News & Updates
Reflections on the Plastic Bag Store at MASS MoCA
October 8, 2024 October 8, 2024 October 4, 2024Katchen Coley Award for Excellence in Conservation awarded to Bart Jones
September 28, 2024Log Lunch September 27: Stephanie Bosley, Executive Director of the Berkshire Food Project
September 23, 2024A Sustainable Start: Embracing the New Semester at Williams College
August 12, 2024Reflecting on the ECGO Earth Month Challenge
July 30, 2024Williams Awarded “Tree Campus” Status: Behind the Scenes of Healthy Trees
July 22, 2024DSAP Updates: How WCMA is Blending Art With Sustainability
June 25, 2024Celebrating a Sustainable Fourth of July
May 30, 2024Earth Week Zero-Waste Challenge with Brian and Yunae
May 8, 2024An Update on Williams’ Carbon Neutrality Claim and Offset Purchasing Strategy
May 8, 2024Christine Seibert’s Goodbye Note
May 8, 2024A Bird’s Eye View Atop a Wind Turbine: Offshore Wind as Experienced in Denmark
May 8, 2024Modeling Community Empowerment in West Oakland, CA
May 8, 2024Building a Sustainable Set: The ‘62 Center’s Eco-Conscious Action in Theatrical Production
April 8, 2024First Batch of Projects to be funded with REC Revenue
April 8, 2024Finally Living After All These Years
April 8, 2024Stop Falling for the Greenwash Trap!
April 7, 2024Don’t throw it away… Give It Up! Coming soon to a pod near you!
April 7, 2024ECGO: Earth Week Recycling Challenge
April 7, 2024Earth Week Film Festival at Images Cinema
April 4, 2024Whittle by Whittle: Envi Center Garden Signs (External link)
March 7, 2024Dining Stir Fries up more Plant-Rich Options with Help from the CIA
March 7, 2024Meet The Person Behind Our Trees: Felicity Purzycki
March 5, 2024 February 9, 2024Update on Carbon Offset Purchases
February 9, 2024Fiscal 2023 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Finalized
February 9, 2024It’s a Sign: Williams Updates Campus Waste Signage
January 16, 2024WCMA & Others Begin Drafting their Sustainability Action Plans
January 16, 2024Behind the Scenes: The ZC’s Student Development Model
January 16, 2024Air Travel GHG Emissions Information and Education Program
December 3, 2023A Sustainable Peek into the (Nearly Completed) Davis Center Building Project
December 2, 2023The Spookiest Thing About Halloween (and What We Can Do About It!)
December 2, 2023Departmental Spotlight: Facilities and its new Ford E-Transit Cargo Van
November 15, 2023Sustainable Winter Break Checklist
November 8, 2023Architectural Design Magazines’ Sustainability Issues and Why I Keep Buying Them
November 8, 2023Expanded Compost Locations – Made Possible by a Small Business that *Is Not* Run by a Toddler
November 7, 2023Climate Change Law at the EPA, Log Lunch with Grace Weatherall ‘16
October 12, 2023The Shirt Saga: How Sustainable Team Gear Became More than We Bargained For
October 12, 2023Rethinking Vending Machines: Fresh & Healthier Options Popping Up in New Spots Around Campus
October 12, 2023Seed Library Accepting Donations
August 24, 2023 August 24, 2023Makerspace Collaborating on Sustainability Projects
August 24, 2023 August 18, 2023Sustainable Building Policy Update
August 18, 2023Update on the Energy and Carbon Master Plan
May 11, 2023EarthFest 2023: Celebrating Earth & Community
May 11, 2023 May 11, 2023 May 11, 2023Towards Restorative Practice: Re-Imagining Root
May 11, 2023Considering Climate Across Campuses: Mount Holyoke Summit on Women’s Leadership in Climate Justice
May 11, 2023iNaturalist, the City Nature Challenge, and Williamstown
May 11, 2023 April 21, 2023Annapurrna Xochiestentli ’25 at Log Lunch:”Nothing to Lose and Everything to Learn”
April 19, 2023 April 19, 2023Student Free Store at Goodrich Coffee Bar
April 19, 2023Keeping Your Swagger but Losing the Swag
April 19, 2023Williams Fleet Electrification Just Got a Boost
April 19, 2023New DC Member Joins the Root Team
April 19, 2023Electric Lawn Mower Study Results
April 19, 2023Davis Center Building Project Interview
March 18, 2023Sawyer Seed Library Opening Soon
March 17, 2023PLANning our way to Zero Waste
March 16, 2023Tote Bags Made of Jeans: A Denim Upcycling Event
March 16, 2023Creating Sustainable and Equitable Systems with Generation Conscious
March 16, 2023Williams College Seed Library, Opening in April
February 24, 2023Working in Wildlife Rehabilitation: Log Lunch with Sarah Cooperman ’17
February 3, 2023Moving Towards Zero Waste: ZC Intern Project Updates
February 3, 2023C2C Bard Fellowship: What’s your Sustainability pitch?
February 3, 2023Zilkha Center Thanks Participants in Sustainability Literacy Survey
February 3, 2023Sharing Sustainability Strategy: Attending and Presenting at GCSHE
February 3, 2023Summary of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
February 3, 2023From Concrete Origins to Meaningful Connection
February 3, 2023WOC, Mountain Day, and Sustainability
February 3, 2023 November 1, 2022Shoveling Shindig: How Waste from the Composting Toilets Turns Into Soil
October 7, 2022Fall Harvest Recipe from Tanja Srebotnjak, ZC Director
October 6, 2022 October 6, 2022Another Wonderfully Busy First Days Experience
October 5, 2022Air Travel Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information and Reduction Program launched
October 3, 2022Passing of Williams Alum and Zilkha Center Benefactor Selim Zilkha, class of 1946
September 23, 2022 September 21, 2022 August 26, 2022 August 24, 20222022 Summer Internship Adventures
July 2, 2022Food Ecosystems Organizing in Chicago: Hosting Ahmad Jitan on Campus
June 8, 2022Last Log Lunch Lecture with CES Director Nicolas Howe Reflects on Department’s Future
May 20, 2022Ice Sheets, Propaganda, and the US Military: Geologist Professor Paul Bierman for Log Lunch
May 16, 2022Update on the Travel Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Proposal
May 16, 2022Williams Sustainable Growers gets planting!
May 16, 2022 May 16, 2022Williams College achieves STARS Gold sustainability rating
May 16, 2022Hungry on a Monday night? A student reflection on Meatless Monday
May 10, 2022Divestment: What does it really mean?
April 14, 2022Food for the Future: Reducing our Carbon Footprint through Sustainable Purchasing
April 14, 2022Environmental Justice & Your Laundry: Update on the GenCo Program
April 13, 2022Event Update: Come Hell or High Water Surprise!
April 11, 2022Log Lunch Speaker Sharon Lewis Shares A Story on Environmental Justice and “NIMBY” Politics
March 26, 2022Afterlife of Leaves: Professor Allison Gill on Litter Decomposition and Soil Formation for Log Lunch
March 25, 2022Dr. Anthony Ryan Hatch on Metabolic Dominance for 1960 Scholars Lecture
March 17, 2022Intern Perspective: Green Energy in Ethiopia
March 17, 2022 March 17, 2022A Swim in the Hoosic: How Bad Can It Be?
March 17, 2022Spring Gardening Tips for Williamstown, MA and the Berkshires
March 17, 2022Putting sustainability at the bow of Williams-Mystic
March 17, 2022Sustainability in international education: Going green and going global
March 17, 2022Evaluating sustainability on campus through STARS
March 17, 2022Intern Spotlight: Community Engagement intern Micaela Foreman
March 7, 2022A Climate Neutral Williams at Log Lunch: What Does it Mean, and How Do We Get There?
March 3, 2022 February 24, 2022Hemp vs. Cannabis in the Berkshires: Farmer and Business Founder Jake Ziemenski at Log Lunch
February 21, 2022 February 21, 2022Reusable To-Go Container Case Study
February 21, 2022Hitting the “grounds” running with office coffee compost
February 21, 2022Goodrich Dishwasher Up & Running!
February 21, 2022Alumni Return for 1960s Scholars Lecture on Environmental Advocacy in the Courts and on the Hill
February 15, 2022February carbon & waste planning updates
January 21, 2022 January 20, 2022 January 19, 2022Zero Waste and Climate Action Plan Updates
January 18, 2022Summary of 2020-21 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report
December 24, 2021Sourcing Beef from Local Farms: Environmental Planning Group Presents at Log Lunch
December 13, 2021 December 10, 2021Mike Evans Receives Award from the Post-Landfill Action Network!
December 10, 2021Sustainable Winter Break Checklist
December 10, 2021Should Williams Put a Price on Carbon?
December 8, 2021Fort Bradshaw Achieves LEED Gold!
December 7, 2021Volunteering with Window Dressers
December 6, 2021What Does Vermont Need from its Land Trusts? Don Campbell ’84 at Log Lunch
November 23, 2021Chris Sherman ’07 Discusses Oysters, Aquaculture, and the Future of Sustainable Protein at Log Lunch
November 18, 2021Kris Hansen ’91 On Chemistry, Humility, Curiosity, and Inspiration at Log Lunch
November 13, 2021Architect and Planner Dilip da Cunha Reimagines Rivers at 1960s Scholar Lecture
November 4, 2021 November 4, 2021Farmington Solar Project is now operational with Williams’ involvement
November 2, 2021 November 1, 2021CES and Hopkins Memorial Forest “Fall Fest” Returns for the Season
October 28, 2021Welcoming Christine Seibert, ZC Sustainability Coordinator
October 26, 2021Log Lunch Welcomes Ashley Randle from the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture for Lecture
October 26, 2021Students Abigail Matheny and Chander Payne Discuss Wildfires, Farming at Log Lunch
October 12, 2021CES Summer Grant Recipients Maxine Ng and Sarah Brusini Present at Log Lunch
September 29, 2021 September 28, 2021Feedback on Waste Bins & Waste Signage
August 10, 2021New Campus Trash & Recycling Containers
July 22, 2021Summer Compost Collection on Campus
May 17, 2021 May 17, 2021Environmental Studies Honors Student Presentation Session Friday May 14, 4-6 p.m.
May 14, 2021 May 14, 2021Strategic Planning Update May 2021
May 14, 2021Introducing the Zilkha Center’s DEI Strategy
May 14, 2021An Ambitious Plan Would Formally Protect 30 Percent of Earth by 2030. But There’s a Problem.
May 13, 2021From Oceans to Internet: Adapting Williams-Mystic Courses for Zoom
May 13, 2021 May 11, 2021Avoiding ‘carbon colonialism’: Developing nations can’t pay the price for pollution
April 30, 2021Judith Enck Delivers Lecture, “Moving Beyond Plastics: The Environmental Justice Issue of Our Time”
April 26, 2021Pilot program seeks to move town to zero waste
April 22, 2021Michelle Nijhuis Delivers Lecture: “Finding Hope in Conservation History”
April 14, 2021Gardening From England to Florida, Now Finally in Williamstown
April 14, 2021 April 14, 2021Climate and Environmental Policy during Biden’s first 100 Days in Office
April 8, 2021A Zoom Conversation with the COOL Committee on a Net-Zero Williamstown
March 22, 2021Crystal Ma ’21 Explores Underground Music on a Watson Fellowship
March 16, 2021Professors, student uncover negligence and racism in Florida environmental contamination
March 15, 2021Lindi von Mutius ’03 Delivers Lecture: “How Parks Can Undo Systemic Racism”
March 10, 2021Zilkha Center’s Campus-Sustainability Summer Internships
March 9, 2021ZC is Hiring an Intern to Help to Launch the Williamstown Composting Project
February 24, 2021 February 13, 2021A Deep Dive into Williams-Mystic
February 2, 2021Applications Open for Plots in the WC Community Garden
December 18, 2020Zilkha Center Sustainability Coordinator Job Posting
December 2, 2020 December 2, 2020 December 1, 2020 December 1, 2020An Update on Sustainable Food At Williams
November 30, 2020 November 21, 2020 November 20, 2020 November 18, 2020Update on the Community Garden from The Record
October 22, 2020Envisioning Just Worlds with adrienne maree brown
October 19, 2020 October 13, 2020 October 6, 2020Provost’s Update on Sustainability & Strategic Planning
September 10, 2020September 2020 Update on Strategic Planning
September 10, 2020Introducing the new Zilkha Center Director: Tanja Srebotnjak
September 10, 2020September 2020 Update on Carbon Offset Purchase
September 10, 2020September 2020 Update on Progress to our 2020 Goals
September 10, 2020 September 10, 2020Root 2020: A virtual array of Environmental Justice events
September 8, 2020Hiring Academic Year Interns – Apply by Sunday September 13th!
August 27, 2020Summer Artist in Residence: Ana Laura Delgado Fernandez ’22
August 14, 2020Environmental Module — Online Education Program
June 29, 2020Williams Pilots Innovative Investment in Local Carbon Reduction Projects
June 24, 2020Reassessing the Campus Approach to Zero Waste
May 29, 2020Fishing for Justice, Niaz Dorry
May 28, 2020Sustainability requirements: An Eco Advisor project
May 28, 2020What did our Sustainable Food interns do this year?
May 28, 2020A Note from Garden Intern Baladine Pierce ‘20
May 19, 2020Zero Waste interns: COVID-19 presents us with an opportunity for social change. Let’s not waste it.
May 8, 2020Summer Community Resilience Grants: ‘Local Responses to COVID-19,’ funded by the ZC, DC, CLiA
May 8, 2020