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PennGreen Schedule

 
Sunday, August 28
5:30 pm Introduction Barbeque
Monday, August 29
10:00-1:30pm Tour of Morris Arboretum/tour with LEED architect
3:00-4:30pm Option of Blue Mountain Cycling Center or Waterworks Interpretive Center
7:00pm Dinner at RX (restaurant featuring local ingredients)
8:30-11:00pm Evening activity
Tuesday, August 30
10:00-12:00pm Visit to Mill Creek Urban Farm
12:15-1:30pm Picnic lunch in Fairmount Park
3:00pm Professor Lectures and Discussions
5:30pm Group dinners made from local produce, prepared at Leaders' houses
Wednesday, August 31
9:00am Breakfast with the Office of Sustainability at Penn
11:00am Pack, leave campus
12:00pm Charlestown Organic Farm (lunch and discussion about suburban organic farming, tour of the farm)
  Overnight at Gifford Pinchot State Park
Thursday, September 1
9:00am Ecological river tour by canoe (impact of urban development on the local watershed)
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Depart Harrisburg
2:30pm Return to campus
Thursday, September 1
New Student Orientation begins.
Wednesday, September 7
Fall semester classes begin

For additional information, please contact Dan Garofalo at (215) 746-6429.

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