In honor of Earth Day, here’s what you’ll find at Driscoll, Whitman’s, and Mission dining halls on Monday April 23rd: Driscoll’s Earth Day Meatless Monday Sweet Beet and Apple Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette Lima Bean Hummus with Tomato Toast Hot & Sour Cucumbers Wild Mushroom Salad with Mint Hot Moroccan Mighty Food Farm Carrots* Root

At the end of February, Peer Health, the Berkshire Doula Project, and the Feminist Collective collaborated to put on Menstruation Celebration! This event included a talk by Su-Young Kim ‘14 and a raffle of over 75 free menstrual cups. Su-Young is the founder of Halo Cups, a company for social good. Her company sells menstrual

Time sure does fly. It feels like just last week that Elayne was arriving in Williamstown, starting to learn the job, and immediately involved in supervising a number of summer interns. Over the past nine months, not only has Elayne seriously upped the ZC’s communications game, deftly coordinated the Eco-Advisor programming, and handled crazy scheduling challenges

  As you prepare to leave for break, take a couple of minutes to reduce your impact with a few simple steps:   Unplug devices and appliances in your office  Even if they’re turned off, your electronics still use energy while plugged in. Make sure to unplug your computer, printer, copier, lamps, etc.  If you use

In October, Claudia Reyes ’18 and Marshall Borrus ‘20 attended the 2017 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education conference in San Antonio, Texas with Zilkha Center staff.  The annual conference invites members of various colleges and universities to share and learn ways to position institutions of higher education as global leaders in

November 15, 2017 from OIT Our print management company, CBS, has partnered with a new toner recycling program. In order to further reduce waste, empty toner cartridges will be shipping in boxes of six rather than one at a time. We have placed seven boxes in different areas on campus in which you can drop

Happy Homecoming, Ephs! With Homecoming on its way, the Williams community is preparing for a weekend of celebration, school spirit and reunions with friends and family alike. While enjoying the events, remember to be sustainable with these tips:  Recycle SOLO cups – Williams looks so much better in purple and gold! Or better yet, BYOC

With the arrival of Fall comes changes members of the Williams community look forward to all year: shades of red and orange foliage scattered across the purple valley, warm drinks that complement cooler weather, and Mountain Day, of course.  At the start of this academic year students may have noticed a change located not outdoors

The Zilkha Center is interested in learning what is most important to you when it comes to issues of sustainability on the Williams campus. Please take a moment to fill out this short (3 minute) survey to help us better address the issues that our community cares most about. Take the Sustainability Survey Now

Here are a few of the items of note from our Emissions Report for the 2017 fiscal year As of the end of FY17 (June 30), Williams is approximately 46% of the way toward reaching our current greenhouse gas emissions goal of 35% below 1990’s level by 2020. Between 1990 and 2005 Williams’s emissions had