Purdue celebrates first Green Week
Purdue University on Sept. 15-20 celebrated its first Green Week, a series of activities around campus to bring attention to sustainability issues.
The weeklong Alternative Transportation Challenge encouraged faculty, staff and students to use buses, carpooling, biking or walking to get to classes, work or to run errands.
Housing and Food Services sponsored several activities including discounted drinks in reusable containers, power showers and distributing reusable shopping bags.
The activities concluded Friday with Detrash the Wabash in the afternoon and an evening presentation by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Thomas Friedman.
Green Week was organized by the College of Engineering, including its Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Global Engineering Program, as well as the School of Mechanical Engineering, the Center for the Environment, Energy Center, Office of the Provost and the Purdue Climate Change Research Center.
Purdue News Service photos by Andy Hancock.
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