Prof. Jim Proctor

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

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

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.

Go to Songs Site  Browse Slideshows