Environmental Planning (ENVI 302)

Sarah Gardner, Lecturer in Environmental Studies & Associate Director, CES

 

Every environmental studies student takes Environmental Planning: the applied, hands-on course in the Environmental Studies Program, in which students work on environmental projects for community clients.    Each year brings new issues, new clients, and new challenges for our students to solve.  Each student team gives a final presentation to their clients and stakeholders, which is open to the public.  All the final reports and presentations may be foun

d on the CES website at http://ces.williams.edu/environmental-planning-papers/

 

Greylock

The Greylock Mill Rooftop Greenhouse Planning Team, planned for food production on the roof of a former textile mill in North Adams.  The team from left: Katie Costantini, Brett Bidstrup, Ali Hill, Jack Ryan and Alex Schidlovsky, with community advocates Adam Hinds and Jen Munoz, and mill owners Karla Rothstein and Sal Perry.

 

 

 

Clark Art

 

 

 

The Clark Art Museum Pasture Management Planning Team, developed options for cattle grazingin the pasture and food production that would allow the farmers to expand their operations at the Clark while providing products for the museum cafe.  Team pictured from left, Nigel Bates, Sofia Roitman,Sophia Schmidt, and Chris Stefanik, with farmer Carl Sweet.

 

 

 

stream hab

 

 

 

 

The Stream Habitat Group worked with the Berkshire Environmental Action Team to assess North Berkshire culverts for obstacles to habitat connectivity.  They are pictured presenting in Town Hall to the Williamstown Conservation Commission.  From left, Arnie Capute, Martin Strenk, Michaela Levine, and Krystina Lincoln.

 

 

 

 

Bike path

 

 

The Williamstown Bike Path Team worked with Shaun Garvey, a project manager in the Williams Facility Office, to develop a bike path plan for the south side of campus, where the science center is undergoing a major construction project.  The plan creates a safe east-west bikeway on the town side of campus.  The Team is posing with Shaun on the right, from right to left: Annie Tewksbury, Nikki Caravelli, Brendan Bossidy and Grace Weatherall, with Sarah Gardner.

 

 

Hoosic river

 

 

 

The Hoosic River Team analyzed the potential to remove portion of the channelized flood chutes in North Adams to reconnect the city to the river in a beneficial way.   With Judy Grinnell, the director of the Hoosic River Revival Association as the client, the student team was (from left to right), Katie Aguila, Caroline Beckmann, Allie Rowe and Miguel Mendez.