Our Initiatives

Campus Garden Located behind Tocik Hall, our campus garden is small, but mighty! Established in 2025, we grow a variety of vegetables, herbs, and flowers. We donate produce to our DSU community, as well as to Plant A Row Lehigh Valley.

Seed Library Located at the Trexler Library, our seed library is a community collection of seeds available to students, faculty, and staff for free!

Events We host events throughout the year, including Free Fest, Earth Month, garden parties, and more!

EV Chargers Four ChargePoint dual charging stations (level 2) can charge up to eight vehicles at one time.

  • Location: Dooling Hall (in the small parking lot behind the building).
  • Cost: $0.25 per kWh.
  • Open to: Students, faculty, staff, and the public with electric vehicles.
  • How to use: Download the ChargePoint mobile app for Apple or Android. Follow the instructions for account setup, select your charging station, and start charging.

Micro-Solar System Located on the top of the Isenring Center, this micro-solar system provides energy to charge battery powered tools that are used by our maintenance department.

Energy & Water Conserving Fixtures Our campus utilizes a variety of fixtures and procedures to help save energy and water, including:

  • LED light fixtures
  • Occupancy and vacancy sensors
  • Energy curtailments
  • Energy efficient appliances (e.g. University provided washers, dryers, refrigerators, microwaves, dishwashers)
  • Low-flow plumbing fixtures

Bottle-Filling Stations Bottle-filling stations (and water coolers) provide cold filtered drinking water in 19 different buildings on campus. These stations help to keep our campus community hydrated, all while reducing waste from plastic bottles.

Grow Zones & Sustainable Landscaping To reduce the environmental impact of lawn maintenance, we utilize the following sustainable landscaping practices:

  • Planting native trees & plants
  • Designated "Grow Zones" that are mowed only once per year and do not receive fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides.

Single-Stream Recycling Also known as mixed recycling, we accept items including (but not limited to):

  • Paper
  • Cardboard
  • Glass
  • Metal and aluminium

Specialized Recycling Programs We collect and recycle:

  • E-waste (electronic waste)
  • Batteries
  • Toner cartridges