Environmental Studies

MIDD-ES STUDENT REFLECTIONS ON LEARNING: Student-led Campus Sustainability Initiatives

The Longest Conversation: How the Earth Speaks to the Writer
Luis Alberto Urrea, Author and Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, the University of Illinois at Chicago

A lifetime of writing and studying and walking has taught me one thing: every writer is being asked to pay attention, to listen to the world, and make it the story you tell. Through nonfiction, fiction and poetry, place is a major character and the responsibility of the writer. If you are not telling me about the aspens, you are not telling the whole story.

Spirit Lands: Ontology and the Environment in the South Pacific
Emily Donaldson, Anthropologist, Writer, and Adjunct Faculty, Saint Michael’s College

Agriculture on the Brink: Climate Change, Labor, and Smallholder Farming in Botswana
William Moseley, Professor of Geography and Director of the Food, Agriculture, and Society Program, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minn.

I’m from the Government and I’m Here to Help: Challenges and Opportunities in USDA Conservation Programs
Jeannie Bartlett ’15, District Manager, Franklin County Natural Resources Conservation

Allies, Ancestors, and the Anthropocene: Edwin James and the Environmental Movement
Kyhl Lyndgaard, Affiliated Scholar of Environmental Studies and Director of General Education, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University

Time: Past, Present, Future
Joseph Holler, Assistant Professor of Geography
Kathryn Morse, John C. Elder Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of History
Daniel Suarez, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Stephen Trombulak, Professor of Environmental and Biosphere Studies and Professor of Biology

Building a Campaign to Conserve Canada’s Great Northern Boreal Forest
Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Advisor to the International Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council
Liz will address why conserving Canada’s boreal forest is so critical - for Indigenous Peoples, for species like the iconic caribou, and for shielding against climate chaos. She will describe how tissue paper is literally flushing the boreal down the drain and what NRDC’s newly launched campaign intends to do about it.

Seeing the Unseen: Using Visual Feedback of Electric Consumption to Engage Students
Michelle McCauley, Professor of Psychology, Middlebury College, and Thomas Wentworth ’18, Research Assistant, University of Vermont, and Independent Contractor, Staple Health

ENVS 0401 Community-Engaged Practicum Student Presentations