Stop the Waste Pizza Party!

When: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 from 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Where: Harvard Kennedy School of Government
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA
Room: Taubman Building, Room 301

(Courtyard entrance, 3rd floor. Enter campus from Eliot St.)
This spring, the Massachusetts State legislature will vote on a Bottle Bill Update that, if passed, will dramatically increase recycling rates by including water bottles and other non-carbonated drinks in the 5 cent deposit system. Under the current bottle bill only carbonated drinks are covered by a deposit. So, while 80% of carbonated drinks are recycled, the recycle rate for water bottles is less than 25%. Without the deposit incentive, a billion bottles a year end up as waste. Although this much-needed update has overwhelming support, powerful beverage companies and distribution lobbies are working behind-the-scenes to block the bill from passing this spring. But the Better Bottle Bill Coalition, a group of concerned students at Harvard and beyond, is fighting back. Please join us as we work with MASSPIRG, Sierra Club and MassRecycle to pass the bill and stop the waste! This is your chance to gain firsthand knowledge of the state legislative process and to make a lasting contribution to our community. We are hoping to mobilize a large group of organizers and also fill several leadership positions. This is a dynamic campaign with room to accommodate many levels of commitment – small or large, you can make a difference! Please join us next Wednesday for some delicious pizza to find out more.
http://blip.tv/file/2796139
http://www.massbottlebill.org/ubb/index.htm

Courtney Hayes
Co-Campaign Director - Better Bottle Bill Coalition
Harvard Kennedy School, MC/MPA 2010
courtneyhayes@mac.com
cell: 617.480.4719

Joya Banerjee
Co-Campaign Director - Better Bottle Bill Coalition
Harvard School of Public Health, MS 2010 joya.banerjee@gmail.com Cell: 212.945.8071

Snowrider 2010
March 20
Wachusett Mountain Ski Resort, Princeton, MA
Our annual Snowrider event will be held on Saturday, March 20. We will set up the table and tent outside near the lifts at about 9:00am and will close up shop around 2:30pm or 3:00pm. If people can take shifts of about an hour, that would be great, and then the rest of the day is yours to enjoy on the slopes. Please contact Event Coordinator John Rutter and let him know what shift you can take.
The mountain opens at 8am. Lift tickets are $46.00

From Boston (1 hour)
Take Rt. 2 West to Exit 25 for Westminster/Princeton. Take Rt. 140 South to a right onto Mile Hill Rd. and travel 1/2 mile to the Ski Area entrance on the right.
Event POC: John Rutter - rereader@gmail.com

Movie Night
April 2010
Want to get your stoke on early for the upcoming surf season? Then get your surf buds together and come join us at our annual surf movie night. Date and location (and movie): TBD.