FOOD
In 2025, Bard College ranked first in food waste reduction among small colleges in the U.S. thanks to its successful implementation of this practice. You can do this at Kline when you return your plates and cutlery, and it is one of the most effective ways to reduce your carbon footprint.
What is compost?
Check out this composting guide! file:///C:/Users/lizzi/Downloads/Bard%20Compost%20Guide.pdf
Bard College separates this recyclable material from containers and cardboard. This material can be recycled easily by shredding it and submerging it in water, but only if it is clean and not contaminated with food or mixed with plastic.
What is paper?
This form of renewable energy harnesses heat from the earth’s crust to generate electricity. To do so, deep wells are dug deep into the ground and heat pumps are built. The Stevenson Library is heated with this kind of power, and the flat stretch of land behind Kline and the Library is where the deep wells are located.
This website can tell you the schedules for the Tivoli-Red Hook shuttle, the accessibility shuttle, the weekend train shuttles, the Walmart shuttle, the Massena shuttle, and the route C bus, helping Bard students reduce their carbon footprint by taking public transportation instead of driving.
Bard college participates, alongside many other colleges in the Hudson valley, in a project to help creatures like frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders get across roads without being hit by cars. This is called the _____ Migration and Road Crossing Project
This meat product is responsible for more than double the CO2 emissions of chicken or pork, even when excluding methane gasses.
What is beef?
For a full graph, see our source! https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-footprint-food-methane
This thrift store costs no money to shop at, and is located in the garage next to Kappa House. You can find many of the things you need to set up your dorm here, instead of buying them new, which reduces waste and CO2 emissions associated with production of new goods.
This amenity accounts for 38 percent of the average household's carbon footprint, which is why it is important not to leave windows open when it is hot or cold outside!
What is heating and cooling?
these two-wheeled vehicles are three times faster than walking and much smaller, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly than cars. That's why so many bard students use them to get around!
What are bicycles?
Bard uses this recycling system, which means that we have several bins for different kinds of recycling (paper, containers, cardboard). Many other places use Single-Stream Recycling, which is only sorted at the waste facility, and is much less efficient.
What is Dual Stream Recycling?
Learn what is recyclable at Bard with this handy guide! https://ucrra.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-DualStreamRecyclingGuide.pdf
This club is located in Sawkill Cafe on campus, and provides access to sewing machines, thread, scrap fabric, and anything else you might need to repair clothes instead of throwing them away.
What is Bard Makerspace?
Follow them on Instagram! @makerspacebard
This word means "a botanical garden devoted to trees." At Bard, we have worked to turn our whole campus into one! This involves lots of efforts to care for the environment we live on, as well as to educate people about the plant life around them.
The closest repair cafe to Bard, just a 10-minute shuttle ride away
What is Red Hook Repair Cafe?
Learn more about repair cafes and find a time to join one at https://www.redhookny.gov/307/Red-Hook-Repair-Cafe