ENVS 295: Environmental Engagement
Lewis & Clark College | Spring 2020
I've done a series of posts throughout the semester related to readings, our partnership, our project, and my thoughts on environmental engagement. See below for all posts I've published, in reverse order by date.
Our identified goals for our Engagement Project with Sustainable Northwest are the following: Create a space with a successful two-way dialogue between current students and those who currently work in the natural resource sector, like those with Sustainable Northwest Allow for the opportunity for students currently interested in natural resource […]
Read MoreThe Pacific Northwest hosts a multitude of different types of people, with their own views, experiences, and values. It is no different than the United States as a whole, where beliefs can be largely separated into what is known as The Six Hidden Tribes of America. Across divisions of class, […]
Read MoreIntroduction Sustainable Northwest is an organization that does a great deal of facilitation when it comes to natural resource management in the Pacific Northwest. With programs that work with water, forests, energy, and rangelands, the organization works on a multitude of projects that address problems and solutions around the Northwest. […]
Read MoreIntroduction Environmental Engagement, or ENVS 295, was once an optional class in the Environmental Studies department. Of course, this was long ago when I was yet to arrive on this campus in Fall 2018, but the course has cemented itself as a necessary and important aspect in the field of […]
Read MoreHow do we go about engagement? After addressing the significance of “what and who” in regards to engagement, the proceeding concern is “how?” During week 8 of Jim Proctor’s course —Environmental Engagement— our focus was drawn to how engagement happens. To foreground our understanding, we began by looking at the […]
Read MoreDivided Who For the “who” portion of Environmental Engagement, our class read a multitude of articles, even taking a few quizzes to evaluate the different types of people and their attitudes that we engage with. The Hidden Tribes of America quiz categorizes Americans into seven categories based on their political […]
Read MorePost-Truths, Multiple Realities and the Trump Campaign The notion of “post-truths” is tremendously relevant within the political arena, leading to extreme polarization and stunted political progress. As Thomas B. Edsall in his article “Trump Is Waiting and He Is Ready,” Democrats and Republicans “view the same reality through a different […]
Read MoreEffective Altruism With regard to contemporary global challenges that we often feel as if we have little to no power in helping find the solutions to, effective altruism aims to serve as a response to this disheartenment. In Jim Proctor’s ENVS 295 class on Tuesday, February 18, we discussed readings […]
Read MoreCRITFC Presentation As part of our Environmental Engagement Reconnaissance Trip, we visited the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) and listened to a presentation given by Rob Lothrop. Lothrop is an alumnus of Lewis & Clark Law School, and studied natural and environmental law. Joining CRITFC in 1981, Rob began […]
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