Dear colleagues,

In February 2015, the students, faculty, and staff of Sustain Champlain are organizing a month-long series of events for our self-proclaimed Sustainability Month at Champlain College, which will coincide with our fifth annual Kill-A-Watt Challenge in the residence halls.

If you are hosting a speaker, film, or other event that relates to our broad definition of sustainability, during the month of February, please let us know, so that we can include it in our master calendar of events.

Stay tuned for more details on who/when/where, but we are planning events such as:

• The story of founding the new sustainable fair-trade condom company, Sustain Condoms, one year later with young entrepreneur Mieka Hollander
• A talk by Dr. Stephanie Kaza of UVM, whose primary area of scholarship is Buddhist environmental thought. She teaches broadly in the area of Environmental Studies and writes primarily in the environmental humanities. Additional fields in which she has published peer reviewed and popular chapters and articles are: ecofeminism, environmental justice, unlearning consumerism, and nature writing.
• Film series hosted by the student Eco-Reps
• Daily tabling by community organizations

Stay tuned to email, the Sustain Champlain website, blog, or Facebook for details as they finalize.

Best,
Sustain Champlain Academic Connections Committee members

Joann Patel (CCM), Cheryl Casey (CCM), Rebecca Schwarz (CCM), Lindsey Godwin (SSB), Valerie Esposito (EHS), Nicole Stratis ‘17, Assad Akhlaqi ‘15, Emma Campbell ’15, Elena Gorell ’16, Joshua Smith ’18, Lily Mason ‘18, Christina Erickson

What does sustainability mean at Champlain College? Definition approved in the Sustainability Action Planning Process:  Champlain views sustainability in an inclusive way, encompassing human and ecological health, social justice, secure livelihoods, and a better world for all generations, as defined by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).