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Hitchcock Center
Hitchcock Center’s New Environmental Education Center Completes Concept Design and Advances to Schematic Design Amherst, MA – The Hitchcock Center for the Environment is excited to announce the completion of the concept design phase for its new 8,500 square foot environmental education center to be located on Hampshire College land. Continuing a 50-‐year legacy of commitment to environmental education in western Massachusetts, the Hitchcock Center has taken on the ambitious sustainable building goal of striving to achieve Living Building Challenge™ (LBC) Certification, the highest standard in the built environment.
Valley Kids a Recorder Publication
The staff at Amherst’s Hitchcock Center for the Environment often hear from parents and teachers looking for advice on how to teach kids about such a complex and potentially frightening topic as climate change, said Casey Beebe, an educator and coordinator of community programs at the center.
Daily Hampshire Gazette
Environmental educators in Amherst will use a foundation grant to inspire elementary students to think anew about energy in today’s world. Mobile E-‐Edition Newsletters RSS Daily Hampshire Gazette -‐ Established 1786 Sign in Get Access The Hitchcock Center for the Environment will rework the “energy literacy” curriculum it uses to train teachers in more than 40 schools in the region. The goal, staffers say, is to encourage young scientists to think critically about a topic that surprisingly few Americans of any age understand.
Going Green
Over the years, the staff at Amherst’s Hitchcock Center for the Environment has tried all sorts of ways to manage the poison ivy that grows along its trails and around its property.
Wright Builders News
Education is a critical ingredient to developing a community that understands the interconnections among the health of people, ecosystems and economies. The Hitchcock Center’s commitment is to help people connect and reconnect with nature, especially young children, and to encourage development of a deeper emotional bond to the natural world that sustains us all. Come join the Hitchcock Center this fall as they empower curiosity in the environment!
Daily Hampshire Gazette
Land on West Street between the Hampshire College Farm Center and the Red Barn will be the location for a new energy-efficient building to house the Hitchcock Center for the Environment.
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The Hitchcock Center for the Environment and Hampshire College have identified an ideal site on the college’s campus for the Center’s state-‐of-‐the-‐art sustainable building incorporating ecological design principles. The Hampshire College Board of Trustees approved a location on Route 116 in South Amherst, between the Red Barn and the College’s Farm Center site. In addition, the Center is pleased to have selected designLAB Architects of Boston to lead the Center through a visionary, integrated design process.
Daily Hampshire Gazette
Those who have helped make Amherst a greener and more sustainable community and worked to promote the vitality of its businesses are being recognized by the Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce. Recipients of this year’s A+ awards are the Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Christopher Riddle, co‐founder of Kuhn-‐Riddle Architects, Ray Shafie, former owner of Copy Cat Print Shop, and Youssef Fadel, who works for New England Promotional Marketing.
Daily Hampshire Gazette
When the Hitchcock Center for the Environment asked around about its future, it found its supporters are bullish. They want the nonprofit Amherst organization, which works with an estimated 4,500 public school students a year, to step up and help us all here in the Valley live in sync with natural resources. To make room for that future, the center plans a move and a building project that, in one stroke, will put it in a new alliance with Hampshire College and, through construction of an energyefficient home, allow it to stand with its environmental principles.
Daily Hampshire Gazette
The Hitchcock Center for the Environment, a regional leader in nature education, is planning a new $4 million energy-efficient building on the Hampshire College campus. It would replace the Hitchcock Center’s home since 1975 off South Pleasant Street, a drafty former carriage house that lacks adequate space for the expanding staff and programs, said executive director Julie Johnson.
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Hitchcock Center for the Environment
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