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Pangy Day and Earth Day Celebration April 24
The Pangy Fest starts with the all-college picnic at 11:30 am at Pageant Green and then moves up to Skinner Green at 1 pm for a maypole dance, a new “thrift store,” music, and more. |
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MHC's Adler Pens “Green” Job Column
Joanna Adler, associate director of MHC's Career Development Center, is writing a new column on "green" jobs for SustainLane.com. |
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MCH Junior Writes for ZagatBuzz
MHC junior Asha Chaudhuri '10, taking a semester to work for Zagat, writes about how green practices can boost restaurant profits. |
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MHC's Savoy on Culture and the Environment
Lauret Savoy, professor of environmental studies, published an essay, “Pieces toward a Just Whole,” in the spring 2009 edition of the Georgia Review. |
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Environmental Activist Bill McKibben at MHC
The best-selling author, activist, and Middlebury College scholar delivered an evening lecture titled “350--The Most Important Number in the World." Listen to the audio. |
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ECO Reps Promote Water Conservation
MHC’s Community-Based Learning Program hosts a series of panel discussions with representatives from local nonprofit organizations. |
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Talk on Holyoke Dam and S. Hadley Canal Mar. 24
UMass archaeologists Tim Binzen and Tim Barker will give a lecture titled “God Almighty Couldn’t Sweep it Away: Lore and Legacy of the Holyoke Dam and South Hadley Canal.” |
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“Rising Star” Walter Featured in LA Times
Katey Walter '98, a rising star in aquatic ecology, discusses her ominous research on climate change in a February 20 story and video in the Los Angeles Times. |
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MHC Reaches Out to Local Communities
MHC’s Community-Based Learning Program hosts a series of panel discussions with representatives from local nonprofit organizations. |
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New Residence Hall Turns Green to Gold
Mount Holyoke’s new residence hall has received Gold LEED™ Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for its environmentally friendly design. |
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MHC Environmental Efforts Earn Kudos
Mount Holyoke students and the Center for the Environment get praise for their outreach efforts in the Northeast Organic Farm Association’s recent newsletter. |
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A New Place to Call Home
Let Rene Davis take you on a video tour on the New Residence Hall. Located on the southeast corner of campus, the “green” dorm houses 176 students from all classes. |
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She's Back! Lauret Savoy Returns to MHC
The environmental studies prof is back in the classroom after a sabbatical. During her leave she delved into her interests in identity and sense of place, writing for various literary journals. |
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National Teach-In on Global Warming at MHC
As part of the National Teach-In on Global Warming, MHC will sponsor two events focused on local, regional, and national solutions to global climate change on February 3 and 4. |
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MHC Students Present Green Initiatives Dec. 3-4
Students from the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar will exhibit sustainability initiatives at Bikes, Vampires, and the Sun: Investigation of Sustainability Initiatives on the MHC Campus. |
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Encyclopedia of Earth Publishes Student Work
She won't graduate from Mount Holyoke for another several months, but Beth Lariviere FP '09 already has her first publication listings for her future CV. |
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Terry Tempest Williams Visits MHC
Award-winning writer and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams spoke at Mount Holyoke about her new book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, on Tuesday, October 21. Listen to the audio. |
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MHC's "Lick It Green" Is Green Success
Students joined MHC's Green Partners to celebrate "Lick It Green," a fall event that exposes students to environmental stewardship departments and activities on campus. |
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Finney Addresses Race and Environment
Geographer Carolyn Finney delivered a lecture titled "What's Race Got to Do with It?: Climate Change, Privilege, and Consciousness." Listen to the audio. |
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MHC's Lauret Savoy Featured in Terrain.org
Listen to professor of geology and environmental studies Lauret Savoy discuss "The Future of Environmental Essay" in a podcast in the latest issue of Terrain.org. |
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MHC's Postel on Mike Wallace Book
Sandra Postel, the Leslie and Sarah Miller Director of the Center for the Environment, spoke with ABC 40 about being named one of the world's "greatest minds." |
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MHC Student Bills Go Green
Starting in July 2008, paper bills for Mount Holyoke students will be a thing of the past. The College is partnering with CashNet to move paper bills online. |
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Tower of Less Power
The Daily Hampshire Gazette checked in on the progress of the Mount Holyoke's new, green dorm, which will be ready for students in the fall. |
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Di Chiro and Students in Holyoke
The work of visiting assistant professor of environmental studies Giovanna Di Chiro and her students in Holyoke is featured in an April 1 article in the Springfield Republican. |
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By the Numbers: MHC's "Green" Challenge
MHC's Focus the Campus campaign challenges departments and organizations to reduce their environmental footprints. Here are some facts and figures that will help you get started. |
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Center for the Enviroment Hosts Film April 9
MHC's Center for the Environment and NOFA/Gardening the Community will host a screening of The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil at 4:30 pm in Hooker Auditorium. |
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Postel on China's Water Problem
Hear Sandra Postel discuss China's modernization and its uses of money, technology, and political power to race against its water problem on radio station Women Matter. |
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MHC Launches "Kick the Bottle"
Mount Holyoke's Center for the Environment launches a campaign to reduce bottled water consumption on the MHC campus March 3-7. |
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MHC Partners with Holyoke on Environment
Giovanna Di Chiro and four students are working with Holyoke's Nuestras Raíces organization to help the city manage its environmental issues. |
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Environmental Scholar at MHC March 3
Anne Whiston Spirn will give a talk titled "Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice, and City Planning and Design” at 4:15 pm in Dwight Hall, Room 101. |
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Campus Focused on Climate Change
The Mount Holyoke campus community will kick off the nationwide Focus the Nation teach-in on climate change with a full day of activities on January 31. |
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MHC Joins Focus the Nation
The Mount Holyoke campus community will kick off the nationwide Focus the Nation teach-in on climate change with a full day of activities on January 31. |
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MHC Students Attend Power Shift 2007
Maria Kazandjieva '07 won second place in the undergraduate research competition held by the Association of Computing Machinery for her research on networking. |
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Best-selling Author Addresses Environment
Environmental journalist Alan Weisman discussed his latest book, The World without Us, on October 25. Weisman's talk was cosponsored by the Center for the Environment. |
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Alan Pounds on Effects of Global Warming
The resident scientist at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica gave a talk titled, "Where Have All the Frogs Gone?" on October 24. |
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Questioning Authority: Alan Pounds on Al Gore
Alan Pounds, resident scientist at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica, discusses this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipients. Pounds will give a lecture at MHC October 24. |
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MHC Launches New Study Abroad Program
A global warming lecture by Alan Pounds on October 24 will kick off an exciting new interdisciplinary study abroad program at the Monteverde Institute in Costa Rica. |
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Center for the Environment Gets Interim Head
Sandra Postel, an authority on international water issues, takes new position as the Leslie and Sarah Miller Director of the Center for the Environment. |
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Crew Team Assists in River Cleanup Project
The MHC crew team waded into the Connecticut River as part of the 11th annual Connecticut River Watershed Source to Sea Cleanup. |
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Food, Politics, and Social Change
Author Anna Lappé delivered a lecture illuminating the challenges posed by climate change, environmental degradation, and the globalized food system. Listen to the audio. |
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Common Reading Author on Campus
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, urged immediate action on the very real crisis of global warming. |
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MHC's Garden of Plenty
The Mount Holyoke Garden Society began its first planting this summer in the new community garden that will produce organic food crops. |
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Dams and Rivers Ecology in New England
Environmental conservationists Laura Wildman and Kimberly Lutz will be at MHC Tuesday, November 13, to discuss restoring the health of New England’s rivers. |
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Alan Werner on Climate Change
Professor of geology Al Werner answered questions about the recent IPCC climate change report that says humans are "very likely" responsible for global warming. |
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Student Environmental Activism at MHC
What do water bottles, climate change, and tampons have in common? Just ask any of the members of Mount Holyoke College’s Environmental Action Coalition (EAC) |
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Mount Holyoke in RecycleMania Competition
For the third year in a row, MHC is going head-to-head with 201 colleges in 43 states to see who will have bragging rights as the greenest school with the best recycling program. |
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Center for the Environment to Honor Rachel Carson
Voices from Silent Spring, the Center for the Environment series, will celebrate the centennial of the birth of Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. |
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