Next MCLA "Green Living" seminar to focus on campus sustainability
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - The Spring 2010 "Green Living" seminars hosted by the Berkshire Environmental Resource Center (BERC) at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will continue on Thursday, Feb. 11th, at 5:30 p.m. in Sullivan Lounge with a lecture on "Campus Sustainability Initiatives at MCLA".The public is invited to attend this free series, "Campus and Community Sustainability." The aim of the series is to inform students and the community about why and how to increase the sustainability of our college and our community.
"Campus Sustainability Initiatives at MCLA" will be given by Lauren Moffatt, Coordinator of the Berkshire Environmental Resource Center at MCLA. Moffatt will discuss the various ways that MCLA is becoming a more environmentally sustainable campus, through reducing greenhouse gas emissions, maintaining a campus garden, reducing waste, and reducing energy-use on campus, among other projects.
Moffatt completed her undergraduate degree in Wildlife Resources and Conservation at the University of Maryland, and her PhD in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
The series will continue on Thursdays through April 15. For more information, go to www.mcla.edu/greenliving or contact Elena Traister at (413) 662-5303.
