Explore

· Headwaters Gathering
· INSULATE!©
· Internships
· Mountain Green
· Partnership with Asheville
· Speakers
· Sustainability at WWC
· The Swannanoa Journal©

Environmental Research
· Econ An. of Swain Co Settlement
· Econ An. of WNC non-profits
· Env Research Funding
· Env Research Newsletter
· Horizon 2100
· Mapping Change of Buncombe
· Native Plant Feasibility Study
· Stormwater Analysis

Environmental Leadership Center
Warren Wilson College
Campus Box 6323
P.O. Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000

828.771.3006

Please refer comments or questions about this website to Phillip Ray Gibson @ pgibson@warren-wilson.edu.

The Environmental Leadership Center

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Warren Wilson College is steadily evolving into a model of sustainability in higher education and the Environmental Leadership Center (ELC) plays a key role in this mission. Our students work, study and serve in a learning community that walks its environmental talk. They come to understand, first-hand, the challenges and the processes that must be undertaken to carve a sustainable future – a responsible future – for all people! Through the ELC’s summer Internships, EcoTeam program, Campus Greening projects, Speakers Series, sustainability research, and environmental compliance work we inspire students and support the College to implement best practices in academics and operations, and we promote decision-making s that calculate the impact of each of our institutional choices now, and for the future.

We also assist the College in its wider inspiration to the region and beyond. Though committed to global change, we focus our efforts locally where we believe we can have the greatest impact. Through our publications, Green Walkabout©, INSULATE!, Mountain Green initiative, regional sustainability Internships, on-campus public conferences and workshops, regional leadership on boards and task forces, and recent formalization of a partnership with the City of Asheville to support our respective climate commitments, we are inspiring citizens, policy makers, and other colleges and universities to join us in our commitment to work for a sustainable future.

We invite you to work alongside us and share in our hope that we can carve a future that provides a desirable quality of life for all people. We are encouraged by signs of growing commitment to this future from all sectors and pledge to work as effectively as we can to achieve this vision. It is good to be serving with you, revering together what we believe is possible.

Margo Nottoli Flood

Director