Green News

When residents of Waterville wanted to expand the city's sustainability initiatives, they turned to students from for assistance. Five college interns spent the summer working for the new, regional organization Sustain Mid-Maine.

An essay by environmental studies major and insideColby blogger Blair Braverman '11 appears in High Country News magazine and will be published in some 75 newspapers in the western U.S.

Two Colby residence halls built in the early 1950s and renovated in 2008 received LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

A project spearheaded by Steve Erario '10 is making Central Maine more sustainable in five areas: local food, education, waste, energy, and transportation. Watch the insideColby video.

A new market in downtown Waterville featuring local foods and goods opened June 22. Barrels Community Market got its start through a $15,000 feasibility grant from Colby.

Students in Introduction to GIS and Remote sensing created GIS maps on seven topics from bird migration to wind power in Maine. Maps are now online.

Cotter Union is green—officially. After two recent additions, the student center received LEED certification for energy and environmental design.

Waterville's seventh graders will be at Colby May 1 for environmental education sponsored by Colby students. Activities include identifying plants and scavenger hunts.

A Focus Earth special featuring "Six People Saving Our Planet" includes footage of Colby. Activist Soren Hermansen spoke here in March with students and host Bob Woodruff about key issues.

For the second consecutive year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named Colby the Individual Conference Champion for purchasing the most green power in the NESCAC.