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Prof. Jim Proctor

Professor & Etc | Lewis & Clark College | Portland, OR

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Looking Up at Canyon Mountain, Southern Oregon

“The opposite of a truth is a falsehood. But the opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth.” (Niels Bohr)

When I was young I’d often climb Canyon Mountain above my home, look in all directions,
and witness the human hand written into the forested landscape.

Perhaps these experiences mingling culture and nature—
or perhaps having this contradiction watch over me as a child—
led me to embrace truth as paradox.

 

 

 

Words

My work in environmental theory examines the assumptions that inform key environmental concepts. Examples include nature, place, science, spirituality, and sustainability.

I call them Big Words, as they are often invoked in a broad-brush way to understand and act in the world.
But many times they don’t provide the helpful guidance we need today—thus my search for Better Big Words.

The Words site archives informal posts I did between 2016-19.

You can also, on this site right here, browse selected publications, and read summaries of two in-progress books.

Go to Words Site

EcoTypes

EcoTypes helps you understand how you approach environmental issues, and compare your approach with others.

The site includes a free, anonymous survey, now completed over 10,000 times, and associated resources.

Go to EcoTypes Site

ENVS Resources

My day job is as Professor of the Environmental Studies (ENVS) Program at Lewis & Clark College.
There are two related online resources I’d like to share with the wider world.

In ENVS, we help students do innovative environmental scholarship, to make a “different difference.”
Some of the approaches we take are available on an ENVS resources site.

Go to ENVS Resources Site

Also, from 2012 to 2020, I authored a variety of sites, primarily on two dedicated subdomains, ds.lclark.edu and envs.lclark.edu, to support Lewis & Clark digital scholarship.

We have archived over a dozen of these sites to preserve some of their content and suggest the possibilities for digital scholarship in the liberal arts.

Browse Site Archives

ACCF

Alder Creek Community Forest (ACCF) is an outdoor education nonprofit I founded on my 80 acre forest in southern Oregon.

It’s probably the most practical and challenging thing I do in my life, given the realities and possibilities of rural America.

ACCF primarily does K-12 geography education. We are building a statewide curriculum called Story of Your Place.

Browse ACCF Site

About JDP

I’m a professor at Lewis & Clark College in the Environmental Studies Program,
with broad interests in environmental theory.

I’m also the proud daddy of Joy and Elise; a singer-songwriter;
founded an educational nonprofit, Alder Creek Community Forest,
on my land in southern Oregon;
and a few other things.

See here for more details about me, here for selected publications, and below for recent Twitter tweets and Mastodon toots.

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Jim's Recent < Tweets and Toots >

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Professor of Environmental Studies, @LewisAndClark | #geography | #environmental #theory | #ecotypes | #ideology | #interdisciplinarity | #deepdisagreement

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jenn_bernstein Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jenn_bernstein ·
16 Mar

Can I complain about the Ecological Footprint, Planetary Boundaries, AND the Anthropocene in 12 minutes? Hopefully! If you are going to @theAAG come say hi!

Plural Environmental Imaginaries
Ecomodernism as Environmental Imaginary
Centennial Ballroom F, Hyatt
Sat. 3/25 @ 4:30pm

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doctorjproctor Jim Proctor @doctorjproctor ·
17 Mar

Do you teach a course related to #environment / #sustainability? Interested in cross-national #collaboration? #EcoTypes offers a novel approach: “We disagree. That’s good! Our differing EcoTypes can be a source of creative solutions.” See https://bit.ly/essca23research for overview.

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doctorjproctor Jim Proctor @doctorjproctor ·
17 Mar

En route to #Paris @essca_ecole to share what's new with #EcoTypes & invite European collaboration. One new student resource: EcoTypes personae https://ecotypes.us/pilot-ecotypes-survey/pilot-ecotypes-personae/

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doctorjproctor Jim Proctor @doctorjproctor ·
14 Mar

My near-final @theAAG 2023 presentation: "Reimagining Environmental Imaginaries." Stable presentation URL [press S for speaker notes]: https://bit.ly/jdpaag23

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doctorjproctor Jim Proctor @doctorjproctor ·
9 Mar

...and for #thoseinahurry, here is a quick (2-3 minute) version of the #EcoTypes survey: https://ecotypes.us/pilot-ecotypes-survey/quick-pilot-ecotypes-survey/

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New pilot #EcoTypes survey up and running! Feel free to promote/complete it: it's free and anonymous, and participants receive a personalized report upon completion, with links to learning resources. Overview/link to survey: https://ecotypes.us/pilot-ecotypes-survey/pilot-ecotypes-overview/

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doctorjproctor Jim Proctor @doctorjproctor ·
7 Mar

New pilot #EcoTypes survey up and running! Feel free to promote/complete it: it's free and anonymous, and participants receive a personalized report upon completion, with links to learning resources. Overview/link to survey: https://ecotypes.us/pilot-ecotypes-survey/pilot-ecotypes-overview/

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