Community Outreach: Green Mountain College

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Community Outreach

College & Main Sustainability Newsletter
As part of Sustainability 2020 and Poultney 2020's effort to bridge the gap between Poultney and GMC, the College & Main newsletter was created to communicate sustainability happenings around GMC and Poultney, as well as to provide a calendar of events happening on campus and in town. The newsletter, which is released monthly and distributed around campus and local Poultney businesses, will also be available for download here. View past issues of College & Main below (PDF).

February 2013
March 2013
April 2013

GMC Eco-Reps
The GMC Eco-Rep program was initially funded by a Fall 2011 SCGF proposal, and was designed to create students leaders for campus sustainability. Interested students are chosen based on quality of application, determination to be part of the program, and displayed leadership and involvement in campus activities. Eco-Reps will be fitted with a number of responsibilities including:

Running Green Move Out in the spring and Green Move In in the fall
Designing and maintaining a bulletin board full of sustainability related information
Maintaining the campus Free Store located in the basement of Withey Hall
Organize hub garbage and recycling bins to ensure proper waste management
Attending complex meetings to serve assist RAs in sustainability education
Hosting one sustainability related project/program per semester
Serving as a sustainability resource for their assigned residence hall GMC Eco-Reps will help spread the word to all residential students about waste reduction, water use reduction, supporting local businesses, environmentally friendly cleaning practices, and energy conservation.

SCGF Projects
The Student Campus Greening Fund has allocated funds to a number of projects this fall including: an Eco-Rep program that will fund students to plan and engage in sustainability related activities in residence halls; a bridge in the Dean Nature Preserve and a freezer that will allow more food for the dining hall to be sourced locally.

Power Shift 2011
This spring thousands of young people will converge in Washington, DC for Power Shift 2011. Students will come together to create a vision for this social movement, learn from and train one-another on campaigns and tactics, and take bold action to create a clean energy economy. Read more about GMC students at Power Shift 2009.