About the Green House

The Green House (Low Impact Living Theme Cottage) seeks to create a comfortable living environment for ecologically-minded and environmentally-conscious individuals on campus.
We work together as a group to develop programs that will educate the campus and community about environmental issues and also to ensure that our house is as responsible as possible about our environmental impact. We incorporate this awareness into our everyday lives, and lead by example so that other students may understand how to be environmentally active and conscientious, both on campus and in the world.

Activities

As a house, we cook dinner five nights each week, and buy local and organic food from the Potsdam Food Co-op and two local farmers. Also, each member of the house is required to organize two programs each semester that foster environmetnal awareness that are open to the entire campus and community. Some past programs have included:

• Open house and dinners
• Root beer making
• Basket making
• Norwood beach clean-up day
• trips to the Canton Farmer’s Market
• Jelly/jam making
• Applesauce making
• Knitting and movie night
• Project to bring communal “green bikes” to campus
• Project to require sale of Snowbowl property for sustainable land-use and ensure that the land would not be logged or mined

The Cottage’s theme is “To gather caring, motivated people with similar interests together to build a strong presence of environmental action and to serve as a model of low impact living.”