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Green Lethargy Among College Students? Not So Fast!

Brian Keane | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Energy, College Students, Energy Efficiency, America's Next Eco-Star, Green Marketing, Department of Energy, Green College, Middlebury College, Earth Month, Environmentalism, Green Living, College News
Brian Keane

Energy users will more often than not take action because of the simple reasoning that it's just stupid to power a device when it's not in use. The environmental value comes in as a byproduct of the smart energy action they just made.

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Tracking Vaclav Havel: From Orwell To Vermont And Into Prague

Lucas Kavner | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Communism, Christopher Hitchens, Vaclav Havel, The Memorandum, Prague Spring, Middlebury College, Czech Republic, Democracy, Why Orwell Matters, Prague, Forum 2000, George Orwell, Hitchens Orwell, Culture News
Lucas Kavner

This past week we lost a writer and a major intellectual, and we lost a brutal, confounding dictator. We also lost a playwright, a rebel, a rockstar, a chain-smoker, a renowned artist, a non-profit leader, and one of the most beloved presidents in history.

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At Solar Decathlon, College Eco-Stars Reveal True Future of Solar

Brian Keane | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: University of Maryland, Energy Efficiency, Smartpower, Purdue University, Middlebury College, College, Clean Energy, Appalachian State, Department of Energy, America's Next Eco-Star, Sustainable Building, Solar Decathlon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Solar Power, University of Tennessee, College News
Brian Keane

Solar Decathletes are students who, instead of partying at the beach or making money at temporary jobs, decide to help design, engineer and assemble solar-powered homes in their spare time.

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Andrew Lenoir

Middlebury Students Ensure A Garden Flourishes In The Bronx

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Lenoir | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Education, Middlebury College, Jacob Udell, Garden, Bronx Academy of Letters, Gardening, School, Kenny Williams, Students, Janet Rodrigues, Education News

NEW YORK -- When the Bronx Academy of Letters opened in 2006, its aging building was part school and part machine shop. "We're a school that wasn't...

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Who Will Win the 2011 Solar Decathlon?

Susanna Murley | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: University of Calgary, University of Maryland, Planet Forward, George Washington University, Middlebury College, Caltech, Department of Energy, Sci-Arc, Tongji University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011 Solar Decathlon, Slidepollajax, #SD2011, Green News
Susanna Murley

Can a liberal education prepare you to compete in the Solar Decathlon? In the spirit of Emerson, "Self Reliance," from Middlebury, will be the only submission from a liberal arts school to the Department of Energy's architectural competition.

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How Two 50-Something Women Put Vermont on the Path Toward Single-Payer Health Care

Wendell Potter | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: University of Vermont, Single Payer Healthcare, Peter Shumlin, Middlebury College, Single Payer, Vermont, Politics News
Wendell Potter

While several states are suing the federal government to block health care reform and dragging their feet on implementing any part of it, Vermont this week will be taking a giant leap in the other direction.

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Middlebury Student Found In Syria

Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Syria News, Tik Root Update, Tik Root Missing, Tik Root Syria, Middlebury College, Middlebury Student Syria, Pathik Root, Middlebury Student Found, Tik Root, Middlebury Student in Syria, Tik Root News, Tik Root Found, Syria, College News

UPDATE, 3/29: Middlebury college student Tik Root may be in the custody of Syrian military intelligence’s Branch 235, the Burlington Free Press repo...

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Middlebury College Student Describes Harrowing Last Days In Egypt

Burlington, Vermont | RYAN MERCER, Free Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests 2011, Tik Root, Egypt, Middlebury College, College News

Middlebury College students in Alexandria, Egypt, saw their share of street protests and store-looting, police violence and thuggery....

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Jake Bialer

Exclusive Interview With Cornell Student Stranded In Egypt

HuffingtonPost.com | Jake Bialer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Middlebury AlexandriaCollege Intensive Arabic, Middlebury College, Egypt Students, Carolyn Witte, Egypt Protests, Egypt Study Abroad, Cornell, World News

"All of the Egyptians thought this was just some protest and nothing really big was going to happen," Carolyn Witte told The Huffington Post in her tw...

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10/10/10 Global Work Party: How Social Media Made It Happen

Corbin Hiar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, 350.Org, Open Source, Diplomacy, Greenpeace, Online Organizing, 10-10-10, Social Media, Politics, Global Work Party, Jess Leber, Activism, Steven Chu, Climate Change, Skype, Un, Bill Mckibben, Tea Party, Green Politics, Environmental Activism, Malawi, The New Yorker, International Day of Climate Action, Barack Obama, Chris Eaton, change.org, Foreign Policy, Step It Up, Phil Aroneanu, Middlebury College, New Media, Koch Industries, Denmark, Climate Bill, Green News
Corbin Hiar

With international negotiations at a standstill, 350.org, Greenpeace and others are using every new media tool available to share their climate message. Two days before 10/10/10, they had registered nearly 7,000 events in 188 countries.

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Liberal Arts Education: From Clubbiness to Cosmopolitanism

Michael Roth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wesleyan University, Education, Liberal Arts Education, Pomona College, Middlebury College, Universities, Politics News
Michael Roth

Liberal arts colleges and universities promote community, and their educational offerings resist premature specialization. But how relevant are these schools today?

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America's Greenest Colleges: Did Your School Make the Grade?

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Journalists, College Students, Alma Mater, University of Vermont, Green Jobs, Oberlin, Alumni, Green, College Rankings, Coal, Academics, Colleges, University of Colorado, Rankings, Ratings, Sierra Club, Evergreen State College, Campuses, Energy, U.S. News & World Report, UC Santa Cruz, Administration, Ucla, UC Berkeley, University of Washington, Community Colleges, Students, Athletics, Transportation, Sports, Education, Energy Efficiency, University of California, Middlebury College, College, Waste Management, Sustainability, Food, Schools, Higher Education, College Graduates, College of the Atlantic, Green News
Avital Binshtock

While the good folks at U.S. News and World Report ascribe certain measurements of prestige to their college rankings, we rated schools based on what matters most to us.

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Greenest Colleges in America

TheDailyGreen.com | Brian Clark Howard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greenest Colleges, Duke University, Green Living, Middlebury College, Harvard University, College, Green News

When it comes to protecting the planet, many schools have given it more than a college try. In fact, America's institutions of higher learning are som...

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