About the Center

Welcome to Loyola University’s Center for Environmental Communication (LUCEC). Founded in 1998, LUCEC:

• serves students in the School of Communication & Design for Mass Communication and Strategic Communication  (and its environmental communication minors) and Loyola's Environment Program.
• hosts the Institute for Environmental Communication for citizens interested in widening their communication circle.
• serves as a media resource on environmental issues.
• intervenes in environmental challenges faced by businesses and citizens.
• presents workshops intended to improve environmental reporting in the Caribbean region.

There are two threads that run through all LUCEC programs: 1) sharpening critical and creative thinking skills to encourage the development of reasonable solutions to environmental challenges and 2) spreading the word on social justice within the economic community.