Sustainability & Environmental Affairs

All are welcome to join Knoll Garden Volunteer Hours. Please check go.middlebury.edu/knollhours for information and updates about weather.

All are welcome to join Knoll Garden Volunteer Hours. Please check go.middlebury.edu/knollhours for information and updates about weather.

Join us for a casual, informal lunch conversation and networking with Nick Engelfried, author of “Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change,” will share insights from investigating the dramatic rise of youth-led climate activism. Over the course of two decades, young people have propelled the climate crisis into the political spotlight, with Middlebury College playing a key role. Come learn how lessons gleaned from interviews with over 100 past and current leaders of the movement can inform our work fighting for a livable planet today.

Coordinating with the President and Provost’s Offices, Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, Climate Action Program, and others, we have the great privilege of bringing Frank Sesno ‘77 to campus for a week-long residency April 29-May 4. In this workshop, Sesno will provide hands-on help to students as they move through the process of pitching and planning stories.

Coordinating with the President and Provost’s Offices, Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, Climate Action Program, and others, we have the great privilege of bringing Frank Sesno ‘77 to campus for a week-long residency April 29-May 4. In this talk, he will share his strategies and secrets to telling great climate change stories through a variety of media.

Coordinating with the President and Provost’s Offices, Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, Climate Action Program, and others, we have the great privilege of bringing Frank Sesno ‘77 to campus for a week-long residency April 29-May 4. In this first talk, Sesno will share his knowledge of how to make sense of a polarized, overwhelming media environment to tell effective stories.

Suzanne Slarsky Dael ‘02 will return to campus for a conversation moderated by students Tashi Sherpa ‘24 (International and Global Studies) and Finn Warner ‘24.5 (Environmental Economics). The European Union has cut greenhouse gas emissions by almost a third since 1990 and is working towards its next target: net 55% reductions by 2030. Suzanne graduated as a Geography major and will share insights from her journey from Midd’s GIS lab to her current role monitoring this climate progress as Head of group on climate change mitigation, energy and transport at the European Environment Agency.

No other creature walks like humans. Our feet shaped our pelvises, our hands, and our brains. We walk the way we do, therefore we are human beings.

This is the first of a spring term series co-sponsored by The Scott Center and New Perennials to explore the meditative, spiritual, community-building power of walking. The series expands on Affiliate Humanist Chaplain Prof. Bill Vitek’s popular J-term walking class “Walking Body, Walking Mind.”  Light refreshments will be served.

The 2023-2024 Environmental Council (EC) members have been working hard on important campus projects and are excited to share their progress! Take this opportunity to talk with EC members, ask questions, and see what actionable steps they are taking to achieve goals and promote a sustainable campus community at Midd. Refreshments will be provided.

Middlebury joins hundreds of educational institutions around the world (in more than 50 countries and most US states) in the World Wide Teach-In on Climate and Justice between April 1-8, 2024. This will continue ongoing campus-wide conversations and engage students, faculty, and staff as we grapple with a time of planetary crisis and transformation.

During the week of April 1-5, all faculty are asked to devote at least five minutes of their classroom time to a conversation about climate solutions and justice so that we can engage as many of our community members as possible.