On Friday, November 15, the Log Lunch community gathered to hear about food policy from Winton Pitcoff, the Deputy Commissioner and Legislative and Policy Director of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources. “Most people don’t think about food policy, because why would you want to?” Winton said. “Someone… Continue reading »
Sophia Schmidt ’17 returned to Williamstown to give the first Log Lunch talk of November, describing her coverage of climate change on Philadelphia public radio. Professor Sarah Gardner introduced Schmidt as one of her former students, an Environmental Studies and Biology double major who worked as a Log… Continue reading »
On October 26th, Log Lunch welcomed Dan Lashof, the Director of the World Resource Institute along. Williams Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Lindi Von Mutius ‘03 welcomed those who made the journey for parents weekend, before introducing Lashof. An old acquaintance and colleague, Von Mutius described Lashof… Continue reading »
On Friday, October 18, the Log Lunch community welcomed student speakers Emma Nathanson ’25 and Campbell Leonard ’25 to discuss their experiences working with local farms, funded by the Center for Environmental studies summer grants program. Emma, a history major, spent the summer collecting oral histories from farmers… Continue reading »
On Friday, October 4, the Log Lunch community gathered to hear from three student speakers — Sam Samuel ’26, Zee Taylor ’27, and Lana Mahbouba 26’ — about their summer research and internships with funding from the Center for Environmental Studies summer grants program. The funding is awarded… Continue reading »
Barton Jones Championing Nature’s Legacy Bart Jones has been President of the Cornwall Conservation Trust since 2011 and a board member since 2009. An all-volunteer board runs the organization, supported by a small part-time staff. CCT was accredited in 2016 and its accreditation was renewed in 2021. Under Bart’s leadership,… Continue reading »
On Friday, September 20, the Log Lunch community gathered to hear from the first speaker of the year — Jessica Bravo, Deputy Chief Environmental Officer at Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior that… Continue reading »
On a beautifully sunny Friday, May 3, the community once again gathered for Log Lunch. As the last Log Lunch of the 23-24 year with a guest speaker, people were excited. The meal provided by the student cooks only added to the excitement, consisting of focaccia with wild… Continue reading »
On Friday, April 26, the community gathered for another excellent Log Lunch meal and speaker. On this day, the student cooks prepared a delicious meal of a chickpea coconut lemon curry, samosas, naan, garlic-chive chutney, a yogurt sauce, a crisp apple, snap pea, cucumber salad with mint, and… Continue reading »
On cloudy and quite warm Friday, April 19, the community gathered for another delicious Log Lunch. Today, the student cooks prepared an excellent meal consisting of chive pancakes, “build your own bibimbap” with crispy tofu, soft-boiled eggs, spicy sesame shredded vegetables with onions from Caretaker Farm, shredded cabbage… Continue reading »