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INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON THE ENVIRONMENT
COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

"Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about.

We the undersigned, senior members of the world's scientific community, hereby warn all humanity of what lies ahead. A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated." 11-18-1992 Union of Concerned Scientists

http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/warning.html

The National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Program

The Campus Ecology Program was founded in 1989 and has become a leading conservation program in higher education. The program provides college campuses with resources and technical assistance for campus greening activities. OU became a Campus Ecology member in the spring of 2005. The cell phone recycling program at OU is part of the Campus Ecology Program. For more information about this program, please visit http://www.nwf.org/campusEcology.

Cell Phone Recycling at OU

Over 150 million cell phones are discarded in the U.S. annually. These cell phones contribute to waste and toxins in landfills. NWF has partnered with Access Recycling to help reduce this waste stream. The Access Recycling program makes a donation to the NWF for every cell phone collected. The recycled cell phones are reprogrammed, refurbished, and distributed for 911 (emergency only) services, providing battered adults, children, and senior citizens a direct link to necessary communication.

Used cell phones and batteries (but not rechargers or leather cases) may be donated to OU in three ways:

1. Dropped off at a drop box at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History;

2. Dropped off at the IPE Resource Room, 555 Monnet Hall;

3. Mailed to IPE, 556 Monnet Hall, 630 Parrington Oval, Norman, OK 73019.

Recycling at OU

IPE works actively with OU's Recycling Program. The spring practicum, IPE 4003, has focused on helping OU improve and expand its recycling program for the past two years. We will be working with OU Recycling again this coming spring. To find out more about OU's Recycling Program, please visit http://www.physicalplant.ou.edu and click on the "Recycling and Refuse" link on the main menu to the upper left.