Student Team Produces Video at Vermont Climate Summit THE EMC IMPRESSES AT THE VERMONT CLIMATE SUMMIT By Mike Goldman (first published in EMC Blog) A select team of videographers and producers from the Emergent Media Center had the opportunity to go to the Vermont Climate Economy Summit at Vermont Technical College last week. The objective of […]
Continue readingIn just two weeks, our largest group ever at Eco Practicum NYC will be getting a behind the scenes look at one of the most fascinating and complex food systems in the world. They will meet with experts, activists, and policy makers, forage for food waste, work on an urban farm, and create digital food advocacy […]
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 readingCITIZEN SCIENCE: THE POWER OF INVOLVEMENT CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW Click for more DETAILED INFO CITIZEN SCIENCE: THE POWER OF INVOLVEMENT LEARNING EXCHANGE Learn how to engage students and the general public through programs that utilize Citizen Science. Join scientists, teachers, environmental educators, and project coordinators as they share ways to involve your […]
Continue readingPlease join the UVM Office of the Vice President for Human Resources, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs for the 9th annual Blackboard Jungle Symposium, Intercultural Dialogues: The Power of Open Spaces, on March 31 & April 1, 2016. A provocative keynote presentation and panel discussion, “The Rachel Dolezal Phenomenon: Transracial Identity”, will be held on Thursday, March 31, […]
Continue readingWe are excited to announce that we, the Post-Landfill Action Network (PLAN) are hiring for 6 summer internships and a Campus Coordination Summer Fellowship! Who we are: PLAN cultivates, educates and inspires the student-led zero waste movement. We inform students about the waste crisis and equip them with the necessary skills and resources to implement zero waste […]
Continue readingSolarpunk is a vision of the future through the technological eyes of today’s green movement, but with the aesthetics of the art nouveau era, and an added ethos of decentralizing the West as the dominant global culture. (Nora Murphy). Moon Willow Press and Eco-fiction.com, along with the editors of Solarpunk Press and the Solarpunk anthology […]
Continue readingInternships Are you ready to learn valuable skills at an organization committed to climate action? Are you searching for an opportunity to learn and grow with a community of grassroots activists and organizers? If so, consider an internship with 350Vermont! Our mission is to unite a mass movement for bold solutions that both lift up Vermonters […]
Continue readingIN THIS ISSUE Our newsletter is focused on providing our students and external partners information on the “Good Work” we do in our diverse communities. We hope you enjoy this first issue! Environmental Policy – Service Learning In Ecological Economics The 400-level class of Ecological […]
Continue readingGREEN MOUNTAINS, BLUE WATER: Earth Care News from Vermont Interfaith Power and Light (VTIPL) March 2016 In this newsletter: Help VTIPL Match Our Challenge Grant! Faith Climate Action Week: April 15 – 24, 2016 “Joanna Macy and The Great Turning” Film “Merchants of Doubt” Film Showing – April 1 Support Fossil Fuel Divestment in Vermont […]
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