This past Earth Week, Brian Lavinio ‘24 and I (Yunae Zou ‘27) undertook a challenge to keep all of the trash we produced throughout the week and compare how much we produced. Brian and I are both interns at the Zilkha Center, and we wanted to undergo this… Continue reading »
UPDATED 5/13/21 For the past year plus, staff and faculty across the college have been working on the innumerable pivots necessary to ensure that the college could still operate. The Zilkha Center has been working with our colleagues to support sustainable operations and has also been… Continue reading »
We are excited to have Tanja Srebotnjak join the Zilkha team as the new director this coming January. We will share more from Tanja at that point, but for now, here is a brief note: Hello Everyone, My name is Tanja Srebotnjak and I’m… Continue reading »
We feel like it’s worth saying again: The Zilkha Center reaffirms our dedication to the work of antiracism and stands in solidarity with others locally, across the country, and the world to condemn systemic racism and police brutality. We will continue to add our… Continue reading »
Root is a First-Year orientation program in collaboration with the Zilkha Center and Davis Center. With core principles emphasizing sustainability, environmental justice, and social identity, First-Year students in Root have opportunities to think critically about themselves and the world around them. Due to COVID-19 and in line with most other First Days programming, Root 2020 emphasized virtual engagement and learning, a change of pace from previous years’ visits to Soul Fire Farm, apple festivities at the Zilkha Center, and hangouts in Hardy House. Continue reading »
This summer I’ve been working on eight oil paintings focused on other current students from Williams College, particularly the others participating in the same Zilkha Center internship during the summer. I wanted to get to have better insight on what environment means to different people, whether it be… Continue reading »
Amidst all the goodbyes I said to Williams as a graduating senior, saying goodbye to the Zilkha Center gardens was particularly bittersweet. I never knew the gardens existed for my first three years on campus, but as the Garden intern this last year, I grew very attached… Continue reading »
A new summer grant, “Community Resilience Grants: Local Responses to COVID-19” is available through the Zilkha Center in collaboration with CLiA and the Davis Center. Application Deadline Extended to Wednesday May 27, 2020 Overview The current COVID-19 crisis brings more attention to inequities within the United States… Continue reading »
Calling all Williams affiliates: Sustainable Food Interns Gold Carson ’23 and Allison Li ’22 are making a short video to show our community’s appreciation for our amazing Dining Services staff! While their work is incredibly important every day, the issue of food access is now more critical than ever, and… Continue reading »
For the past several years now, Associate Provost Chris Winters has offered an instructional fruit-tree pruning workshop in the early days of spring. This year, we gathered outside the Envi Center mini-orchard on March 3 to learn about the art, science and practical necessity of pruning. The initiates… Continue reading »
Summer interns in the Zilkha Center have the opportunity to focus on a wide range of sustainability projects that impact our campus community. While interns with the Zilkha Center carry out specific projects, they are encouraged to be creative in addressing the challenges posed in the internship and… Continue reading »
A few Saturdays ago, students gathered in the Envi Center Kitchen for a festive garden party. This party was a way to appreciate the bounty of the Envi Center gardens just as the growing season comes to a frosty close. For many students, it was also an… Continue reading »
Now through the end of the semester, offer a ride on Switchboard to be entered into a raffle to win a $10 Tunnel City gift card! This offer is open to all members of the Williams community, including students, staff, faculty, and other affiliates. With the holidays… Continue reading »
If you’ve wandered around the Spencer Studio Art Building in recent months, you may have noticed the addition of a burgeoning meadow! Pallavi Sen, Assistant Professor of Art at the College, was behind… Continue reading »
The Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowship at Williams College is named after Gaius Charles Bolin who was the first black graduate of Williams. Bolin “was an active and influential member of his class who went on to a career as a lawyer. He valued… Continue reading »
Each summer, the Zilkha Center hires about 8 or so interns in the following fields; Communications, Gardening & Outreach, Artist-in-Residence, Farmington Solar Facility, Sustainability Consultant/Green Offices, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Transportation, Sustainability in Strategic Planning, Or, Submit Your Own Idea!… Continue reading »
Last year, Williams along with Amherst, Smith, Hampshire, and Bowdoin announced that they would collaborate in a purchase and development of a solar electricity site, the NEC Renewable Partnership. The site found its location in Farmington, Maine on land that used to operate as a… Continue reading »
The college is finally going to put a community garden on campus! Staff, faculty, community members, and students alike have desired a shared space to plant to their heart’s content. At the beginning of last year, a google form was sent out to the public through Daily… Continue reading »
BY JAYA ALAGAR ’22, HEALTHY BUILDING MATERIALS INTERN– As the Zilkha Center’s Healthy Building Materials Intern, I spent the year working in conjunction with Integrated EcoStrategy (IES), a materials consulting firm founded by a Williams alum and based out of North Adams, MA. As an IES researcher, I helped… Continue reading »
The Dartmouth Sustainability Summit is an opportunity for a few student sustainability leaders from each school to build a support network, share successful initiatives, discuss challenges we face, and learn from one another… Continue reading »
Come work with us this summer on tackling our campus sustainability challenges. Live on campus, enjoy Williamstown in the summer, while working on projects that will advance sustainability at Williams. Positions available working on: Communications Gardening & Outreach Artist-in-Residence Farmington… Continue reading »
This January, six students embarked on an audio storytelling journey. In three weeks, they were charged with learning a ton about campus sustainability at Williams, choosing two interesting topics, interviewing people both on and off-campus to learn more, and creating two short and compelling audio stories/podcast… Continue reading »
The Zilkha Center is hiring an Environmental Justice intern for the Spring Semester. Interning with the Zilkha Center on this project provides an opportunity to learn about what environmental justice issues are impacting the northern Berkshires and how organizations are working to involve communities to address that. More information about… Continue reading »