Environmental Leadership

As we develop the environmental leaders of tomorrow, it is important for our students to recognize, and to meet, some of the pivotal leaders, writers and scholars of today. The College has recognized many of these important people with honorary degrees. Others, including attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and world-renowned conservationist David Brower, have spoken on campus.

Recent Honorary Degree Recipients
Bill McKibben, 1995
Author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy

John Elder, 1998
Author of Reading the Mountains of Home and Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of Nature

John Todd, 2000
Ecological Designer, Founder of Oceans Ark International, Time Magazine "Hero for the Planet"

Edward Hoagland, 2001
Author and essayist of Compass Points: How I Lived and Hoagland on Nature: Essays

David Orr, 2001
Author of Earth in Mind and Ecological Literacy

James Martin, 2002
Author of The Meaning of the 21st Century: Transformation and Survival

Andrea Mead Lawrence, 2005
Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, founder of Andrea Lawrence Institute for Mountains and Rivers

Sam Waterston, 2006
Actor on popular television series Law & Order, and leader for Unity '08, a bi-partisan organization aimed at fielding a third-party candidate in the 2008 presidential election