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<font size=3>Dear MIT Editors,<br><br>
We're writing again to let you know that the MIT Environmental Writing
Contest; <b><i>Exploring Solutions, Preserving the Future
</i></b>deadline has been extended to this Friday, February 10. Would you
please forward this email again to your mailing lists or any interested
parties, and cc us (staffrecycles@mit.edu) on the email? <br><br>
Thanks!<br>
Amy and Anne for WGR<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:32:35
-0500<br>
To: editors@mit.edu<br>
From: "Amy B. Donovan" <adonovan@mit.edu><br>
Subject: MIT Environmental Writing Contest: Exploring Solutions,
Preserving the Future<br>
Bcc: annew@mit.edu, <adonovan@MIT.EDU><br><br>
Dear MIT Editors,<br>
I'm pleased to forward this information on the MIT Environmental Writing
Contest; <b><i>Exploring Solutions, Preserving the Future.</i></b> Please
forward to your mailing lists. Thanks for helping us spread the word to
all of the MIT community, whether they be faculty, students, or staff.
<b>This is the first contest of this kind to be open to staff, so we
welcome and encourage your essays!<br>
</b><br>
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.<br>
Cheers,<br>
Amy </font></blockquote><br><br>
<font size=3><b><u>Please forward the message below:<br>
</u></b>~~~~~~~~~<br>
</font><font size=4><b><i>The Environmental Writing Contest: Exploring
Solutions, Preserving the Future<br>
</i></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>**EXTENDED
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 10, 2006**<br>
</font><font size=3>Will Your Words Change the World?<br><br>
</b>The Working Group on Support Issues invites faculty, students, and
staff to participate in the Environmental Writing Contest:
<b><i>Exploring Solutions, Preserving the Future.<br><br>
</i></b>Do you have a solution to environmental issues, whether
MIT-specific or global in perspective? We want to hear about
it.<br><br>
Submitting your essay to <b><i>Exploring Solutions, Preserving the
Future</i></b> can result in great things, from being printed in a major
publication (such as Worldwatch Institute, Orion, E-magazine, Geotimes,
Wired) to a permanent home for your ideas in the Barker Library, or
winning free passes to the IMAX theatre at the New England Aquarium. Why
not share your ideas?<br>
Winners will be announced at the MIT Earth Day 2006 event. <br>
To learn more, including submission guidelines, a list of judges, prizes,
writing tips, research and writing resources, and information on our IAP
workshops, please visit:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/writing_contest.html"><b>http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/writing_contest.html<br><br>
**Contest deadline: January 30, </a><u>2006
</u></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>**EXTENDED
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 10, 2006**<br><br>
</b></font><font size=3>Sponsored by: The Working Group on Support Staff
Issues, the Environmental Programs Office, the Department of Facilities,
SAVE (Share A Vital Earth), Students for Global Sustainability,
Terrascope, the Lab for Energy and the Environment, and SHASS (School of
the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) <br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling<br><br>
<br>
</a></font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=3 color="#008000">*******************************************************************************************************************<br>
</font><font size=3><b>Amy Donovan<br>
</font><font size=2>Co-Chair, Working Group Recycling Committee (WGR)
</b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/</a>
<br>
</font><font size=3><b>Enter our Environmental Writing Contest!
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/writing_contest.html" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/writing_contest.html</a><br>
</font><font size=2>Editor, The Bale
</b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml</a><br>
</font><font size=2 color="#0000FF"><b><u>adonovan@mit.edu<br><br>
</u></font><font size=3>The mission of the MIT Working Group Recycling
Committee is to develop and deliver programs that educate administrative
and support staff about recycling, reducing and reusing goods. Efforts
include identifying/addressing gaps in staff understanding about
recycling as well as gaps in recycling resources and creating ways to
increase recycling at MIT. <br>
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