If you’ve configured the bucket to be publicly accessible, the files in the bucket can be accessed directly using their S3 URL. Leave a comment The Mindset List for the High School Class of 1961 by Ron Nief The Mindset List for the Graduating High School Class of 1961 Authors note: For more than two decades the Beloit College Mindset List chronicled the experiences and event horizons of 18-year-old students as they entered college. Created by Ron Nief, director of Public Affairs at Wisconsin’s Beloit College and his Beloit College colleague, Prof. Revel in the Retro: THE MINDSET LIST® OF THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY It was initially intended as a reminder to those faculty facing first- year students to beware of “hardening of the references.” Over the years it became one of the most quoted “back-to-school” references and was cited by Time Magazine as a part of the “American Read on » of English Tom McBride, the list was distributed internationally each August as the authors traveled the country speaking and doing interviews. Is it possible to go forward and backwards at the same time? The wisdom about advanced technology seems settled: it comes fast new is always better it makes us more productive but tyrannizes our time. And so: there is a reaction-a wish to go backwards with THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY. Some of this is a genuine preference for the older technology some of it is sheer nostalgia some of it is the design of an old-tech façade with new-tech convenience. Middlebury began reducing its carbon footprint in 2001. Its first major step was a resolution to lower all carbon emissions to 8 percent below 1990 levels by 2012 based on a major report produced by a J-term class for the Environmental Council. When that goal was within sight, the board approved a student-driven proposal to achieve net carbon neutrality by 2016.Īmong its many efficiency projects on campus, Middlebury completed construction of a biomass gasification plant in late 2008. The biomass plant, which burns locally sourced wood chips, meets most of the heating and cooling needs on campus and cogenerates 15 to 20 percent of our electricity all while remaining carbon neutral. Switching from fuel oil to biomass cut Middlebury’s carbon footprint by 40 to 50 percent. In 2014 the trustees approved a plan to conserve 2,100 acres of Middlebury’s Bread Loaf campus in perpetuity. Blue Source, a carbon accounting company, assessed the land and quantified carbon credits based on the amount of carbon dioxide sequestered by the Bread Loaf forests. A portion of these carbon credits was used to offset the remaining portion of our carbon footprint after biomass and other carbon-reducing changes on campus. Middlebury College’s Environmental Peak Report recommends adopting a carbon neutral goal.Ī student conducts the Middlebury’s first emissions inventory as an internship and senior thesis in collaboration with Clean Air-Cool Planet. The Environmental Council (EC) proposes the Carbon Reduction Initiative (CRI).ĮC forms a subcommittee, the CRI Working Group, to explore carbon neutrality. Winter term course maps out possible strategies for becoming carbon neutral in a report titled “Carbon Neutrality at Middlebury College.”ĬRI working group recommends a preliminary goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 8 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.īoard of Trustees endorses initial carbon reduction goal proposed by CRI Working Group. Winter term course holds climate change conference at Middlebury. The student environmental activists group, the Sunday Night Group, forms with a focus on climate change.īoard of Trustees approves proposal for biomass plant. Students propose new goal of carbon neutrality by fall 2016. Sustainability Office develops a standardized annual greenhouse gas inventory and reporting system with assistance from students. Trustees adopt resolution for Middlebury to become carbon neutral by 2016. President Liebowitz signs American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (now known as the Carbon Commitment).Ĭonstruction begins on biomass gasification plant.īiomass gasification plant completed test burning begins.Ĭarbon neutrality plan adopted by president’s staff council. Biomass plant begins full operation.
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