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The Center for Humans and Nature Signs on to National Climate Ethics Campaign

June 13th, 2011

The Center signs a  statement of our nation’s moral obligation to address climate change. The statement addresses: “The Moral Obligation to Prevent Suffering and Protect Human Life”; “The Moral Responsibility to Honor Principles of Justice and Equity”; and “The Moral Obligation to Honor and Protect the Processes that Make Life Possible.”

The need for action is urgent, the possibilities enormous. Please visit http://climateethicscampaign.org/ to find out more!

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Center Intern Attends Power Shift 2011 Conference

April 22nd, 2011

Zack Arno, currently an Intern in the New York office, recently attended the Power Shift 2011 Conference in Washington, DC, April 15-18. The meeting was sponsored by the Energy Action Coalition, a group that brings together members of the Youth Climate Movement.

Energy Action Coalition

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Meet New York Office Intern, Zack Arno

April 11th, 2011

Zack Arno

Zack Arno began a three month internship in the Center for Humans and Nature New York office in March. Zack holds a bachelor’s degree in Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies (SUNY Geneseo,2010). His recent work experience includes hydrology, soil science and field geology. He has worked in Guadalupe Mountains National Park as a Speleologist and Field Geology Technician (2009) and, more recently, in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming as a Hydrology and Soils Intern for the Bureau of Land Management under the aegis of the Chicago Botanic Garden. He is working on the resilience and climate change adaptation planning project.

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Bruce Jennings at the Earth Institute

Regional Cultures of Conservation, The Philosophy and Politics of Planning: A Case Study of the Hudson River Valley

April 13th, 2010

CHN Director of Bioethics Bruce Jennings will speak at an upcoming symposium and webcast on sustainability. On April 15, 2010, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. the Earth Institute at  Columbia University and the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities will convene a panel discussion on “Navigating Sustainability: The Hudson and Beyond” at Barnard College. The symposium will be available as a live webcast. For further information about the symposium and webcast, click on this link to the Earth Institute website.

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Climate Change and the Oceans: Regulating the Seas to Protect the Atmosphere & Vice Versa

October 2nd, 2008

Hosted by the University of South Carolina School of Law, a Distinguished Panel presented on the topic of Climate Change and the Oceans: Regulating the Seas to Protect the Atmosphere & Vice Versa at 2:30 p.m. on October 2, 2008 at the USC School of Law in room 135.

Professor William Rodgers, holder of the Stimson Bullitt chair at the University of Washington School of Law, presented on “Ground Zero on Climate Change: Multiple Stressors, Alaska Natives, and the End of Oil”. Professor Rodgers’ talk linked legal events related to climate change ranging from the spill of the Exxon Valdez to the flooding of the Village of Kivalina. Dr. Felicia Coleman, a biology professor at Florida State University, presented on the physiological and behavioral trade-offs organisms make in changing environments to ensure their reproductive success, as well as on the management trade-offs we humans must make to ensure the sustainability of fisheries and the ecosystems that support them. Dr. William C.G. Burns, a faculty member at Santa Clara University Law School, presented an assessment of the potential impacts of ocean acidification on ocean species and ecosystems, and discussed one potential approach seeking to induce major greenhouse gas emitting nations to address the issue: initiating actions under the dispute resolution mechanisms provided for under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement. The panel was moderated by Cinnamon Carlarne, who recently joined the University of South Carolina School of Law from the University of Oxford, where she was the Harold Woods Research Fellow in Environmental Law at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and the Faculty of Law and a Junior Research Fellow at Wadham College.

A reception co-hosted by the University of South Carolina School of the Environment and the Center for Humans and Nature followed. Proceedings will be published in the spring 2009 issue of the Southeastern Environmental Law Journal.

(from: http://www.law.sc.edu/elj/2008symposium/)

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