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UTA booth at Fort Worth Arts Festival receives positive feedback

Written by Elizabeth Flores, Contributor to The Shorthorn

Monday, 20 April 2009 08:24 PM

The university continued its “going green” focus at this year’s Fort Worth Arts Festival where more than 400,000 people turned out for the four-day event, despite bad weather. Organizers invited UTA as the first university to be an environmental sponsor of the festival exhibiting the works of more than 200 artists. The booth provided opportunities for people to learn about sustainability and featured stories of how the university is engaged in sustainable practices. It provided handouts with clean air and recycling tips and three university faculty members gave presentations on sustainability topics, including Richard Greene on governmental policy issues and David Hopman on green roofs. Schultz said the university will consider continuing in this role as the festival’s exclusive environmental sponsor next year. The UTA booth, created by university interior design students, received rave reviews, said Amy Schultz, Communications and Community Relations associate vice president. “It was built of and made to feature sustainable materials and messages,” said Schultz. A teacher from White Settlement told Schultz the booth inspired her to create a similar display for their resource center. A carpenter asked her for the blueprints but Schultz responded, “Sorry it’s one of a kind.” The booth will be on display on campus this Wednesday at the Celebrating People & Planet fair. The university’s presence at the fair attracted some positive feedback from children wanting to learn more about going green, she said. Views: 1343 | E-mail   Be first to comment this article Powered by AkoComment Tweaked Special Edition v.1.4.6 AkoComment © Copyright 2004 by Arthur Konze - www.mamboportal.com All right reserved

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