Franklin & Marshall College is proud of its long tradition of conservation and environmental stewardship, and continues to create opportunities for all in the College community to demonstrate leadership in sustainability by minimizing our use of natural resources, reducing our environmental impacts, and educating ourselves and others about the roles and responsibilities of citizens in a world of finite resources. Guided by the standing Campus Sustainability Committee, F&M is embarked on a range of activities to make the College and surrounding community more green, from promoting increased bicycle usage through its bike loan program to the installation and maintenance of a living roof atop Bonchek College House that helps reduce both storm water runoff and the building's heating and cooling needs.

Additional aspects of F&M's concern for the environment are evident in its establishment of the Center for the Sustainable Environment, charged with consolidating the many interests and initiatives relating to environmental stewardship and sustainability on campus, as well as its upkeep of the 50-acre natural laboratory at Spalding Conservancy and cooperative learning relationship with the nonprofit Millport Conservancy also located in Lancaster County.