Sustainability @ Dickinson 2015

WE’RE ON THE FRONTIER.

AND RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING.

Red Devils with Green Blood Sustainability is integrated into our academic programs, visible in daily student life, crucial to campus operations and prominent in our vision for the future.

Waste to Energy Recycling. Composting. Reusing. Fueling. Student organizations and campus operations are committed to minimizing waste and utilizing renewable energy sources. And they often get creative about it.

Living Laboratory Dickinson students work with each other, faculty, staff and community members to identify and define problems, understand their causes, develop solutions and test their ideas—on the College Farm, in the Treehouse, at the Solar Outdoor Laboratory, in our LEED-certified buildings and beyond.

Beyond the Bike Rack Dickinsonians pedal around campus and explore Carlisle on college-owned red bikes or on green bikes rebuilt at the student-managed campus bicycle co-op, the Handlebar. There are more than 75 bike racks around campus and a clear community passion for riding. In other words, #dsonbikes.

90% OF THE WORLD’S FOOD IS GENERATED FROM ONLY 15 KINDS OF CROPS.

WE GROW OVER 50.

Growing Green Student farmers grow vegetables and raise livestock on the USDA-certified organic College Farm. Food from the farm nourishes the community, and nearly all food waste gets sent back to the farm to be composted and used to improve the soil and grow more food.

FINDING THE ANSWERS DEPENDS ON

LEARNING WHERE TO LOOK. BIG ENOUGH WITH A FOCUS

TO FIT THE WORLD.

Research and Fieldwork Whatever their major, Dickinsonians find opportunities to enrich their studies with courses, fieldwork, research and activities that build knowledge and capabilities for creating a sustainable world.

Climate-Change Action Dickinsonians are working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that change the Earth’s climate. We are educating ourselves, our students and our community about climate change, its causes, consequences and solutions, and we’re engaging in international climate-change research and action.

FREE TO THINK.

WITHOUT BOUNDARIES. WITH PURPOSE. F R E E T O A C T.

Global Learning Our lauded global program provides a platform to study sustainability through semesterlong, yearlong and summer abroad programs as well as interdisciplinary Mosaic programs, international service trips and more.

FIND YOURSELF IN CLASSROOMS

MEASURED IN ACRES EXPIRATION DATES.

WITH DEGREES THAT DON’T COME WITH

Community Engagement From D.I.G. Camp to the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM), Farmers on the Square to the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium, Dickinsonians are committed to enhancing sustainability in the wider world.

Sustainability is

A DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF A

DICKINSON EDUCATION. DICKINSONIANS

Spark a change. CHANGE A FUSE. C H A N G E M I N D S . Give directions.

GIVE A HAND. Conserve. REUSE ANYTHING. Plant a seed. GROW FOOD. FIND THEIR OWN VOICE. Find common ground. LEAD. FOLLOW. Buy local. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. Take initiative. BE A GOOD EXAMPLE. Be held accountable. HOLD ONTO THEIR VALUES. Make fuel from waste. MAKE PEACE. Make waves. FAIL WITHOUT BEING DEFEATED. Build a bike. BUILD BRIDGES. BUILD A BETTER WORLD. Strive not for perfection, BUT FOR EXCELLENCE —in all that we do during the course of our daily lives, sustainably.

CAN:

Sustainable Dickinson

Dickinson College is working to create a world that is socially, economically and environmentally sustainable.

Explore our website to learn how we are infusing sustainability throughout the college and using the campus, community and study abroad locations as living laboratories for learning and service that advance sustainability goals.

Learn more: dickinson.edu/sustainability