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 »
Professor of Economics and Provost Dukes Love. This week at Log Lunch, Provost and Professor Dukes Love talked about Williams’ approach to sustainability and its future at the college. He is on the sustainability planning group for strategic planning and as Williams is closing in on the 2020 commitment… 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 »
Professor Sonya Auer (right) and Professor Sarah Gardner (left) Sonya Auer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, studies the ways in which animals cope with change in their environment. She gave a Log Lunch this week about her work on salmon in the highlands of Scotland. She explained how dams… Continue reading »
Del Rose Hooker (left) and Ingrid Thyr (right) Del Rose Through a CES grant, Del Rose ’21 went to Ecuador with Cristina Mancilla ’20 to study Ithomiini, or clear wing, butterflies in a cloud forest on the Eastern Andes. She investigated the relationship between regional diversity of clear… 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 »
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