“Water Intake, Lake Michigan” Terry Evans
Our Mission: To explore and promote moral and civic responsibilities to human communities and to natural ecosystems and landscapes.
The Center for Humans and Nature promotes greater conservation, biological and cultural diversity, health, and social justice in the interactions between natural systems and human communities. It aims to define and express a new vision of ethical responsibility and ecological citizenship. It pursues its mission through a three-pronged strategy of (a) philosophical and historical research, (b) ethics, scientific, and civic education, and © copy; policy analysis, regional planning, and regional civic action.
The Center for Humans and Nature is an independent, non-partisan, and non-profit organization with offices in New York City, Chicago, Columbia, South Carolina and Baraboo, WI. As a private operating foundation, CHN financially supports its own programs and provides shared funding for collaborative work with other organizations and individuals.
The Center for Humans and Nature is open to many approaches to understanding the relationships between our species and the rest of the ecosphere. We are particularly interested in a critical exploration of the history of philosophy, ethics, and civic responsibility (including the history of conservation and public policy) in the light of the key concepts and findings of evolutionary biology and ecology.