Sustainability & Environmental Affairs

How can our personal stories empower action and affect change? What stories do we tell ourselves, and how can they motivate ourselves and others? Join community organizer Connor Wertz (‘22) to reflect on the power of individual storytelling, practice developing our own narratives, and listen to his experience using storytelling to organize Vermonters to build a climate justice movement.

Richard Hopkins and Duncan Kreps ‘23 present an update to the Climate Economy Action Center’s biannual greenhouse gas inventory, and describe actions being taken (and that one can join) to reduce our county’s production of greenhouse gases.

This inaugural event will feature two alums from Wellington Management Company LLP in a discussion about Applying Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Factors in the Capital Markets:

Sandhya Subramanian Douglas ’93, P’25, Partner, Senior Managing Director, Director of Strategic Analysis and Implementation Soyibou Sylla ’20, Investment Science Associate The conversation will be moderated by Amanda Frank ’23.5 and Samuel Sullivan ’23.

Casey Pickett, Planetary Solutions Project Director, Director of the Carbon Charge at Yale University and Pricing Nature podcast host will lead a conversation about the development and evolving roles and realities of putting a price on carbon. Tracing the last 35 years of US climate policies from regulation to “market mechanisms” to standards, investments, and justice, Pickett will turn a spotlight on where carbon pricing fits in, bolstered by examples and observations from Yale University’s own internal carbon price efforts. 

This dedication and reception for the newly designated Stephen C. Trombulak Nature Sanctuary will be an opportunity to both introduce the sanctuary as an important educational resource for our community and to celebrate Professor Emeritus Steve Trombulak’s 34 years as a faculty member in biology and environmental studies, and his continuing work in natural history education and nature conservation.

What is the world we want to live in? The world we are already living into! How can we cultivate a stronger sense of connection to self, each other and the planet? Curious?! Join Carolyn Finney, Artist-in-Residence, and Sophia Calvi ‘03.5, Director of Programming, Franklin Env Center, for the first of three discussions they will host during fall semester. The additional dates are Oct. 18 and Nov. 29.

What is the world we want to live in? The world we are already living into! How can we cultivate a stronger sense of connection to self, each other and the planet? Curious?! Join Carolyn Finney, Artist-in-Residence, and Sophia Calvi ‘03.5, Director of Programming, Franklin Env Center, for the first of three discussions they will host during fall semester. The additional dates are Oct. 18 and Nov. 29.

What is the world we want to live in? The world we are already living into! How can we cultivate a stronger sense of connection to self, each other and the planet? Curious?! Join Carolyn Finney, Artist-in-Residence, and Sophia Calvi ‘03.5, Director of Programming, Franklin Env Center, for the first of three discussions they will host during fall semester. The additional dates are Oct. 18 and Nov. 29.

Meet at the front porch of Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest to join the popular Campus Tree Tour led by passionate Middlebury horticulturalist and tree expert Tim Parsons. Learn fun facts and hear stories about various trees around campus. Tim will also explain how he manages our rural Vermont campus as an urban forest. 

Check out Tim Parson’s blog right here. 

The Knoll, Middlebury College’s garden and mindfulness space, is a three-acre plot with vegetables, fruits, and flowers stewarded by Middlebury students. The Knoll serves as an inclusive space that supports students’ holistic development in an environment that promotes discourse about world food issues. While growing rows of tomatoes for Atwater Dining Hall or visiting Vermont farms, students come to understand some of the challenges associated with food production, and explore locally- and organically-based solutions. The farm is located in the field behind McCardell Bicentennial Hall.