It's almost finals! RELAX! or at least try to. Come have free pizza and soda, meet other people from EWB and watch a movie.

We will be having our second Banquet meeting on Thursday. This is, and will be on an annual basis, an integral part of our fundraising from now on. For those of you who do not know, we have LOST our funding from segregated fees. I repeat, we have no more money coming from ASM, so this is our only major permanent source of income to support travel, meetings, stipends, etc.

Bob Rozmiarek, Senior Business Analyst of Virent Energy Systems, Inc., will be presenting on the company's developing green technology: bioforming. Learn more about this up and coming local clean, green business.

please meet in 1143 Mechanical Engineering for the PMgrs and Officers meeting, Nov. 20th, 2008.

Looking to get more involved in EWB? This Thursday, the Fundraising Committee and Banquet Committee will be meeting in 1055 ECB at 7:00PM to go over current fundraiser updates and begin planning for the Spring Banquet. Please stop on by if you're able, as there is plenty to do and we're looking for anyone willing to help out. A brief agenda of the evening can be found in the fundraising section of the forum.

Thanks!
Daniel Merrick Burkhardt

Meeting to discuss the fund raising committee

We will be planning what we need to accomplish this Friday for our test burn at the Foundry.

So I've(Danielle McIntosh) been in touch with Growing Power out of Milwaukee (http://www.growingpower.org/) about a tour for EWB members. If you haven't heard of it before, Growing Power just won the MacArthur Genius award. They are involved in urban agriculture and have projects like teaching
composting, and a really nifty aquaculture setup (check out the website...it's called aquaponics!). I think that this could really apply to our communities. The cost would be $7/person if we have over 10 people, and $10/person if we have under 10.

This group will tackle the many water and sanitation problems of Orongo, Kenya. We are focused on three things:
1) Treating their existing drinking water so it is safe
2) Building latrines that don't collapse or flood during their rainy season
3) Educating both children and adults about sanitation and safe water

Starting in November, this group is working on building a slow sand filter and will be building a prototype here in madison on Sunday November 16th! So feel free to contact Mark at mwliu@wisc.edu if you want to help out!

We are researching possible agroforesty solutions to help out the community of Orongo, Kenya. Starting in the Spring of 2008, several members began researching the Moringa plant using university greenhouse space. We are excited to continue our research and come up with a practical development plan to begin an agroforestry project at Orongo Primary School. If you are interested in joining this kind of project, we could use your help regardless of your background, so feel free to stop by! If you have any questions, e-mail Nathan Werbeckes.

All of our subgroups will meet to present our progress and collaborate to see if any of our projects overlap and how they might work together. If nothing else, it will be exciting to hear what all our peers have been working so hard on!

Our Kenya group still could use some more help so if you are interested in joining us, please come out and see what we're about! Absolutely no experience or technical expertise is required.

> */*Grant Writing Workshop/* (MCSC)*//*
> *Location:* 6176 Helen C. White
> *Time:* Thursday, October 30^th 4:30-5:30PM
>
> * *
> *Announcement:* Attention Student Groups and Potential Grant-Writers!! The
> Multicultural Student Coalition, in conjunction with the Writing Center, is
> thrilled to announce the next grant writing workshop. This free, hour long
> session will give you the inside scoop on writing grant proposals and IP forms
> to help you in attaining University funding for your upcoming projects and