Alan Weisman, author of the New York Times best-seller The World Without Us, addressed GMC students about the current environmental crisis. BY CHAD SKILES It was all talk of hope, natural intricacies, and a dash of well-placed confidence and humor. For its third annual plenary session, Green Mountain College welcomed critically-acclaimed, best-selling author, Alan Weisman [...]
Archive | September, 2009
Meeting GMC’s energy needs, one panel at a time
BY TODD MARTIN Walking around campus at Green Mountain College, you will notice a few renewable energy systems here and there. On the southern side of the Withey Hall roof, there is an array of eight shiny solar panels. On the hill at the farm there is a wind turbine, and on the farm you’ll [...]
A semester’s study in South Korea
BY NOAH PAPPANO After 23 hours of traveling by taxi, bus, planes, and finally car, I had made it back to America and safely ensconced in San Diego after dropping 13 time zones and swapping a humid jungle in the height of monsoon season to a desert with Mediterranean breezes. But how did I do [...]
Butt huts fume debate on campus
Students returning to GMC this fall have all come into contact with a new part of the campus landscape which has become one of the most common topics to talk about. With the administration’s new policy on smoking, specially prescribed smoking tents, or “butt huts,” are popping up on campus lawns. “I’m not for or [...]
GMC Community Member of the Month: Luke Percival
Junior Luke Percival spent his summer overseas in Australia and New Zealand. “I wasn’t there as a tourist,” he states, “I was there to travel, work, and visit family.” While in Australia, Percival worked for a mining company where he surveyed the land and collected rock samples. He and his crew hiked to previous mining [...]
