Middlebury College senior Thomas Hand is working on an energy efficiency program in his hometown of Manchester, Vt., that was mentioned on Sept. 19 in the Providence Journal. According to Thomas Hand, the program was developed at Green Mountain College and refined in Middlebury's Environmental Studies Class 211 in the fall of 2004. He says the main goal is to get 40,000 energy efficient light bulbs into Manchester homes -- the largest such campaign to date in Vermont and maybe even the country.
Director of Institutional Research and Analysis Becky Brodigan's piece that ran in the spring issue of Connection magazine also ran as an op-ed piece in the Providence Journal on May 12, with the title "New England colleges face demographic perfect storm."
On Thursday, Feb. 17, an op-ed piece by Assistant Professor of Economics Jon Isham was published in the Providence Journal. The piece was about the current grassroots climate change movement that is taking place and how this movement's diversity was reflected in the conference he organized on campus in January, "What Works? New Strategies for a Melting Planet." The same piece by Isham was also published in the Rutland Herald on Feb. 13 with the title "Climate Change Will Spark the Next Social Revolution." His piece is available on the Herald's Web site at http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050213/NEWS/502130322/1014.