In 2007, Vermont Technical College established the Center for Sustainable Practices.  The Center is dedicated to applying emerging green and sustainable technologies and practices in the areas of energy,buildings, agriculture, and land use.  The Center accomplishes this mission by exploring and applying practices that promote sustainability, demostrating green technologies and practices to Vermonters, and helping them bring these solutions home.  The Center partners with with Vermont businesses and government to grow the green economy while educating Vermonters about global resources and climate change.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Help us build the future

 Today, after three years of planning and growth, the Center for Sustainable Practices needs a place to house its programs, including offering students, businesses, and communities meaningful educational and training opportunities.  The Allen House (pictured to the right) offers the Center this opportunity on the Randolph Center campus, and its rehabilitation will both embody and highlight what can be done to bring a beautiful historic structure into an energy efficient age. 

For plans, updates, reports on progress, and to find out how you can become part of this important project, click here.

Food Scrap Collection and Supply

Notice of Intent to Issue a Food Scrap Collection and Supply RFP - The Center for Sustainable Practices intends to issue a Request for Proposal in late June for the collection of clean, source separated food scraps that will satisfy a feedstock need for the proposed Central Vermont Recovered Biomass Facility to be located on the Vermont Technical College campus in Randolph Center.  Preliminary information on the cleanliness of the food scraps, successful examples of this type of collection, and resources can be accessed here.