Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest
Vermont’s first LEED Platinum-certified building, the Janet Halstead Franklin ’72 and Churchill G. Franklin ’71 Environmental Center at Hillcrest, serves as a hub of environmental and sustainable action and ideas.
Drawing on Middlebury’s foundational strengths—innovation, research, and the liberal arts—the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest seeks to shape a world in which humans, ecological communities, and economic systems can sustainably coexist.
The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest, located at 531 College Street, houses the Environmental Studies academic program and the Office of Sustainability and Environmental Affairs (SEA), which coordinates a range of co-curricular programming and sustainability integration at Middlebury.