welcome to the zilkha center for the environment zilkha center for the environment (zce) oversees campus sustainability efforts, manages hopkins memorial forest in partnership with a committee of researchers and other stakeholders, offers time-honored co-curricular initiatives such as the student summer grant program, log lunch, and maple fest, and is the administrative home of the environmental justice clinic. protecting the environment and building sustainable societies and economies takes all of us. the zce works to achieve williams college's strategic sustainability goals. we emphasize engaging students in this work and-through our co-curricular programs and management of the hopkins memorial forest-extend the opportunities for experiential learning, applied research and community engagement beyond our campus borders. campus sustainability co-curricular programs environmental justice clinic hopkins memorial forest for academic courses on environmental and sustainability issues, the environmental studies major and concentrations, and senior thesis, please visit the environmental studies program. news & updates view all → upcoming events animals in the misanthropocene thu oct 17 | griffin hall 3 | 7:00 pm mono lake: a story of science and citizen action - changing the fate of a california saline lake thu oct 17 | griffin hall 3 | 8:15 pm log lunch: "manure fights, thousand-pound pumpkins, and so much hay: williamstown farm histories" fri oct 18 | the log | 12:00 pm forest fridays! afternoon walk in hopkins forest: join sidra mahmood, muslim chaplain fri oct 18 | hopkins memorial forest | 4:00 pm berkshire natural history conference! sat oct 19 | 9:00 am sign up for the zce monthly newsletter! join our google group to receive weekly updates!