Dartmouth College Is Investing $500M to Become a Sustainability Leader. Will Others Follow?

In April, Dartmouth College announced an eye-catching figure to make its campus more sustainable, an investment amounting to half a billion dollars. How the Ivy League university plans to actually lessen its impact on the planet is considerably less eye-catching. In fact, few around campus might have a chance to physically see the changes. That’s because much of the spending will go into an overhaul of the campus’s facility heating infrastructure, moving it from a steam-based to a hot-water system.