BY LAURA J. MARTIN MAY 11, 202110:45 AM The National Bison Range near Ravali, Montana USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service TWEET SHARE… Continue reading »
© Getty Images BY LAURA J. MARTIN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 04/26/21 05:30 PM EDT 418 THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL The Biden administration has pledged to put the country on a path to net-zero greenhouse gas… Continue reading »
By Anna Bruce ‘21 On Thursday April 22, the Center for Environmental Studies welcomed Judith Enck for an Earth Day address entitled “Moving Beyond Plastics: The Environmental Justice Issue of Our Time.” Enck is a former EPA Regional Administrator, a visiting professor at Bennington College, and the President of Beyond… Continue reading »
BY DANNY JIN The Berkshire Eagle Estimates have found up to one-half of municipal solid waste to be compostable, and a composting pilot program for Williamstown seeks to divert waste from landfills and incinerators. EAGLE FILE PHOTO WILLIAMSTOWN — With Massachusetts’ landfills filling… Continue reading »
By Anna Bruce ’21 On Tuesday April 13, the Center for Environmental Studies welcomed Michelle Nijhuis for a Class of 1966 Zoom lecture entitled “Finding Hope in Conservation History.” Nijhuis is the author of the new book Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction. A project editor… Continue reading »
Crystal Ma ’21 has been awarded a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, joining a cohort of more than 40 students from 22 states and 8 countries, each of whom will pursue independent exploration around the globe in 2021-2022. An art and biology major from Redmond, Wash., Ma shares… Continue reading »
Florida government officials may face accountability after years of environmental injustice and contamination in Tallevast thanks to the work of Ruby Bagwyn ’23, Professor of Africana Studies James Manigault-Bryant, and Assistant Professor of Geosciences José Constantine. Bagwyn, Manigault-Bryant, and Constantine co-wrote an essay for Boston Review titled “Poisoning Tallevast” demonstrating how… Continue reading »
by Anna Bruce ’21 On Tuesday, March 9 the Center for Environmental Studies welcomed Lindi von Mutius ’03 for a Zoom lecture entitled “How Parks Can Undo Systemic Racism.” Von Mutius attended Williams where she was a Mellon Fellow and earned a B.A. in History with a concentration… Continue reading »
March 6, 2020 In the poem “ca’line’s prayer,” Lucille Clifton marks the progression of Black generational memory through the metaphor of drought, narrating a female ancestor’s voyage from Dahomey to the plantations of the United States South, reconfigured here as a “desert country.” The 1969 publication of “ca’line’s prayer”… Continue reading »
By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff 04:00AM / Friday, December 18, 2020Print Story | Email Story WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town’s diversity committee Monday got a lesson in Williamstown’s racist history and some advice on actions that could address structural inequity. Williams College seniors Kate Orringer and Morgan Dauk appeared… Continue reading »
By Anna Bruce ‘21 On November 17 2020, the Center for Environmental Studies welcomed Maxine Burkett ’98 for a Class of 1960 Scholars Program Zoom lecture entitled: “First Do No Harm: Climate Migrations, Reparations, and the Guarantee of Non-Repetition.” Burkett is a Professor of Law at the William S. Continue reading »
November 19, 2020 By Julia Munemo The Global Ocean, taught this semester by the five faculty members who constitute the Williams-Mystic program, is among several new courses introducing Williams students to the interdisciplinarity of the sea. Based in Mystic, Conn., the program generally draws students from colleges across… Continue reading »
Nancy Marks ‘76 is an environmental lawyer for the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC). In her Log Lunch talk on Friday, she talked about the current lead contamination crisis in Newark, NJ and described NRDC’s work on the issue. She started her talk by asking the audience what… Continue reading »
Williams students Sofia Barandiaran, Julia Gunther, Cristina Mancilla, and Del Rose Hooker Newball speak to the City Council. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A Complete Streets inventory project undertaken by Williams College students offered a number of scenarios for making a more pedestrian and bicycle friendly loop around the downtown,… Continue reading »
Williams College students present their recommendations for Prospect Mountain Ski Area in Woodford at the Bennington Free Library on Wednesday. BENNINGTON — Advancing Prospect Mountain Ski Area’s nascent snowmaking effort, installing a solar panel system atop the base lodge, posting mountain conditions more regularly online and expanding the… Continue reading »
For the final log lunch of the year, Jesus Payan, Emma Levy, Hallie Whitmore, Amber Lee, and Allie Campbell, all in Professor Art’s Environmental Planning Workshop, gave a presentation about the project that they have been working on for the past semester. They were tasked with researching and investigating how… Continue reading »
Karin Meyers gave a talk on the relevance of Buddhist practices in facing the current climate crisis. We can see Buddhist practices as having an inherently ecological approach because they deal with interbeing, dependent co-arising, and interconnectedness with each other and with nature, and include ethical principles of… Continue reading »
Lauret Savoy in the MatT Cole Reading room with the 1960’s scholars The Center for Environmental Studies was honored to have Dr. Lauret Savoy author and David B. Truman Professor of Environmental Studies and Geology at Mount Holyoke College share her book with us. Her 2015 book, Trace:… Continue reading »
Becky Cushing is the Berkshire Sanctuaries Director for Mass Audubon, overseeing six wildlife sanctuaries, twelve miles of hiking trails, and the Berkshire Environmental Literacy program. In her log lunch talk on Friday, she spoke about their efforts to make nature accessible to everyone, not only because being connected… Continue reading »
The 5th annual Berkshire Natural History conference brought together a community of naturalists, students, scientists, activists, and people of all ages to celebrate the natural beauty of the Berkshires and to encourage its preservation. The conference was sponsored this year by Green Berkshires, Berkshire Community College, Williams College Department of Biology,… Continue reading »
Leah Penniman, from Soul Fire Farm in Petersburg, NY, came to Williams and gave a talk that focused on the themes of uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. Leah explained that in order to understand our present-day food system and the injustices contained within it,… Continue reading »
Tom Daniels is a Professor of Planning and Design and directs the Program in Land Use and Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He spoke about Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, VT as an example of a sustainable farm that is also an important community resource. Mainstream industrial farming… Continue reading »
Cecilia Del Cid, the Assistant Director of the Davis Center at Williams College, is a biologist and has a Masters in Forestry. She said that her passion for this work started when her parents bought a small track of jungle in Guatemala. She had grown up in Guatemala… Continue reading »
On this particularly cool day in early October, Bathsheba Demuth and Julia Philips took us on a journey to a much colder part of the world. Both of them have lived in and authored recent books about the arctic region, and they shared some of what they… Continue reading »
As people shuffled into the Log this past, they were pleasantly surprised to smell delicious Alaskan salmon. Josh Pierson ‘00 and Marc Barreda ’99, co founders of “Papa’s Catch Salmon”, returned to Williamstown to give a long lunch talk about how they got involved in Alaskan commercial fishing… Continue reading »