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involved. They lead. You can change the world with Advocates for Social Justice or work side-by-side with faculty to implement earth-friendly practices on campus. Some clubs are tailor-made to apply lessons from the classroom like the Investment Club, where you meet each week with students and business professors to invest real money in the Stock Market. Of course, there are clubs that allow you to recharge your spirit with others who share similar interests, belief systems or cultures, such as the
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Management The Division of Enrollment Management serves Pacific Lutheran University by attracting, enrolling, supporting, and graduating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care. Office of the President PLU seeks to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care – for other people, for their communities, and for the Earth. Office of the Provost The Provost oversees all academic divisions and professional schools, as well as the Library, the
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Lutes find trip to New Orleans inspiring, shocking Read Next Poetic imagery celebrates Earth Day COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford June 12
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October 13, 2008 Caring for God’s gift of biodiversity Conservation of the Earth, its animals, plants and resources isn’t only the right thing to do, but it’s how God intends for men and women to tend to His creation. That will be the gist of a lecture – The Difference Nature Makes: What We Can Learn about Christian Ethics from Earth’s Biological Diversity – which will be given on Tuesday night by Kevin O’Brien, assistant professor of religion. The lecture is free and begins at 7:30 p.m. in the
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university to continue to live up to its stated mission to “care for the earth.”The university now utilizes three hybrid Prius vehicles – one used by Campus Safety, and two used by the office of Admission. Of the 15-or-so vehicles utilized by facilities management, many of the worst gas-guzzlers have been retired, with all-electric vans and grounds carts in their place. According to Dave Kohler, director of facilities management, in recent years, this emphasis has cut the average age of the PLU fleet by
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, air travel contributes 19.4 percent of the university’s total carbon footprint. The goal of the groundbreaking pilot program, then, is to mitigate those air-mile carbon emissions—eventually helping PLU reach its goal of carbon neutrality by 2020. To do that, PLU has partnered with Earth Deeds, a developing organization that is redefining the concept of offsetting one’s carbon footprint by reframing it as “onsetting.” “Aiming for carbon neutrality is important, but it is the bare minimum,” said PLU
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to Lakes High School in Lakewood, Wash., to educate students about food waste and creating documentaries. “It’s great to connect with the community,” Lunka said. “It promotes a good cause and shows students what they can accomplish in college.” Waste Not will premiere on campus in the spring, in celebration with Earth Week, on April 23, 2015, in the Black Box Theatre. Read Previous Applications Open for Paid Sustainability Fellowships at PLU Read Next 11 PLU Students Attend Amazon’s First Annual
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ensure that our present way of life leaves the world a better place for all. Additionally, PLU signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment in 2007, pledging to achieve carbon neutrality by 2020.Earth Day Lecture at PLUTuesday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural CenterAuthor, professor and cultural geographer Dr. Carolyn Finney will lecture on “This Patch of Soil: Race, Nature and Stories of Future Belonging.”PLU SustainabilityLearn more about
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long-term successor is completed. Allan and Joanna are approachable, trusted leaders whose complementary skill sets are ideally suited to paving the way for a new president. I feel confident that these two individuals, supported by a depth of leadership on the President’s Council and a dedicated and committed faculty, will allow PLU’s mission, to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care—for other people, for their communities and for the Earth, to continue to
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difference between charity for the poor and empowering people to overcome poverty, we relate it to the work of a local food bank. When we talk about stewardship of the earth, we don’t just ask abstract questions — are nonhuman animals our neighbors? — we also see what some local Christians are doing to tend their soil. I have always hoped that my students leave a course in Christian ethics less sure than they arrived about what it might mean to “love your neighbor.” Now, I also hope that they leave
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