A $250,000 grant from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation is supporting Hampshire College’s effort to eventually provide nearly 100 percent of food on campus from local sources.
The groundbreaking for the R. W. Kern Center on November 14 marked the official beginning of Hampshire College’s most ambitious building project in decades.
R. W. Kern Center Groundbreaking Ceremony on Nov. 14
Hampshire College will build its new R. W. Kern Center according to the most rigorous environmental design standards in the world. The building will create its own energy, treat its own waste, and meet all sustainability requirements of the Living Building Challenge™.
NSF Grant for Cross-campus Clean Energy/Sustainable Agriculture Programs
Working in partnership with Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Holyoke Community College has been awarded an $810,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to create collaborative programs combining clean energy studies with sustainable agriculture and share new resources that will benefit students at all three schools.
Rabbi Ellen Bernstein Speaks at Religions for the Earth Conference
Hampshire College Advisor for Identity and Praxis and Campus Rabbi Ellen Bernstein had unique company at the recent climate march in New York City: a collection of environmentally-minded religious leaders from all over the globe, including former Vice President Al Gore.
There was a heavy feeling in the air on Sunday morning, September 21, in Central Park West and 6th Avenue. The feeling before a big thunderstorm: something was approaching, a fiery anticipation of action.
Sept. 12-13: Living Building Challenge Mini-Conference
Hampshire College and the Hitchcock Center for the Environment are both planning facilities that aspire to the Living Building Challenge, the most rigorous environmental design standard in the world.