It is about to happen! It’s fun! Green! Yes, this is the Greenest Win-Win Event of the Region! Sustainable Blacksburg is so grateful and proud to be a sponsor of Ytoss?, which is truly helping to make our town sustainable.

Seeking volunteers for the YMCA at Virginia Tech’s Third Annual Ytoss? Collection May 3-8. Ytoss? seeks to reduce waste and the number of items going into landfills during Student Move Out. The YMCA at Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech Recycling, the Department of Residence Life, the Town of Blacksburg, Sustainable Blacksburg and other campus and community based organizations are partnering for this year’s Ytoss?

Earth/Arbor Day 2008

Join the Town of Blacksburg for the 2008 Earth/Arbor Day celebration on Saturday, April 19 from 9AM – 12PM at the Boatwright House located at 615 Patrick Henry Dr. Activities will include tree planting, compost demos, giveaways, and backyard compost bin prizes!

For more information, contact Blacksburg Recycling at 540-961-1806 or recycle@blacksburg.gov .

Here is an interesting site on the idea of "Precycling" www.greenfeet.net/newsletter/precycling.shtml

Here is an interesting site on how the City of Portland collects food waste and food-soiled paper for composting. www.portlandonline.com/osd/index.cfm?c=ebgic

The Board will meet on Monday, January 21 at 6PM.

The meeting will be at the usual place, Research Building 12 in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center.

Location: Research Building 12, Corporate Research Center

Power Shift is the first national youth summit on global warming! Power Shift is being held at the University of Maryland and there are people going from Blacksburg. To register for the summit, find travel options from your campus, and for information on limited travel scholarships, visit the Power Shift 2007 website: http://powershift07.org/. To volunteer to become a recruiter for your campus call Mary at (877) 328-1633, or email marypowershift07@gmail.com. Early registration for Power Shift 2007 ends on Sunday October 7!

VT Electronic Waste Recycling Event

Virginia Tech is pleased to announce we are partnering with Hollins University, the University of Richmond, and Old Dominion University to conduct the first state wide electronic waste recycling event. This event at Virginia Tech will be held in the Health and Safety parking lot on October 10-13. Please see our web site for details

http://www.ehss.vt.edu/Text/ewasterecycle.html