What Can I Do?
Sustainable Choices
There are choices we can make everyday to help make Dartmouth more sustainable. Here are three tips for direct energy use, transportation and food choices. Check out the items in the box to the right for more sustainability ideas.
Energy-saving Tips
In addition to the actions in the Dartmouth Energy Pledge, try these:
- Use a drying rack instead of the clothes dryer
- Take the stairs instead of the elevator
- Go trayless in the dining halls and conserve hot water for washing them
- Share study space rather than studying alone in a room with overhead lighting
- Turn off office equipment such as photocopies, fax machines during evening and weekends.
- Choose Energy Star-rated appliances for offices, dorms and laboratories
- Leave the car home - see options below or visit the Parking & Transportation Services webpage
Sustainability Tips for Students
- Going somewhere? If the Dartmouth Coach and Advance Transit can't take you there, use one of the College's new Zipcars or share the ride with a friend! There is a new web-based rideshare program coming your way very soon.
- As a student with a meal plan it might feel like you have little control over your diet. Take advantage of DDS' ever expanding line of local, vegan, organic, and fair trade options — and let them know that you'd like to see more in the future. When you eat in the dining halls, don't use disposable containers and utensils unless absolutely necessary.
Sustainability Tips for Faculty and Staff
- Find alternative transportation to work. Walk, bike, or see if Advance Transit runs a convenient route for you. If you must drive, carpool! In 2006, transportation accounted for about one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions
- Eat local and organic as much as your budget allows. Vital Communities maintains a reliable listing of farmers markets in the Upper Valley. Local foods not only support the local economy but reduce the environmental transportation costs of delivering food to you.
