<div dir="auto">I reread the criteria, the sustainability forum does meet most of the judgement factors ("impact" may be a difficult metric). I will email the judges at the company tomorrow to get their thoughts and let you know what they say.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Forgive any typos, I'm sending from my phone.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Michael Chisholm</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 31, 2020, 17:18 Dawn Hewitt via Green <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org">green@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br>More about the sustainability grant from DuPont from Michael Chisholm, including what kind of projects will be considered. Ideas please, and soon!<div><br></div><div>—dawn</div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Michael Chisholm via Green <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">green@fuusm.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> May 31, 2020 at 1:56:46 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> Annie Warmke <<a href="mailto:annie@bluerockstation.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">annie@bluerockstation.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Michael Chisholm <<a href="mailto:mchisholm20@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mchisholm20@gmail.com</a>>, Dawn Hewitt via Green <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">green@fuusm.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Re: [Green] Sustainability grant offered locally!</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Green Sanctuary List for Environment Issues <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">green@fuusm.org</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you Dawn. I sent the below message to <a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">green@fuusm.org</a> last week but it sounds like it didn't go through? I'll catch up on the email chain, but attached you can find the application form and criteria. While I believe the Sustainability Forum is fantastic and worth the funding :) my impression is this grant is geared towards the kinds of projects the sustainability forum is trying to inspired the community to implement. It will give us the opportunity to showcase a great example at the forum when we finally nail down a date!<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Fellow Green Sanctuary Members,</div><div><br></div><div>First of all, hope your Memorial Weekend is going well!</div><div>My
company is sponsoring sustainability projects in the local community
with Clear Into the Future grants of up to $10,000 (typical awards are
$5k - $10k). Projects must support one of the following:</div><div> 1. Climate change resilience<br></div><div> 2. Climate change mitigation</div><div> 3. Water stewardship</div><div> 4. Circular economy</div><div> 5. Protect biodiversity</div><div><br></div><div>These
are exactly the type of projects we were trying to inspire the
community to pursue with the sustainability forum! Does anyone have any
ongoing projects or project ideas that this grant can help turn into a
realty?<b> Application is due June 5th and the project must start in year 2020</b>. Please send multiple ideas. I will be the sponsor for the application. Please see attached criteria and application forms.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank You,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Michael Chisholm</div><div><br></div></div>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 9:29 AM Annie Warmke <<a href="mailto:annie@bluerockstation.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">annie@bluerockstation.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Please consider the Sustainability Forum. It has great promise
to change the economy of Marietta by creating a culture of
sustainable practices starting with an assessment, and then a
community-wide meeting. The potential impact is what we are all
longing to see come to life. I will be happy to work with Michael
on this. Annie<br>
</p>
<div>On 5/30/2020 10:17 PM, Dawn Hewitt via
Green wrote:<br>
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Friends,
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<div>I can’t believe it: I assumed Michael Chisholm was
on the GSC mailing list, but he was not! I’ve cc’d him on this
message, forwarded what we discussed previously to him, and
asked Ralph to add him to the list. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I ran into him again this evening, and he wondered
why we weren’t discussing the grant. Well, we did…. but then we
stopped. But Michael wasn’t in on the discussion!!!!!</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Anyway, he is now, and tonight he said that the
grant proposals need to be submitted by THIS FRIDAY! We need to
make a decision on this soon. Michael will take the lead on
sponsoring the proposal, and writing it up. We just need to come
up with something that will fly with DuPont. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Personally, I LOVE Elin’s idea of swift towers along
the river trail! Lots of communities are building them, since
chimney swifts are on the decline, and people cap their
chimneys, or increasingly build houses without chimneys. And, of
course, we long ago took down the vast forests full of ancient
trees, many of which had broken tops—the original nesting sites
for the species. </div>
<div><br>
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<div>Michael, do you think a seriously professional
community-wide sustainability survey would fly with DuPont? Or
funding a super duper Sustainable MOV Forum (but without a date
being set)? Or a seriously great virtual Sustainable Marietta
Forum?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Folks, do we have any other ideas? Michael said
whatever we come up with, the money has to be spent in 2020, and
if DuPont likes the results, it’s possible they’d look favorably
on us again in 2021.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Put on your thinking caps and reply soon. Be sure to
include <a href="mailto:mchisholm20@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mchisholm20@gmail.com</a> on the To: or
cc: line to make sure Michael stays involved in this
conversation. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks!</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>—dawn</div>
<div><br>
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<div>On May 25, 2020, at 4:48 PM, gbanz42--- via
Green <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">green@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:</div>
<br>
<div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">Good idea, Annie, a virtual survey
followed by the in-person event.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
<br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
<br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">It's Dupont not Dow.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
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<br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">---- Annie Warmke via Green <</span><a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">green@fuusm.org</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">> wrote:<span> </span></span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
<blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Let's talk about it online. I will think of
some ideas for a budget. <span> </span><br>
But we don't have to make things happen fully by fall.
The first leg of<span> </span><br>
the forum could be to use the survey with some sort of
rewards to get<span> </span><br>
people to fill it out, then have an online event to
share the outcome<span> </span><br>
and work towards a bigger event. Then based on that
information we<span> </span><br>
could hold the in-person forum a year from this summer
or fall. We can<span> </span><br>
brainstorm how all of that could work. A charging
station or two<span> </span><br>
wouldn't cost that much (tops $2,000) but I can't
believe that the forum<span> </span><br>
wouldn't be seen as something worth investing in, plus
perhaps Dow would<span> </span><br>
be interested in lending us some of their marketing
talent to promote<span> </span><br>
the event and the survey. We can ask for lots of things
I would hope -<span> </span><br>
besides just the $10,000. Annie<br>
<br>
On 5/25/2020 2:20 PM, gbanz42--- via Green wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Dawn:<br>
<br>
This looks like a great opportunity.<br>
<br>
I like your idea of the charging
station--although this will likely benefit only a few
people.<br>
<br>
What about planning a virtual "Sustainability
Forum" for the fall (it's unlikely that in-person
meetings will be OK by then? What are some costs
associated with the Forum if it were virtual?<br>
<br>
<br>
---- Dawn Hewitt via Green <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">green@fuusm.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Dear Green friends,<br>
</blockquote>
I was talking to Michael Chisholm today, and he told
me that DuPont is offering grants for sustainability
projects of up to $10,000–locally. They need to have
an in-house sponsor (MICHAEL!!), and I think he said
the deadline to apply is June 6.<br>
<br>
Imagine what we could pull off if we had up to $10,000
to put on a Sustainable Marietta Forum!! But we can’t
even set a date for that yet, so, let’s come up with a
different idea. How about this: an electric car
charging station (or two) in front of FUUSM that (on
sunny days) would be powered by the SUN—on the roof of
the sanctuary. Maybe we could have a few small panels
installed on posts—part of the charging stations (?)
that connected to FUUSMs system, too, but more visible
to make it clear that cars charged there would be
running on SUNSHINE!!<br>
<br>
Of course, that’s just my idea. Perhaps you can come
up with something even better.<br>
<br>
Michael, will you please tell us the details of this
grant, and how we apply?<br>
<br>
—dawn<br>
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