Stockton Eco-municipality Interest Group Meeting #4

December 6, 2007

Attendees: 

Sue Anderson, Jeanne Dodge, Karen Dostal, Elizabeth & Josef Pitta, Alec Linde, Mary Maller, Kim Becken, Tara Stormoen

Special guests:

Carrie Bea Ziolkowski and Sara Windjue KEEP Program Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education

Sue updated us on the two light bulb projects – the family project is well underway. Cindy Davis was successful with Lowe’s donating 96 bulbs and the family is currently monitoring incandescent bulb usage for 2 months before changing over to the CFL. WPS bills will be used to monitor. Updates to follow. Second project – CFL give-a-way will be discussed with the KEEP staff later in the meeting.

Find it in Stockton Directory  - Mary is working with local food producers and also contacted People’s Meats. They work with many local producers and are willing to place a clipboard at their place of business to sign folks up for the Stockton Directory. Sue reported that 12 forms have been sent in from various types of services.

Mary reported that Tim Krause from the Department of Computer design on the UWSP campus will have students available to work with us on a web design. We will have a conversation with him in January.

Other ideas: Tapping the landfill for energy – contact person is: Meleesa Johnson This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   346-5969 office #

We welcomed Carrie Bea Ziolkowski and Sara Windjue KEEP Program – they spoke to us about the Bright Idea fund raiser. Possibility of working with Bannach School and churches was discussed. Other possible ideas: Town of Stockton Fire Department Open House – Jeanne Dodge will bring this up at the Town meeting Dec. 10^th.  Also election days in April and November would be excellent times to do the fund raiser for our group and accomplish our goal of getting the bulbs into the homes of Stockton residents. Keep is willing to work with us on any of these projects.

They also gave us information on the WEEB Energy Grant which Tara will work on for us. We can apply through the Town of Stockton. We will be able to get a supply of posters and education materials from KEEP to use at our events. We can also check into posters, etc. that may be available from WPS or Allient Energy.

Franks hardware and most businesses that sell the LED lights also recycle them. We would like to keep the recycling aspect a part of the distribution and usage process.

Next mtg. : Have our group work on a resolution to keep Old Hwy 18 & Smokey Rd open. Other ideas: Food Not Lawns book – Town of Stockton park community garden. Work on goals and mission statement for our group - to keep us on track.

We celebrated Tara’s birthday with cake (locally grown eggs) and Elizabeth shared a project she is working on with Community Industries – local art work called the Art Guild  project.

Next meeting Jan. 3^rd 7pm

Submitted by Kim Becken