Loyola University Chicago
Institute of Environmental Sustainability
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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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COVID-19 Response
Helping hands
Inside the Institute of Environmental Sustainability, Loyola is addressing its hand sanitizing needs with creativity and resourcefulness.
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Minor
Loyola adds Environmental Communication Minor
With an increasing need for knowledge, understanding, and communication about climate change, environmental sustainability, alternative energy, and biodiversity, Loyola University Chicago is launching a new minor in Environmental Communication.
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From its founding in 1870, Loyola University Chicago has sought to provide a rigorous, affordable Jesuit education to students from all backgrounds. COVID-19 has presented unprecedented challenges that have changed the landscape of our campuses and required our students to adjust their academics and personal lives in short order.
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At Loyola Chicago, Science & Humanities Meet Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’
My colleagues in the sciences at Loyola University Chicago’s (LUC) Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES) spend much of their time researching ways to help the planet repair itself. They ask the practical questions: Which plants are best at pulling lead out of contaminated soils? Which evolutionary traits in plants can help us devise more sustainable agricultural practices? How can we convert campus food waste into clean, renewable energy?
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2020 Graduates
Congratulations to all of our IES Graduates!
It has been our great privilege to guide and mentor you through your development and watch you become the strong environmental scientists and advocates that you are. We are proud of your accomplishments, and grateful in return, for all you have taught us -- helping us to continue to grow as an Institute.
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COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS
Sustainability in the Time of COVID-19
For those in the Loyola community that are still seeking opportunities to work on sustainability and justice, we’ve collected these resources. Hopefully there are some ideas you may not have considered, and some others you are already doing.
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