Jim Proctor

My work in environmental theory focuses on key concepts such as 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.

My EcoTypes initiative is one way I help students reflect on the Big Words that move them.

The Words site has some related posts [somewhat out of date], and a summary of selected publications.

Go to Words Site

My day job is as Professor and Director 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, and apply it to the world 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.

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