[Env seminars] MIT Celebrates Earth Week: free lectures, food, entertainment, exhibits

[Amy B. Donovan]

MIT Celebrates Earth Week: free lectures, food, entertainment, exhibits, 
and more!

MIT Earth Day 2006
Thursday, April 27, 2006 | 10am-4pm
Stata Center, Building 32

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. Full schedule, information and updates at: 
<http://web.mit.edu/earthday>http://web.mit.edu/earthday

The schedule of Earth Week events is as follows:

Friday, April 21
5:00 - 8:00 pm
TSMC Lobby, Stata Center (near the Question Mark)
Zero Waste Party free local/organic food, door prizes, and games; bring 
your own cup
Sponsored by Students for Global Sustainability (SfGS) and the Technology 
and Policy Student Society (TPSS)
(<http://openwetware.org/wiki/SfGS:_Zero-Waste_Party>http://openwetware.org/wiki/SfGS:_Zero-Waste_Party) 


Tuesday, April 25
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Bartos Theater, 20 Ames St. (E15-070)
"Links between land, freshwater, the sea and you"
Speaker: Dr. Caroly Shumway, Senior Scientist for Aquatic
Biodiversity, New England Aquarium
(<http://people.bu.edu/cshumway/Conservation.html>http://people.bu.edu/cshumway/Conservation.html) 

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.

Tuesday, April 25
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Meet at steps of the Stratton Student Center (W20)
Walking Tour of MIT green campus initiatives including a solar power 
system, Stata Center bioswale, Co-Generation plant, algae bioreactor and more
Space is limited; sign up with Steve Lanou at 
<mailto:slanou at mit.edu>slanou at mit.edu.

Wednesday, April 26
12:00 -1:00 pm
Wong Auditorium (E51)
"The Charles River: Cambridge's front yard: The transformation from 
industrial mudflats to recreational parklands."
Speaker: Renata von Tscharner, President, Charles River Conservancy 
(<http://www.thecharles.org/>http://www.thecharles.org)
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
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.

Wednesday, April 26
7:30 - 8:30 pm
Guililand Auditorium (66-110)
   "SEA CHANGE: Reversing The Tide"
Speakers: Dr. Roger Payne and Ms. Lisa Harrow, Ocean Alliance 
(<http://www.oceanalliance.org/>http://www.oceanalliance.org/)
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 "A Toxic Odyssey" in 
Science, 
<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5677/1584>http<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5677/1584>://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/304/5677/1584 
)

Lecture Series cosponsored by 
<http://www.bamco.com/website/responsibility.html>Bon Appetit.

Thursday, April 27
10 am - 4 pm
Stata Center
MIT Celebrates Earth Day!
<http://web.mit.edu/earthday>http://web.mit.edu/earthday

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.

All events free and open to the public.
Please forward and post. For a free flyer to post in your DLC, reply to 
this email.

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Sponsored by <http://web.mit.edu/earthday>The Working Group Recycling 
Committee, <http://web.mit.edu/facilities>Department of Facilities, 
<http://web.mit.edu/environment/commitment/missions_goals.html>Environmental 
Programs Office, <http://lfee.mit.edu/metadot/index.pl>Laboratory for 
Energy and the Environment, <http://web.mit.edu/save/www/>SAVE, 
<http://openwetware.org/index.php?title=Students_for_Global_Sustainability_Wiki>Students 
for Global Sustainability

Cosponsored by <http://web.mit.edu/abd/>Artists Behind the Desk, 
<http://web.mit.edu/ecat/officedepot/>Office Depot 
,<http://web.mit.edu/commuting/>WG Commuting Task Group, 
<http://web.mit.edu/wg/>Working Group on Support Staff Issues

Lecture Series cosponsored by 
<http://www.bamco.com/website/responsibility.html>Bon Appetit.


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Amy Donovan
Co-Chair, Working Group Recycling Committee (WGR) 
http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/
Editor, The Bale http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/monthly_bale.shtml
adonovan at mit.edu
Join us at MIT's Earth Day Celebration 2006: Thursday April 27 at the Stata 
Center! http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/earthday.html

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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