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IAP 2007 Activities by Sponsor

Working Group on Support Staff Issues

Informational Interviewing Seminar for MIT Staff
Barbara Peacock-Coady, Consultant, MIT Workforce & Career Pl
Thu Jan 11, 12-01:30pm, 3-270

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Barbara Peacock-Coady will introduce MIT's new on-line Informational Interviewing networking tool, The Inside Track. She will share guidelines on how to use the network for on the job development and career planning and provide tips to ensure that you gain as much as possible from the informational interviewing process.
Contact: Claudia LaBollita-James, WGSSI co-convener, NE25-4101, cljames@mit.edu

Working Group Recycling presents: The True Cost of Food
Amy Donovan, Diana Daigle, Ryan Voiland, Chris Durkin
Tue Jan 23, 12-01:00pm, 10-500, Barker Library Media Room

Single session event
Prereq: none

We vote three times a day. With every meal we can choose to help the environment, or to harm it. This class will enable you to make more informed choices by providing alternatives to buying food that has traveled hundreds or thousands of miles by plane and truck. We’ll start by showing The True Cost of Food, a 15 minute educational and entertaining DVD produced by The Sierra Club. Then Ryan Voiland, owner of Red Fire Farm in Granby, will give an overview of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), a system which directly links consumers to the farmers who grow their food. The last part of the presentation will be given by Chris Durkin of Harvest Co-op Market, and will cover cooperative markets, organic food, local options, fair trade, food irradiation, and genetic modification of food. If time allows, discussion and questions to follow.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/wgrecycling/
Contact: Amy Donovan, E25-335, x3-0009, adonovan@mit.edu


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