About ENVX

Environment Across Boundaries (ENVX) is managed by the Environmental Studies (ENVS) Program at Lewis & Clark College. ENVX primarily features the work of ENVS undergraduate majors, who contribute, and curate/edit, scholarly content. You can readily view bios and related content for all ENVX editors and contributors. Oversight for ENVX is provided by contributing faculty to the ENVS Program.

The ENVX site is registered with the U.S. ISSN Center at the Library of Congress (ISSN #2476-1613).

Launched via a grant from PressForward, a WordPress digital curation plugin developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, and integrating other innovative technical features including a custom editorial workflow, ENVX features a set of portals to showcase the following work, much of it produced by our students on their sites on the DS (digital scholarship) multisite at Lewis & Clark:

ENVS student posts. Students do posts on individual and group sites as a part of course assignments, research projects, internships, and other scholarly work. Posts often demonstrate the process of scholarship, which can be exciting—and sometimes messy.
ENVS student projects. ENVS students do a number of research projects in courses, independent study contracts, and overseas programs. Projects evidence the interdisciplinary approach our students take, and include both process (e.g., routine posts) and outcomes (e.g., reports, posters, and other products).
ENVS student sites. All ENVS majors and minors author a scholarly site from their second to fourth year at Lewis & Clark. Here you’ll see their related posts and projects.
ENVS senior capstones. All ENVS majors also complete a scholarly capstone during their fourth year. This portal features a few capstones, including both thesis and non-thesis outcomes.
Global perspectives. This portal features our students’ work abroad, including posts on Lewis & Clark Around the World, a site featuring all Lewis & Clark students participating in Overseas and Off-Campus programs. The portal will also feature curated global content by our ENVX editors.
Living and learning. This portal features posts by first-year students living in the Environmental Action Living-Learning Community and upper-division ENVS majors at Lewis & Clark, who collaborated spring 2016 via a group blog site.

If questions, please feel free to contact the Environmental Studies Program:

Environmental Studies Program
Lewis & Clark College
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 62
Portland, OR 97219
503-768-7790

Situating Environment, Imagining Worlds: ENVS Honors Theses 2017

We are proud of all nineteen graduating ENVS seniors this year: they were a great bunch of students to work with over the last four years, and grew tremendously during this time. We’d like to honor four graduating seniors in particular—Lex Shapiro, Jesse Simpson, Hannah Smay, and Drew Williamson—who successfully completed all requirements for honors […]

Environmental Engagement: Bridging Thought and Action

There’s a new course in the ENVS major effective spring 2017: it’s called Environmental Engagement (ENVS 295)—read the About page on our new site, ds.lclark.edu/envs295/, for an overview. When I reflected at the start of spring semester on what environmental engagement means, I looked at the etymology of engagement to suggest three key features: Here is one rather […]

Art, Technology, and Hope in the Anthropocene

ENVS Program seniors take two semesters to complete a capstone project. The options for what students can study are limitless, as are their outcomes: some produce a thesis (see here for spring 2017 honors theses), while others produce alternative outcomes. As two examples of the latter, Marielle Bossio and Kara Scherer audaciously push the boundaries […]

Digital Scholarship Websites: A Scholarly Journal

Designing and creating a scholarly website is a skill that environmental studies majors are taught during their second semester in the program. It can be tedious and difficult to constantly work on and baby the site to meet professional expectations. Three ENVS class of 2017 seniors, Marielle Bossio, Perri Pond, and Kara Sherer, have gone the […]

Grass and Concrete: Built Environments Overseas

Does the phrase “built environment” strike you as odd? When thinking about the word “environment,” does your brain conjure up images of sweeping meadows and lush green forests? Consider this: Cities provide a habitat, of sorts, for billions of people worldwide. Many different species live in and interact with human-built spaces, just as many different […]

The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: Struggling to Complicate Environmentalism

This past Monday, I began my internship at Environment Oregon, Oregon’s largest environmental non-profit. I imagine this sentence will set off many red flags for anyone involved in the ENVS Program at Lewis and Clark; after all, the name practically oozes classical environmentalism and oversimplification. I actually am very excited about my internship despite this. Admittedly, this is mostly because […]