President Ronald D. Liebowitz and the members of the Middlebury College Board of Trustees cordially invite you to join them for the opening of the College's new biomass energy plant.
Middlebury scholar in residence and noted environmentalist and author Bill McKibben will speak on What Gives a College Power:
On Being a Learning, Teaching Community at a Moment of Change.
The lecture will be followed by a virtual tour of the biomass plant.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
4:30 p.m. Light refreshments, 5:00 p.m. Lecture McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College Middlebury, Vermont
The biomass facility is the cornerstone of the College's efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by 2016. The new "green" energy plant, which burns wood chips and other forms of biomass to produce heat and electricity, will reduce Middlebury's carbon emissions by 40 percent and cut its use of fuel oil by a million gallons each year. The College hopes that by proving the practicality and cost effectiveness of this alternative technology, it will inspire other institutions and businesses to step toward greater use of renewable fuels and reductions in carbon emissions.
Space is limited. RSVP by Friday, February 6 to 888.846.6433 or vermont@middlebury.edu
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