Green Mountain College is located on 155 acres of land between the Adirondack and Green Mountains, featuring an organic farm, a ropes course, and trails. The College is very environmentally centered, with tons of outdoor trips, and degrees offered in natural resources management, environmental studies, and sustainable food systems. Coupling hands-on learning, the outdoors, and a liberal arts curriculum, Green Mountain College seeks to “foster the ideals of environmental and personal responsibility, civic engagement, entrepreneurial spirit, and global understanding.
Outdoor clubs at Green Mountain include Farm Crew, Equestrian Club, Rowing, the bike and ski shop, the outdoor recreation alliance, skate club, ultimate, rugby and quidditch. The campus opened a biomass plant in 2010, installed a wind turbine and solar panels for the student union. This allowed the campus to become the second college in the nation to become carbon neutral in 2011.
