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Explore the Institute of Environmental Sustainability
The Institute of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola's Lake Shore Campus combines academics and research with sustainable agriculture and community living, all in one amazing facility. Tours are available for educational groups.
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Seminar Series
IES Seminar: Advancing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Undergraduate Environmental Degree Programs
Join IES for our first seminar of the semester on January 30, 2019, at 4 p.m. in IES 123/124. Dr. Tania Schusler will be speaking about the research project she undertook with IES and DePaul student researchers on racial and ethnic diversity in environmental disciplines.
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Sustainability
We are still in: individual & institutional climate action
Join Director of Sustainability Aaron Durnbaugh at the first CURL Friday Morning Seminar of the semester. He will be speaking on climate action on Friday, January 25, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. in Cuneo Hall, Room 417.
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Just for students: There's still time to apply for these internships.
IES has some amazing internship opportunities to ring in the new year. Are you interested in gaining experience as a journal editor? Or would you rather work at a thriving non-profit like the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, or the Delta Institute? Most applications are due on January 18, 2019.
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Student Scholarship
Meet IES Student Paul Campion: A 2018 President's Medallion award winner
“We learned how to live justice, simplicity, faith, and community. When committed to these values, it feels impossible not to have hope," says Campion.
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Sustainable Business Practices
Messaging the circular economy
IES and Quinlan School of Business Professor Nancy Landrum writes about communications strategies for organizations that utilize the circular economy in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's report "Messaging the Circular Economy." Read what she has to say.
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Sustainability
Mayor announces Chicago Renewable Energy Challenge
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the launch of the first-of-its-kind Chicago Renewable Energy Challenge with seven founding members. The Renewable Energy Challenge is a voluntary leadership effort to accelerate the installation of renewable energy in commercial and institutional properties across the City. The initiative builds upon the City’s commitment to using 100% renewable energy to power all City buildings by 2025. Loyola University Chicago is one of the seven founding members.
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Faith and Science
Where faith meets science
Ecologist and Dean Nancy Tuchman on how Loyola’s Jesuit mission calls for us to restore our future.
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Healing Earth
Loyola University Chicago’s innovative online textbook, Healing Earth, wins high honors from the Vatican
Healing Earth Co-Editor Michael Schuck shakes hands with Pope Francis. Drs. Schuck and Tuchman traveled to Rome to receive the Vatican's first-ever Expanded Reason Award.
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Have a productive spring semester with IES
IES has a number of new and popular courses available during the spring semester, including major-only sections, our popular career-series seminar, and writing-intensive classes. Consider taking a class with IES.
