Campus Sustainability Report: 2023-2024

Committed to carbon neutrality by 2035, Lafayette College continues to make strides towards decreasing emissions, engaging the campus and surrounding community, and utilizing our surroundings as a living laboratory to further educational and operational success.

Students, faculty and staff collaborate to embed sustainability throughout campus with intentionality in integrating the following themes, focused on regenerative ecosystems, circular economies and zero waste, sustainable food loop, carbon neutrality, and environmental justice.

Lafayette College is proud to be the first higher education institution in the Lehigh Valley to set a climate commitment and continues to hold the most ambitious goal in the region. We’ve made strides toward decreasing emissions, fostering a culture of sustainability, and utilizing our campus as a living laboratory to further educational and operational success. Students, faculty, and staff collaborate to embed sustainability throughout campus life.

The below pages highlight progress made during the 2023-2024 academic year. Read the Sustainability Annual Report handout for 2023-2024 here.

Transforming Our Operations

Lafayette's greenhouse gas emissions, waste minimization and diversion, landscape management, and sustainable food loop.

Cultivating a Living Lab

Applied learning, student involvement, immersive experiences, and the academic curriculum.

Redefining Campus Culture

Building a campus culture that embraces a diverse range of interests and values rooted in sustainability is central to our college experience.

Impacting our Community

Community-focused fellowships, sustainability summer camp, and the West Ward market & sale.

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Office of Sustainability

Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center Room 203
746 High Street
Easton PA, 18042
sustainability@lafayette.edu

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