryl: Warren Green Cookbook, we can all contribute a set of pages and draw/collage/paint

in the book, add recipes. Beryl will get it photocopied, printed and bound. It will be left in

the living room (look after it! and put it back so others can also contribute!)

2. Dishes: this week they were not done. No one is signed up for tonight, and we need to make

sure the house to be clean for the House Tours. It would be really nice for people to be dilligent

about working together and being aware of who does chores and who doesn't. Let's make an extra effort this week.

3. Shopping over spring break. Who is staying: Jeamme+1 Liam, Stephen, Elizabeth +1

Shannon, Xilo +1 . We will try to go shopping together and we’ll put in at least 25 per person

per week, depending on how long people will be staying here.

4. This week we will be giving tours. P turn up for the time you signed up for.

Monday 1-2 : Liam Dahlia Anya Elizabeth

Tuesday 2:30 – 3:30 : Nellen, Lauren, Elizabeth, Xilo

Wednesday 6-7 Shannon, Lauren, Jeamme, Elizabeth.

Younger ones, invite your friends! Let’s get the sophomores and freshmen to come to the

tour.

5. Interviews for Warren Green Applicants will be done the week after spring break.

6. Liam’s birthday will be on Tuesday. He will be having friends over on Friday Night to

celebrate his 21st birthday.

7. We got a valet rack, not a drying rack. We can fix it? We can use Shannon’s drying rack when

we want it. It’s in Dahlia’s room for the moment.

8. PARTY: Poppy’s on this. It’s right after spring break. Thursday March 31st? Tea and Jam.

Tell your friends.

9. String Orchestra tonight at 8.

Economics of Happiness Q & A with

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Share the Love, 18 February 2011

Thanks to Kady for the photos!

getting ready for spring!

Goodbye Winter!

Berk (and Xilo)

Beryl and Jeamme

Nellen, Pops, Shannon

27 February 2011

1. Missing: Anya, Tomas, Dahlia
2. March 7th: Info Sessions for New Members
a. Monday 1-2
b. Tuesday 2:30-3:30
c. Wednesday 6-7
3. Eat lentils; lentils=love
4. Big dinner funded; Poppy’s event, tea and jam not funded by Senate, but found alternate funding
5. Bulk: Xilo will call natural food store and whole foods, Bronxville re: price and compare with whole foods→brown rice, granola, beans and quinoa
6. Party: “money is imaginary” We’re not having another event. Not having another baked goods. Elizabeth will be paid back by not paying for two weeks.
7. Thanks for doing dishes today!

Jan 23rd Meeting

Goals and Projects -What we haven’t done/What we could do better:

- A party a monthy

o February 11^th Sweets Potluck

§ Support other groups on campus

§ Jaime Budget

o “Tea and Jam” March 31^st

o Big Event Earth Day with other environmental groups!! Saturday April 20^th?

§ Clothing Swap

§ PETA

§ Fund a speaker? Alums? A Band?

· Annie Novak

· Woman who works at the barge

· Geography department’s Enviro summit (Dahlia)

§ Utilize social justice groups on campus

§ Potential schedule:

· Dinner on Friday

· Band Saturday afternoon, clothing swap, PETA BBQ

o Mini Beer Garden

§ Coordination

· 2 people in charge of the whole thing

o Submit budget for big party NOW

- Northeastern Real Food Challenge (Shannon) in February

o Shannon

o Jaime get funding

- “Economics of Happiness” film (Dahlia) at Cooper Union 6:30

- Co-op

o petition website

o Send out a doodle (Anya)

o List

§ Berkeley

§ Nellen

§ Shannon

§ Lauren

§ Liam

§ Anya

- SSSF Dinner (Laren

- Ideas for events:

o Valentines event

o Tea and Jam

o Big Party (nicer weather?)

Ideas for house positions:

- Poppy will make the list of house positions to put up

House Notes:

- keep the honey right side up

Shopping:

- $20

- Owe lenna $15

- Buy Pasta

Last House Meeting of the Semester

Missing: Poppy, Xilo, Anya, Tomas, Berkeley, Nellen, Elizabeth

Garden:

• close it up for the winter, break up soil, cover it up w/ cardboard
• Wednesday or Thursday
• help Liam!

Fridge:

• clear out perishables
• clean out drawers, make it a 2 person chore
• shopping for less food

• $20 this week

• Another sustainable house: make a petition over break, get signatures and give them to Housing

House Meeting 11/21/10

Missing: Poppy, Anya, Nora, Elizabeth

Stuff:

• go shopping Monday
• try for 10:00 Sunday meeting
• 10 mins of dishes/ kitchen cleaning worked well
• Jeamme, Dahlia, Xilo staying here
• make sure kitchen’s clean before leaving
• last week we went over, Shannon won’t pay for a couple weeks
• Xcel document of who pays?
• lock doors while on break

House Meeting 11/14/10

Missing: Jeamme, Dahlia, Shannon

$25 this week

Cheese:

• save till Friday instead of Thursday

Food shopping:

• Fairway, rice cakes from A& P
• heartier bread

CSA:

· Nellen can volunteer, we need to hear from woman in charge

· last week to get vegetables

Dishes:

• kitchen was nasty
• don’t fill sink with dishes? space to do them

Staying for T-giving:

Jeamme and Xilo

Fire safety crap:

Hide your stuff!

Meeting Notes Nov 7 2010

Missing: Beryl, Nora

1. Money and Food:
this week $25, ran low on food this week; essential things; fairway; less treats, more essentials;
staples: bread, milk, egg, cheese, rice cake, peanut butter, butter, tomatoes, jam, flour, onions, garlic, coffee, (tea), nuts and dried berries, veggies (csa), yogurt
liam- apple butter
2. Tea: Darjeeling or duke of earl, kava?
3. Shopping Vans:
a. Berk- Tuesday after 1:30
Wed between 330-7
b. Anya Wed before 1
c. dahlia wed before 12:30, 3:30-7
d. operations talk to mo about van
4. shopping this week:
a. Anya and Shannon with Hazel’s car: $5 for gas
b. CSA:
i. Volunteer: next Monday, Nellen’s going next Monday 3-6, Xilo and Berk may be able to go;
ii. Food: Berk is going with Lenna
5. Dishes: Dahlia noticed dishes built up but not as bad; Shannon says Xilo is rock star; Xilo- kitchen now, not dishes
6. Cleaning: Tomas looking for pots and saw in cabinet there’s some residue, bacteria substance; add cupboard chore
7. Common Room Quiet Hours: not observed this week
8. Table: got a table for living room; Berk and Xilo got table
9. Slonim Green and Future Events: Submitted budget for $300 event in living room, perhaps slo living room, maybe next semester, not here; excited about their event, maybe we can give a few hands and support it; last week of nov and first week of dec;
10. Winter Event: hot chai and snacks; perhaps don-prof dinner, wine, second semester; Tea and Jam event, potluck, low key, cider; December maybe
11. Science barge: next semester ; Taylor Roof: Tuesday between 1:30 and 3:30 perhaps

House Meeting 10/24/10

Missing: Elizabeth

Event Clean-up:

• give AVI back their stuff
• don’t leave stuff caked on!
• big scary bean pot….

Shopping:

• rides?
• need more staples/ bulk stuff:

-rice

-granola

• CSA- volunteering, Shannon for details (Berkeley is going)
• Stop-N-Shop DOES have local/organic.
• $20 noon tomorrow
• Dahlia, Nora going on Wednesday-ish

Slonim People:

• “Wild Man” Steve Brill
• Invite people from the Slonim FH to tell them how we do things for dinner?
• possibly next Sunday at 7 pm, potluck with an e-mail invite or Facebook

Post- Event Discussion:

• make more of a clean-up plan next time around, have hourly sign-up system for cleaning
• went really well!!!
• distribute work more evenly next time so that cooking coordinator doesn’t have to do so much (maybe they don’t cook next time?)
• coordinate people’s schedules better, make sure people can work together at the same time
• next time not have an event after Study Days
• over 100 people!
• earlier on in the year because it was cold
• set time earlier in the day so that people can be outside
• Spring event?
• co-sponsorship with PETA barbecue- we can get more funding that way
• ID-taking system rocked! and make them do their dishes while they’re at it.

Miscellaneous:

• bushes overgown, prune them?
• ECO meeting tomorrow in Black Squirrel
• Nellen- schedule for this week

Warren Green Community Dinner

It was a night of folk music, party dresses, and more beans than we could ever handle.

House Meeting 10/20/10

House Meeting 10/20/10

Absent: Nellen, Liam

Shopping/ Money:

• for Friday first, then for house at the same time if there’s time
• week’s delay for van licenses… grrr.
• money by tonight in jar- $20
• money for event: full funding! Dahlia fronting money.

Event:

• people- sign up for work duty!
• everything but clean-up taken, we’ll all chip in
• other Mead Way houses okay with us using their kitchens, we use our own stuff
• numbers of people to contact to get into houses
• use pots/pans from AVI?
• tables from AVI or College Events
• give your ID and get a bowl
• Knife demonstration by Jeamme!

Clean-up for Guests:

• common room cleaned for guy tomorrow

House Meeting 10/10/10

Missing: Liam

Party:

-Menu: roasted root vegetables, pumpkin, squash, etc. + bean stew, rice, salads, fruit crisp

apple pie?

-use other ovens on Mead Way

-need people to sign up for cooking, $400 budget

-decorations: wax leaves

-bands (Liam’s, or others), Anya in charge of getting in touch with musicians

Beer:

-still in progress, we did wine instead

Dishes:

-dishes did not get done on the weekend….

-Do ‘em, people!

-dishwasher demo!

-super-auto dishwasher setting is unnecessary, auto will do it

-wash knives immediately, try to reuse utensils

-put away clean dishes the next day?

Fridge:

-put dates on take-out food, if it’s over two weeks throw it away

-put labels on food containers

Mug Hoarding:

Stop doing it, people!

October Study Days:

Who’s going to be here? Make list of people to calculate food costs etc.

-dropped from 13 to 8, and Shannon’s sister

-buy more this week so that there’s food left over for when people come back next week

-people staying put in $25-30

Van Drivers’ Licenses:

-those who aren’t terrified of driving should get them

-CSA pick-up on Monday: Xilo/Nellen?

Sustainability SLC:

-Friday B week

-Salvage Drive, more locations

-they’re trying to get a Sustainability Coordinator, going through process of getting one

-AVI on agenda to commit to local ingredients, recycle, compost, treat workers well

-student position to make sure AVI is fulfilling their contract

-Eli’s composting: Warren is supposed to be the only compost facility

-ZipCar for students

-Energy audit on campus: only managed to completely audit Warren Green

-Yonkers community for energy- film students interested in petitioning Yonkers local government

-have Slonim Faculty House over for dinner

-climate pledge not being fulfilled, trying to make it be

Cat:

-take cat here?

Heat:

-cold rooms all the time, but don’t use until it really is cold

-get a spaceheater for Dahlia, rug to insulate the floor, window coverings

Environment:

-create spaces to talk about how we got interested in the environment

-we live here, but we don’t really talk about it

-liason with Eco-Club (Black Squirrel every other Monday), joint-sponsorship

Boxes:

-those who are leaving for Oct. study days take out stuff if there's anything of theirs in the boxes, those staying can throw them out

CSA:

-Berkeley, maybe Nellen

*-change shopping day to Sunday!*

-figure out the rest after October Study Days

Pumpkin Soup!!!

The coziest autumn rainy-night soup. Ever.

Made by our wonderful Nora and Elizabeth!

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon unsalted butter
½ tablespoon flour
2 tablespoons brown sugar
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon powdered ginger
¼ teaspoon black pepper
Nutmeg, to taste

dried thyme

chili flakes
3 cups water (or less)
¾ cup milk mixed with yogurt
3 cups pureed cooked pumpkin

onions and garlic

Directions:

1. Sauteé onions and garlic in olive oil until transparent.

2. Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add flour and stir with a wooden spoon until thick and light golden, 1 to 2 minutes. Add sugar, salt, ginger, pepper, and nutmeg; stir to incorporate.

3. Add water and cream; bring to a boil over high heat, whisking constantly. Add pumpkin puree and whisk until smooth.

4. Heat until warmed through, adjust seasonings, and serve.

*Also, it's super-delicious served with sweet cornbread.

Meeting Notes Oct. 3rd

Anya gets her van-driving license this week!

Chores

- Facilitator = responsible for making sure that the chore schedule is filled

- Everyone does 2 hrs of either cooking or dishwashing in addition to other chores you sign up for (to avoid the problem of some chores being left blank)

CSA

- Two people to volunteer as part of being a 3:00 – 6:50 on Monday (Nellen for the following Monday, and someone else)

- Berkeley pick up this Monday

Money

- Pay Berkeley for Gas for last week

- Buy coffee from TJs

- 20 dollars - $150 for groceries

o Soy milk

o Yogurt

o Bread

o Cheese

o Running list on the fridge

o Surface cleaner?

Utilize Bates

Party

- Write on the fridge: Dish, how much you need, and list of what ingredients are, and price

- Figure out what we’re making

- Roasted veggies? Pasta? Beans?

Budget Meeting Monday

- Talk about ordering tea

Tea

- Pull money for it separately

- All loose leaf

- Look at the website Elizabeth e-mailed with us

Garden

- Let it produce until it doesn’t, and then plant a cover crop (too late for cold frame)

- Cover crop – winter rye

- Ask about combination to the shed (Elizabeth)

Beer

- Everyone who wants in slip $5 under Berkeley’s door

SLC Democrats at the black squirrel Tuesday at 6