Miller Worley Center encourages voters to consider climate change
While climate change has always been a prominent election issue, a series of devastating hurricanes in the southern United States this past month may place it at the forefront of some voters’ minds as they head to the polls this November. Climate action has become especially contentious in the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton, which battered Florida and other nearby states between late September and early October. The Miller Worley Center for the Environment, Mount Holyoke College’s center for environmental leadership, has urged community members to address climate change by casting a ballot in the Nov. 5 general election.
EPA creates Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights
On Saturday, Sept. 24, the Environmental Protection Agency launched a new office dedicated to environmental justice, MSNBC reported. Climate professionals believe this signifies a hopeful step toward a future of climate policy that is equitable and cognizant of the needs of all, an article from the EPA said.
Miller Worley Center kicks off Campus Waterways Visioning series
The Connecticut River Watershed flows from the New Hampshire-Canada border all the way to where it meets the ocean on the Connecticut coast. Towards its southern border lies Stony Brook, one of the river’s distributaries that flows through the Mount Holyoke College campus. The entirety of the Stony Brook Watershed has only four impoundments, or dams — three of which are located here on campus. The sound of rushing water under spider bridge, grassy slopes leading to trees and flowering bushes along the edge of lower lake, the docks reaching out into upper lake; these are all quintessential parts of the Mount Holyoke campus that are possible because of the dams that transform Stony Brook into its current two-lake form.
