lectures
Conservation Law Foundation: A Webinar Discussing the Beverage Industry’s Broken Promises
Online/ZoomDecember 2, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. For decades, the beverage industry made promises to improve bottle and can recycling programs. But it broke those promises. Instead, Big Beverage has done everything in its power to keep our failed recycling systems in place and…
Local Insects and Spiders in Winter — Online
Online/ZoomThursday, December 2 @ 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Monarch butterflies may have all flown to Mexico for the winter, but what are all the other insects and spiders up to now? Join Northfield entomologist Charley Eiseman for a virtual tour of…
Log Lunch Lectures: The Trust for Public Land, “Community Centered Land Conservation”
The Log 78 Spring St, Williamstown, MA, United StatesLog Lunch : 12:00pm – 1:00pm This week's Log Lunch will be focused on "Community Centered Land Conservation." Join Betsy McGean, a 1980 graduate of Williams College, to talk about her work with The Trust for Public Land. What is…
On Trees: A Conversation with Peter Wohlleben, Jessica J. Lee, and Sumana Roy
Online/ZoomTuesday, January 11th @ 1:00 p.m. The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment and OrionMagazine are pleased to announce that we are continuing the conversation we began with "Celebrating Old Growth." We present a second event in this series called…
Status of HWA and EHS in VT and how populations are predicted to change with climate change
Online/ZoomTuesday, January 18th @ 12:00-1:00 p.m. The invasive pests, hemlock woolly adelgid and elongate hemlock scale are increasing their range in the Northeast, stressing this keystone species. Forest health specialists with Vermont's Departments of Forests, Parks and Recreation, Jim Esden…
Field Lecture on Pollinators & Flowers with Joan Edwards
The Spruces 60 Main St., Williamstown, MAWilliams College Professor of Biology Joan Edwards delights us every year with this super informative lecture on flower anatomy and how flowers have adapted to the insect species that pollinate them. This has consistently been one of Bee Friendly Williamstown's…