Sustainability & Environmental Affairs

Join us for weekly Garden Volunteer Hours at the Knoll. All are welcome, no signups are required. Full information and updates for weather are posted right here.  

Join us for weekly Garden Volunteer Hours at the Knoll. All are welcome, no signups are required. Full information and updates for weather are posted right here.  

Join us for weekly Garden Volunteer Hours at the Knoll. All are welcome, no signups are required. Full information and updates for weather are posted right here.  

Join us for weekly Garden Volunteer Hours at the Knoll. All are welcome, no signups are required. Full information and updates for weather are posted right here.  

Join us for weekly Garden Volunteer Hours at the Knoll. All are welcome, no signups are required. Full information and updates for weather are posted right here.  

What are the global limits to sustainable growth and development? Can we stay within them and how? Join a special evening of reflection on our common future, insights gained from a landmark publication, and a celebration of the life and wisdom of Donella Meadows, a beloved pioneer in the effort to heal our planet. 

Welcome back!  Join the Environmental Affairs team for a gathering in Franklin Environmental Center to reconnect, share food, and ignite exciting collaborations around sustainability and climate change for the coming year.  

Jason Scorse, Associate Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, will talk about how environmental and health policy professionals are beginning to use the profound insights of behavior design to help nudge people to healthier and more sustainable food choices, because it turns out that many of the older theories of change don’t fully account for human psychology and sociology. What makes people actually change their behavior is both more complex and at the same time simpler than many people think.

John Chisholm has three decades of experience as entrepreneur and executive. In 1997, he founded and served as CEO/Chairman of CustomerSat (acquired by MarketTools), a leading provider of enterprise feedback management systems. A pioneer in online marketing research, in 1992 he founded and served as CEO/Chairman of Decisive Technology (now part of Google), publisher of the first desktop and client-server software for online surveys. He holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

A new public park is slated for construction in June! As you may be well aware, the Municipal building & Gymnasium have come to the end of their lifespan. Middlebury College is working closely with the Town of Middlebury to create a new public park in that space. The Public Park Advisory Group has carefully selected a Landscape Architect to put together preliminary plans and we would love to hear input from the College Community!