Sustainability at Westover

View aerial shots of Westover's solar panel project and information from Solar Power Partners, which owns and maintains the panels

See the data for solar energy generation from the solar panels on the roof of Westover's Performing Arts Center

• Turn off lights in classrooms & rooms when not in use
• Feel free to turn off lights in our library if they are not needed
• Keep lights off in the main gym and LBD auditorium when not needed.
• Use fewer dishes in the dining room to save dishwasher energy use.
• Take shorter showers
• Try to keep drying clothes in the machine dryers at a minimum; use cold or cool  water in washing machines
• Keep the use of electric heaters in offices and apartments at a minimum
• Unplug appliances such as VCRs, TVs, stereos, kitchen applicances when not in use.
• Unplug battery chargers when the batteries are fully charged or the chargers are not in use.
• The use of reusable water bottle

• The Green Cup Energy Challenge is a cooperative interschool competition held to help raise awareness about energy use and to help reduce the energy used on high school campuses during a four-week period from late January through most of February. Over 100 public and independent schools across the world participate in the Challenge, which is sponsored by the Green Schools Alliance.
• Over the past four years, Westover School's EAC has been leading the campus to make changes during the Challenge. The EAC has hosted “dark days” on campus, candlelight sit-down dinners, informative assembly presentations, dorm competitions, and has produced a video for the Green Cup Challenge video contest. Together schools have saved 1,396,038 pounds of CO2 during last yearís Challenge.