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  • <h3> Lewis & Clark was ranked #5 in Sierra Club’s 2017 “Cool Schools” list</h3>
  • <h3> Lewis & Clark is a community that commits itself to diversity and sustainability as dimensions of a just society</h3>
  • <div class="hero_caption feature-image, hero, right" data-hero-image="/live/image/gid/184/width/1600/height/470/crop/1/52267_prog-c-0410-0040.jpg"><h4>This Photo:</h4> 300 students volunteered for invasive plant removal.</div><img class="hero_image_placeholder" src="/live/image/gid/184/width/1600/height/470/crop/1/52267_prog-c-0410-0040.rev.1426700778.jpg" alt="Hero image"/>
  • <div class="hero_caption feature-image, hero" data-hero-image="/live/image/gid/184/width/1600/height/470/crop/1/52239_outdoors-classroom.jpg"><h4>This Photo:</h4> 74% of Lewis & Clark graduates took a course with a sustainability-related learning outcome.</div><img class="hero_image_placeholder" src="/live/image/gid/184/width/1600/height/470/crop/1/52239_outdoors-classroom.rev.1426619101.jpg" alt="Hero image"/>
  • <div class="hero_caption feature-image, hero, right" data-hero-image="/live/image/gid/184/width/1600/height/470/crop/1/52231_fields-panoramic-view.jpg"><h4>This Photo:</h4> 32% of the food that Lewis & Clark purchases is organic, local/community-based, or sustainable-certified.</div><img class="hero_image_placeholder" src="/live/image/gid/184/width/1600/height/470/crop/1/52231_fields-panoramic-view.rev.1426613163.jpg" alt="Hero image"/>
  • <div class="hero_caption feature-image, hero" data-hero-image="/live/image/gid/184/width/1600/height/470/crop/1/52266_prog-b-0812-0225.jpg"><h4>This Photo:</h4> 58% of students participate in community service.</div><img class="hero_image_placeholder" src="/live/image/gid/184/width/1600/height/470/crop/1/52266_prog-b-0812-0225.rev.1426700333.jpg" alt="Hero image"/>

  • Sustainability at Lewis & Clark

    Lewis & Clark is committed to learning, innovation, and principled action on matters related to sustainability. Our research and actions extend beyond our campus into the wider world, we build on the best available scholarship and practice in our endeavors, and we recognize the importance and interrelatedness of ecology, economy, and equity.

     

  • Georgia Reid, BA ’20, SOAN Major

    Georgia Reid, SOAN/ENVS major, BA ’20 Awarded Oregon Heritage Fellowship

    Georgia Reid, SOAN/ENVS Major, BA ’20, was awarded one of three 2020 Oregon Heritage Fellowships, via the State Department of Parks & Recreation, to present and extend her Fall 2019 SOAN thesis research on the environmental history and contemporary interest in flax-to-linen production in Oregon. Georgia’s research project and presentation will draw a comprehensive history of flax between 1877– 1952 and connect it with contemporary efforts to support agricultural land and rural economies. Through preliminary research and informal discussions, there are hints that interest in this work extends beyond historians to major garment manufacturers, agriculturalists, regional workforce leaders, academics, and possibly even government initiatives. Georgia’s presentation will be designed to engage Oregonians of these various backgrounds and interests from across the state.

    The Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards honor those that have made the most of available resources and skills and are given for exceptional and meritorious work by organizations, businesses or individuals.

  • Anne McHugh receiving her award from the EPA.

    Alumna Awarded EPA Award for Environmental Educators

    Anne McHugh BA ’10 has been awarded the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2019 Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators for her work as a science teacher at Portland’s Franklin High School. One of only 11 winners nationally of the highly competitive award and the only winner selected from the Pacific Northwest region, her teaching spans from arachnid biodiversity to aquaponics systems, allowing students to collaborate in innovative research with NASA.

  • #1 in Environmental Law - Again

    U.S. News ranks Lewis & Clark Law’s environmental law program number one in the nation for 2021, as well as 2020 rankings. Plus we have nationally recognized programs in Animal Law, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Business Law and Public Interest Law.
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