Greentech Lead America: Dell announced the launch of Dell Eco-Learning Center, a team member garden and sustainable living facility, in conjunction with Earth Day 2013 on its global headquarters campus at Round Rock, Texas.
The center will highlight sustainable landscaping and food cultivation, and serve as a gathering place for team member fitness activities and seminars on healthy eating.
The center will feature a dozen gardening beds to demonstrate concepts such as using native flowers for landscaping, growing seasonal herbs and vegetables, and composting. It will feature sustainable horticulture methods such as drip irrigation and organic pest control. And team members will use a pavilion for activities including gardening lectures or yoga classes.
Dell has also introduced other environmentally conscious features at its Round Rock headquarters. The campus is powered by 100 percent renewable electricity. Dell joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s Workplace Charging Challenge, which seeks to increase the number of employers who offer electric vehicle charging at work. At this headquarters Dell owns a 516-panel solar array that fuels its electric vehicle charging station.
The Dell Eco-Learning Center was championed by Central Texas team member Jacque Barton, who last year won a “Powering the Possible” contest for the project by demonstrating how it puts Dell expertise to work where it can do good for people and the planet.
“As an avid organic gardener, I wanted to share the pleasure and passion I get from my garden with my coworkers in the Dell community. My hope in creating this corporate garden and Eco-Learning Center is to invest in the knowledge, education and diversity of the Central Texas team members by providing hands-on experience in growing healthy organic soil, nutritious vegetables and sustainable lives.”
Jacque Barton said.