‘Sustainable Since 1863’ T-shirts available from Libraries

The Libraries are offering “Sustainable Since 1863” T-shirts made from recycled bottles for a $20 donation.

The shirts feature an archival photo of the campus’s early days as an agricultural college and were created from post-consumer waste yarns made in the United States from an average 14 bottles per shirt, and each is stamped with a bottle count. Energy and resource savings from the 1,000 shirts ordered include 12,400 bottles diverted from landfills, 199,648 lbs. of greenhouse gases avoided, 137,586 gallons of water and 1,701 kWh hours of electricity saved.
 
The T-shirts will be available at:

·      Screening of “Story of Stuff,” April 21, 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center
·      Earth Day Festival, April 22, 12 to 4 p.m. on the Goodell Lawn
·      Screening of “A Place at the Table,” April 22, 4 p.m., Campus Center Reading Room
·      Earth Day keynote address by Annie Leonard, April 22 at 7 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium
·      Campus Cookout on Founders Day, April 29, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Goodell lawn