Sustainability & Environmental Affairs

Have a gift or two that you’ve been meaning to wrap for the holidays? Bring it to the EcoReps sustainable wrapping and movie night and wrap amongst friends! We’ll have a movie playing in the background to get you into the holiday spirit. 

All are welcome! Sustainable wrapping materials, hot cocoa, and snacks will be provided. 

Do you speak for the trees? If so, come to EcoReps Movie Night (Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7 PM in Hillcrest 103) and spend time with like-minded sustainability enthusiasts! 

All are welcome: bring your friends or come make new ones! Popcorn and snacks will be provided. 

What is EcoReps?

Join Sustainability & Environmental Affairs (SEA) for our third annual Welcome Back Fall Social & Poster Session! SEA Summer Interns from Sustainability Solutions Lab (SSL), The Knoll, Climate Action Fellowship (CAF), and New Perennials will display their array of work in a poster session, and we invite you to come chat with them, explore their projects, meet the SEA staff, hear about our programs, and learn more about sustainability & climate action at Middlebury!

All are welcome, refreshments will be provided.

This public event will welcome a delegation of Maori and Pasifika colleagues visiting Middlebury College from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Panel members will discuss the role of purakau (storytelling), waiata (song), and whakatauki (proverbs) in Indigenous Maori and Polynesian practices of wellbeing and planetary stewardship. Through the teachings of the kuaka, a shorebird known for its remarkable migration from Aotearoa to North America, this event invites attendees to explore the idea that journeys are collective and community futures can soar in spaces of mutual learning, responsibility, and relationship.

Join us on Monday 20^th to create your own Earth Week themed lino prints. CAF Fellows, Josette and Meïssa will be guiding you through the art of linocut and printmaking. Linocut is a fun art form where you carve a design into a rubber-like surface and then use ink on it to make prints on fabric or paper.  
We will bring used clothes and fabrics to print on but feel free to also bring your own printable surfaces! 

Curious about careers in clean energy? The Middlebury Alumni in Renewable Energy Association (MAREA) has launched and is here to help you explore what’s possible.

This new alumni-student network is all about connecting you with Midd grads working across the renewable energy space—people who’ve been in your shoes and are now building careers in a fast-growing, impact-driven field.

This new alumni-student network is all about connecting you with Midd grads working across the renewable energy space—people who’ve been in your shoes and are now building careers in a fast-growing, impact-driven field.

All April long, the newly launched MAREA (Middlebury Alumni in Renewable Energy Association), is hosting the 2026 Spring Alumni Speaker Series: Pathways to Careers in Renewable Energy. Each week features a different panel focused on a key part of the industry, so you can get a full picture of the many paths into clean energy.

This new alumni-student network is all about connecting you with Midd grads working across the renewable energy space—people who’ve been in your shoes and are now building careers in a fast-growing, impact-driven field.

All April long, the newly launched MAREA (Middlebury Alumni in Renewable Energy Association), is hosting the 2026 Spring Alumni Speaker Series: Pathways to Careers in Renewable Energy. Each week features a different panel focused on a key part of the industry, so you can get a full picture of the many paths into clean energy.

The mission of New Perennials’ Community Roots Apprentice Fellowship is to create a cohort of students that explore the day-to-day practices of regional artists, makers, teachers, and scientists as a community of learners. These final presentations are the culmination of this exploration and partnerships as they developed over the course of their time together.