UI study-abroad students learning to reduce carbon footprint
By Don Dodson
Monday October 27, 2008
Heather Coit
Jim and Marlene Evans wait for bicyclists from the Austria Illinois Exchange Program to arrive Sunday near Philo. Director Bruce Murray turned to Jim Evans, a retired University of Illinois professor of agricultural communications, for information on planting black walnut trees as a means to offset the program's carbon footprint.
PHILO – The Vienna Woods it isn't, but Jim Evans' walnut grove gave participants in the Austria Illinois Exchange Program a lesson in conservation.
Seven students and two University of Illinois faculty members pedaled bikes from campus to the Evans' home near Philo on Sunday to get ideas of how to make Champaign-Urbana a greener place.
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