Solutions for a green campus and a sustainable future
Latest sustainability news from Middlebury
June 12, 2009
Students, faculty, and staff recieved grants from the Environmental Council. This academic year, the EC awarded nearly $18,000 to 17 different projects.
June 10, 2009
Winning proposals include walking the Ganges and assessing Cuba’s environmental legacy
June 09, 2009
Power Strip: How much can you take off? is a new electricity competition that uses kilowatt meters to provide real-time electricity data, giving participants information needed to reduce electricity in their specific situations.
June 09, 2009
The Middlebury Nordic ski team's truck was converted to run on waste vegetable oil.
Green mission statement has coaches, athletes and administrators helping College reach goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2016
June 08, 2009
With support from the David S. Stone ’74 Tree House Fund, Middlebury student Molly Lohman created a community art project, Bikes, Recycled.
June 01, 2009
Society for College and University Planning and Boston Society of Architects recognize facility
May 19, 2009
Funds from Middlebury's new student parking fee will be used to support carbon reduction efforts to help the campus reach carbon neutrality by 2016.
May 06, 2009
Prestigious environmental fellowship funds a year of service for environmental studies majors Corinne Almquist '09 and Tripp Burwell '09.
April 23, 2009
Middlebury students from the Sunday Night Group baked a giant cake to celebrate Earth Day. This enormous cake was made from 12 sheet cakes and decorated with 4 big tubs of frosting!
April 10, 2009
The Middlebury Bike Shop sold 85 abandoned bicycles at their recent bike sale, providing students, staff, and faculty with an easy and cheap way to get around campus and town.
March 30, 2009
Hear what students have to say about their trip down to D.C. for Power Shift 09, where they joined thousands of college students to push congress to pursue a green economy and address climate change.
March 06, 2009
Eco-friendly truck hauls people and equipment trailer. With the help of an environmental grant, the Nordic ski team had their truck converted to run on waste vegetable oil.
March 03, 2009
Middlebury students joined thousands of young climate activists in Washington D.C. this past weekend for Power Shift. Participants held a rally on the capital steps and met with elected officials from all 50 states, urging congress to support renewable, clean energy and other initiatives to address climate change. With over 190 students attending, Middlebury had one of the largest groups of students from any school in the nation.
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January 14, 2009
Art, science, and nature merge together at the first installation of Firefly, an environmental art project where you can see wind blowing. Each small turbine powers an LED light that glows according to the intensity of the wind. At night, with many of these fireflies sprinkled over the landscape, the flowing patterns of the wind emerge. This week there will be three different evening installations, Thursday 1/15, Friday 1/16, and Saturday 1/17.