Are you a staff or faculty interested in ridesharing/carpooling to campus?  Find people who live nearby with Carleton's Rideshare Website.  Or contact Noel Ponder (nponder@carleton.edu) and ask about participating in the Van-Go carpooling program.

Carleton's location in the small Minnesota town of Northfield presents a number of challenges to the goal of reducing the GHG emissions and environmental impacts created by driving and the infrastructure needed to support it.  Realizing these challenges, Carleton has worked to create a variety of more environmentally sustaianable transportation options for its students, faculty, and staff.  Carleton understands that to address the negative environmenatal impacts of driving we must look at much more than fuel efficiency in cars, and our actions have reflected this.  Carleton has and continues to look at a variety of factors, including:

• fuel efficiency in campus vehicles
• the number of college-owned vehicles
• how efficiently large groups move to, from, and around the Carleton area
  
• the amount of college land devoted to parking
• the surface materials devoted to parking

At the same time Carleton realizes its need to develop increasingly varied and viable transportation alternatives to driving.