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Environmental Service

From A Comprehensive Policy on Sustainability at Santa Clara University

We assist communities, businesses, governments and non-profit organizations to develop in sustainable ways. We support the efforts of the Centers of Distinction and outreach programs to integrate sustainability into the community. We support research that expands the understanding and practice of sustainability. We promote public dialogue on sustainability.

  • hands holding the earthThe Spirituality of Our Sustainability Work

    Environmental stewardship is the vocation of everyone.
    Keith Warner, OFM, of the Environmental Studies Institute, has created a document to help SCU staff and faculty bring their environmental concerns to bear on their daily work. Earthcare is a spiritual practice. Use this pdf booklet as a resource to help you deepen your workplace spirituality, to bring your concern for the earth into your workday, or to strengthen your own environmental ethic.

    Please note: the pdf file opens a double sided 8.5x11 inch booklet

  • sdtreewithwordsv2FINALSustainability Decathlon

    Santa Clara University undergraduates mentor local youth as they compete to "green" their campuses.

  • iconArrupe Community Partnerships

    Through community placements in Santa Clara County, the Arrupe Program creates student opportunities for active engagement, research, and service oriented towards questions of social justice. During the 2007-08 academic year, 46 percent of undergraduate students contributed approximately 42,400 hours of community engagement.

  • iconShort Course on Environmental Ethics

    This short course is meant for those who have begun to be aware of obligations toward the natural world but who have not yet done something like taken a class or read a book about environmental ethics. The three lesson plans that constitute the course each focus on a different aspect of environmental ethics. Each of the plans involves an assignment and discussion questions for a class or for a small group.

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