Lane's Sustainability Core Value

• Integrate practices that support and improve the health of systems that sustain life.
  
• Provide an interdisciplinary learning environment that builds understanding of sustainable ecological, social, and economic systems, concern for environmental justice, and the competence to act on such knowledge.
  
• Equip and encourage all students and staff to participate actively in building a socially diverse, just, and sustainable society, while cultivating connections to local, regional, and global communities.

Announcements

Spring Term 2010 Continuing Education Class: Organic Gardening Principles and Practice
Now is the time to start a garden! In this course, we will cover everything from planning and creating your garden to harvest, winter gardening, and saving seeds for next year. Topics include: sheet mulch gardening, compost, companion planting, attracting pollinators, perennial vegetables and herbs, and more. We will reinforce our discussions with hands-on projects in the LCC Learning Garden.

This course is taught by Devon Bonady, the Learning Garden Specialist at Lane Community College.

Register online at lanecc.edu. [CRN: 42976, March 31, 2010 to May 19, 2010, Wednesdays from 6:00 pm to 09:00 pm, Room 19/119, Cost: $ 117.00 (Senior $93)]

New Sustainability Coordinator Associate of Applied Science Degree! Enrollment open for Winter 2010.
Are you interested in a job where you can help preserve the environment, human health, economic prosperity, and social equity? Enroll today in Lane's new Sustainability Coordinator Associate of Applied Sciences degree program. Contacts for questions and more information:

• Margaret Robertson, 541-463-3143, robertsonm@lanecc.edu
• Lisa Stegall, 541-463-5378, stegalll@lanecc.edu
• Carolyn Litty, 541-463-5236, littyc@lanecc.edu

Photo of Learning Garden on main campus