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Shuttle Services Improve Accessibility and Sustainability

A new program has sprung up at Kalamazoo College that stands as a testament to the Kalamazoo community’s collective efforts to make K more accessible and sustainable. This winter break, Student Development helped shuttle students to and from airports to address the burden of high transportation costs for out of state students.   This initiative […]

Welcome Back for Winter 2026!

Welcome back to campus everyone! We hope you had a wonderful winter break, and we can’t wait to see familiar faces and old friends back on campus. While not as active as Fall or Spring, the Winter trimester is still full of opportunities to get involved with the Environmental Stewardship Center (ESC) and sustainability on […]

Pumpkins: A Smashing Success

This past Friday, students and staff gathered on the quad to blow off some steam by smashing pumpkins and eating s’mores. With the help of Kalamazoo College’s Office of Student Activities and the Environmental Stewardship Center’s Composting Crew, cartloads of pumpkins were successfully smashed into smithereens!   Dozens of students, as well as some family of […]

Summer Fellowships 2025: Sustainable Development Academy at the University of Potsdam

This blog post is part of the ESC Summer Fellowship 2025 series. These fellowships provided funding for research projects related to the environment, sustainability and/or the Climate Action Plan. This post was written by Ava King, one the fellows of this past summer cycle. Hello! My name is Ava King, and I am a rising […]

The 2025 Hoop House Harvest Festival!

This past Tuesday, October 28th, the Hoop House hosted its fifth annual Harvest Festival in collaboration with the Religion, Spanish, and Critical Ethnic Studies departments, the Environmental Stewardship Center, and the Center for Civic Engagement to celebrate and give offerings to Our Mother Corn, or Tatéi Niwetsika. Brought to Kalamazoo College from Mexico and stewarded […]

A Sustainable Overview of the New Residence Halls

The new residence halls are the talk of the town here at Kalamazoo College as construction has been chugging along since the groundbreaking ceremony on June 12th, 2025. As the new halls represent K’s investment in affordable, inclusive spaces, they also reflect our commitment to advancing sustainability to meet the goals of our Climate Action […]

Summer Fellowships 2025: A Radiant Summer of Dirt, Bugs, and Sweat!

This blog post is part of the ESC Summer Fellowship 2025 series. These fellowships provided funding for research projects related to the environment, sustainability and/or the Climate Action Plan. This post was written by Zoe Wilson, one the fellows of this past summer cycle. Hello everyone! My name is Zoe Wilson and I am here […]

Summer Fellowships 2025: Using Tread Management to Combat Against Trail Erosion

This blog post is part of the ESC Summer Fellowship 2025 series. These fellowships provided funding for research projects related to the environment, sustainability and/or the Climate Action Plan. This post was written by Madi Magda, one the fellows of this past summer cycle. Hey everyone, I’m Madi Magda! Since June, I have been working […]

Homecoming at the Hoop House! 

This past Friday, October 3rd, we celebrated Kalamazoo College’s Homecoming at the Hoop House! We welcomed staff, faculty, students, and alums, coming together to share cookies, cider, and of course, fresh produce from the Hoop House!  Connection in the Garden  The October weather was perfect for a gathering outside our campus’s Hoop House. Friends and […]

Summer Fellowships 2025: Summer Shepherding With Tending Tilth

This blog post is part of the ESC Summer Fellowship 2025 series. These fellowships provided funding for research projects related to the environment, sustainability and/or the Climate Action Plan. This post was written by Grace Lounds, one the fellows of this past summer cycle. For the past three summers now, Tending Tilth has taken on […]