John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies

https://www.cpp.edu/env/lyle

Andrew O. Wilcox, Acting Director
Teresa Lloro, Graduate Coordinator

The Lyle Center draws upon faculty from across the University and numerous professional practitioners. Faculty can vary term by term based upon expertise and course offerings. Faculty often include:

James Blair, Geography and Anthropology
Kristen Conway-Gomez, Geography and Anthropology
Aaron Fox, Plant Science

Pablo La Roche, Architecture
Teresa Lloro-Bidart, Liberal Studies
Jeff Marshall, Geological Sciences

The mission of the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies is to advance the principles of environmentally sustainable living through education, research, demonstration, and community outreach. The Center uses the term regenerative to emphasize the development of systems that restore and revitalize themselves, ensuring a sustainable future. It offers unique interdisciplinary education through its Master of Science degree program and its undergraduate minor program, both of which prepare students to integrate regenerative theories and practices into a wide variety of professional fields. The Lyle Center has earned an international reputation for its innovative educational programs and has hosted visiting scholars and students from around the world.

Situated on 16 acres within the Cal Poly Pomona campus, the Center operates as a living laboratory for research and projects related to environmental design, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy production, water quality, landscape ecology, and human communities. The Center showcases a wide array of regenerative principles as it pursues a varied research agenda, focusing on issues of sustainability including passive-solar building design, solar energy technology, organic agriculture, native plant community restoration and an array of faculty led projects.

The Lyle Center offers unique interdisciplinary education through its regenerative studies and sustainability courses. These can be combined to fulfill the requirements of the undergraduate minor program. This minor prepares students to integrate sustainability and regenerative theories and practices into a wide variety of professional fields. A series of 3000-level courses provides a basic introduction to regenerative principles and can be used by all undergraduate students in the University to fulfill several general education requirements. More advanced 4000-level courses can be used as directed electives. Please check with faculty regarding prerequisites: these can be waived based on previous experience or knowledge of the individual student.

Courses

Regenerative Studies