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4620 January 2023 Calendar
Active Renovations: 202E, 509E, 1607E. 1506W S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18West 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1East 2 3 4 Elevator reservations
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Masks and the tripledemic
“I would not go into a grocery store without a mask,” says John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology at the University of California, Berkeley. “I wouldn’t go into rapid transit without a mask. I wouldn’t go into an airplane or be in an airport without a mask,” nor would he attend…
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4620 December 2022 Calendar and Dashboard
Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13Safety Committee – 7:00 PM – Library 14 15Elevator reserved – West 16 17 18Hanukkah begins 19 20 21 22 23 24 25Christmas 26Christmas – Federal Holiday Hanukkah ends 27 28 29 30 31
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Recycling plastic is practically impossible (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worse
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4620 Technology Committee EV Charging Station Recommendations
These are the recommendations that the Tech Committee provided to Board as of 4/4/2022. They are also available in BuildingLink at https://www.buildinglink.com/V2/Tenant/Library/getFile.aspx?id=999955&open=inline Additionally, at the 5/23 meeting, the committee approved the following analysis of the Chase Point EV setup following their visit on 5/4 (see https://www.fortysixtwenty.tech/2023/01/24/4620-technology-and-environment-committee-may-23-2022-minutes/): The committee visit to Chase Point to view their…
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Recycling at 4620
Book recycling This is from the September 2 2022 4620 News Roundup: ‘If you plan to recycle your books, please bring them to the G3 cardboard dumpster so that porters do not need to lift them out of the recycling bins.’ Additional recycling guidelines This is a copy of the recycling presentation developed by the…
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Why I quit the 4620 Technology Committee
I was being harassed and bypassed to the point where any effort on the committee was futile.
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Let’s stamp out bullying in our building — it’s a health issue
Here’s a link to a story about it, and I encourage everyone in our community to refrain from bullying and to help stamp out this poisonous behavior which is becoming all too common: https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/opinion/2022/09/19/how-bullying-can-harm-your-brain.html*
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Electric vehicle stories
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/09/19/why-tech-companies-are-wrong-to-think-electric-cars-are-a-solution-to-climate-change
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Analysis of elevator task force memo
The board created a task force to deal with the recurring problems with the elevators. They created a report which is attached at the end of this post. There are a few problems with this analysis, as follows: The referenced article clearly states that when the number of callbacks for any individual unit exceeds 4…