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Lecture tonight by Prof. Meyer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anke Hildebrandt)
Thu Apr 18 18:24:13 2002
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:23:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anke Hildebrandt <hildebra@MIT.EDU>
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Hi everyone - This is our Earth Week event for Thursday. Professor
Meyer is one of the best lecturers I've seen at MIT. It should be
quit entertaining.
Toh.
SAVE presents:
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Thu April 18, 7 pm
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A Visual History of American Environmentalism
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10-250
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A lecture by Professor Stephen Meyer, MIT Dept of Political Science,
on the environmental history of the United States, from prehistory to
Bush. Professor Meyer directs the MIT Project on Environmental
Politics and Policy.
Refreshments will be served before the talk outside (~6:45 pm)
Part of SAVE's Earth Week activities, co-sponsored by Students for
Global Sustainability (SGS) and the Graduate Student Council (GSC)
Open to all members of the MIT community
Questions? Mail <save-request@mit.edu>
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Anke,
Can you send me the schedule of open slots for Friday? I can probably
help from 12:30 to 1:30 or so. Is the recycling meeting Tuesday or
Wednesday? The 23rd is a Wednesday.
Bis dann,
Elke
Anke Hildebrandt wrote:
> Dear recycling interested dorm residents,
>
> we would like to invite you join us for the first meeting of the Dorm
> Recycling Council, on April 23 at 8 pm in room pdr 1+2 (third floor of
> the Students Center).
>
> Currently, recycling efforts in dorms depend highly on motivated
> students and housing managers who are willing to research and navigate
> their way through a jungle of logistic and bureaucratic challenges.
> So not surprisingly, we've found that recycling is frequently
> inconsistent and poorly implemented in many MIT living centers.
>
> The Dorm Recycling Program is an initiative of students and the MIT
> office for Residential Life. Our goal is to create a practical
> framework to facilitate recycling in dormitories through the Dorm
> Recycling Council. This will bring environmental officers of each
> dormitory and independent living group together with MIT residential
> life administrators, to exchange ideas, identify barriers in current
> recycling practice, and further enable environmental living at MIT.
>
> Once some kind of organized framework has been established, the Dorm
> Recycling Council will be an on-going working group of students and
> administrators, meeting a couple of times a year to evaluate progress
> and engage evolving issues.
>
> Since you are a recyling officer in your dormitory or you have somehow
> else expressed your interest in this issue we would like to invite you
> to have dinner, share ideas, and make plans. Please let us know if you
> will not be able to attend, so that we know how much food to order. If
> you can't come because of other obligations, please send a
> representative in your place from your living center, so that you can
> stay informed of our developments.
>
> Finally, thanks for your leadership in this important challenge facing
> living groups at MIT. We hope to see you soon!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Anke Hildebrandt (MIT student)
> Sam Arey (MIT student)
> Tony Gray (MIT Residential Life administrator)
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Elke Hodson
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
54-1413
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 452-5993
elkeh@mit.edu
