Sustainability & Environmental Affairs

The 2021 Clifford Symposium
Radical Implications: Facing a Planetary Emergency

Visit the Clifford Symposium website for event details.

Due to continued caution with COVID, we are able to welcome only Middlebury College faculty, staff, and students to attend events in person. Most events will be livestreamed. Please visit the Clifford Symposium web site to register to attend online.

Music, dance, theater, workshops, at Middlebury College’s organic garden, The Knoll

Join a diverse group of educators from a college professor to the founder and lead teacher of an alternative experiential public high school, to the long time director of a Parent Child Center, an Abenaki Educator as well as a Middlebury College New Perennials intern from the Education Studies Program. They will consider unlearning and re-learning while discussing their perspectives on a perennial education. Listen in and share your experiences with education in these changing times! 

Practitioners

Join us for a two part series on the theory and praxis of NVDA! We will review campaign strategy and action tactics, run role-plays, and reflect on the power of fierce vulnerability in direct action work.

Join us for a two part series on the theory and praxis of NVDA! We will review campaign strategy and action tactics, run role-plays, and reflect on the power of fierce vulnerability in direct action work.

What does it take to dream the future we want? What does it mean to let go of the old in order to try something new?

Join artist and catalyst Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees and artist & Middlebury scholar-in-residence Carolyn Finney as they lean into the borderlands of possibility to support multiple visions of the future.

Bring your open heart and good questions!

Click here for more information and to register for Zoom link.

Join us virtually to watch “There’s Something in the Water” and engage in a short discussion afterward. This Canadian documentary highlights three communities deeply affected by the rampant environmental racism present in Nova Scotia. Elliot Page (the producer and director) speaks with Black and Indigenous women about how the pollution of their water has affected their families, friends, and neighborhood, and dives into why the outrageous health effects have been left unaddressed by the government.

“Who I am is the possibility of the transformation of humanity.  What I’m giving up is that I’m misunderstood” – Mahting Putelis

Who do you stand with?  Where do you stand?  What does it mean for us to have something in common?  CEO of Hunt to Eat Mahting Putelis and artist-in-residence Dr. Carolyn Finney open up with each other about identity, conservation, generational trauma, & the challenge of walking the talk.  Join them as they take the leap – bring your open hearts and good questions!