Loyola University Chicago
Institute of Environmental Sustainability
Degree Programs
Healing Earth
Healing Earth co-editors meet Pope Francis and accept Vatican award for innovative online textbook
IES Founding Dean Nancy Tuchman, PhD and Theology Professor Michael Schuck, PhD traveled to Rome to accept the Expanded Reason Award in the teaching category for their work on the Healing Earth textbook.
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Common Resources
New Facility
Explore the Institute of Environmental Sustainability
The new 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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Farmers Market
Our farmers market season is in full swing!
The 2018 season of the Loyola Farmers Market is here! Be sure to grab your fresh produce, meat and gelato every Monday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Loyola "L" Stop.
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Seminar Series
IES Seminar Series: Sinking Chicago: climate change and the remaking of a flood-prone environment, 1945-2011
Join Dr. Harold Platt on October 3 at 4 p.m. and listen as he discusses his examination of the ways that residents, politicians, and policymakers grappled with Chicago's combined sewer system’s dual problem of flood control and water quality. He will point out that the city's flood problems are as much caused by human manipulation as by nature.
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Mark your calendars for our Environmental Career Speaker Series
Join Dr. Jing every Thursday and learn what it takes to have a career that protects the environment. This year's speaker series will feature professionals in county and city sustainability positions, communicators who work for renewable energy companies and entrepreneurs in waste diversion.
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Saving endangered turtles
Watch this news segment to see how IES partner, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, releases Blanding's Turtles into an Illinois ecosystem. You can see IES Student and SEA Co-President Amanda Huegelmann in the background.
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Bonfire & Tour
Autumnal walk with bonfire and stories of the land with Jim May
Join Loyola students and alumni on a walk through the 98 acres on the Loyola University Retreat and Ecology Campus (LUREC). After the walk, enjoy some “brats over buckthorn” and a bonfire of cut invasive vegetation, followed by stories of the land.
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Climate Change Conference
Watch our Climate Change Conference Highlight Video
Listen to key panelists from this year's conference.
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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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