Environmental Institute

The Environmental Institute at Lackawanna College is housed on the beautiful 42 acre Moffat Estate in Covington Township. Our building contains space for seminars, research and hands-on workshops. The institute is an excellent setting for children and adults to learn about the environment, enjoy the outdoors, and discover how they can make changes to improve the world around us.

The Institute is poised to fully implement our environmental vision, thanks to the generosity of the Covington Township supervisors and the Robert Y. Moffat Family. We thank them for recognizing Lackawanna College’s ability to reshape our region’s environment.

Join us on our journey toward a healthier environment and a better world. Help us to build communities that will sustain us, allowing our children to grow up in a society that nurtures new ideas and pathways. We’re all in this together, and we can make a difference.

Spring 2008 Newsletter (PDF) | Day Camp Brochure 2008 (PDF)

Environmental Institute Events

Mission Statement

The Environmental Institute will be a leader in northeast Pennsylvania by providing innovative approaches in environmental education, research and advocacy to the students of Lackawanna College and outreach into the surrounding communities.

Therefore the Environmental Institute will strive to:

• Provide education to our communities in order create a connection to our natural world and our dependence on it.
• Increase knowledge and understanding of the environment in order to develop informed responsible individuals who can fulfill positive roles as members of the earth’s community.
• Provide environmental education that will create awareness leading to action thereby improving our environment.
• Educate our students and communities about our local environment, our effects upon it, which will lead to a global understanding of human’s role in the ecosystem.

 

Directions to the Lackawanna College Environmental Institute:

• From Route 81
• Take Route 380 South
• Bear left onto exit 2, Route 435 to Elmhurst
• Travel 8 miles through the blinking light in Moscow.The entrance to the Environmental Institute is the second driveway on the right after passing St. Catherine’s Cemetery and across from AJ Chevrolet.
• The Institute is the white building visible from the road.