The "What Works? New Strategies for a Melting Planet" conference at Middlebury on Jan. 25-27 was covered in the following media:
-Scholar in Residence in Environmental Studies Bill McKibben contributed three updates Jan. 25-27 on the conference to online environmental publication Grist.org, Bill's dispatches are available here. His dispatches also ran on Alternet.org here, and the first update is on Znet here. There is a link to Bill's piece on the Znet site at Surfwax.com here.

The announcement of the creation of the Flat Earth Award, which took place at the conference on Jan. 26, is the subject of the lead article in today's (Feb. 4) edition of AlterNet, which you can see at www.alternet.org.  News of the award was picked up by Collegenews.org, the Web site of the Annapolis Group, a nonprofit alliance of independent liberal arts colleges, at <http://www.collegenews.org/x4095.xml>, and author and writer Chris Mooney posted an item Friday, Jan. 28, about the award on his blog, with a link to the press release on the Middlebury site, at <http://www.chriscmooney.com/blog.asp>.