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<h2><font size=4><b>MIT Celebrates Earth Week: free lectures, food,
entertainment, exhibits, and more!<br><br>
MIT Earth Day 2006 <br>
Thursday, April 27, 2006 | 10am-4pm<br>
Stata Center, Building 32</b></font></h2><font size=3>MIT will celebrate
Earth Day on Thursday, April 27 with an all-day celebration at the Stata
Center (Building 32) from 10 am to 4 pm. Several campus groups have
collaborated to make this the largest and most memorable MIT Earth Day
yet. The event will include musical and dance performers, interactive
exhibits and art projects, bike repair, cell phone recycling, efficient
vehicle displays, raffles, giveaways, and exhibits from over 30 groups
inside and outside MIT. <b>Full schedule, information and updates at:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/earthday">http://web.mit.edu/earthday</a><br><br>
<u>The schedule of Earth Week events is as follows:<br><br>
</u>Friday, April 21 <br>
</b>5:00 - 8:00 pm <br>
TSMC Lobby, Stata Center (near the Question Mark)<br>
<b>Zero Waste Party</b> free local/organic food, door prizes, and games;
bring your own cup<br>
Sponsored by Students for Global Sustainability (SfGS) and the Technology
and Policy Student Society (TPSS)<br>
(<a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/SfGS:_Zero-Waste_Party">http://openwetware.org/wiki/SfGS:_Zero-Waste_Party</a>)
<br><br>
<b>Tuesday, April 25 <br>
</b>12:00 - 1:00 pm <br>
Bartos Theater, 20 Ames St. (E15-070) <br>
<b>"Links between land, freshwater, the sea and you"<br>
</b>Speaker: Dr. Caroly Shumway, Senior Scientist for Aquatic<br>
Biodiversity, New England Aquarium<br>
(<a href="http://people.bu.edu/cshumway/Conservation.html">http://people.bu.edu/cshumway/Conservation.html</a>)
<br>
In this talk, Dr. Caroly Shumway, Senior Scientist for Aquatic
Biodiversity from the New England Aquarium, will describe how we are
connected to aquatic life on a daily basis, and what you can do to
conserve aquatic life.<br><br>
<b>Tuesday, April 25 <br>
</b>2:00 - 4:00 pm <br>
Meet at steps of the Stratton Student Center (W20) <br>
<b>Walking Tour of MIT green campus initiatives</b> including a solar
power system, Stata Center bioswale, Co-Generation plant, algae
bioreactor and more<br>
Space is limited; sign up with Steve Lanou at
<a href="mailto:slanou@mit.edu">slanou@mit.edu</a>. <br><br>
<b>Wednesday, April 26 <br>
</b>12:00 -1:00 pm<br>
Wong Auditorium (E51)<br>
<b>"The Charles River: Cambridge's front yard: The transformation
from industrial mudflats to recreational parklands."<br>
</b>Speaker: Renata von Tscharner, President, Charles River Conservancy
(<a href="http://www.thecharles.org/">http://www.thecharles.org</a>)
<br>
Once a polluted wastewater, the Charles River is swimmable again, and
hundreds of acres of parklands provide Cambridge residents a place of
beauty, for celebration<br>
and active recreation. As part of the Big Dig mitigation, new parklands
such as the 40-acre North Point Park, are being created — and at the
center will be a world-class skatepark. Renata will take you on a virtual
tour of this little-known last half-mile of the Charles.<br><br>
<b>Wednesday, April 26<br>
</b>7:30 - 8:30 pm <br>
Guililand Auditorium (66-110) <br>
"<b>SEA CHANGE: Reversing The Tide"<br>
</b>Speakers: Dr. Roger Payne and Ms. Lisa Harrow, Ocean Alliance
(<a href="http://www.oceanalliance.org/">http://www.oceanalliance.org/</a>)<br>
Dr. Roger Payne is best known for his discovery (made with Scott McVay)
that humpback whales sing songs, and for his theory that the sounds of
fin and blue whales can be heard across oceans. The songs of the
humpbacks are featured in this presentation. In 1980 Dr. Payne founded
Ocean Alliance. Its vessel Odyssey has just finished a five-year,
around-the-world "Voyage of the Odyssey" to assess the extent
and level of contaminants (eg. heavy metals and synthetic organic
chemicals) in the Earth's oceans by skin sample analysis of whales (see
the featured article "<b>A Toxic Odyssey</b>" in <b><i>Science,
</i></b><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5677/1584">http</a><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5677/1584">://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5677/1584</a>
)<br><br>
Lecture Series cosponsored by
<a href="http://www.bamco.com/website/responsibility.html">Bon
Appetit</a>. <br><br>
</font><font size=3 color="#008000"><b>Thursday, April 27<br>
10 am - 4 pm<br>
Stata Center<br>
MIT Celebrates Earth Day!<br>
</b></font><font size=3><a href="http://web.mit.edu/earthday">http://web.mit.edu/earthday</a><br><br>
MIT will celebrate Earth Day on Thursday, April 27 with an all-day
celebration at the Stata Center (Building 32) from 10 am to 4 pm. Several
campus groups have collaborated to make this the largest and most
memorable MIT Earth Day yet. The event will include musical and dance
performers, interactive exhibits and art projects, bike repair, cell
phone recycling, efficient vehicle displays, raffles, giveaways, and
exhibits from over 30 groups inside and outside MIT.<br><br>
All events free and open to the public.<br>
Please forward and post. For a free flyer to post in your DLC, reply to
this email.<br>
<hr>
Sponsored by <a href="http://web.mit.edu/earthday">The Working Group
Recycling Committee</a>,
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/facilities">Department of Facilities</a>,
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/environment/commitment/missions_goals.html">Environmental
Programs Office</a>,
<a href="http://lfee.mit.edu/metadot/index.pl">Laboratory for Energy and
the Environment</a>, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/save/www/">SAVE</a>,
<a href="http://openwetware.org/index.php?title=Students_for_Global_Sustainability_Wiki">Students
for Global Sustainability<br>
</a><br>
Cosponsored by <a href="http://web.mit.edu/abd/">Artists Behind the
Desk</a>, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/ecat/officedepot/">Office Depot</a>
,<a href="http://web.mit.edu/commuting/">WG Commuting Task Group</a>,
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/wg/">Working Group on Support Staff
Issues</a><br><br>
Lecture Series cosponsored by
<a href="http://www.bamco.com/website/responsibility.html">Bon
Appetit</a>. <br><br>
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<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>
<b>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>
</u></font><font size=3 color="#008000">Join us at MIT's Earth Day
Celebration 2006: Thursday April 27 at the Stata Center!
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/earthday.html" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/earthday.html</a><br><br>
</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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