Center for Environmental Studies
Matt Cole Library
Hopkins Forest
Log Lunch Schedule


Spring Semester 2006

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 of Sudan.  Proceeds will go to the Sudan Relief Task Force of the First Congregational Church in Williamstown.

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!)

Past Schedules

Fall 2005
2004-2005
2003-2004
2002-2003
2001-2002
2000-2001