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
at Hampshire College
845 West Street | Amherst MA 01002 | 413.256.6006 | 413.253.2809 fax