Middlebury College has a long history of Environmental Awareness and responsibility beginning with the formation of an Energy Council in the 1970s. After a period of inactivity in the mid 1980s, the Energy Council was reactivated in September, 1990, by David Ginevan, Vice President for Administration and Treasurer. As the Council's agenda of environmental concerns and initiatives expanded, it was renamed the Environmental Council. The membership of the Council has included faculty, staff, and students. In recent years the Environmental Council has been engaged in a number of long-range planning studies concerned with the greening of Middlebury College. The Council has encouraged research by faculty and students as well as staff, and it has received many valuable reports, suggestions and recommendations.
In the Fall of 1994, the Council decided to prepare a special report for the President of the College that would attempt a comprehensive overview of the current state of the College from an environmental perspective with recommendations for advancing the process of greening the institution.
The Environmental Council is currently working under the recommendations in the Pathways to a Green Campus report. Before the turn of the century, we hope to conduct a comprehensive environmental audit to see how far we have come and provide the College with a focused direction.
The Environmental Council wishes to thank David Ginevan for the environmental leadership he has provided at Middlebury College by appointing an Environmental Council in recent years and for the support he has given the Council. The Council also wishes to thank and commend President John McCardell for the challenging vision that he has been developing for the College with regard to environmental studies and environmental responsibility.
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