Renovations to the Roberts Building completed in 2015 earned LEED gold certification, the U.S. Green Building Council announced in March. The renovation of the second and third floors as residence halls led to Colby’s 14th LEED (Leadership in Energy Efficiency …

John Amos’ company Skytruth has been receiving a lot of press as of late for its unique approach to conservation; Skytruth was recently mentioned in a new feature article in the NYtimes about poaching in the country of Palau. We …

On Feb. 10, seven students who received Environmental Studies internship grants shared their experiences at a lunch program in Dana. At the end of an hour of tantalizing descriptions about projects from a Tanzanian coffee plantation at the foot of …

The Environmental Studies Program is delighted to be partnering to bring Maya Lin to campus on April 19th.  She will be the inaugural Colby Museum of Art  Miles and Katharine Culberston Prentice Distinguished Lecture: Maya Lin.  She will give a …

Bill McKibben will be on campus on April 7, 2016 to provide the keynote address for the Community, Culture, Conservation: Sustaining Livelihoods and Landscapes conference.  McKibben’s address and the conference will be open to the public.

Bill McKibben is an …

Virginia Keesler and Jon Springfield (both Harvard MUP ‘15) have been selected for the inaugural class of the Kuehn Fellows Program, a new initiative of the Kuehn Charitable Foundation. They join four other fellows for a two-year service …

Assistant Professor Loren McClenachan was recently awarded a grant from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study the social impacts of climate change in fisheries along the US East Coast. Warming temperatures are of particular concern in the …

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