This was the first meeting where we started off knowing what we were going to do: hold a "Beef Free Week" from June 6 to June 12. The goal is to educate people about how America's appetite for eating cows is destroying the Amazon rainforest, which we need to take carbon out of the air and slow climate change. We will ask students to pledge to not eat beef, and to get their parents to not serve beef to their family.

Our three team leads (Communications, Organizing and Outreach) and a guest student met during lunch to come up with a plan to make Beef-Free Week a success. Mr. M. had run "Screen-Free Weeks" in schools a long while ago and still had materials for those.

But the world is a lot different now: not so many people listen to the radio, and social media is a much more powerful way to get the word out. So we knew we'd need an Instagram account, maybe something inspired by Ollie Mae's Youth Climate Action Now page.

We looked at the old Screen Free Week work plan and adapted the tasks for a Beef-Free Week, assigning the tasks to team leads. Then Mr. M. showed us Asana, a project planning program, and we decided to use it and get accounts. We also created a Google Site (this one).

After the meeting, Mr. M. moved all the tasks we had planned over there, and we've been updating it ever since. The image above is a screen-shot from a week later, showing some tasks completed and still to do.