School of the Environment

Learn about the summer 2024 session in Monterey, California, from program directors Curt Gervich and Liou Xie.
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Lecture by Frank Sesno, Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University and former correspondent with CNN. Sesno will challenge us to do and think … stories. The controversies surrounding climate change, the imperative of food security, the exciting potential about electricity storage, the debate over the EPA — so much of this revolves around the information people have or don’t have, the lens through which they view the world, and the polarization and politicization of our culture.

Videoconferenced from the Middlebury in DC Office - Ayesha Dinshaw (Middlebury ‘07): Associate at WRI, specializing in facilitating adaptation to climate change in developing countries - Nick Rome (MIIS ‘08): Program manager at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership - Christina Chau (MIIS ‘09): Senior Associate at Pew Charitable Trusts, Environment Group Moderated by Kate Miley (Middlebury ’14): The Nature Conservancy, Corporate Engagement Associate. Sponsored by the Middlebury School of the Environment and Middlebury in DC.

Middlebury’s School of the Environment is a six-week intensive summer program that includes leadership training, lab and field work, one week at Planet Forward in DC, and the opportunity to earn Middlebury credits. If you would like to learn more about this summer program, please join us for this information session.

Middlebury’s School of the Environment is a six-week intensive summer program that includes leadership training, lab and field work, and the opportunity to earn Middlebury credits. If you would like to learn more about this summer program, please join us for this information session.

Come learn about the Middlebury School of the Environment, a 6-week intensive summer program focusing on environmental leadership training, lab, and field work. Students can earn Middlebury credit. Professor Steve Trombulak, Director of the School of the Environment, will lead the session and former students will be there to answer questions about their experience in the program.

Ancient oceans teeming with life, Norwegian settlers, Native Americans and multinational oil corporations find intimacy in deep time. Following up his 2009 feature Crude Independence (SXSW), Deep Time is director Noah Hutton’s ethereal portrait of the landowners, state officials, and oil workers at the center of the most prolific oil boom on the planet for the past six years.

Directed by Joan Grossman, independent film maker and faculty in the Middlebury School of the Environment. This tells the story of an artists community that became an icon for a global counterculture, emerging from a drive to create a new civilization on the scrapheap of a wasteful society. Screening will be followed by a talk with the director.

Pre-departure meeting for students attending the School of the Environment program in China during summer 2018.

Middlebury’s School of the Environment is a six-week intensive environmental studies summer program that includes leadership training, lab and field work and the opportunity to earn Middlebury credits. In 2018 the program will be based in Yunnan Province, China, with dual sties in Kunming and Dali. If you would like to learn more about this summer program, please join us for this information session.