This week, Log Lunch goers were joined by Annapurrna Xochiestentli, a current sophomore at Williams who traveled to Egypt for COP27 this past year. Her professor Brittany Meché introduced Annapurrna as an advocate, writer, creator, and “trouble-maker in the best ways.” Annapurrna struck Meché and her audience with… Continue reading »
On April 14, the Log Lunch community gathered to learn from Eban Goodstein ’82 and Masha Zabara about their experiences in climate activism. Eban worked as an economics professor for 20 years, at Lewis & Clark and Skidmore Colleges, led the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions at… Continue reading »
Log Lunch returned from Spring Break with a talk by Allison Cross Carter, who leads a team at WWF (World Wildlife Fund) dedicated to solving some of the world’s biggest conservation challenges for wild-caught fish and marine wildlife. She has helped over 50 fisheries on six continents engage in efforts… Continue reading »
This week the Log Lunch community welcomed back Chris Varrone ’85 to speak about his work in carbon capture and storage technologies. Varrone currently serves as Managing Director of Pickwick Capital Partners. He graduated from Williams with a degree in political science and went on to get a… Continue reading »
On March 3, the Log Lunch community gathered to hear from Paul Gallay ’81 about coastal resilience planning in New York City. Paul serves as the director of Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Urban Development’s Resilient Coastal Communities Project (RCCP), a partnership between the Columbia Climate School and… Continue reading »
At this week’s Log Lunch, the Williams community gathered to hear from Sarah Cooperman ‘17 about her wildlife rehabilitation work. Sarah expressed her life-long love for wildlife protection; growing up she had big dreams of becoming a marine biologist, but her passion for wildlife underdogs eventually led her… Continue reading »
Williams College students, faculty, and community members gathered for the first Log Lunch of the spring semester to hear from Jeff Thaler, a Williams graduate from the class of ‘74. Thaler wears many hats in the world of environmental law and policy—both figuratively and literally, as he sported… Continue reading »
On January 20th, the Log Lunch community had the privilege of hearing from local farmer, chef, florist, entrepreneur and activist Tu Le. Over a delicious meal of North African soup with lentils, beans, and millet, Moroccan flatbread, Lebanese slaw and rice flour cookies made with produce from Mighty… Continue reading »
Just-Zero has four main goals: changing how solid waste is processed, ending landfilling, keeping compost clean, and reducing single-use items. Solid-waste disposal often uses dangerous methods and there is a lack of investment in real solutions. One false solution is incineration, often disguised by nice-sounding terms… Continue reading »
When Gavin McCormick ‘05 began his PhD in Environmental Economics at Berkeley, he anticipated spending years developing new methods to quantify and evaluate greenhouse gas emissions. What he didn’t anticipate, however, was that his ideas would revolutionize climate science and transform global climate policy. As he spoke to… Continue reading »
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