Student Stories: The Dickinson Experience

To Liberty Caps, Tritons, and student interviewers the Waidner Admissions House is a home-away-from-home; it’s cozy, social, bright, and there’s always free coffee! But now, it’s SUSTAINABLE too! Yesterday the Waidner Admissions House earned LEED Gold Certification for it’s numerous initiatives to be environmentally-friendly. Check out the article below to hear how this 115-year old house became the fourth LEED Gold certified building on our campus, and to get a sneak-peek at the LEED certified buildings to come! http://www.dickinson.edu/news-and-events/news/2012-13/Turning-Green-Into-Gold/ Aaron ‘15

To Liberty Caps, Tritons, and student interviewers the Waidner Admissions House is a home-away-from-home; it’s cozy, social, bright, and there’s always free coffee! But now, it’s SUSTAINABLE too! Yesterday the Waidner Admissions House earned LEED Gold Certification for it’s numerous initiatives to be environmentally-friendly. Check out the article below to hear how this 115-year old house became the fourth LEED Gold certified building on our campus, and to get a sneak-peek at the LEED certified buildings to come!

http://www.dickinson.edu/news-and-events/news/2012-13/Turning-Green-Into-Gold/

Aaron ‘15

treekids:

Two weeks ago Bill McKibben came to visit Dickinson and he stopped by the Treehouse for a morning chat!  

What an awesome opportunity!

One of the most popular sustainable initiatives at Dickinson is biking around campus and through downtown Carlisle. These sophomores, Grant and George, have taken it to the next level by tandem biking (and trust me, you see them everywhere). Their suite mates, Tyler, Mike, and Palmer (also class of ‘15), can be seen cruising around campus on yet another tandem bike. Besides being awesome, all five men also share an interest in lacrosse. Leah ‘14

One of the most popular sustainable initiatives at Dickinson is biking around campus and through downtown Carlisle. These sophomores, Grant and George, have taken it to the next level by tandem biking (and trust me, you see them everywhere). Their suite mates, Tyler, Mike, and Palmer (also class of ‘15), can be seen cruising around campus on yet another tandem bike. Besides being awesome, all five men also share an interest in lacrosse.

Leah ‘14
First look at the new research greenhouse in Kauffman for tour guide training. Sustainability at Dickinson, ya’ll! -NB

First look at the new research greenhouse in Kauffman for tour guide training. Sustainability at Dickinson, ya’ll!
-NB

In the life of a treekid: Facebook Addict in Recovery

treekids:

The semester is winding down which means lots of papers and projects and finals are coming up SO soon. And I realize that particularly for these bigger projects, I check Facebook A LOT to procrastinate from doing work. It’s not even like I’m doing anything on Facebook, I’m literally doing nothing…

Hey tumblrs…guess what we found!  Treekids on Tumblr!! This is a really great account to follow for a view inside the “Treehouse” (Dickinson’s well-known and well-loved special interest house for Sustainable Living).  We’re enjoying reading past posts and looking forward to more photos, news, updates from our wonderful treekids. 

treekids:

This may be a few weeks late, but here are some pics from our most recent Treehouse dinner!! After the Eco-Olympics were over, the loosing team, Team Iceland, promised to prepare a dinner for Team Switzerland.  

So what did we make???? CREPES!!! That’s right, we’re fancy at the Treehouse! There were savory crepes with spinach and tomatoes; as well as sweet crepes with Nutella, peanut butter  strawberries, and bananas.  We also had an apples and cheese appetizer and sweet potato homefries! We ate like champs!

It was a so much fun to hang out with each other outside of meetings and just share a meal.  We may all live together, but we don’t necessarily get to see each other all that often because we are so busy.  Almost everyone made the dinner, and that is a pretty impressive feat.