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About The National Conservation Training Center
Sustainable Summer runs the Sc3 program in partnership with the Green Schools Alliance and The National Conservation Training Center (NCTC). In this blog post, we’ll talk a bit about NCTC. NCTC is a unique training facility located in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The center is operated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and… Read More
Final Pitches
Our student teams just finished pitching their concepts for a new social venture to our panelists from Dartmouth’s Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship and Dartmouth’s Irving Institute for Energy and Society. In no particular order we had… A community challenge-based environmental sustainability app. PlanEAT encourages users to reduce their meat consumption through community-based motivation, personal… Read More
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A Look Back At The Week
Here we are on Sunday. It has been one week since students from all across the globe gathered at Dartmouth to learn about sustainability. Much fun has been had. I dare say that we learned a few things along the way, too. We kicked off the program with a scavenger hunt around campus. We… Read More
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Climate Action Projects and Mount Moosilauke
On Wednesday afternoon students presented their climate action project to our panelists Rosi Kerr, Dartmouth’s Director of Sustainability, and Amanda Graham, the Academic Director at Dartmouth’s Irving Insitute for Energy and Society. Seeds of the Future is a community garden concept in Worcester, MA. Seattle Sewage Solutions aims to divert stormwater runoff from the Puget… Read More
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Week Two Begins
The 2022 Sustainable Summer cohort is into our second week and we’ve made ourselves right at home at the Dartmouth Campus. What does that look like? Morning coffees at fo-co, study groups in the Rocky, and nighttime chats at the Bema illuminated by fireflies. During our free time students have taken the lead organizing everything… Read More
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