Congratulations on your acceptance!

You now have the opportunity to embark on one of the most thrilling, challenging and important adventures of your life. The entire Sterling community looks forward to welcoming you to Craftsbury.

The first step on your journey is to send in your deposit to reserve your place in the incoming class! The New Student Deposit and Registration Form below will give you the option of submitting your deposit online, or the option to indicate that you will be paying via check or credit card over the phone.

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We will confirm your deposit upon receipt. If you have any questions about this form, methods of payment, or your deposit amount, please call 802-586-7711 x 100 or email [email protected].

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Congratulations to our December graduates, joined here by Sterling's academic dean Dr. Laura Spence. We celebrate you, your accomplishments, and the future change shaping that lies ahead of you.

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By now if you've followed our feed, you'vet heard us talk about Surviving the Future in some capacity. Whether that means you have flipped the pages of David Fleming's book, have an understanding of impending systemic collapse, or generally feel an uncertainty in your gut about the outlook of the world, Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive – an 8 week immersive online course that kicks off in early January – might be just the thing you need to start 2023 with dark optimism and grounded inspiration. The course offers an entry point into a diverse community of thinkers and doers who accept that things cannot and will not continue as they are and have begun living into alternatives, each in their own ways.

Take Isabelle Frémeaux, for example. She is a resident of la ZAD—the Zone à Défendre (Zone To Defend) in France. This area began as a small protest camp objecting to the building of an airport and turned into an autonomous community of farmers, anarchists, artists, and anti-globalization activists. She is one of the 9 guests who will join this year’s Deeper Dive.h.The recommended preparation this course is familiarity with reading David Fleming's work, which you can get by reading Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy, reading the Lean Logic online dictionary,or taking our asynchronous course, Surviving the Future: A Path Through Tumultuous Times. Link on bio.

#extinctionrebellion #extinctionrebellionfrance #france #zadfrance #zad #activist #activism #rebel #rebellion

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Time's almost up! Visit our Craft of Sterling Online Auction. Link on bio.

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"Talk around the water cooler" at Sterling College doesn't usually cover the typical topics. Instead, our discussions often revolve around the topic of collapse – ecological degradation, the fallacy of limitless growth on a finite planet, civilizational decline – and what we can do to live well through an era of contraction and disruption. It’s not all awful, though – we also get really excited about opportunities to live together in new ways as the unsustainable systems meet their inevitable end. Some of out newer staff got up to speed on collapse by listening to the first 8 episodes of the podcast, "Breaking Down: Collapse" (if you haven't yet listened, we encourage you to do so). You can imagine our appreciation when creator/facilitator of the 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time,' Shaun Chamberlin was invited for a conversation on one of our favorite podcasts. Have a listen: link on bio. If you want more check out http://ce.sterlingcollege.edu for courses led by Shaun.

#systemiccollapse #climateemergency #climatechange

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Calling all beer lovers! Grab 3-5 of your friends and enjoy an elevated and intimate experience with a @hillfarmstead Guided Tour and Tasting.

This package that you can bid on as part of the Craft of Sterling auction will include a 30-minute facilities tour, a guided tasting of 5 of their regular draft offerings, and a $50 gift card to the Bottle Shop. Bidding ends 12/4! Link on bio.

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We had a darning party with faculty member, Anne Morse. Give us your best darn caption below:

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In the spirit of supporting Sterling College students as ecological thinkers and doers who go on to effect change regarding how humanity interacts with and has reverence for the natural world, the Craft of Sterling online auction features products, services, and acts of creative expression offered by Sterling alumnx. This year we are also including some contributions from students and employees as well as a few key local businesses.

Your winning bids will benefit the woodworking, fiber arts, and studio arts that take place in Strong Hall. Strong Hall is named for the late Horace Strong and is home to Sterling’s Environmental Humanities major.

Make a bid. Link on bio.

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Bid on a custom-built Damascus steel knife in the design of your choice! Please note that there will be a three-month lead time from the day of final design. Some parameters and restrictions will apply to this custom build. Link on bio.

Maker: Greyson Stratton Weltyk graduated from Sterling in 2019 and currently works for an environmental consulting company as a Biological Field Technician. Greyson moved to Wyoming right after graduating from Sterling and worked as a ranch hand for two-plus years before moving on to focus on knife making, during which time he happened to pick up a field tech job as well.

Greyson's business is GreyBlades, where you can find high-end functional art in the form of custom cutlery.

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Our Wilderness Field Program faculty, David Gilligan and Laura Beebe, camped out with the Kroka fall semester cohort during their biking trip. We talked about ancient desert hunting techniques, took some natural history walks, started a hand drill fire, and sang songs.

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If Merry Capitalism isn't the tune you sing and holiday shopping feels catastrophically bad for the planet, we have another idea. The Craft of Sterling auction is up and running. Link on bio.

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Donated by Ellie Brown, former Sterling College assistant farm manager and the maker behind @wildiris.handcrafts this ceramic pitcher is 5" tall and 3.5" wide and holds approximately 16oz. It is hand thrown with facets cut into the side and glazed with a food safe matte reddish brown glaze. It's one of the many wonderful pieces you'll find part of the Craft of Sterling auction happening now. Link on bio.

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RFC Newsletter, Fall 2019

Rian Fried Center for Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Fall 2019 Newsletter Sterling uses education as a force to address critical ecological problems caused by unlimited growth and consumption,…

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