Daylight Dining

Daylight dining was established in 2011 as a way to conserve energy by turning the lights off on sunny days, when supplemental lighting is not needed. Lighting scenarios were subsequently installed to provide different levels of lighting determined by the time of day.

Building a Sustainable Campus

Learn about Princeton’s Sustainability Action Plan and campus-wide initiatives to build a more sustainable campus.

Campus Net-Zero Plan

Campus Dining is working with EVIDN, an international behavioral science company and member of Princeton E-filliates Partnership, to identify energy saving strategies in dining facilities and how the personal actions of the dining team can contribute to larger energy savings.  One example of this is a program involves kitchen exhaust hoods.  Using the Power is Ours strategy, we have strategically placed reminders to power down exhaust hoods when not in use if the hoods have manual controls.  If the exhaust hoods are left running after they are needed — or if they are left running continuously — the energy wasted is significant. When the hoods are not operational, the fans that pull air through the hood are off and use less energy. 

Campus Dining is currently working with Facilities Campus Energy to undertake an energy optimization study of dining facilities as a further step to identify energy savings opportunities.

Learn about Princeton's plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2046.