• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

EcoTypes

Exploring Environmental Ideas

  • About
    • EcoTypes FAQ
      • New Place-Action EcoTypes
    • Instructor FAQ
    • EcoTypes Book
    • Have a Question?
  • Survey
    • EcoTypes Survey 2024-25
    • 2024-25 Survey Report FAQ
    • Retrieve Your 2024-25 EcoTypes Survey Report
    • 2023-24 Survey Resources
      • (2023-24) Survey Report FAQ
      • Retrieve Your (2023-24) EcoTypes Survey Report
  • Components
    • EcoTypes Components
    • Axes
      • Eighteen Axes (2022)
    • Themes
    • EcoTypes 2024-25
    • EcoTypes Personae 2024-25
    • Global Priorities
  • Going Deeper
    • Going Deeper
    • Going Deeper with MCJD
    • Fall 2024 MCJD Dialogues
    • 2023-24 MCJD Examples
      • First A.M.E. Zion Congregation
      • Oregon Farm Bureau
      • Street Roots
      • MCJD Community Comparison
  • Home
  • Show Search
Hide Search

What is Your EcoType?

We disagree. That’s good!
Our differing EcoTypes can be a source of creative solutions.

Discover Your EcoType

Take the EcoTypes Survey

The EcoTypes survey is free and anonymous, and you’ll immediately receive a report summarizing your EcoType, with links to learning resources.

EcoTypes helps us understand and navigate a divided world. Like the image above, we approach environmental issues in differing ways. How might our differences be a source of creativity vs. conflict?

Learn about three components: Axes, themes, & EcoTypes

Axes

Axes are the fundamental building blocks of EcoTypes. Examples of the twelve axes include Aesthetics, Ecosystems, Nature, Science, Spirituality, and Time. Some may strike you as surprising!…but all relate to how we approach environmental issues.

Themes

Themes are statistical combinations of axes, based on thousands of surveys, that summarize our key questions and differences in how we approach environmental issues. The three themes are nonhuman/human Place, old/new Knowledge, and small/big Action.

EcoTypes

EcoTypes are generalized patterns of Place, Knowledge, and Action themes. Your EcoType has an opposite, its complementary EcoType. Engagement across these differing EcoTypes can lead to creative environmental solutions, not just conflict.

Explore more

FAQ Survey Components

Footer

Lewis & Clark College

ENVS (Environmental Studies) Program
Lewis & Clark College
615 S Palatine Hill Rd—MSC 62
Portland, Oregon 97219 USA

This site and all content © 2025 Jim Proctor, Lewis & Clark College | Built on WordPress | Log in

Keep In Touch w/ENVS & JDP

  • Facebook
  • Instagram