Happy Earth Day! This time of year always prompts me to think of my sustainability heroes; the individuals that have inspired me and guided my path. These folks include many campus sustainability champions from years passed as well as the present. Each day I see STARS reports or read stories submitted to the Bulletin and am in awe of […]
Continue readingApplications for the Sustainability Professionals Retreatare due by May 1! Don’t miss out! If you are looking for a way to advance your vision, capabilities and support system as a sustainability change agent on campus, then this workshop is for you! You can expect a focus on flow, systems thinking, building your skills and strengthening relationships […]
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June Forum On Social ENTREPRENEURSHIP The eighth Annual June Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, hosted at Middlebury’s beautiful Bread Loaf campus is from June 10–12, 2019. This event convenes practitioners of social innovation education, newcomers to the field, and other professionals working to develop social impact programs at their home institutions. Our 2019 theme is “The Art of Connecting across Social Impact Experiences”. Social impact […]
Continue readingBen & Jerry’s Sustainability Event by Kiera Hufford ’18 During the Spring 2016 semester, a team of faculty members worked to design and run an event centered around Ben & Jerry’s and their social responsibility policy. The event was launched on April 3, 2016, and was the first time it had taken place. “The [Stiller] […]
Continue readingby Elena Gorell ‘16 and Haley Parent ‘18 Christina Erickson, the Sustainability Director at Champlain College, initiated the creation of the Green Revolving Fund, or GRF, in 2013. The goal of the GRF is to work in conjunction with Physical Plant to develop energy efficiency projects around Champlain’s campus in addition to implementing sustainability projects […]
Continue readingCCM faculty and renowned author Tanya Lee Stone is working on a non-fiction book centered on Girl Rising, a film that seeks to answer the question: why are 62 million girls around the world not being educated? The Girl Rising film profiles nine girls in nine countries who were all given the opportunity to conquer […]
Continue readingWhat is “sustainability?” It’s more than growing crops or planting trees. It encompasses a type of progress that helps and supports society’s needs without interfering with the future. Often people in our Champlain community consider sustainability, they might about the apiary or the water bottle ban. But what about the inner workings of sustainability? What […]
Continue readingBeloved CCPI Staff Writer Jessica Demarest interviewed Kristin Wolf during the Fall 2015 semester as part of our Apiary Project. In honor of sustainability month, we’ve transcribed the interview for you to read. What was the reasoning behind starting the Champlain Apiary? While getting her PhD at George Mason University, Kristin’s mentor was very involved […]
Continue readingThis blog post is the first in a new series co-sponsored by Sustain Champlain and the Champlain College Publishing Initiative. It’s called Profiles in Sustainability, and will feature periodic in-depth feature stories on individuals in and around our campus community who are working to further institutional goals around sustainability in innovative ways. Profiles in Sustainability: […]
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