[Editors] MIT Environmental Writing Contest: Exploring Solutions, Preserving the Future

[Amy B. Donovan]

Dear MIT Editors,
I'm pleased to forward this information on the MIT Environmental Writing 
Contest; Exploring Solutions, Preserving the Future. 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. This is the first 
contest of this kind to be open to staff, so we welcome and encourage your 
essays!

I've also attached a PDF copy of the poster for the contest. Please post 
this in your area and anywhere else you can, and forward to your colleagues 
and email lists for distribution.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Cheers,
Amy

Please forward the message below:
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Will Your Words Change the World?

The Working Group on Support Issues invites faculty, students, and staff to 
participate in the Environmental Writing Contest: Exploring Solutions, 
Preserving the Future.

Do you have a solution to environmental issues, whether MIT-specific or 
global in perspective? We want to hear about it.

Submitting your essay to Exploring Solutions, Preserving the Future can 
result in great things, from being printed in a major publication 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?
Winners will be announced at the MIT Earth Day 2006 event.
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: 
<http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/writing_contest.html>http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/writing_contest.html

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)
<http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling>http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling

Please see, and post, the attached flyer.

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Amy Donovan
Co-Chair, Working Group Recycling Committee (WGR) 
http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/
Enter our Environmental Writing Contest! 
http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/writing_contest.html
Editor, The Bale http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml
adonovan at mit.edu

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.

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