GLRPPR Announcement - Please Join in Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge

Kaplan.Phil@epamail.epa.gov wrote:

Dear Great Lakes Colleague:

I am pleased to invite you to join us in the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day
Challenge . The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency is striving to
mobilize hundreds of thousands of citizens in the Great Lakes basin to
connect with their environment this April by helping address the
environmental impact of electronic wastes and unwanted medicines. The
Challenge is meant to galvanize public participation in collection
events for those wastes so that together we can safely recycle one
million pounds of electronic waste and dispose of one million pills of
unwanted medicines responsibly.

I am asking you to become a partner with us in spreading the news about
planned collection events during Earth Week and in creating new ones. We
need your help both in identifying events to be a part of the Challenge
and in getting the word out to the public about these events. If your
organization wishes to partner with us, please fill out the web-based
partners form you can find at our Earth Day Challenge Web Site:
www.epa.gov/greatlakes/earthday2008 .

Our partner, Earth 911, is developing an online clearinghouse that will
list collection events in the basin to be held April 19-27, 2008, to
show people where they can participate near their homes. If your
organization is planning a collection event, we invite you to list it by
filling out the registration form that can be accessed from the
Challenge Web Site.

In addition, if your organization does not have a collection event
planned, but would like to do so, we can provide technical assistance
and information to help you set up your event. There will also be an
opportunity for Challenge partners to share the results of these
collection events to gauge whether the Challenge goal as a whole has
been met.

If you have any questions, please call our toll-free Earth Day Challenge
Hotline at 866-575-8543.

I sincerely hope you can join us in this exciting project. Let's show
that together, we can make a difference for the Great Lakes!

Sincerely,

Mary A. Gade
Great Lakes National Program Manager

(Invitation Letter and Challenge Text Attached)
(See attached file: GL2008ChallengeInvitation.pdf)