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Educational Integration, Justice
This past Saturday, Vermont hosted its annual Green Up Day, a statewide effort to clean up Vermont’s roadways and natural spaces. The tradition first started in 1970 after being formalized by the state legislature. Since then, Vermonters have banded together every year on the first Saturday of May to ensure that the state remains as beautiful and green as possible.
100% Renewable Energy, Campus Energy Conservation, Divestment from Fossil Fuels, Educational Integration, Justice
On March 17, the student-led Sunday Night Environmental Group (SNEG), partnering with the Climate Action Program (CAP), hosted a talk by Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy Alex Barron of Smith College, who discussed climate action in higher education institutions (HEIs).
Educational Integration, Justice
Dozens of alumni who helped launch Middlebury’s Sunday Night Environmental Group (originally known as the “Sunday Night Group”) returned to campus recently for SNEG’s 20-year reunion and a two-day conference exploring the question, “What Works Now?”
We asked a few of them to reflect on their time as Middlebury students and to offer some advice for today’s generation of college climate activists.
100% Renewable Energy, Campus Energy Conservation, Divestment from Fossil Fuels, Educational Integration, Justice
As Vermont communities confront increasingly costly climate-related disasters, state officials are seeking ways to reduce future impacts. Among them is State Treasurer Mike Pieciak, who recently turned to four Middlebury students researching how a statewide revolving loan fund could help reduce climate risks across the state.
100% Renewable Energy, Campus Energy Conservation, Divestment from Fossil Fuels, Educational Integration, Justice
How can Middlebury make the most of its signature Energy2028 climate initiative as it enters the home stretch of the campaign? Students in a winter-term course led by Kim Gagne considered this question as they listened to and spoke with Middlebury faculty and staff, and experts from the outside to generate ideas about how best to engage the campus community through advocacy and communications. In their culminating presentation, the students synthesized their research into a series of recommendations based on information they gathered over the four-week term.
Educational Integration, Justice
On Nov. 14, college President Ian Baucom sat down with Jamie Henn ’07, a climate advocate and founding member of the Sunday Night Environmental Group (SNEG). The discussion, held in Wilson Hall as part of the “What Works Now” conference, marked the 20th anniversary of SNEG and echoed the college’s 2005 “What Works” climate summit. The event offered Middlebury the opportunity to publicly discuss its environmental future.
100% Renewable Energy, Campus Energy Conservation, Divestment from Fossil Fuels, Educational Integration, Justice
Students, faculty, and alumni gathered at the What Works Now? conference, held November 15–17 at Middlebury College, to reflect on the positive environmental outcomes sparked by the inaugural gathering 20 years ago, and to consider strategies for addressing today’s climate challenges.
Divestment from Fossil Fuels, Educational Integration, Justice
What started in the winter of 2005 as a J-Term class taught by Jon Isham, professor of economics and environmental studies, has progressed into a flourishing student environmental group that is approaching 20 years of sustainable conversation and climate activism. Having begun with environmental conversations in the Chateau basement, Sunday Night Environmental Group (SNEG) now holds weekly meetings where students gather to talk about climate news and various relevant campaigns that they can get involved with.
Educational Integration, Justice
On Tuesday Oct. 28, prominent environmental activist Tabi Joda visited Middlebury to discuss his work with One Billion Trees for Africa, an organization dedicated to the reforestation of the Sahel, a rapidly desertifying strip of land across Northern and Central Africa. The talk was hosted by a wide range of departments, including Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Sustainability & Environmental Affairs and African Studies.
Educational Integration, Justice
Although environmentalism and sexual health are not generally considered related topics, SPECS Panther is here to explore how the two are deeply intertwined. Sexual health, justice and pleasure cannot be talked about without including the health of the Earth.
