Rosi Kerr Greenwashes Once Again!

Previous Dartblog articles have covered the extent to which Rosi Kerr ’98, the director of the Sustainability Office, ‘creatively’ manipulated carbon baselines so Dartmouth could seem much greener than it actually was, and on her contributions toward greenwashing the woody biomass plant the College wanted to build. While the College disavowed the plan in early October last year, promising to explore alternative and cleaner ways of generating energy to heat and provide electricity for Dartmouth’s campus, it seems to have conveniently forgotten that pledge once the community’s opposition to the biomass plant quietened down.

A Hanover resident was kind enough to share this nugget of golden — or should I say green—information with me:

On January 9th I attended the sustainability presentation by Rosi Kerr. Here is the pie chart that summarizes Dartmouth’s future plans for heating. There was not a single word mentioned about geothermal energy during her presentation. All the enthusiasm that she showed on the Greens during the geoexchange testing was completely absent. It is very disappointing and makes me believe that she was never on board for geothermal. Rosi did not mention geothermal in her presentation. She only made a passing comment when an audience member raised a question.

For your convenience, I have recreated the pie chart here:

Notice how biomass is conveniently marked with green in Ms. Kerr’s original pie chart? It seems as though Ms. Kerr is consciously greenwashing!