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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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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Our Farmers Market Season starts June 4!
After a long, cold winter and a seemingly longer, colder spring, the 2018 season of the Loyola Farmers Market is here! While we look forward to seeing some familiar faces at the Market- both vendors and customers – we are also excited for the new elements we've added to the market this year.
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Sighting of endangered bee inspires Loyola to survey natural treasures
A large, fuzzy bumblebee landed on a native Rattlesnake Master wildflower planted near a path at Loyola University Chicago’s ecology campus in McHenry County, catching student Kevin White’s attention last summer.
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How nature can teach business to be more sustainable
If a business wants to sustainably survive, it must take notes from nature’s 3.8 billion years of survival, says Nancy E. Landrum, PhD.
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Environmentally Engaged
Olivia Urbanski is just one of many environmental studies majors graduating this May, but her Loyola experience has taken her from Alaska to Kenya
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Waste makes haste: How used cooking oil becomes bus fuel
Many University-wide initiatives have grown out of Loyola’s Solutions to Environmental Problems (STEP) course: the apiaries, the Loyola station farmers market, and the campus-wide bottled water ban. However, the biodiesel program is the one that has been a permanent fixture for over a decade and caught the attention of the EPA, earning it a Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award in 2015.
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Climate Change Conference
8 things we learned at this year’s climate change conference
Read some of the takeaways 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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