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PennGreen Schedule

 
Sunday, August 26
5:30 pm Introduction Barbeque
Monday, August 27
10:00-12:00pm Visit to Mill Creek Urban Farm
12:00-2:00pm Picnic lunch at Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park
2:00-4:00pm Tour and scavenger hunt at Morris Arboretum
6:00pm Dinner at Rimedio featuring local ingredients
Tuesday, August 28
10:00-12:00pm Tour of Wilmington Organic Recycling Center
12:00-2:00pm Picnic lunch Fox Point State Park
3:00-5:00pm Environmentally focused discussions with Penn professors
6:00pm Team dinners at leaders' houses, made with local produce
Wednesday, August 29
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, August 30
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, August 30
New Student Orientation begins.
Wednesday, September 5
Fall semester classes begin

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

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