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The
Center for the Environment Wants Your Ideas
By
Melanie DeSilva
Lauret
Savoy, the new Director of the Center for the Environment at Mount
Holyoke College wants to know what environmental issues-
broadly defined- are important to you.
Under Lauret’s leadership, the Center has recently begun
a month-long grassroots ideas and information gathering blitz to
help guide its efforts in charting a new course.
“I ask you to imagine ‘environment’ broadly—not
just as surroundings, not just as the air, water, land on which
we depend or that we pollute, or as  biodiversity,
but also the circumstances, conditions, and contexts in which we
live, work,
and develop,” Lauret says. “The events of one's life
take place, take place. Have you ever thought about it?”
Lauret Savoy and her new senior administrative assistant Melanie
DeSilva want the Center to be an organization that can listen to
and support the environmental hopes and dreams of staff, faculty
and students. Lauret seeks to translate the ideas people contribute
into meaningful programs that improve and help people feel connected
to the campus and local environment and community.
Lauret and Melanie are waiting to hear from you.
Contact Lauret at x2125, lsavoy. Contact Melanie at x3091, mdesilva
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