For the second consecutive year, UMass Amherst is listed as a “Green Honor Roll School” by The Princeton Review, placing it among the nation’s top 24 colleges and universities for environmental awareness and responsibility.
A mini-series of free workshops focused on food access and community food system resilience are being offered by the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, Amherst Survival Center, the Center for Human Development’s Not Bread Alone Soup Kitchen and the Hitchcock Center for the Environment,...
Now in its eighth season, the UMass Amherst Student Farm in South Deerfield has taken a new direction and for the first time is growing summer crops to supply fresh, local produce to Big Y World Class Markets in Amherst and Northampton.
The third annual UMass Amherst food sustainability conference, “Revisioning Sustainability,” drew 175 students, faculty and staff from other universities, food service managers, sustainability coordinators and business people from over 60 institutions in the U.S. and Canada to the...
The opening keynote address by sustainable food educator and activist Pandora Thomas of California-based Earthseed Consulting will be free and open to the public on the first evening of the conference at 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 22.
The campus has been selected for the annual award by Second Nature, a national nonprofit that works to create a healthy, just and sustainable society by transforming higher education.
At the 92nd commencement for the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, speakers told graduates they will become stewards of the world through their chosen professions.
The Libraries have awarded Sustainability Curriculum Initiative grants of $1,000 each to nine faculty members to support revising existing courses to include or augment sustainability topics. Liaison librarians work with faculty to integrate library resources and information literacy into their...
