Apply for an Environmental Council Grant!
The Environmental Council is now accepting grant proposals for spring and summer projects. Grants are available from $25 to $2500. All Middlebury staff, faculty, and students are eligible to apply.
Summer projects must be on campus and have a faculty or staff advisor. Living expenses as part of the budget will not be funded.
We have found that the most successful funded projects are collaborative, creative, and sustainable- bringing together groups and individuals from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds, providing a new solution to a difficult problem, and having continuity beyond the initial funding phase.
Applications due: Friday, March 29, 2013
For more information contact: sustainability@middlebury.edu
Spreading Sustainability
The Environmental Council manages an innovative grant program designed to inspire environmental leadership across the campus through sustainability initiatives. Funded in its pilot year from the Environment Council's own budget, President McCardell's intrigue with the program's potential resulted in generous support for the grant program for the next three years.
Thanks to the support of the Orchard Foundation beginning in 2011, and to support from President Ron Liebowitz prior to 2011, the Environmental Council is able to provide grants to Middlebury College students, staff and faculty.
Past projects include establishing a community bike shop, studying the wind potential at the Snow Bowl, developing the organic garden, assessing the potential support for hybrid vehicles in the college fleet, creating an inventory of campus trees, and creating biodiesel fuel from waste vegetable oil generated by dining services. See lists of projects by year in the menu to the left.
If an Environmental Council grant is not quite right for a project, or if it requires more funding than an Environmental Council grant alone can provide, there are many additional sources of funding for projects, internships, and research available. Click here for a list other options.
