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**Focus Areas:** Green Caterer, Green Invitations, Green Decorations, Hallway Graduation event will feature: || Organic and naturally grown food choices. Composting and recycling all excess food onsite. Using biodegradable tableware non-pulp products. Driving environmentally friendly Autoshare. Supporting community by donating one catering to charity monthly. || Awaiting Quote || Nice place and nice staff. || Use of non-toxic cleaning, recycling and energy conservation measures in our kitchen.
 * OSCSS Summative project Innovation **
 * __ Progress update  __**
 * Event **
 * Green Catering **
 * || Green Initiatives || Cost Bracket || Additional thoughts ||
 * Vert Catering
 * Hearty Catering || Locally grown and organic food.

Rental of china, cutlery and glassware, or biodegradable products rather than disposable. || // Cornucopia: $4.50 per person // // Appetizer Buffet: $4.50 per person // Hot Beverages: // $2.50 per person // Cold Beverages: // $1.50 per person // // Cake: $3.00 per person // Staff- $125 // =1505 – with choosing eiteir cornucopia or buffet // || GOOD DEAL AND GREEN! || Artisan Products (cheese, milk, butter, etc.) Traditionally farmed meat Organic ingredients when possible
 * Viva Haynes || Local ingredients (grains, vegetables, fruit, etc)

Compostable Packaging Rental service for glasses, plates et.) || $40/person OR $1000 for 400 food pieces || Too Expensive || OSC || Didn’t mention any green initiatives || $2548.15 for food $305.10 For staff  + Rentals || Too Expensive || OSC || Small biodegradable plates, wooden forks, brown cocktail napkins, paper coffee cups  || $1282.00 || || OSC || No green initiative || $1486.69 || Just for a reference || -Hatcher florist (no reply :(
 * Encore Catering
 * Dawn’s Dinner Party || Environmentally Friendly. || Awaiting Quote coming monday || ||
 * Gourmet Cuisine
 * Last Years Grad
 * Green Invitations**
 * Plantable invitations (+/- 33) will be made in the OSC paper making station
 * Emails will also be sent out for graduation event
 * The invitations will be made at the paper making station
 * During the actual presentation we will show a film showing us doing an actual invitation
 * Decorations **
 * Repaint
 * Ecological Florist

-Eco Flora :) -environmentaly friendly tablecloths and napkins (Eco Florist) -Flowers used as centrepieces on tables ( 50$ budget)> update: budget not enough

"Green" party solutions: Here is a website with some great ideas (they are directed towards holding a Christmas party, but would be applicable for our grad. party): http://www.checkerspotmagazine.ca/EN/action/how_to/at_home_christmas_party.asp

Here is a party rental company that has environmentally friendly products (such as table clothes) which Danielle had hoped to use: http://www.rentcharlie.com/positivelyposh

IDEAS: Grad invitations to parents should be sent by email, any pamphlets/handouts/our grad. certificates should be printed on recycled paper. Ambitious green students could even try to recycle outfits for their grad. wardrobes. We should all take the TTC to get to grad instead of driving (that would be hilar/environmentally friendly)...perhaps we could give out TTC tokens as an incentive to do so...

heres a nice websiter form david suzuki basically on exactly what were hoping to do! http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/What_You_Can_Do/carbon_neutral_events.asp

Here is a website on how to be an effective activist, there are some helpful hints applicable to our project! http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/activist.html

__**RESEARCH LINKS:**__

Calculating Carbon Footprints/ Graphs: ALL Footprint facts: ALL

Food/catering: Dan & Naz

Exhibit connections + plants: Debbie


 * FASHION SHOW CANCELLED**

Guest speakers/making connections: Rachel **
 * (create possible proposal to guest speaker + powerpoint w/ examples of their work (podcast).....don river organizations (making connections))


 * If you would like to hear some podcast samples of Mark Mattson, go to the iTunes store, go to the Government and Organizations Category and then it is entitled Living At the Barricades (Lake Ontario Waterkeeper). You could even subscribe to it, free of charge if it sparks your interest!

Greener events: Yan. + Ros. Here is the caterers normally used. questions to ask them, and a short listof some vegan/organic/enviromentally friendly catering places

http://www.ootc.ca/ General donations to the Out of the Cold program can be accepted through Dixon Hall. e-mail: **ootc@dixonhall.org**
 * Donating excess food to shelters: Lindsey**

REFER TO HALLWAY FOR ADDITIONAL JOBS