Zilkha Center for the Environment

Zilkha Center for the Environment

Zilkha Center for the Environment (ZCE) oversees campus sustainability efforts, manages Hopkins Memorial Forest in partnership with a committee of researchers and other stakeholders, offers time-honored co-curricular initiatives such as the student summer grant program, Log Lunch, and Maple Fest, and is the administrative home of the Environmental Justice Clinic. We hope you enjoy! Feel free to share any and all audio stories that you find compelling. And if you're interested in contributing, let us know.

Episodes

Northern Tier Passenger Rail Restoration Project

November 18, 2024 • 9 mins
The Center for Learning in Action (CLiA) is working alongside Williams College students and the Berkshire community to advance the Northern Tier Passenger Rail Restoration Project, a proposal to establish rail service connecting Williamstown to Boston. As part of the advocacy efforts, CLiA has urged community members to reach out to their representatives.
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Entrance (1/9)

August 15, 2019 • 2 mins
This is an audio tour for the Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College. The tour is composed of 9 parts, in which you will be taken around the building while hearing about its function and design.
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Classroom Area Foyer By Stump Tables (2/9)

August 15, 2019 • 1 min
This is an audio tour for the Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College. The tour is composed of 9 parts, in which you will be taken around the building while hearing about its function and design.
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Upstairs Foyer (3/9)

August 15, 2019 • 1 min
This is an audio tour for the Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College. The tour is composed of 9 parts, in which you will be taken around the building while hearing about its function and design.
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Zilkha Offices Area (4/9)

August 15, 2019 • 1 min
This is an audio tour for the Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College. The tour is composed of 9 parts, in which you will be taken around the building while hearing about its function and design.
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Restroom (5/9)

August 15, 2019 • 1 min
This is an audio tour for the Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College. The tour is composed of 9 parts, in which you will be taken around the building while hearing about its function and design.
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Matt Cole Reading Room (6/9)

August 15, 2019 • 1 min
This is an audio tour for the Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College. The tour is composed of 9 parts, in which you will be taken around the building while hearing about its function and design.
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Kitchen (7/9)

August 15, 2019 • 1 min
This is an audio tour for the Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College. The tour is composed of 9 parts, in which you will be taken around the building while hearing about its function and design.
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Outside, The Greenhouse (8/9)

August 15, 2019 • 1 min
This is an audio tour for the Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College. The tour is composed of 9 parts, in which you will be taken around the building while hearing about its function and design.
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Outside, The Window Wall (9/9)

August 15, 2019 • 59 secs
This is an audio tour for the Class of 1966 Environmental Center at Williams College. The tour is composed of 9 parts, in which you will be taken around the building while hearing about its function and design.
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Carbon Offsets: The Battlefield Bandage?

May 17, 2019 • 4 mins
As 2020 draws nearer, so does the carbon neutrality deadline for Williams College. Part of achieving carbon neutrality includes purchasing carbon offsets. Yet they are complicated and fraught. To understand why reporter David Pearcy '21 interviews Environmental Studies professor Nick Howe and Nancy Nylen former Associate Director at and current consultant for the Center for EcoTechnology.
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Chemicals Waste in Our Labs

May 17, 2019 • 23 mins
Reporter Oliver Yang '20 relives the intensity of "Qual Lab" - Qualitative Analysis Lab and ponders the excess waste of chemistry labs. His story takes him to Williams Chemistry Professor Anthony Carrasquillo, Dr. Anne Skinner the former and first chemical hygiene officer at Williams, and Allison Paradise founder and CEO of My Green Lab as he considers the chemical lifecycle of the labs he works in and how chemistry labs could beco...
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Why Do These Lights Never Turn Off?

May 17, 2019 • 7 mins
Reporter Emma Neil '22 was frustrated that her hallway lights were always on - even in the middle of the night. How can it be, she asked, that a college like Williams that prides itself on sustainability would leave lights on all the time? Emma talks with a number of folks to try to figure out why. (Thanks to Doug Schlaefer, Sustainability Project Manager in the Planning Design & Construction Office, Lisa Olson and Dave Chapman...
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Rain Gardens & Stormwater

May 17, 2019 • 6 mins
David Dethier Professor of Geosciences Emeritus and Dave Fitzgerald Grounds Manager at Williams help reporter Oliver Yang '20 to understand the empty moats and ponds - rain gardens - that he has noticed all around campus.
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Where Does Our Energy Come From?

May 17, 2019 • 4 mins
Energy is confusing. Reporter Pete Cahill '21 talks to Eco-Advisor Caroline Weinberg '19 to get some clarity. Photo by Fré Sonneveld on Unsplash
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Why All the Construction?

May 17, 2019 • 7 mins
The construction process is seemingly never-ending at Williams, but according to reporter Maya Spalding-Fecher '21, students don't seem to understand what is taking into consideration to get a project up and going. How are decisions made about which buildings to build and how to integrate sustainability into the process? Reporter Maya Spalding-Fecher '21 talks with Rita Coppola Wallace the Executive Director for the Planning, De...
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Carbon Off-Whats?! Pursuing Carbon Neutrality at a Small College

May 17, 2019 • 10 mins
Who understands carbon offsets anyways? Reporter Emma Neil '22 asks her peers and when they're no help, digs into it with Zilkha Center director Amy Johns and Professor Nick Howe.
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Why is it So Hard to Do the Right Thing?!

May 17, 2019 • 8 mins
How often do we drive somewhere that we could just as easily walk to? Or take too much food in the dining hall and end up wasting it? Reporter Maya Spalding-Fecher '21speaks with psychology Professor Ken Savitsky and Amy Johns Director of the Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives to explore the psychology behind pro-environmental actions.
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The Glow: Thinking through the Impacts of our Food Purchasing Decisions

April 24, 2019 • 6 mins
Local produce in the wintertime? Greenhouse growing seems to be the option. But what are the trade-offs that we need to consider? Reporter David Pearcy '21 talks with Williams Executive Chef Mark Thompson and Laila Derstein, the latter of whom lives near what she describes as "an other worldly magenta glow." David explores another thing to consider as we negotiate our 21st century food system.
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To all the white boys I couldn't love before:

September 22, 2018 • 20 mins
Congrats, you are the newest bachelorette on "Flirty or Fetishy." The game is simple. Pick the guy who respects you as a person and you get the deed to a quaint New England home with a white picket fence, two kids, and a dog. What are you afraid of?
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