Green Mountain Center For Sustainability
Learn how to live sustainably at the Green Mountain Center for Sustainability at Prescott College. We promote solutions-based learning from personal to global scales, building learning communities and supporting innovative student projects. Contact us today.
Overview
The Green Mountain Center for Sustainability at Prescott College serves students, alumni, staff, neighbors, and an online audience by promoting solutions-based learning about how to live more sustainably, from the personal to the global scale. The Center integrates Green Mountain College’s award-winning approach to sustainability education with Prescott College’s rich history of leadership in environmental studies and social justice. By building learning communities through events and programs, facilitating connections among stakeholders, and sharing resources, the center cultivates the skills and knowledge needed to create a more just and sustainable society.
One of our most important contributions, in conjunction with the Prescott College Sustainability Council, is to help fund innovative student projects that foster more environmentally, socially, or economically sustainable practices. Funding requests can be submitted via the Sustainability Funds Grant Proposal form.
If you would like to help support the work of the Green Mountain Center, click the button below to donate. Simply specify that you’d like your gift to go to the Green Mountain Center under Gift Restrictions. Thanks so much!
Goals
- Create a rich sense of community on the Prescott College campus for students, staff, community members, and alumni from both Green Mountain College and Prescott College
- Continue national leadership in sustainability education through residential and online activities, and create an online presence that celebrates the work done by students, faculty, and alumni of GMC and Prescott College
- Encourage and support project-based courses, independent studies, senior projects, and co-curricular activities based on finding alternatives to unsustainable practices, using the Prescott College campus and its surrounding region as a laboratory for solutions-based learning
- Serve as an incubator for sustainability research, consulting, and community organizing, and curate materials generated by these efforts
- Facilitate place-based education and online connections between bioregionally focused organizations around the world, building on the distinctive bioregional approach to distance learning developed at GMC and now carried on through Prescott College’s graduate programs
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From the Directors
May 2024 Update
By Laird Christensen and Eleanor Tison, Co-Directors
The Green Mountain Center for Sustainability launched a busy Earth Month with the Worldwide Climate and Justice Education Week on April 2nd. As one of hundreds of schools participating in this annual event, Prescott College welcomed students, faculty, and alumni from around the world to talk about regional climate challenges an d solutions, including staff and community members from Prescott College’s Dopoi Center in Kenya and the Kino Bay Center in Sonora, Mexico. We also heard from GMC alumni such as Lori Curtis (MS ‘10) reporting from the Galapagos Islands and Barbara Fraser (MS ‘10) from the Amazon Basin.
Student workers on the Sustainability Crew organized events over the following weeks, including a soup lunch that featured a community Clothing Swap, and a “Celebrate our Earth” Spirit Week with daily dress-up themes from “Pollinator Day” to “Bring it to Life Seed Day.” The Center was also abuzz with gardening preparations as the grow lights from GMC were set up to start heirloom and locally-sourced seedlings. The Sustainability Center’s kitchen has hosted a weekly Cooking Club, Taco Tuesdays, a sunflower butter workshop, sourdough starter training, and even a team salad-making challenge. You can get a closer look at the work going on through the Green Mountain Center at https://www.instagram.com/pcgarden_compost/.
Students and staff were also involved in Earth Day festivities in downtown Prescott on April 20th, sharing a display that included various campus composting projects. The month wound down with a successful Arbor Day event on Saturday, April 27th, co-organized with the Butte Creek Restoration Council, Tree Campus USA, and the Green Mountain Center. Thirty-five students, staff, and neighbors attended workshops, planted 25 native trees or shrubs, and removed 220 invasive Siberian Elm saplings or trees growing along Butte Creek as it passes through campus. April also included a screening of a student-made film, “What Actually Happens to Your Compost and Recycling in Prescott,” featuring our own Nat Burgeff, graduate student and member of the Sustainability Council.
All of these efforts are part of the mission of the Green Mountain Center for Sustainability at Prescott College, which was created to help share the lessons and sustainability practices that made GMC so influential. If you’d like to help support our work, we appreciate any assistance you can offer. We’ve included a button for gifts on the Green Mountain Center website. You can specify what you’d like your contribution to go toward when filling out the form.
And don’t forget: we love sharing news from our GMC alumni, so we hope you will reach out and let us know where the path from Poultney has led you. It’s as easy as sending a message to [email protected].
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