Category Archives: Transportation

New guide helps you develop a sustainable campus transportation system!

The Vermont Clean Cities Coalition is excited to announce the release of the Sustainable Campus Transportation Toolkit! This toolkit focuses on methods that higher education institutions in Vermont, like your own, can utilize in order to improve the sustainability of their transportation systems. These recommendations include techniques related to alternative fuel vehicles, transportation demand management, […]

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Transportation Events for Sustainability Month, free stuff and prizes!

To celebrate Sustain Champlain’s Sustainability Month, the Transportation Office is hosting and supporting a number of transportation related events which we would love to have you participate. There are a lot of goodies, free stuff and big prizes on offer at most events too! (and great information). Dates and details below: 9th – Student Winter […]

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Carpool to Campus Day – February 16th

For Sustain Champlain’s Sustainability Month and in partnership with CATMA we present Carpool to Campus Day 2016: To help create space for our Admissions Winter Open House families who will be parking at Lakeside, we are asking you to share a car with two or more fellow employees or commuter students on February 16th (or, if the boss will allow it, don’t come to […]

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Carpool to Campus Day – February 16th

For Sustain Champlain’s Sustainability Month and in partnership with CATMA we present Carpool to Campus Day 2016: To help create space for our Winter Open House families who will be parking at Lakeside, we are asking you to share a car with two or more fellow employees or commuter students on February 16th (or, if the boss will allow it, dont come to campus […]

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Transportation Events for Sustainability Month, free stuff and prizes!

To celebrate Sustain Champlain’s Sustainability Month, the Transportation Office is hosting and supporting a number of transportation related events which we would love to have you participate. There are a lot of goodies, free stuff and big prizes on offer at most events too! (and great information). Dates and details below: 9th – Student Winter […]

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Help make our campus more sustainable/inclusive/regenerative/just… Join a Sustain Champlain committee

Happy new year!  If one of your resolutions was to get more involved on campus or to do even more great work within our community, we invite you to participate in one of the Sustain Champlain committees.  You can see all of the accomplishments of the Fall 2015 semester here, and this spring we’ll be […]

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Vermont Clean Cities Coalition Spring Semester Internship

Vermont Clean Cities Coalition. We are pleased to announce the launch of the Summer 2016 term of the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities University Workforce Development Program (CCUWDP). This summer, an internship position will be available with the Vermont Clean Cities Coalition.  This is a wonderful opportunity for students looking to gain experience in […]

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Local Motion’s petition calling on City Council to make Burlington safe for walking and biking

Local Motion has started a petition calling on the Burlington City Council to make Burlington safe for walking and biking.  Why now? Because Burlington is drafting its first-ever walk-bike master plan, and in early 2016, City Council will vote on it. There will be pushback from people who don’t think any change is needed, and City […]

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Sustain Champlain – Fall 2015 in review

In this our tenth year of Sustain Champlain, we’ve continued making strong headway in making our campus and community a more sustainable place to work/live/study. Here’s a glimpse as to what we’ve been up to: Student Eco-Reps 16 Student Eco-Reps representing  diverse academic fields have explored themes including: Waste, Transportation & Conscious Consumption 5 students […]

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