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This year’s ENVX Symposium, Common Ground: How We Can Engage Across Difference With a Shared Love of Land, was held September 29 through October 3. The symposium united panelists and students in dialogue founded upon months of community conversation and outreach.

Lewis & Clark ranks No. 26 on Princeton Review’s 2026 list of Top 50 Green Colleges, earning national recognition for its strong culture of environmental responsibility and sustainability. The honor appears in the newly released Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2026 Edition, which profiles 388 institutions that demonstrate an exceptional commitment to environmental stewardship.

In this spring’s Environmental Engagement course, students connect classroom learning with real-world conversations, partnering with local nonprofits to address polarizing issues and build mutual trust.

Rylie Neely ’20 shares how she continued to use her ENVS education during an unplanned career pause due to Covid.

ENVS alum, Julian Brastow ’22, describes his initial job search after graduating from LC.

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.

Rachel Young BA ’11 recently published groundbreaking research in the journal Nature on the long-term health impact of tropical cyclones. The article is part of her growing scholarship on the quantifiable social effects of climate change and natural hazards.

ENVS alumna Rachel Young ’11, reflects on how her ENVS courses prepared her for a career in climate change research.

Alana Rader’s research focuses on patterns of landscape regeneration in integrated social-environment systems and from a critical physical geography perspective. 

This year’s ENVX Symposium, Green Innovation in China and the U.S.: Creating Climate Solutions, will be held from September 30 to October 4. The symposium features two keynote speakers in addition to a movie screening, a panel on electric vehicles, and a closing reception. All events are free and open to the public.

Lewis & Clark ranked No. 37 in the Princeton Review’s list of the nation’s most environmentally responsible colleges and universities.

Over the summer, Lewis & Clark offers students paid, hands-on research experiences that rival those of graduate-level institutions.

This year’s symposium, Life Within Capitalism: Reconsidering Market Consequences and the Earth System, will be held October 16–19, 2023. The symposium will feature keynote speakers Professor Yuko Aoyama and Clarence Edwards, as well as an art workshop and a game about carbon cap and trade. All events are free and open to the public.

Chris Kerkhoff, ’22, describes how transferring to LC set him on a career path toward environmental law.

Tobias Varntoft, ’21, describes how his experiences and studies, prior to and at LC, prepared him for working at a nonprofit organization that fosters sustainable technological innovation.