Another Tuesday night, another meeting. Or conference call, rather. Shane and Adrien joined me for our weekly meeting tonight and we were quite on the ball with the agenda. Unfortunately, Kevin is no longer with us either. We’re going to canvas hard for people to fill Tech, Finance, and PR.
Well, we’re on the ball moving through the agenda at least. With all of the business going on in the past week, almost half of our action items ended up in varying stages of completion. Of the things we did accomplish, reading and meeting with people were at the top of the list. We’re slow on working on our fundraising, specifically working on the Youth Venture Social Entrepreneur grant application and combing through the grant databases, but that will ideally pick up after this weekend. Personally, I still need to read Diagnostico, which I plan on making a priority for the next couple of days.
The next month will be a month of a number of meetings for ODA. As I reported last week, I met with Bethany of the PPPM program who offered a number of creative ideas for us to seek the support of the community, and get them involved. On Friday, Shane, Adrien, and I also met with Megan of Allen Hall Advertising (AHA). We’re interested in collaborating with AHA to extend word of what we’re doing and, from the conversation, it sounds like they are too. Of the ideas we came up with thus far, these are the things they could help with:
- Art installations of appropriate technology sculptures (including a Biosand filter, solar panels, a micro hydro setup, and/or a wind turbine)
- Bringing FLOW: For the Love of Water to campus in November as a fundraiser
- A lecture series in the month of January or February
Along all of these lines, we’re going to step up efforts to people aware online. Join the ODA Facebook Group, yo!
Also of importance from the meeting are a few things. First, the feeling Shane got from reading through the aquifer recharge and reforestation research was that the two are somewhat contradictory. I’ll let him clarify in a later post, but the understanding I have is that the more trees are in the ground, the less likely water is to percolate through and recharge the groundwater. I think this might be an extreme situation, though, as no trees at all means increased runoff and soil erosion. It’s all about finding the proper balance. Moving forward, he’s going to continue reading through EWB reports, and Adrien and I will continue working on the needs assessment. We’ve recently (i.e. today) received updated information from Anna that is very promising.
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