Campus Sustainability Day is Wednesday, Oct. 21

Chad Pregracke, an environmentalist who has been cleaning up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers for more than a decade, will speak Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. in Molnar Recital Hall in Wygal for Longwood University's observance of Campus Sustainability Day. Pregracke is founder and president of Living Lands & Waters, an environmental organization that coordinates river cleanups and has picked up more than five tons of garbage from America's rivers. He has been called "The Rivers' Garbage Man."

Also for Campus Sustainability Day, re-usable "to-go" food containers, to be used for Dorrill Dining Hall's Outta Here restaurant, will go on sale in the dining hall. In a voucher system, students will be given a re-usable container each time they get a take-out meal, and they will have to return the container. Students who purchase a container that day will receive a discount.

A webcast of a panel discussion on "Sustainability Strategies for Vibrant Campus Communities" will be shown from 1 to 2:30 p.m. that day in Greenwood Library 147. This is the annual anchor webcast produced by the Society for College and University Planning, which selects a different topic every year for Campus Sustainability Day, a nationwide effort.