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Role: Chairperson; Secretary; Board Member Organized a successful coalition of environmental and community groups opposed to incineration of Baltimore City's sewage sludge, leading to the adoption of plans to compost the sludge in place of incineration; maintained membership database; secured a small grant for preparation of a Recycling Resource Packet that was disseminated in partnership with the Recycling Committee of the Citizens' Planning and Housing Association.	Baltimore, MD 1980.01-1991.01
Documents
The Beacon Monthly Newsletter of the Baltimore Environmental Center. Maintenance of a database - BEC - of members and subscribers.	Baltimore 1980.01
Recycling Resource Packet Compiled a Recycling Resource Packet with information on opportunities and economics for recycling of household waste, applicable laws and local recycling centers. The Resource Packet was widely distributed to members of the Baltimore Area Recycling Committee.	Baltimore 1988.06
Databases
BIC - BIC Database Database, written in BASIC, designed for organizational membership contact information, used for generating mailing labels, membership directories, etc. The original version of BIC had been written by Carl Chatzky, an eccentric radical visionary genius who had gained a freedom from conformity to any normal conventions of schedule and time through having written the software for the Maryland State Lottery. Carl Chatzky was the co-founder, with Robert Pollard, of the Baltimore Information Cooperative - BIC - after which the database was named. BIC Database was progressively revised by Pollard with a modular structure that allowed, inter alia, the easy maintenance of multiple sort order indexes for a database. BIC Database was made freely available to organizations that participated in the Information Co-op.	Baltimore, MD 1980.10
BEC - Baltimore Environmental Center Directory of members and committee membership. Used to generate mailing labels and to generate calendar listings for the monthly newsletter - The Beacon - that was edited and produced using WordPerfect 4.2	Baltimore, MD 1986.07
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