Green Tips: What Can You Do?

The efforts of everyone at Semester at Sea—participants, faculty, staff, and visitors—are crucial to creating a more sustainable MV Explorer campus. Taking shorter showers, keeping your cabin thermostat low, recycling, and turning off unnecessary lights—these are among the simple but meaningful acts that reduce our environmental footprint.

Help to Create a More Sustainable Semester at Sea

• Bring your own travel mug and water bottle to the dining hall.
• Don't take more food than you can eat.
• Be careful about wasting paper. In the computer lab, only print final copies of papers and print PowerPoint slides six per page rather than one per page.
• Take your own bag when shopping in port and politely decline plastic bags.
• Save any accumulated bags and newspapers and use them for packing material at the end of the voyage.
• Hand over used batteries and printer cartridges to the Purser's Desk to ensure proper disposal.
• Conserve water in ports to minimize domestic water.
• When you leave your cabin, turn off the lights and TV.
• Take shorter showers and avoid multiple showers in one day.

Semester at Sea participants are in a prime position to create a culture of sustainability aboard the MV Explorer, their home campus, and multiple ports visited during a voyage.