(L-R) Pat Joyce and Brad McNamara On the rainy Earth Day evening of April 22, 2015, Brad McNamara, co-founder and CEO, and Pat Joyce, distributor networks account representative, spoke at Williams College about their company, Freight Farms. McNamara has a background in agricultural and environmental studies, and Joyce has… Continue reading »
Heather Paxsonhttp://web.mit.edu/anthropology/people/faculty/paxson.html. On Thursday April 23, Heather Paxson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presented a cheese tasting and Class of 1960 Scholars lecture to the Williams Community about her ethnographic work on cheese makers. With a B.A. in Anthropology… Continue reading »
In mid-April, the Williams College community celebrated theopening of the Class of 1966 Environmental Center during a weekend-long celebration. The Class of 1966 Environmental Center was built in an incredibly sustainable method in order to meet Living Building Challenge certification, an environmental building standard much stricter than LEED. Built with… Continue reading »
On Friday April 17, Timothy Mitchell, father of Purple Bike Coalition co-chair Adie Mitchell ’15, came to Log Lunch to speak about fossil fuels, democracy, and capitalization. Mitchell is a political theorist and historian, focusing on the Middle East, who has been a professor at Colombia University since 2008. He… Continue reading »
On Friday, April 10, Tom Buck ’91 came to Log Lunch to speak about private sector environmental work in developing countries. Buck’s career and work has largely been guided by a passion for international affairs. After graduating as a history major from Williams in 1991 and becoming fascinated by post-communist… Continue reading »
On Friday March 13, Jonathan Jacobson ’80 came to Log Lunch to speak about the environmental impact of the drug trade on the Amazon rain forest. Jacobson is currently chief of the information exchange partnership branch in the office of information collection at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Before… Continue reading »
On Thursday, March 12, Williams College held a panel discussion titled, “The Nature of Environmental Justice.” The panel included: Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington, an epidemiologist and editor and chief of Environmental Justice, Brentin Mock the justice editor for the online environmental magazine, Grist, and Aaron Mair, an urban environmental activist… Continue reading »
On Friday, March 6, Dan Yacobellis of the Tamakoce Wilderness Programs came to Log Lunch to speak about the benefits of animal tracking to oneself and the world. Yacobellis has spent the last two decades animal tracking, an activity during which an individual spends long amounts of time in the… Continue reading »
In late February, Philip Warbug came to Williams to speak about the potential of solar and wind energy in 21st century America. Warbug is a writer based in Newtown, MA with a diverse and impactful career in environmental law in the United States and abroad. His career began in 1973… Continue reading »
Glenn Gordinier, Co-Director of the Frank G. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies and the Robert G. Albion Historian at Mystic Seaport, came to Log Lunch on February 13 to speak about whaling history. He has taught for a quarter of a century and worked for an additional decade at… Continue reading »
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