By WBUR
Dylan Carlson Sirvent León was working in his office at Harvard University when he began receiving frantic messages from his research colleagues. Environmental data was starting to disappear from government websites. It was January, and President Trump had just taken office for the second time. Researchers across the country had expected some information to go offline, as it had during the first Trump administration.
By Ted Watt & Helen Ann Sephton
This column honors Colleen Kelley, the education director at the Hitchcock Center, who will soon be leaving her post after 40 years. In the fall of 1984, Colleen walked into the Hitchcock Center — young, bright, idealistic, and fresh off a position as an environmental educator at another center. She had moved to the Valley and was looking for work. She hadn’t been there but a few minutes when a school bus pulled into the parking lot…
By Katie Koerten
As an environmental educator at the Hitchcock Center for the Environment, I do most of my work outside. Until our recent move to our new “living” building I didn’t consider that our nature center itself could help me teach about the environment as well.
By Julie Johnson
After nearly 8 years of planning, designing and constructing the Hitchcock Center’s new living building, I attended the annual conference of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) in Seattle, WA, the people who brought us the Living Building Challenge. Held over 5 days in May, the focus of this conference is more than simply how we can transform the built environment. It’s about how we can transform society.
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