FREE SURPLUS FURNITURE and other items!
Don Saklad
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If you are interested in seeing
any of the items now available, come to our
Recycling and Surplus Center at
175 North Harvard Street in
Allston any
Thursday except 11-25-04 (Thanksgiving Day) from 11 to 2 PM.
A street map showing our location is at
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J3AA250B3
Let us know if you need a more detailed map.
Please respect our neighbors' need to maintain
safe traffic flow around the Recycling and Surplus Center, and
park only where the monitor designates!
Everything is free, first-come, first-served.
A PARTIAL SAMPLING of the items available as of 11-2-04:
FILE CABINETS (2),
metal DESKS (2),
office swivel chairs (3),
solid concrete blocks ideal for paving or construction (100),
3 SLATE BACKSPLASH wall mounts for drying lab glassware, drilled to
accommodate eye wash station and 3/8 inch dowels for glassware,
48 x 36 x 1
Isell Diversatronics ophthalmologist's chair with equipment caddy,
light table, etc.
Wanted: 4' horizontal laminar flow biosafety cabinet.
Please contact us if you know of such a spare unit rob_...@harvard.edu
Thanks for reducing, reusing and recycling!
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HARVARD RECYCLING UPDATE:
NOVEMBER IS RECYCLING MONTH!
We offer a full
spread of recycling events:
7th ANNUAL WASTE AUDIT takes place
Thursday, 11 November at the
Science Center lawn 10-2 PM.
We will examine the contents of a random sample of trash to see
how well members of our campus community are diverting recyclables
from the trash.
Last year's Audit showed that
43% of our trash could have been recycled.
We can do better!
Then Monday the 15th America Recycles Day
MOUNT TRASHMORE rises from the Science Center lawn,
representing one day's trash from Harvard Yard.
Last but not least, recycling opportunities will surround the
Harvard-Yale Football Game and tailgate sites, and
we will announce the results of our year-long
recycling competition with the New Haven School,
Saturday 20 November at
Harvard Stadium!
Newsleaks indicate a good result for Harvard!
Thanks to the help and support of the
Green Campus Initiative's Resource Efficiency Programmers
without whom none of these activities would be possible!
Volunteers are welcome at all events!
Please let us know if
you'd like to join us...
rob_...@harvard.edu
FULL RECYCLING & TRASH SERVICE
Thursday 11 November,
Veteran's Day; NO SERVICE
Thursday or Friday 25-26 November, Thanksgiving Break
President Summers's Office announced
HARVARD SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES
Thursday, 14 October!
Read the official news in the Harvard Gazette
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/10.14/09-sustain.html
The Six Principles are expected to guide construction of the
North Precinct Labs project on Oxford Street
as well as the Allston Campus.
Harvard Recycling is especially proud of Principle 1
reducing waste and promoting efficient use of resources and
Principle 3
enhancing the health of campus ecosystems and the diversity of native species!
A panel of Harvard faculty and staff will
discuss on-campus applications of the Principles entitled
"CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY AT HARVARD: Principles and Practice" at
Spangler Auditorium, Harvard Business School,
Thursday, November 4th, 3-5 pm.
For more information, see...
http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu/d/CampusSustainabilityAtHarvard.pdf
Do you have a project in mind that would
help your department live up to these principles?
Consider hosting (or becoming) a
National Wildlife Federation Fellow in 2005!
NWF is now accepting applications for its
2005 Fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students
interested in enhancing the environment.
Fellows receive a modest grant, project support,
recognition of their accomplishments and other benefits.
To learn more about the Fellowships go to...
http://www.nwf.org/campusecology
WE REMEMBER SCOTT Sandberg who died two years ago Nov 30.
His spirit of enthusiasm for sound environmental stewardship lives on
at Radcliffe Institute, where the renovators of Schlesinger Library
were able to recycle over 80% of all construction and demolition
materials this year...
Thanks to Harvard Surplus donors including
Miguel Casillas of Mather House,
Paul Haggarty of Leverett House,
Paul Hegarty of Leverett House,
Phil Norton of Harvard Planning and Real Estate, and
David Simms of Winthrop House.
Beneficiaries include
Boston Public Schools Counseling and Intervention Center,
Harvard ReStore,
Stone Community Computing Center,
Sierra Leone Refuge Relief Services and
several Harvard departments!
FREE SURPLUS FURNITURE and other items!
If you are interested in seeing
any of the items now available, come to our
Recycling and Surplus Center at
175 North Harvard Street in
Allston any
Thursday except 11-25-04 (Thanksgiving Day) from 11 to 2 PM.
A street map showing our location is at
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J3AA250B3
Let us know if you need a more detailed map.
Please respect our neighbors' need to maintain
safe traffic flow around the Recycling and Surplus Center, and
park only where the monitor designates!
Everything is free, first-come, first-served.
A PARTIAL SAMPLING of the items available as of 11-2-04:
FILE CABINETS (2),
metal DESKS (2),
office swivel chairs (3),
solid concrete blocks ideal for paving or construction (100),
3 SLATE BACKSPLASH wall mounts for drying lab glassware, drilled to
accommodate eye wash station and 3/8 inch dowels for glassware,
48 x 36 x 1
Isell Diversatronics ophthalmologist's chair with equipment caddy,
light table, etc.
Wanted: 4' horizontal laminar flow biosafety cabinet.
Please contact us if you know of such a spare unit rob_...@harvard.edu
Thanks for reducing, reusing and recycling!
CAMPUS NATURE WATCH:
litter barrel traps foraging GREY SQUIRREL many times over several
days in Busch Hall courtyard; other squirrels fleeing litter barrel
confinement surprise bag-changing landscape workers near Harkness
Commons at the Law School...
MOCKINGBIRD sings atop crimson-tinged WHITE OAK on Dawes traffic
island as oblivious pedestrian whistles "Listen to the Mockingbird;"
Yard mocker pours out the calls and arias of absent birds;
[same?] mocker flies from bush to low tree behind Grays Hall...
GRACKLE walks past Wadsworth's entrance to hide beneath azalea bush...
at least 10 HOUSE SPARROWS at a time bathe ecstatically in the Busch Hall
courtyard bird bath while an equal number enjoy dry "sand" baths in the
courtyard gravel paths;
Yard house sparrows bathe in muddy sand in the work enclosure behind
Widener where the removal of the green canvas screens now allows
passersby to see their joy...
On the side of Lamont, BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES sing their signature
song in the AUSTRIAN PINES above a WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH, which
explores fissured bark and calls loudly, much to the glee of a couple
of students...
large DRAGONFLY flies from one crabapple to another over Pusey, while
two others circle the tree inside the sub-grade courtyard in the
middle of Pusey; a fourth dragonfly flies the length of Quincy
followed by a little yellow butterfly with light brown border...
multi-colored ROSES bloom again, stretching summer all through the
month of October into November in the Busch Hall courtyard...
AZALEA behind Wadsworth House delights the eye with over a dozen
pink-clustered blossoms...
Pusey CRABAPPLE displays bright red autumn blossom...
sparse harvest of acorns this year
follows heavy-light annual pattern....
on the Mass. Ave side of the Wigglesworth building next to Wadsworth,
NORTHERN CATALPA holds onto huge green leaves...
also on the Mass Ave side of Wigglesworth E, two magnificent SOURWOOD
tree leaves glow a sharp red crimson with light greenish-yellow
hanging "tassels"...
red-tailed hawk juveniles (siblings?), prominent in the Yard all
summer, have been absent since September...
Read "The Wild World around Harvard"
by John Stilgoe, Harvard Professor in the History of Landscape!
Sign into Harvie http://www.harvie.harvard.edu
and click on October Resource;
Prof. Stilgoe describes osprey sightings over Memorial Church! ...
If you see any interesting flora or fauna on Harvard's campus,
please let us know.
Thanks to this month's Campus Nature Watchers
Mike Chiasson,
Lydia Cummings,
Sonia Ketchian,
Sandy Selesky,
Marilyn Schriever and
Paul Smith!
"We often forget that all education is environmental education --
by what we include or exclude, we teach the young that
they are part of or apart from the natural world."
David Orr, Oberlin College, 2004 Grist interview
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