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Click on an event to expand for more information. Winter 2009 OurGreen website coming soon! In the meanwhile, a Wednesday Night Dinner every week at 7pm. view Fall 2008 events Near Future Over the next several terms, we plan to develop our programming and campus/community outreach. We will host how-to workshops, frequent open houses and student-led tours, an informal dinner-lecture series, open social events at the house and at the farm, and small environmental film festivals. We will act as an information hub and resource center for sustainability on campus, and connect also to local farms and environmental organizations. Most importantly, we will serve as a living laboratory for the direct application of theories related to sustainability, research projects, and student independent studies. We are working on an organic herb garden next to North Hall, on bringing our food as close to us as possible. In a year, we should have the facilities and mechanisms set up to eat locally for the entire year. Our objective is for everyone to eat as sustainably, and to be as informed, as possible. We will have several meals cooked by and for the residents each week, and will start supplementing DDS food with our own. Further Future Our ideal is to be waste free and energy neutral, to act as a standard on campus that everyone can learn from (through comparative information we will develop), modeling practices that everyone can integrate into their own lives. As a community we will work on our lifestyle choices and behavior, developing food consciousness, identifying our energy input/output, and who is succeeding in their choices and how. As a space on campus, we have a lot of improvements to make. North Hall will be undergoing retrofits in 2010, taking advantage of new sustainable technologies, and careful planning. Our academic connection is crucial, as this project is experimental and we will constantly be applying what we learn. We would like for the SLC to provide a classroom area, and to serve as a catalyst for sustainable initiatives on campus - including the creation of a Sustainability Minor and/or distributive requirement.