Sustainability Council

The Lewis & Clark Sustainability Council (LCSC) is a group of students, faculty, and staff drawn from the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Law, and Graduate School of Education and Counseling. The council has existed in some form since the late 1990s. Its current charge is to review, prioritize, and, as appropriate, act on the recommendations of the 2010-11 Sustainability Task Force. The council is to examine key sustainability-related questions that face Lewis & Clark, including in the following area:

• Education: How can the concept and practice of sustainability at Lewis & Clark be more fully grounded in our educational mission to cultivate global thinkers and leaders?
• Integration: How can sustainability further integrate the communities and concerns represented by members of the Sustainability Council? How can sustainability serve to integrate the best available scholarship and practice; ecology, economy, and equity; and scales stretching from our campus to the world?
• Innovation: How can Lewis & Clark sustainability demonstrate learning, innovation, and principled action? What are the most promising directions for innovation relative to other institutions of higher education?
• Operations: How can Lewis & Clark promote sustainability in its institutional practices and operations?

The chair of the sustainability council is Dan Rohlf, professor of law and cofounder of the law school’s Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center. For more information about the council, e-mail Professor Rohlf at rohlf@lclark.edu.To receive ongoing updates on LCSC activities including meeting dates, please request a subscription to our google group.

Read council meeting minutes here:

January, 24, 2012

April 10, 2012