Sustainability & Environmental Affairs

First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis. Directed by Madison Middleton ’22.5; making their Midd debuts are Max Blumenthal ‘27, Odette Castillo ‘27, Emma Dobson ‘27, Jenny Fede ‘26, Virginia Frau ‘27, Claire Hatch ‘26, Allison Hurd ‘27, Nitya Kaul ‘27, Sean Lovett ‘23.5, Edith Mauch ‘27, Sara McKillip ‘25, and Moriah Thompson ‘25.Cole Newman ‘26 is the Stage Manager, with Jiawen Li ‘27 as Assistant Stage Manager.

First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis. Directed by Madison Middleton ’22.5; making their Midd debuts are Max Blumenthal ‘27, Odette Castillo ‘27, Emma Dobson ‘27, Jenny Fede ‘26, Virginia Frau ‘27, Claire Hatch ‘26, Allison Hurd ‘27, Nitya Kaul ‘27, Sean Lovett ‘23.5, Edith Mauch ‘27, Sara McKillip ‘25, and Moriah Thompson ‘25.Cole Newman ‘26 is the Stage Manager, with Jiawen Li ‘27 as Assistant Stage Manager.

Welcome back Middlebury students, staff and faculty! Join the Sustainability & Environmental Affairs team for a gathering in the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest courtyard to reconnect, share snacks, and ignite exciting collaborations in the realm of sustainability and climate action for the new academic year. Bring your team and/or friends and spread the word!

Rain location: The Orchard, Franklin Env Center 103

Meet at the front porch of Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest to join the popular Fall Family Weekend Campus Tree Tour led by passionate Middlebury horticulturalist and tree expert Tim Parsons. Learn fun facts and hear stories about various trees around campus. Tim will also explain how he manages our rural Vermont campus as an urban forest.

Check out Tim Parson’s blog, The Middlebury Landscape, or follow Tim on Instagram.

The Knoll welcomes Writer in Residence Emerita, award-winning Dominican-American novelist, poet, and writer Julia Alvarez, for an immersive poetry workshop at the Knoll. In case of location change due to weather, please visit go/knollhours/ for up-to-date information.

We’re delighted to release our community sourced book filled with memories, photos, art, and poetry submitted by 60+ alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends. Light refreshments provided, followed by a short program and readings from contributors.

 Looking to support your climate-related work? Get summer funding, develop skills, work with peers: join us for this info session to learn more and apply to be a Climate Action Fellow! Have an idea you’d like to explore? An unpaid internship you’d like to fund? A desire to supplement and connect your paid internship with a cohort of others working on climate this summer and into the academic year? Learn more in this in-person info session at go/caf.

2023-2024 Midd Climate Action Fellow Application window: March 6-April 7.

Join the Hearthunder Art Collective to collaborate on a kinetic butterfly art installation in preparation for this spring’s Art vs. Apocalypse events on the roles of art and creative expression in confronting climate change and environmental challenges!

All materials provided. No experience necessary!

A presentation on landscape ecology, land use change, biodiversity conservation, and ecological restoration in Chile by Dr. Adison Altamirano, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of the Frontier (UFRO) in Temuco, Chile. This seimnar will be followed by a short reception at 5:15 pm for Dr. Altamirano and his colleague Prof. Alejandro Herrera Aguayo who is also a faculty member at UFRO in Anthropology. Sponsored by the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest.

1 hour conversation with the famous Midd alum, Mark Synnott. Mark started Synnott Mountain Guides over in Jackson, New Hampshire. He is an author of multiple books including “The Third Pole” and “The Impossible Climb”, and a member of the North Face Athlete team. This event will be an interactive conversation. We will begin with a background of Mark’s life and his transition from Middlebury to the professional adventuring world and then dive into a collective conversation with attendees on proper preparation and decision-making in an ever changing backcountry ski setting.