Environmental Studies

Why We Grow Grains: Recreating Paleolithic Flatbreads

Join Maria Trumpler, Yale Professor and former Middlebury Dean, to grind flour, bake and enjoy flatbreads in the Knoll’s wood-fired oven while exploring in conversation if the deliciousness of flatbreads might explain the transition from forager-hunters to settled agriculture.

The Knoll, Middlebury’s farm and gardens
Saturday 3-5 pm

Students: Who do you stand with? What does justice require? What does it mean to walk the talk re: power & privilege, race & place, environmental & climate justice? Whose voice counts? Bring your voice, ideas and your truth to this student conversation with Carolyn Finney, Scholar-in-Residence at Middlebury.

In this half-day gathering, organizers and attendees of the recent Vision for Vermont Summit at Bread Loaf will discuss next steps for building a sustainable, inclusive economy.

Universal Design Reading Group Meeting

ENVS 0401 Community Engaged Practicum Presentations

ENVS 0401 Community Engaged Practicum Presentations

Slaying Dragons: Holding Corporate Polluters Responsible
Emily J. Joselson, Partner, Langrock, Sperry, and Wool LLP

Land as Material, Habitat, and Knowledge: Constructions of Resource Materialities in Bristol Bay
Bindu Panikkar, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources

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.