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Daily DigestYuck!
 There's a winter storm warning in effect until 7 a.m. on Thursday with another 1 to 3 inches of snow expected. Could be another messy commute. |
Duff'em If You've Got'em
 North Adams Regional Hospital went smoke-free Monday — so did all its sister sites, from Sweet Brook to Northern Berkshire Family Practice to the Women's Exchange. No ashtrays, no smoking: No butts about it. |
Wanted: Eagle Eyes
MassWildlife's annual eagle count runs Dec. 31 to Jan. 14. Anyone sighting one of the regal birds in Massachusetts is asked to participate.
Send date, time, location and town of eagle sightings, number of birds, whether juvenile or adult and observer's contact information to Mass.wildlife@state.ma.us. |
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MCLA to participate in national 'Focus the Nation' initiative - January 25, 2008
North Adams – Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will join more than 1,000 colleges, universities, high schools and other institutions across the country in participating in a national education initiative, Focus the Nation.
As part of that initiative, MCLA will host a presentation led by Environmental Studies Instructor Audrey Werner, “Carbon Calculator 101: Your Questions Answered,” on Friday, Feb. 1 in Murdock Hall conference room 218, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
In addition to Werner’s remarks, MCLA student Daniel Harris ’08, a student majoring in environmental studies, who recently completed an internship at MCLA when he calculated the College’s carbon footprint, will present his findings. Also speaking will be Stephanie Boyd, acting director of the Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives at Williams College. She will present Williams’ carbon calculator figures. As a part of this event, student-artwork with a global warming theme, as well as other environmental concerns, will be on display in the MCLA Amsler Campus Center’s Centennial Room. In addition, on Tuesday, Jan. 29, from 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. in the Centennial Room, MCLA students will talk about ecological footprints and how they affect the surrounding environment.
Focus the Nation is organizing a national teach-in on global warming solutions for America—creating a dialogue at over a thousand colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, places of worship, civic organizations and businesses, and directly engaging millions of students and citizens with the nation’s decision-makers. For more information on these and other Focus the Nation activities, go to www.focusthenation.org and www.mcla.edu/About_MCLA/Administration_and_Finance/Green_Campus |
I would like to bring to your attention a program offered by Zerofootprint that would enable all of these 1000 schools and all their students to be linked in a social network around climate change. The program is built around the Zerofootprint.net ecological footprint calculator. It is being used by cities, universities,schools, hospitals to link millions of people who want to contribute to the battle on climate change.
The program gets all students to fill in a very comprehensive and mass customizable calculator and then lins them via social networking tools. It permits schools to form groups competing with other schools or internally as well.
It sounds like this could be very useful as an enabler for your initiative. | | from: Ron Dembo | on: 01-27-2008 |
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