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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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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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