By Matt Paneitz I spent over a decade in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala helping to transform 500 tons of trash (including 15,000 used tires) into a school campus. Many would call it “a crazy endeavor”. Through this work I started an NGO called Long Way Home with a mission “to use sustainable design and materials to construct […]
As a Goddard College student, you can earn credits with a network of dynamic organizations that have partnership agreements with Goddard. You can complete courses and programs of study with these partners during the semester and on between semester breaks, in some cases earning additional credits directly applicable towards your Goddard degree and satisfying some […]
Background The sustainability team was formed in 2007 when Goddard’s president signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. We conducted a carbon inventory, created a climate action plan, and began working to reduce energy use and carbon emissions with a goal to become carbon neutral in fuels burned on campus and electricity usage […]
Black/Land Project’s founder and director, Mistinguette Smith, joined us during the Spring 2016 Undergraduate residency. Mistinguette’s morning keynote, “Whose Speech Matters,” gave a deeply inspiring overview of the Black/Land Project while challenging us to see beyond the narrow frames of black relationships to land. Mistinguette also spoke about historical trauma in the context of black […]
A special day of graduating student presentations in the Undergraduate program, Spring 2016. A sampler of images and talks below: Herbalism & Permaculture: The House, The Farm, and the Marketplace, with Ifatunmise Jon Provost Cooking up Reflection, Connection, and Liberation, with Kristin Schwab I Believe It While I See It, with Cole Tucker-Walton Recognition Matters: […]
The Undergraduate Program is thrilled to announce that current Goddard students can now receive academic credit (up to 3 undergraduate credits) for ten-day Food Sovereignty Tours (FST) organized by Food First. Participants can experience local food systems and the food sovereignty movement first-hand, with critical reflection and writing. The educational tours take place over ten-day […]
Host of Visionary Aquaponics podcast, Maribou Latour (BAS ’12) on why she chose Goddard’s BA in Sustainability Program.
Maribou Latour (BAS ’12) has created the podcast Visionary Aquaponics based on her passion for food and water security, aquaponics, and permaculture. She features interviews with “the best voices, minds, and experts in the aquaponics industry, so that you can…learn about the amazing impacts, successes, failures, challenges, and tips of past and present aquaponic ventures around the world.” The podcast already includes […]
Thanks to our Goddard community, including faculty members Sara Norton and Bobby Buchanan (seen in the photo below), for being part of the October 24th March Against the Pipeline in Montpelier, Vermont. It was a great turn-out! In Bill McKibben’s words, the protest “ramps up the remarkable three-year-old fight against the plans by Vermont Gas […]
Porter Witsell (IBA ‘16) sent us this note from Malawi, where she is living this semester as part of her Goddard studies: “I am learning tailoring from a bunch of teenage boys at a center that teaches vocational skills to ‘street children’. We use old singer sewing machines with foot peddles and mostly make school […]
