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Sustainable Summer at Dartmouth 2024 Update
We receive a lot of inquiries about our Dartmouth program and wanted to provide an explanation why we are not able to offer a session there for Summer 2024. Beginning in 2022 and expected to span 12 years, Dartmouth plans to renovate residence halls comprising roughly 60% of all student dorm beds. The current phase… Read More
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Summer 2024
We will open our application for Summer 2024 sessions at Yale and Cornell on Friday Nov 17th at 5pm Eastern. Sc3 will begin accepting applications in early January. We will not be running a program at Dartmouth this summer due to extensive residence hall renovations that are impacting available summer housing. We expect to offer… Read More
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On We Go
After stretching down from Saturday’s hike on the Appalachian Trail, students woke up on Sunday and attended two of an assortment of faculty-led workshops. In Guerilla Gardening, students explored the reclamation of People’s Park in Berkeley, CA and discussed the efficacy of the seed bomb. In Earthcation, students examined the environmental implications of travel. Other… Read More
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What’s Your Sustainability Superpower?
What’s your sustainability superpower? This is one of the questions we ask as part of our admissions process (along with what’s your kryptonite). It’s a fun question that helps us understand what motivates someone to “act sustainably,” which is a useful barometer to gauge a student’s interest in and readiness for our program. So, we… Read More
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Final Post for Costa Rica 2019
The past few days of our trip have been amazing. Let me take you on a literary journey through all we have done at our newest location, Nosara Costa Rica. After arriving at the Playa Pelada Beach Camp Tuesday afternoon, we walked down to Playa Pelada to watch the sunset. I took this as an… Read More
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Final Updates for Costa Rica 2019
We spent this past weekend at Rancho Mastatal exploring the area and learning about some of their practices in being more sustainable. After breakfast on Saturday we did a half hour hike to a river where we spent some time swimming and climbing rocks. We had lunch after our hike back when it started raining… Read More
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Update from Costa Rica 2019
Here are two updates from our Costa Rica crew (no pics unfortunately due to very limited internet bandwidth): Family & Friends: Even with the vicious mosquitoes, random bouts of rain & soaked sneakers, Costa Rica has been magical! Yesterday, we started our morning with yoga. As we hoisted our partners into the air we caught… Read More
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Costa Rica Update: Daniel’s Farm
Today is Sunday the 21st and we went to Don Daniel Vega’s organic farm! Breakfast was amazing, as usual, and at 8:30 am off we went to build a mandala garden. We made a sun-like shape, and it only took a couple hours! While we waited for the soil to settle we each took turns… Read More
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Greetings from EARTH University
Welcome to Earth University! Today was our first official full day at Earth U. To start the morning, we went down to the cafeteria to have a heart and delicious breakfast. We then got into a van to visit the first farm of the day. At the farm, a student named Andrea talked and walked… Read More
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Rio Pacuare Rafting
These past few days have been nothing short of phenomenal! The first morning of the program was spent traveling from San Jose to meet our guides for rafting throughout the Pacuare River. They were really welcoming and funny. After a couple hours of fun-filled, thrilling, and sometimes nerve-racking paddling we made it to our ecolodge…. Read More
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