Funding for Climate Leaders
Megan Mayhew-Bergman, assistant professor of English and director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, has cofounded a new storytelling agency to help groups fighting the climate crisis.
Stories
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How to Tell Green Stories
Megan Mayhew-Bergman, assistant professor of English and director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, has cofounded a new storytelling agency to help groups fighting the climate crisis.
How to Print a House
Aaron Gensler ’08 advised a group of Woodbury University architecture students who built the first legal 3D-printed house in Los Angeles as part of the Solar Decathlon competition.
The Knoll's Roots Run Deep: Garden on the Hill Celebrates 20th Anniversary
This Knoll, which is the brainchild of two undergraduates (Bennett Konesni ’04.5 and Jean Hamilton ’04.5), has been blessed by the Dalai Lama (in 2012), and provides food for the campus and community, has become a beloved fixture on campus.
Flooded Summer
For Vermonters, this has been a summer of heavy rains and destructive floods, including August flash floods in Middlebury.
Funding for Peace and Science
Hannah Ennis ’23.5, an environmental justice major, has been awarded a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant to conduct artistic workshops focused on sustainable conflict transformation techniques.
Climate Change Consultants
A College student group proposed a road map for the town of Middlebury to cut its emission of carbon dioxide by 80 percent by the end of this decade.
To Swim With a Whale Shark
Madison Springfield MAIEP ’22 has found scuba diving to be an important way to commune with nature as well as inform her work in marine conservation and environmental policy.
Wine Innovations and Studies
Deirdre Heekin ’89 has been recognized as one of the 2023 Drinks Innovators of the Year by Food & Wine. Meanwhile, earth and climate science professor Jeff Munroe is expanding the science of terroir by using a new analytical framework to pinpoint how environmental factors affect the resulting wine.