Deerfield Academy is Taking Back the Tap! We have great tasting, great quality drinking water, and we’re trying to encourage people to kick the nasty bottled water habit. To raise awareness of our excellent tap water, our e-proctors recently conducted a blind taste test of our tap water, filtered tap water (from our dining room [...]

Inspired by a recent School Meeting presentation by our 2012 Heritage Award Winner, Kerry A. Emanuel, our DA community will most certainly want to learn more about the threats upon our environment — specifically global warming – and recommendations on our responsibilities as global citizens. The staff of the Boyden Library invite you to explore [...]

As part of campus sustainability efforts, Deerfield Academy recently launched its THINK 80/20 campaign to improve our recycling and composting. Our goal is to divert 80% of campus waste from landfills by instead recycling it, reusing it, or composting it, leaving only 20% being sent to landfills. This is an ambitious goal, but achievable. This [...]

Want to help DA become even greener? Did you like the recycling madness of our school meeting “recyclopalooza” last week? Apply to join the current environmental proctors (e-proctors) for the 2012-13 school year. I am particularly seeking NEW STUDENTS (any grade), especially 9th/10th graders, but all interested students are invited to apply.  I want motivated students with [...]

Please join us at 6:45PM in the Garonzik on Monday, May 21st as we welcome attorney Jerry Facher to campus.  As many of you know, Mr. Facher is one of Mr. Jacob’s law partners and was lead counsel for one of the parties in the lawsuit (Mr. Jacobs assisted him on the case) that became famous [...]

We’re halfway done with the 2012 Green Cup Challenge, where dorms compete for a month to reduce their electricity consumption compared to an early January baseline value. This is a competition where everyone wins – the school saves money, the mountains in West Virginia don’t get blasted away to extract coal, students learn how to [...]

Today is the kick-off for the 2012 edition of the Green Cup Challenge (January 18 – February 15), a nationwide competition between schools to save electricity, save money, and save the environment. Last year during the Green Cup, Deerfield Academy reduced our electricity usage by 9.1% from our baseline. This prevented the emission of 64,605 [...]

Earth Day is April 22 and the Boyden Library is ready for the celebration with a newly updated Environmental Issues Research Guide!  This guide showcases the abundance of books, online databases, and websites that provide information on the general topic of environment as well as specific issues like the Green Cup Challenge, climate change, global warming, endangered [...]