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Students are critical partners in advancing sustainability at 51ºÚÁÏÍø, and have been a driving force behind many of the College’s sustainability initiatives. 51ºÚÁÏÍø encourages student sustainability project ideas, organizational activities and hands-on involvement through workshops, institutional funding and advising to promote our living laboratory model. Students are encouraged to get involved from orientation onward. The opportunities are vast and can come in the form of a paid sustainability internships for 51ºÚÁÏÍø to riding your bike to the College Farm for a potluck.

Here is a sample of what our students are doing to make a difference:



• Implementing and supporting student-centered projects in more than 45 paid sustainability internships.
• Growing sustainable food for the campus and community at the 51ºÚÁÏÍø Organic Farm.

• Mentoring their peers in sustainable living practices as Eco-Reps. 

• Donating and swapping clothes at 51ºÚÁÏÍø Free xChange.
• Protecting water quality across the state of Pennsylvania with ALLARM and community watershed associations.

• Living the good life at the Treehouse, a residence hall for students committed to sustainable living.

• Leading and participating in activities of sustainability-related student organizations.
• Serving as a member of The Hive, 51ºÚÁÏÍø's Bee Cooperative.
• Becoming Green Devil Certified and learning how to live more sustainably.
• Installing solar panels across campus. 

• Running The Peddler, a bike-propelled coffee cart serving fair trade coffee on campus.
• Teaching each other to maintain and repair bikes at .

• Fundraising for organizations by selling smoothies from our bike-powered blenders.
• Leading projects and events with the Center for Sustainability Education.

• Taking Sustainability Investigations and Sustainability Connections ³¦´Ç³Ü°ù²õ±ð²õ.

• Conducting sustainability-related research with faculty.
• Promoting sustainability as members of the President’s Commission on Environmental Sustainability (PCES).
• Creating amazing projects at any of the 51ºÚÁÏÍø Makes spaces and seeing their work come to life.