At the penultimate Log Lunch of the semester attendees were joined by Williams Mystic professors Sofia Zepeda and Tim Pusack, who gave a collaborative talk discussing the story of invasive lionfish species. Zepeda, a professor of American Maritime History at Mystic, kicked off the talk with a brief… Continue reading »
On April 28, the Log Lunch community welcomed Liz Gleason ’08 to speak about her work as the director of the Vermont Farm and Forest Viability Program, part of the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB). During her time at Williams, Liz was a cook for Log Lunch… Continue reading »
On April 27, the CES community welcomed Macarena Gomez-Barris, Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor & Chair in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Professor Gomez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and… Continue reading »
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 »
On April 7th, the Center for Environmental Studies 1960 Scholars Program welcomed Mason Stahl, Assistant Professor in the Environmental Science, Policy and Engineering Program and the Geosciences Department at Union College. His research spans the fields of hydrogeology, geochemistry, and water resources and he studies how perturbations to the environment… 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 »
IZA promotes innovative economic research on climate change… 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 »
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