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May 27, 2025
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May 23, 2025
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Green Campus Organizations

A list of student organizations that work to promote different facets of responsible living both on campus and in the local community.

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  • Our Commitment
    Our Commitment

    A history of Denison University's commitment to sustainability

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    Commitment in Action

    A list of frequently asked questions about sustainability efforts at Denison University.

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    Get Engaged

    A list of student organizations that work to promote different facets of responsible living both on campus and in the local community.

    • Green Campus Organizations
    • Homestead
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    Education and research related to sustainability is a core value for Denisonians.

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Go Green, Big Red!

Denison Environmental Education & Mentoring Program

At Denison, there are many students that are dedicated to upholding the values of a sustainable lifestyle.

There are many student-led organizations that work to promote different facets of responsible living both on campus and in the local community. The aims of these groups include greater awareness of local and global issues, environmental education initiatives, and green ways to serve the community

Show/Hide Denison University Green Team

Green Team was founded in 2006 by Environmental Studies students. The organization works to promote environmental awareness and action within the campus community. While the projects differ from year to year, they tend to focus on making Denison a more sustainable place and encouraging environmentalism within the community. Past projects have included a Recyclable Fashion Show, Earth Day activism, working with staff to reduce plastic usage on campus, and efforts to reduce Denison’s carbon emissions.

The Denison University Recycling Program (D.U.R.P.), which was started in 1984 to raise awareness about recycling and provide recycling bins across campus, was folded into the Green Team in 2010. The two organizations now operate as one.

Show/Hide Sustainability Professionals Initiative

The Denison Sustainability Professionals Initiative (SPI) is a unique program, run by the Office of Sustainability that will give students the practical skills that will help them better prepare for a career in sustainability and be able to lead organizations to make positive social and environmental impacts.

Open to current First Year, Sophomore and Junior students, this program is designed to rapidly enhance understanding of sustainability issues and potential actions to help improve the environment and communities where we live.

Through internships, curricular studies, workshops and project management opportunities, students will learn to translate the sum of their academic and co-curricular experiences into marketable career skills in the field of sustainability. The SPI will help students align these experiences to clearly demonstrate proficiency with sustainability-related career skills. Students will also be partnered with a mentor in their sustainability field of interest who will coach and advise them as they explore and engage in skill building and career related opportunities.

Show/Hide Revival Thrift

Revival Thrift is Denison’s very own student-run thrift shop organization. Students can drop off unwanted clothes in donation bins, which are then sold at pop-ups on campus. They also host upcycling workshops to promote environmental awareness as it relates to the fashion and textiles industry. The group is a non-profit and any extra proceeds go to charities supporting a variety of causes, including refugee and immigration services as well as international advocacy.

Show/Hide Food Recovery Network

Student volunteers in Denison’s chapter of Food Recovery Network go to the dining halls during closing time and donate the leftover food to local organizations that feed food insecure populations. In a normal year, we donate over 5,000 lbs of food to Salvation Army and Newark Homeless Outreach.

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The Denison Outdoors Club hosts regular trips to get active outside, including hiking, camping, rafting, and more! DOC are also advocates for climate action on campus.

Show/Hide Wildlife Conservation Club

Denison Wildlife Conservation Club works to promote interest and activism in the protection of endangered animals.

Show/Hide Campus Sustainability Committee

Denison’s Campus Sustainability Committee is a group of faculty, staff, and students who advise Denison from a sustainability-focused perspective. Each year, 2 students are elected by Denison’s student government (DCGA) to serve as student representatives on the Sustainability Committee.

Show/Hide DCSA Sustainability and Conservation Coordinator

Denison Community Service Association hires a student each year to organize sustainability-related service opportunities for students. Environmental organizations that DCSA has partnered with in the past include Dawes Arboretum, Together We Grow Gardens, Kitchen of Life, Licking County Water and Soil Conservation District, and Sew4Service.

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    • Revival Thrift
    • Food Recovery Network
    • Outdoors Club
    • Wildlife Conservation Club
    • Campus Sustainability Committee
    • DCSA Sustainability and Conservation Coordinator

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Spotlights

Colin Ravin ’24, left, and Chase King ’24 stand in front of Denison’s new Chevy Bolt.
Denison Magazine

Charging toward a more sustainable Denison

Colin Ravin ’24 and Chase King ’24 team up with Chris Wolfington ’90 to make the case that the future of the college’s vehicle fleet is electric.
A group of people sitting outside at the homestead

The Homestead’s ‘ever-evolving experiment in community’

Established in 1977, the Homestead is a living reminder of Denison’s sustainability roots.
Suni Harford
Denison Magazine

Invested In Change

Suni Harford ’84 one of the most powerful women in finance, on how a rising environmental and social consciousness has transformed investing—and forced
Sarah Davis ’94, Chief Ranger at Yellowstone National Park
Denison Magazine

The View From Here

How Sarah Davis ’94 works to protect the park from the people and the people from the park as Chief Ranger at Yellowstone.
Henshaw family and students playing board game

Home sweet home?

When international Denison students couldn't go home during the coronavirus pandemic, the college partnered with local families.
Girl at soda machine
How We Live

Building a better soda dispenser

Bringing local, natural sodas to the campus took a lot of research and quite a bit of know-how.
Ongoing-sustainability
How We Learn

Ongoing sustainability

As seniors graduate, they take their values into the world with them.
student in garden
How We Live

Food for Thought

DU raises awareness about local and global impacts of one of our favorite things: food.
Students Helping Local Farmers
How We Live

Students Helping Local Farmers

Seniors Jennifer Curry and Emily Marguerite bring local produce to the Denison community through a partnership with area farmers.
Musings from the Coordinator
How We Live

Musings from the Coordinator

Is Denison on the right track towards sustainability?
Going green
How We Live

Going Green On the Hill

Denison is continuing its active campaign to go green and to be more sustainable.

What's Happening

Announcements & Updates

Denison sponsors invasive pear tree bounty program

Denison partners with Pollinator Pathway to remove invasive Bradford pear trees from Licking County.

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What's Happening

Denison professor contributes to new climate change report

Environmental studies assistant professor Lucy McAllister’s research is part of the 2023 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change.

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University News

Ohio EPA grant advances sustainability at Denison

Nearly $90,000 from the Ohio EPA will go toward equipment to convert food waste into fertilizer.

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