Fall 2008

Senator Claire Ayer '92, Third Term State Senator Representing Addison County and Brandon
Energy Issues in the Vermont Legislature

Noelle Mackay, Executive Director, Smart Growth Vermont
Back to the Land, Twenty-First Century Style: How Smart Growth Can Shepherd Vermont’s Traditional Landscape into the Post-Oil Era

Kathy Morse, Associate Professor of History; Chris Klyza, Stafford Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Environmental Studies; Pete Ryan, Associate Professor of Geology, Middlebury
Core Panel Discussion: My City was Gone: Reflections on Sprawl

David Blittersdorf, President and CEO, Earth Turbines, Inc
Our Energy Future – A Major Change
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Liz Putnam, Student Conservation Association (SCA) Founding President
Our Land – Our Youth – Our Future

Rebecca Kneale Gould, Associate Professor of Religion, Middlebury
Religious Environmentalisms: A View from the Field

Susan Crate, Assistant Professor of Human Ecology, George Mason University
Climate Change, Culture Change, and Human Rights: Making the Case for Viliui Sakha of Northeast Siberia

Asher Burns-Burg ’05.5, Associate, ICF International
Grassroots Government: Laying the Foundation for Federal Climate Leadership

Amy Trubek, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Vermont
The Taste of Place: Our Possible Future
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Bill Hegman, GIS Specialist; Matt Biette, Director of Dining Services; Jack Byrne, Director of Sustainability Integration, Middlebury
Understanding the Role of Food in Middlebury’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative
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David Brynn, Founder and Executive Director, Vermont Family Forests
A Family Forest Journey: From Farming to Rewilding of Vermont’s Private Working Woodlands
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ES 401 Senior Seminar Class Presentations