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Sustainability Challenge

The Whitworth Fall Sustainability Challenge was held Nov. 8-14 to help students, faculty and staff learn how individual decisions about recycling, food, energy, transportation and water that we make to meet our needs affect the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

The challenge pitted each of Whitworth's residence hall communities, off-campus students and faculty/staff against one another to determine who could do the most to learn about and promote sustainability. Participants learned how to live more sustainably and win fabulous prizes by:

  • Taking the Whitworth sustainability pledge

  • Completing an ecological footprint quiz

  • Submitting an entry to the sustainability poster contest
    Click here to view the winning entry by senior English major Hanna Griffing

  • Submitting an entry to the sustainability YouTube video contest
    Click here to view the winning entry by Arend Hall residents

  • Attending one of the following Prime Time presentations (See schedule for details):
    • Sunday – Sustainability challenge launch party
    • Monday – Recycling
    • Tuesday – Local/seasonal food
    • Wednesday – Energy
    • Thursday – Transportation
    • Friday – Water
    • Saturday – Wrap-up and reflection
The group with the highest point total at the end of the week was able to choose from the following prizes: a formal dinner hosted by Bill Robinson, a pizza party during finals week or a $1,000 donation to Second Harvest food bank from Sodexo in honor of the winners. The winner of the sustainability poster contest won an iPod, and the winner of the YouTube video contest won a Flip video camera. Click here for the complete sustainability challenge rules.



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