New Parkland program, logo promote environmentalism

CHAMPAIGN – You might soon be spotting a lot of monkeys when you look at the ads in your paper.

Parkland College has a new green education program called GreenMunckie, using the West African green monkey as a symbol. And part of the project is persuading advertisers to post the new symbol in a corner of each panel as an endorsement of environmentalism.

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