You can read more about our Accomplishments here.
The Dartmouth Sustainability Summit: Integrating for a Sustainable Future took place on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at the Tuck School of Business. The Summit was organized and sponsored by the Dartmouth Sustainability Initiative, Tuck Sustains, and Allwin Initiative at Tuck.
The purpose of the Summit was three-fold:
1. To learn what projects, policies, and actions are being taken to promote sustainability at the College and Graduate schools.
2. To meet and connect with the students, staff, and faculty involved in sustainability.
3. To identify current and future sustainability projects that share common goals and allow for greater collaboration.
You can read the executive summary and view the Summit presentations by clicking on the links below:
Dartmouth College:
Sustainability at Dartmouth: Academics and Research--Professor David Peart, Biological Sciences
Tuck School of Business:
Tuck Sustains and the Allwin Initiative--Itamar Goldminz T'10
Thayer School of Engineering:
Thayer School Energy Indicators--Professor Chris Levey
Sustainability Initiatives in the Curriculum--Professor Benoit Cushman-Roisin
Sustainability at Thayer: Student Initiatives--Elizabeth Dain-Owens '10 and Michael Wood '10
Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects (HELP) Overview--Nick Edwards '10
Professor Andrew King, Tuck School of Business, Keynote Address: Making the Rules as We Go
Following a record profit from the 2008 Sustainable Move-In Sale this September, the leaders of the student environmental groups decided to fund community projects with the proceeds. The first two beneficiaries of these Sustainable Dartmouth are Bones Gate Fraternity and the Upper Valley United Way’s WARM Fund. Bones Gate will install a motion detector lighting system to serve as a model for other Greek houses and the WARM Fund will assist local low-income families with home weatherization and heat bills this winter.
The Dartmouth Carpool Facebook application exceeded its goal of registering 500 students by Thanksgiving. As of Thanksgiving Day, there were 636 Dartmouth users. Student Assembly sponsored this program, a product of Zimride, which allows Dartmouth Facebook users to search the routes they plan to travel and to offer or accept rides from other users going the same way. Check out the recent article in The Dartmouth.
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The 19 residents of Dartmouth's first Sustainable Living Center proved throughout the year what a difference behavioral changes can make. Without the benefit of any retrofits or any infrastructural changes they succeeded in reducing the building's electricity consumption by over 50% below the five year average for the Fall, Winter, and Spring terms. Check out the SLC's website for pictures and full descriptions of their activities.
On September 29, 2008, President Wright announced Dartmouth's goal to reduce total energy use and greenhouse gas emissions 30% below 2005 levels by 2030 with benchmarks along the way. The Board of Trustees recently approved $12.5 million for energy efficiency upgrades to help achieve this goal. Click here to download President Wright's full letter to the community
Read more here:Dartmouth Commits to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 30% by 20
