Sustainability & Environmental Affairs

Red Nation, Black Nation. Environmentalism. Undoing Racism. Reparations & Decolonization.

April 7

5:00 – 6:30 pm ET

To attend this virtual event, please register at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yaCd0U5n4j_gG0kunnnWBc6mi3E9ubyLO-W6ydcAe6o/edit

In collaboration with the Anderson Freeman Center, the Knoll will hold affinity space for BIPOC-identifying students in the time following the US Elections. We will offer peer-led restorative activities around the site. Bundle up and join us to decompress, and just be. 

Rain date: Saturday Nov. 7, 2-5 p.m.

The Sustainability Solutions Lab will be hosting a yard sale/thrift shop event where students can exchange or give away dorm items and clothing. We hope to reduce waste, particularly from graduating Febs and students going abroad, and to create a culture of reuse.

Visit go/reTHRIFT for more information.

Save the date October 16, 2019 for Kirk Alumni Center.

This forum is focused on helping farm and food businesses access new markets while grappling with external pressures and learning how to benefit from or influence a new trend. Speakers will address the intricacies of opening up new markets between producers and buyers, current trends in farm and food production relationships & distribution variables with an emphasis on supporting Farm to Plate goals and ACORN’s mission.

Save the date November 7th for Kirk Alumni Center.

This forum is focused on helping farm and food businesses access new markets while grappling with external pressures and learning how to benefit from or influence a new trend. Speakers will address the intricacies of opening up new markets between producers and buyers, current trends in farm and food production relationships & distribution variables with an emphasis on supporting Farm to Plate goals and ACORN’s mission.

Join us at The Knoll for a 2½-hour workshop of interactive and meditative activities based on the Work That Reconnects, pioneered by change-activist Joanna Macy. Experiencing and embodying our deep connection to and interdependence with Earth, all humans, and our whole selves is an essential act for the healing of our societies, ourselves, and sacred, living Earth.

This talk/discussion will be given by Michel Gueldry, PhD, a professor from Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Gueldry is visiting Middlebury as part of a One Middlebury grant received with Armelle Crouzieres-Ingenthron, J. Harvey Watson Professor of French, to work together on language and intercultural studies as applied to the USA and France. Gueldry’s bio can be found at https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/people/michel-gueldry.

The Sustainability Solutions Lab is hosting a build your own halloween costume event with supplies gathered from the recycling center. Faculty, staff and families are encouraged to come partake in this fun, waste-reducing event!

Middlebury is a Host Institution for the virtual three-day conference offered by AASHE (Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Ed), October 20-22.

Indigenous Perspective on a Just Transition

In this keynote address, Robin Wall Kimmerer will offer reflections and an indigenous perspective on the meanings of a just transition.