Digital Scholarship in Environmental Studies
Today's ENVS Poster Celebration marks the end of my time in ENVS-220 Environmental Analysis. What an experience it has been! I am definitely excited to finally complete the course, and to celebrate by presenting my lab group's main achievement of the semester: this poster. It may not look like much, but this colorful rectangle represents… Continue reading ENVS-220 Environmental Analysis: The End!
Earlier this semester, our ENVS class did a lab which used ArcGIS to study environmental justice in Portland. This was my first form exposure to environmental justice in college, and I was excited to be able to engage with the movement through environmental analysis. In the past couple weeks I've had the opportunity to read… Continue reading Julie Guthman Weighs In: GIS
Earlier this week, we did an in-class activity that introduced us to examples of situated environmental research. Each student was asked to select a reading from a list created by our professor, Jim, and to become an 'expert' on it. Each reading on the list was an example of situated environmental research. Examples ranged from… Continue reading Situation: Situation
Three weeks ago, Lewis and Clark College's ENVS program hosted Daryl Davis at our annual symposium. Davis is an R&B and blues musician, activist, author and actor. Additionally, Davis, an African American man, is responsible for the withdrawal of over 200 members from the Ku Klux Klan. Under the broad theme of "communication across difference," Davis'… Continue reading Communication Across Difference
As our unit on the Anthropocene comes to a close, I thought it important to take the time to reflect on what we learned. Our labs took us on a journey through the Anthropocene, starting at the local level and concluding with a more global perspective. One of my favorite classes this semester, the Political… Continue reading Food & the Anthropocene
Although connected by the common thread of "environmental analysis," the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of the in-class activities we do in ENVS 220 can obscure this connection. Because I've found it hard to visualize the big picture of environmental analysis, I decided to take a step back and reexamine a couple of the activities we've… Continue reading Diverse Analyses
Grace Anderson 