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.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
“Toxic Chemicals Deregulation is Bad for Your Health: Let’s Talk About the Toxics in Your Water and Food” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Wendy Heiger-Bernays, Clinical Professor Emerita of Environmental Health Boston University School of Public Health.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
As the maple leaves turn gold and plant friends begin to fruit and flower, we are also welcoming one of the well-celebrated East/Southeast Asian festival - Mid-Autumn Festival, which is deeply connected with culture, community, and land.
With the peak harvest season having come to the Knoll, it is time to celebrate this abundance together with friends and loved ones. Join us for a Mid-Autumn Harvest Festival at the Knoll with music, performances, and food!
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.
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?
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
“Middlebury School of the Environment: What We Have Learned and What Comes Next” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Curt Gervich, Director, Middlebury School of the Environment and Associate Professor in the Center for Earth and Environmental Science at SUNY Plattsburgh.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
“The Narratives of Nature” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Bira Vanara, a Mixed Media Artist.
For our entire known history, humans as a species have told stories about how we and nature came to be, and why things happen as they do. This discourse will explore how story still determines the way we perceive our relationship to the natural world through the narrative lens.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
“Desertification Archives: Global Black Ecologies and Anticipating Terror” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Brittany Meché, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Faculty in Science and Technology Studies and Africana Studies, Williams College.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
“Which Side Are You On?” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Garret Keizer, Writer.
The issue of environmental justice assayed from a viewpoint both leftishly biased and locally based. Questions raised: Why has “environmentalist” become a dirty word? What are the limits of environmentalism under capitalism? For whom will you be working ten years from now? Will you be working at all?
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
