In a Sept. 15 commentary that appeared on emagazine.com, an online environmental magazine, Middlebury College was mentioned twice in an interview with Washington, D.C.-based Energy Action Coalition (EAC) coordinator Billy Parish. Parish, a former student activist who dropped out of Yale to pursue climate work full time, spoke with emagazine editor Jim Motavalli. Parish mentions Middlebury in the following paragraph:
Some models are emerging. At Middlebury College, for example, they've done a lot of things already, including purchasing clean energy and making green building policies for the whole school. Right now they're working on a campaign to make Middlebury climate neutral. They look at all of the emissions that Middlebury creates, and through a series of conservation, efficiency and renewable energy purchases, basically offset all of the school's emissions, making it a climate-neutral campus. I love that example. I believe Middlebury actually took its Science Center apart, as opposed to just demolishing it, and re-used all the building materials.
Parish refers to Middlebury again at the end of the article, in the following paragraph:
One of our newest coalition partners in the Energy Action Coalition is a group called Restoring Eden. It works with a network of about 40 different groups at Evangelical Christian colleges. There has been tremendous interest from those students in working on these issues, coming from a totally different perspective from the students working at Wesleyan or Middlebury.
The interviewed was broadcast live on Connecticut's WPKN-FM, and a written transcript appears at emagazine.com.