"Pod Save Williams" is a podcast about creating a more sustainable campus and a more sustainable world. Started in 2018 as a Winter Study course at Williams, PSW includes student voices from Williams exploring a broad definition of sustainability. Students from the course Podcasts from the farm interviewed farmers at the NOFA/Mass Winter conference about issues ranging from with climate change and food justice to beekeeping and herbalism. In the course Pod Save Williams, students gathered an ...
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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.De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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Classroom Area Foyer By Stump Tables (2/9)
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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.De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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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.De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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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.De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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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.De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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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.De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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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.De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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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.De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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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.De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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Carbon Offsets: The Battlefield Bandage?
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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 con…
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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 consi…
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Why Do These Lights Never Turn Off?
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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 …
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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.De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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Energy is confusing. Reporter Pete Cahill '21 talks to Eco-Advisor Caroline Weinberg '19 to get some clarity.Photo by Fré Sonneveld on UnsplashDe către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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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-Fech…
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Carbon Off-Whats?! Pursuing Carbon Neutrality at a Small College
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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.De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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Why is it So Hard to Do the Right Thing?!
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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
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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…
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To all the white boys I couldn't love before:
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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?De către Pod Save Williams: college sustainability-making
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This first episode is about being queer, and being a body. It’s about our relationships and relationality. More than anything, it’s about getting over habits, and being a good friend.Friends are family, and so much here. They help us understand how to give, and how to take. They’re our support, they amplify our toxic behavior. They shape who we are…
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A manifesto. How to show up in a new space, and make it your own. This episode is about dismantling the system from within the system. It’s about coming into an alien space, and making it your own. It’s about destiny meeting inertia. Part I is an orientation to environmental justice. Part II is a story about finding your way on an alien planet. It’…
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I wanted to make a podcast about sustainability, without science. This is useful beyond the fact that I am an English major who knows almost nothing useful about science. Consider: what is science without people? Without us? There’s something so external, so relational, so social, about our relationship to the earth, and to each other. I need to ca…
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Welcome to "Podcasts from the Farm"
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"Podcasts from the Farm" is a series of audio stories created by Williams College students in a Winter Study course taught by Mike Evans, the assistant director at the Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives. Students attended the Northeast Organic Farming Association's 2018 Winter Conference, interviewed farmers and other food and farming move…
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Digging up the Dirt on Urban Homesteading
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What the heck is urban homesteading? This podcast will explore that question along with other big ideas such as: How can we live sustainably in an urban environment? What lessons about the environment can we learn from other cultures? How do we instill these values in our children, our communities? Listen to my conversations with Dan Bensonoff, Kes…
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