Topic: sustainability
Video: Grad student seeks balance, skates through school
6 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Living Portland
Erin Parker, now in her second year of graduate school, has been wearing several hats while studying community counseling to become a therapist. Parker is well known to Portland roller derby fans as November Pain. Throughout her intense graduate program, Parker has managed to practice three to four days a week at the roller derby track [...]
Video: Law school convenes leaders of renewable energy sector
6 May 2009
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- Engaging our World
On April 23-24, Lewis & Clark Law School and the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program hosted legal and energy leaders from across the country at a conference, Greening the Grid: Building a Legal Framework for Carbon Neutrality. They met to discuss the laws needed to support the growth of low- or no-carbon energy sources [...]
Video: Greg Smith trains K-12 educators to teach sustainability issues
27 March 2009
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- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
Greg Smith, professor of teacher education, has received a $19,380 grant from the Gray Family Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation to train teachers in the West Linn School District on environmental issues. The Environmental Education Program seeks to encourage a strong local land ethic, sustainable communities, and stewardship of the natural environment by citizens [...]
Podcast: Law professors start digital press as alternative to costly textbooks
18 March 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
With a full-time course load, law school students will spend approximately $1,000 a year on reading materials alone for their classes. According to a 2006 General Accounting Office study of the rising cost of textbooks requested by Congressional representatives, textbook prices rose by 186 percent between 1986 and 2006. They attributed this increase to textbook [...]
Podcast: Eco-Olympics encourage environmental awareness on campus
24 February 2009
- Living Portland
Lewis & Clark College’s inaugural Eco-Olympics competition is underway, challenging undergraduate students to decrease their energy consumption and participate in environmentally focused activities throughout the month. Launched on February 5, the Eco-Olympics has spurred competition between residence halls based on energy savings and attendance at various campus events. “One of the great things about the Eco-Olympics [...]
Student puts Lewis & Clark in top five on “green vote” initiative
4 November 2008
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- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
Over the course of the fall semester, sophomore Rachel Young, president of the environmental organization Students Engaged in Eco-Defense, has been talking with hundreds of her peers about clean energy solutions and asking them to consider making the issue a priority in their voting decision this November. Those she has been able to persuade have [...]