Environment & Sustainability
Please visit the Sustainability at Williams website for more information.
Winter Blitz
Contact: Maddie King ‘11
Thursday Night Grassgroots (TNG)
Contact: Sasha Macko ‘11 (unix: sm2)
Thursday Night Group (TNG) is a campus group focused on working to find solutions to climate change and other environmental problems. Our focus on climate change means that approach projects through a variety of lenses, from social justice to economics to physics. TNG has worked on a number of student-led projects which range from campus focused projects, like working with dining services to make Williams less wasteful, to state or national campaigns, such as organizing a teach-in on the same day as thousands of other schools. Last year TNG ran Do It In the Dark, a campus wide energy saving competition; coordinated a winterization campaign to make homes in North Adams more energy efficient and less expensive to heat; and brought around 30 students to a nationwide conference and climate change training called Powershift in Washington D.C. (among other projects).
TNG meets in Dodd living room at 10 p.m. every Thursday Night. Meetings last for about an hour, fresh-baked cookies are provided, and everyone is welcome at any time in the year to come by and get involved!
Do It In The Dark Campaign
Outdoor Outreach (Williams Outing Club)
Contact: Sarah Tory (unix: set1) Scott Lewis (Scott.A.Lewis), Williams Outing Club Website
Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation
Contact: Leslie Reed-Evans, ruraland@wrlf.org (413) 458-2494
WRLF is a community land trust and enviornmental education organization. They have a beautiful new center at Sheep Hill (located on Route 7 south of Williamstown). They also help maintain several local trails, advise residents on conservation practices and land restrictions, purchase land for preservation, and are working on increasing affordable housing in the area.
