**THIS WEEK IN SUSTAINABILITY: October 5th - October 11th, 2026**
View of fall foliage from Smarts Mountain looking towards the Dartmouth Skiway
Here's what's happening this week in Sustainability!
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Tuesday, October 6th
Free Market Thrift Store Open Hours
5 PM to 7 PM | North Mass Basement
Our sustainable campus thrift store is run by students and free for all Dartmouth community members to use! Stop by to check out fall offerings and freshen up your collection while reducing clothing waste on campus!
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Wednesday, October 7th
POCO Farm Workday:
8 AM to 10 AM | The O Farm
Post-Homecoming blues? Feel like the fall is already slipping by? Join POCO (People of Color Outdoors) Farm Workday to enjoy this lovely season!
Sign-Up Here
Susty Office Hours: Apple Cider & Chocolate Zucchini Bread!
12 PM to 1:30 PM | Outside Robo
Join us at Susty Office hours for some freshly baked chocolate zucchini bread and apple cider pressing right outside of Robo! Bring your own cup & questions (and an apple to press if you’d like)! Swing by to talk about the Appalachia Energy Immersion trip, happenings this fall in Susty, or anything else on your mind!
Artist Talk: Janet Echelman (Noli Timere)
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM | Moore Theater, HOP
Come hear sculptor Janet Echelman talk about her practice of melding art,engineering, and climate data. Janet Echelman sculpts at the scale of buildings and city blocks, creating large-scale, fluid installations that merge art, architecture and engineering to anchor public spaces across five continents.
Creative Climate Communication
6 PM to 7 PM | Moore Theater, HOP
Join the Climate Collaborative, the Hop, the Montgomery Fellows Program, and Dartmouth Dialogues for an informal discussion with two luminaries in climate communication. Montgomery Fellow and climatologist Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux joins visiting artist Janet Echelman for an up-close look at Echelman's large-scale fiber sculpture that is part of the Noli Timere dance performance at the Hopkins Center. Echelman creates net-like sculptures as translations of climate data. Get up close to the net during this Q&A about climate, the arts, and alternative strategies for scientific communication.
Free Market Thrift Store Open Hours
6 PM to 8 PM | North Mass Basement
Our sustainable campus thrift store is run by students and free for all Dartmouth community members to use! Stop by to check out fall offerings and freshen up your collection while reducing clothing waste on campus!
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Thursday, October 8th
Pop-Up Bike Shop (PUBS)
8 to 9:30 AM | Fahey Patio
Looking for a quick bike fix? Bring your bike by PUBS for a quick repair such as a rusty chain, flat tire, or squeaky brakes.
Farm Club Workday: Flower Picking and Drying!
8:30-10 AM | The O Farm
Join for flower harvesting and drying while the flowers are still blooming at the O farm!
Sign-Up Here
Research Talk: The Neighbors with Chris Sollars, talk featuring Justin Mankin & Joseph Savage
12:15 PM to 1 PM | 0102 Gallery, VAC
Come join for programming with the Geography and Studio Arts Departments featuring a research talk covering climate warming ecosystem vulnerability as well as climate change’s impacts on ticks and the spread of Lyme disease. Geography professor Justin Mankin, who studies climate variability and the risks warming poses to ecosystems and people, and PhD candidate Joseph Savage, who forecasts how climate change is driving blacklegged tick populations and Lyme disease in the Northeast, discuss their research. The talk accompanies The Neighbors, Studio Art professor Chris Sollars' video installation about the wildlife around his rural Vermont home, on view through November 8. Open to the public.
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Friday, October 9th
Building Community in Nature
3:30 PM to 5 PM | Robo Lawn
Meet NAP’s Carley Malloy and OPO’s Willow Nilsen on Robinson Hall lawn for a guided walk and discussion. Learn more about non-human communities around us, and how plants and trees have provided food sources and remedies throughout their existence.
Sign up here!
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ALL WEEK & UPCOMING EVENTS!
2026 Upper Valley Town Build
Oct. 6 - Oct. 8 | Church of Christ at Dartmouth College
This is a great opportunity to participate in a tangible on the ground climate solution! Help to improve energy insecurity in our community and decrease fuel usage at the same time. Come join us in building insulating window inserts for our community. Each simple job is taught, and all tools and materials are provided. No experience is necessary.
Sign up here to volunteer!
APPLY to join the Appalachia Energy Immersion Trip
The Appalachia Energy Immersion Trip is an experiential learning program bringing students to West Virginia and Washington, D.C., to understand the complex legacies of energy resource extraction and explore pathways toward a just transition. Our Appalachia Energy Immersion Trip is running Spring Break, 2027.
Due: Nov. 1st
APPLY for an Irving Institute Student Grant
Apply for an Irving Institute Student Grant (up to $6,000) for your Winter Term energy project or experience! Open to undergrad & grad students advancing an affordable, reliable, and equitable clean energy transition.
Due: Oct. 14.
Questions? Swing by our office in Irving 180 to chat with our friendly staff or shoot us an email at sustainable.dartmouth@dartmouth.edu. We can’t wait to meet you!
<3 Always, The Susty Office Team
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