Ahead of the Conference on Climate Change, Middlebury joined more than 200 colleges and universities in a pledge to demonstrate support for strong international climate action.

The use of renewable natural gas will allow Middlebury to eliminate its consumption of no. 6 heating oil.

Twenty-one hundred acres in the Green Mountains will remain with Middlebury College in perpetuity, thanks to conservation philanthropist Louis Bacon '79.

President Ron Liebowitz sent a message to the college community May 6 reaffirming the college's support for the project.