Middlebury College

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• Middlebury College is a highly activist community. Student group MiddShift pushed the board of trustees to approve a plan to make the school carbon-neutral by 2016.
• Students have also led the charge to host energy-saving contests in residence halls, increase use of public transportation to and from campus, and turn down campus thermostats.
• A handful of students and recent alums, along with scholar-in-residence Bill McKibben, helped organize the Step It Up 2007 campaign demanding action to fight climate change, and now a Middlebury delegation has joined up with the Climate Summer campaign in New Hampshire.
• Middlebury was awarded the The Campus Sustainability Leadership Award, presented by AASHE (the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education),  which recognizes institutions that have demonstrated an outstanding overall commitment to sustainability in their governance and administration, curriculum and research, operations, campus culture, and community outreach.
• The Sustainable Endowments Institute released its 2008 edition.  The 2008 Report Card  recognized Middlebury as an overall College Sustainability Leader -- for specifically making aggressive carbon reduction commitments, increasing the use of local food, implementing green building policies, and looking to renewable energy funds for endowment investments.