Spring 2009

Judith Layzer, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Urban Sustainability-Can We Make Cities Sustainable?
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Randy Kritkausky, Co-founder and President, ECOLOGIA
Corporate Social Responsibility, From Vermont to China
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Don Mitchell, Lecturer in English and American Literatures and Film and Media Studies; Steve Trombulak, Mead Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies; Nick Muller, Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
Core Panel Discussion: Contradictions on the Human-Nature Interface

Thomas Hand ’06 and Jamie Hand ‘08, Hand Energy Services
Residential Energy Efficiency in Vermont
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Andrew Meyer, Vermont Soy, Vermont Natural Coatings, and Center for Agricultural Economy
Hardwick, VT: Rebuilding a Healthy Food System
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Jamee Field ’97.5, Senior Associate, Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors, and Member, Board of Trustees, Nature Conservancy of Illinois
Saving the Environment through Alleviating Poverty

Jon Kim, Geologist, Vermont Geological Survey and Peter Ryan, Associate Professor of Geology, Middlebury College
The rural water resource in Vermont: Relationships between bedrock geology and naturally-occurring trace metals in groundwater
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Ann Armbrecht, Anthropologist and author of Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home
Thin Places: the Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability

Amy Seidl, Consultant, LivingFuture Foundation, and author of Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
Early Spring: Climate Change in a New England Landscape

John Jensen, Maritime Studies and Ocean Policy Faculty, Sea Education Association of Wood's Hole, Massachusetts
Archaeology, the Maritime Landscape, and Fishing the Ocean’s Past

Ed Kanze ‘78, Author, naturalist, wilderness guide, and photographer in the Adirondacks
A Backyard Biological Survey: Success, Failures, and Fun

ENVS 401 Senior Seminar Class Presentations