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Next Meeting this Friday, April 9th @ 11:00am

The next meeting has been rescheduled to this FRIDAY at 11:00am at Midtown Deli at 12th and Walker. Please come if you can and help us get geared up for the Recycle Event and Cocktail Party.
See you there!

Blog Update

Hi Everyone!
Just a short note...I've updated the Blog Settings from our meeting yesterday. I've changed how we are notified of new posts. This is a test. If you get an automatic email about this post, please email me directly sarah@agentnetworking and let me know. Trying to work the bugs out!
Stay dry and go sell something!
Sarah

Next Meeting

Hello Green Council Members... I'm gearing up for the next meeting and need all of your help. If you were assigned to a task, please make sure you have it completed and be ready to report back to the group on Thursday. If you aren't sure where you need to be helping, CALL ME or email me 405-850-0362 or Sarah@agentnetworking.com We have 2 major projects coming up in April and they are quickly approaching! I hope everyone can make it to the meeting. We need YOUR help! I'll see everyone on Thursday @ 9:30am!

Facebook Fan Page

If you are not a fan of the Facebook page, please add it and suggest it to friends and colleagues who you think might be even remotely interested. We need some interaction on the page. Facebook is a great way to promote events and organizations but if there is no interaction people won't go back to it. I would like to start promoting the Earth Day event on the page. Vickie, if you could set that up as an event, that would be great. I noticed we only have 16 fans as of today. We should have 100's by now so start sending it out to your sphere. I just sent it out to mine. Sarah, you should be able to send 100's of folks to it with all the Realtors you are connected to! :) Also Vickie, can you say where we are located? The Green REsource Council is nationwide so we should probably say that we are the OKC chapter. Thanks a bunch! I expect to see at least a hundred fans on there by week's end.

Did everyone see the comments/picture from the national speaker, Doug Devitre, about the green resource council? Check it out (scroll to the bottom) >>>

Hello Green Resource Council! I have attached the minutes from the last meeting. Thank you all for participating in the Spring Conference! I think your bags were a hit!

Logo Ideas

Here area couple ideas for logos based on our conversation in the last meeting. Let me know what you think.

Greening the MLS

Here is what I came up with for potential Green MLS fields. I do realize that some of these may not apply due to certain building codes. I believe Oklahoma does not allow cob or monolithic adobe construction and it seems there is something weird with wind turbines and height. These may not be allowed in the city, but be okay outside the city. Let me know your thoughts. Sustainable certifications/reports • NAHB (Bronze, Silver, Gold) • USGBC LEED (Silver, Gold, Platinum) • HERS or Energy Smart Home Scale Rating Location, Lot Design/description, Development • Infill • Native Plants/drought resistant landscape/xeriscape (lot description) • Compost (lot description) • Rain garden • Permeable surfaces for drives, sidewalks, patios (parking) • Solarium/sun room/green house • Solar heated pool or spa/solar cover (pool type) • Sprinkler timer Resource Efficiency • SIP/ICF (construction) • Thermal mass construction • Green/living roof (roof) • Radiant barrier (roof) • Natural building material (adobe, straw bale, rammed earth) • FSC Certified wood (interior features) • Rapidly renewable flooring (bamboo, cork, recycled wood) • Recycled content for building materials • Locally available, indigenous material • Wind generator • turbines Energy Efficiency • Energy Star rated windows/skylights • Low E dual pane windows • Storm doors/storm windows • Energy Star ceiling fans • Energy Star appliances • Energy Star lighting • Solar hot water system • Solar photovoltaic system • Passive solar system • Radiant Flooring • High R value insulation • EPA Rated Fireplace/heatilator • Programmable thermostat • Geo-thermal • Whole house fan • Zoned A/C • LED lighting • Natural Day lighting • Chemical free insulation Water Efficiency • Rainwater harvesting • Grey water plumbing • Point-of-use on demand tankless hot water heater • Solar hot water heater • Low flow faucets and showerheads • Dual-flush/low flow toilet • Energy Star water conserving appliances • Low volume drip irrigation Indoor Environmental Quality • EPS Energy Star Indoor Air Quality Package • Exhaust systems in kitchen/bath vent to outside • Whole house air filtration system • Green seal certified or low VOC coatings/paints • Green label certified carpets/backings • Cabinets have no formaldehyde resins/Low VOC

Electric Company Resources

I am actively researching the local electric companies to find out what kind of community initiatives they have in place to help us on our mission to GoGreenOKC! If anyone has any resources, links, people, etc...feel free to comment. Thanks!

March Meeting Notes

Hey Everyone! Thanks for participating in the meeting today. I don't know about you, but I'm excited about the future of the Green Resource Council at OKCMAR! Let's all keep the dialogue going here on the blog. You'll see a lot of posts from me in the upcoming days as I work on all of our "projects". Feel free to jump in anytime and comment.

Sign up for Spring Conference Booth

We need some volunteers to man our booth at next month's conference. Please sign-up for a time slot below by posting a comment of when you could attend. As a volunteer you will receive the entire conference registration for the cost of lunch only, $25 a day. Contact Kelli McNeal (kmcneal@okcmar.org – 841-5326) or Leslie Miller (lmiller@okcmar.org – 841-5347) to register for the conference. Here's the coverage needed: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:00 – 10:00 10:00 – 12:00 12:00 – 2:00 2:00 – 4:00 4:00 – 5:30 Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:00 – 10:00 10:00 – 12:00 12:00 – 2:00

Recap of Conference Call

Thanks everyone for attempting the call today. I personally have had computer issues all week so I apologize for the short notice on how to get on the call. We should have all the bugs worked out for the next one (crossing fingers). The main things we decided during the call were: *The URL for the resource page www.gogreenokc.com *Our next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, March 4th at 9:30 at OKCMAR. This is pending availability of the board room at OKCMAR. I will confirm ASAP so we can all get it on our calenders. *Leslie Denton is moving to Arkansas and will no longer be a member of the committee. We will miss you Leslie! *Katrina has a few logo ideas she is going to post to the blog. *Simon is going to be helping coordinate the drop off points for the Earth Day recycle drive *Gayle is going to be helping Michelle and Elizabeth with details on the cocktail party That's about it, in a nutshell. Sorry we missed everyone else. I'm looking forward to speaking to each of you in the near future!

Drop Locations

In talking with my broker after the call today about volunteering the Keller Williams Choctaw office as a possible site, she brought up a great question:

Does the spot need to be indoors or out?

Since we are not specifying what type of materials will be taken/excluding it might not be a good idea to ask our locations to house the waste inside. This would also allow for a drop-off any time, rather than normal business hours.

That said, leaving the items outside would potentially leave us open to having all kinds of things dropped.

Any thoughts?

Location for Earth Day Event

I have a friend at Boldt and I asked him about renting out the lobby. They are offering to host our event for FREE. He told me to call him on Monday to firm up details. They are a silver LEED certified building with 36 credits. They were the first silver in Oklahoma, I believe. Thoughts?

Web address?

GreenerOKC.com GoGreenOKC.com OKCGreenSource.com GreenSourceOKC.com Any thoughts? Any others? Let's vote. Post a comment with your favorite.

URL/Facebook

Hello! I wanted to check on the status of a web address and the facebook group. Has anyone given it any thought? I also wanted to let you know that we will be ordering the reuseable bags the beginning of next week, for the Spring Conference. (I think we are trying to stay away from the bright green bags, unless that is what you'd refer?) I will be devoting part of my day tomorrow to the OKCMAR Facebook & Twitter accounts, if you'd like me to create the GRC group just let me know.

New Members

I want to welcome 5 new prospective members to our group! We are very excited to collaborate on the Green Issues at hand! Please continue to reach out to our OKCMAR Membership to find other like-minded individuals and businesses that want to help us with our mission. Jeanie Mabry Churchill Brown Nichols Hills - 613.8627 Mondy Pahlka Keller Williams Northwest - 204.7949 Simon Shingleton Keller Williams Northwest - 633.3611 Gayle Hough Keller Williams Northpointe - 659.2572 Temur Akhmedov Andy Janko Realty - 229.9165

Let's try this...

After a very productive first meeting of the OKCMAR Green Resource Council, we all decided that it would be fantastic if we could keep the conversation moving forward between official "meetings". I created a yahoo group, but I think it might be easier for everyone to communicate here instead. I've sent all members an invitation to become an administrator so we can all post. Thoughts?