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Fall Semester 2005 |
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| September 16 | Introductions: Greetings and CES faculty and staff introductions. All are welcome! First-years eat free with reservations |
| September 23 | "Research experiences at the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program" by Andrea Burke '06 and Elliot Crafton '06, Williams-Mystic alumni |
September 30 |
"Refuse to Use Chemlawn: A national campaign against lawn chemicals" by Jay Rasku, Toxics Action Center |
Mountain Day will be called one of the Fridays below. If called, that Log Lunch will be postponed until October 28. |
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| October 7 | "Hoo-what!? Hoo-RWA! A summer with the Hoosic River Watershed Association" by Erin Blanchard '06 and "Cleaning Up the Other America and Urban Waste Removal in Ecuador" by Merritt Edlind '07 |
| October 14 | "200 th Anniversary of Lewis and Clark ’s Trip Down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean" by Bill Fox, professor of geosciences, emeritus |
| October 21 | "The Campus as a Classroom: Sustainability at Williams and in the Community", by Ashlee Martinez ’06 and Justin Bates ’07, CES Summer Internship Grant Recipients, and Nancy Nylen, Center for Ecological Technology |
| October 28 | Mountain Day Make-Up Speaker |
| November 4 | "The Law in Everyday Environmental Matters" by Phil McKnight ‘65, trial and appellate attorney |
| November 11 | "Faith and the Care of Creation: The role of religion in the environmental crisis" by Steve MacAusland ’71, Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light |
| November 18 | "Environmental determinants of cancer: smoking, hair dye, and genetic susceptibility" by Elizabeth Bluhm , MD ‘95, Cancer Prevention Fellow, Nat’l Cancer Institute |
December 2 |
"Entanglements: Racing to Save Endangered Whales and Endangered Fisheries in the Atlantic and Pacific" by Tora Johnson, adjunct professor, College of the Atlantic |
December 9 |
"Nature, Wealth and Power: Promoting Pro-Poor, Pro-Environ- ment Development in Africa" by Charles Benjamin, Class of 1946, Visiting Professor of International Environmental Studies |
January 6 |
"Careers in Environmental Education" by Susan Ward, Antioch New England Graduate School |
January 13 |
"Healing the Invisible Landscape: Industry and the pastoral ideal in a Canadian mining town" by Melissa Bota ’07, and "Turtles of the Marsh: My Summer with Diamondback Terrapins" by Rebecca Nourse ‘08 |
January 20 |
"Going Corporate to Save the Environment: Smart Strategy or Sell-out? " by CES Alums: Josh Solomon ’97, Bailey McCallum '02, Katherine Birnie '00 |
Spring Semester 2006 |
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| February 3 | "Management of the Appalachian Trail" by Cosmo Catalano, Chair of the Massachusetts Appalachian Trail Management Committee and Theatre Dept., Williams College |
| February 10 |
"Sustainable Investing: How You Can Improve Corporate Environmental Policies" by Mark Orlowski ’04, Executive Director, Sustainable Endowments Institute |
February 17 |
Winter Carnival - No Log Lunch |
| February 24 | "Mediating Marine Sustainability: Challenges of Private Resources and Public Governance" by Jacob Park, Assistant Professor, Business and Public Policy, Green Mountain College |
| March 3 | "Maple Sugaring in Hopkins Forest" by Drew Jones, HMF Manager |
| March 10 | "Biosphere 2: Lessons from the HyperIsland" by Shawn Rosenheim, professor of English, Williams College |
| March 17- March 31 | Spring Recess - No Log Lunch |
| April 7 | "Children’s Environmental Health: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" by Siobhan McNally, SPROUT, Berkshire Initiative for Children’s Environmental Health |
| April 14 | "Silicon Valley 's Toxic Legacy: Superfund Clean-ups in the Birthplace of the Semiconductor" by Jon Wiener ‘02 |
| April 21 | EARTH DAY LOG LUNCH :"Political and Environmental Causes of the Darfur Genocide" by Darius Jonathan, former advisor to the Vice President |
April 28 |
"The Science and Politics of Regulating Human Exposure to Mercury" by Katie Mygatt ’06, thesis research |
May 5 |
Final Log Lunch (no speaker)---all are invited for slide show and presentations to senior ENVI concentrators (Seniors free!) |