Image of lush greenery on the Lewis & Clark campus.The Sustainability Council (LCSC) is a group of students, faculty, and staff drawn from the College of Arts and Sciences, Law School, and Graduate School of Education and Counseling. The council has existed in some form since the late 1990s and focuses on learning, operations, and communication/outreach related to sustainability across the three campuses.
The council has a full slate of projects and programs this year, including updating our Climate Action Plan and new curricular and co-curricular activities.
The council meets monthly (remote and in-person). Volunteers have the option to indicate level of interest to participate in the following ways:
Lewis & Clark and the Energy Trust of Oregon are partnering to deliver an exciting new training program for high school seniors and college students to gain experience in the energy efficiency and strategic energy management field.
Lewis & Clark Law School’s Environmental Moot Court Team recently secured its ninth national championship at the Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition (NELMCC) at Pace University, further solidifying its status as the most successful school in the competition’s history.
Cara Tomlinson’s Art and Ecology class uses waste materials from around Portland to create beautiful and meaningful works of art. This course offers a fresh approach to creative practice, merging art and ecology to help students respond to the climate crisis, explore the agency of materials, and build connections to place.