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

Learning Garden Club Winter Events Calendar
Attend one or more of the great food-related film screenings, garden tours, club meetings and other activities during Winter 2010.

Winter Term 2010 Continuing Education Class: Introduction to Permaculture and Gardening
Permaculture is a method of sustainable land use design with an overall goal of producing an efficient and productive system by integrating plants, animals, structures and people. Topics include: principles and philosophy, site analysis, soil and plant nutrition, edible landscaping, water management, raising small animals, building with natural materials and income producing products. A fun and interactive class!

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

Register online at lanecc.edu. [CRN: 32496, January 6, 2010 to February 10, 2010, Wednesdays from 6:00 pm to 09:00 pm, Room 19/234, Cost: $ 81.00 (Senior $66)]

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