Sustainability & Environmental Affairs

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.

Can we build bioregional foodways for the Northeast centered on trees? Join Elspeth Hay (‘07), author of the new book Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food and Chez Liley of Wellspring Commons for a conversation exploring how our food systems might change if we broadened our vision of farming to include the native nut trees of our forested landscape, and how that might reshape our relationships to the world around us.  

Aimed at students with an interest in sustainable agriculture, wildlands conservation, ecosystem restoration, food policy, and journalism, this discussion will delve into some of the assumptions underpinning our current food system and focus on practical ways to transform climate anxiety into action as we look to feed ourselves while regenerating and protecting our home ecosystems.

Elspeth Hay ‘07 is the creator and host of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on the Cape and Islands National Public Radio station since 2008, and the author of the award-winning book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Deeply immersed in her own local-food system, Elspeth’s work focuses on the people, places, and ideas that feed us. Learn more at elspethhay.com.

Cherry (Chez) Liley is co-founder of Wellspring Commons, a nonprofit working to foster bioregional foodways in the Northeast, including reviving acorns as an important crop for the human diet, in ways that protect the standing forests. Learn more at wellspringcommons.org.

Once a week on Fridays, The Knoll will collaborate with Anderson Freeman Center (AFC) to host Reading Hours - weekly conversations around themes of belonging, environmental justice, community wellness, systemic oppression, and more! Visit go/knollhours for more info and to sign up! 

Once a week on Fridays, The Knoll will collaborate with Anderson Freeman Center (AFC) to host Reading Hours - weekly conversations around themes of belonging, environmental justice, community wellness, systemic oppression, and more! Visit go/knollhours for more info and to sign up! 

Once a week on Fridays, The Knoll will collaborate with Anderson Freeman Center (AFC) to host Reading Hours - weekly conversations around themes of belonging, environmental justice, community wellness, systemic oppression, and more! Visit go/knollhours for more info and to sign up! 

Once a week on Fridays, The Knoll will collaborate with Anderson Freeman Center (AFC) to host Reading Hours - weekly conversations around themes of belonging, environmental justice, community wellness, systemic oppression, and more! Visit go/knollhours for more info and to sign up!