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CHN Board Member Gus Speth Delivers Chafee Lecture at NCSE

January 28th, 2010

CHN board member James Gustave (Gus) Speth delivered the 10th Annual John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture at the 2010 annual meeting of the National Council for Science and the Environment.  To read the full text of his lecture, “A New American Environmentalism and the New Economy,” click here.

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CHN Sponsors NCSE Symposium

January 28th, 2010

At the 10th National Conference of the National Council for Science and the Environment (titled The New Green Economy), CHN sponsored the symposium Counterpoint: The Limits of Markets to Achieve Sustainability: The Dangerous Illusion of Endless Growth. The session was organized by CHN Senior Fellow Peter Brown and Paul Heltne and chaired by CHN board member George Rabb.  This symposium gave in-depth viewpoints from ecological economics, whose pioneer Herman Daly was honored by an NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award.  Session speakers included Peter Victor, author of Managing Without Growth; Peter Brown, who focused on the ethical challenges of ecological economics; and John Fullerton, founder of the Capital Institute, who brought the problems of capital markets into focus based on his long background at Goldman Sachs and elsewhere.  The three speakers were later commended by Richard Benedick, the President of the NCSE.  Brief responses to these presentations were given by Paul Heltne, Brian Czech (author of the Runaway Train and founder of the Center for Advancement of the Steady State Economy), Robert Nadeau (author of the Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics has Failed the Environment), and CHN board member Gus Speth. Gus Speth also delivered this year’s Chafee Memorial Lecture at the NCSE meeting. Visit the NCSE website for a summary of the CHN symposium, and check back on the CHN website for postings of the PowerPoint presentations from this symposium.

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CHN Welcomes New Board Member

October 30th, 2009

Ceara_DonnelleyThe Center for Humans and Nature welcomes it’s newest member to the Board of Directors, Ceara Donnelley, daughter of the Center’s Founding President, Strachan Donnelley. Ms. Donnelley was elected at the October 2009 meeting of the Board.

Ceara is a recent graduate of Yale Law School, where she served as an editor on the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities. She also received her BA summa cum laude from Yale, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and awarded the John Addison Porter Prize for her senior thesis in the History major. Ms. Donnelley has worked at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP, the Brennan Center for Justice, the Clinton Foundation and the World Policy Institute. She currently sits on the board of the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.

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The Biosphere Ethics Initiative invited to Paris for program development and celebration with IUCN Director General

Global Program, The Biosphere Ethics Initiative

October 10th, 2009

The Paris Muséum nationale d’histoire naturelle and the IUCN Comité français have invited CHN Director of North American Global Responsibilities, Kathryn Kintzele, CHN Board Member George Rabb and the Biosphere Ethics Initiative to a meeting to finalize drafting of the Biosphere Ethic and begin development of the program’s Action Plan. Patrick Blandin, a Professor at the Muséum, is one of the four co-chairs of the Initiative, with Dr. Kintzele. They will be joined by IUCN Commission on Environmental Law Chair Sheila Abed and Deputy Chair Antonio Herman Benjamin (Justice, Supremo Tribunal Federal of Brazil); IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre; and key officials from the Muséum and the IUCN Comité français. The two other co-chairs, Razeena Omar of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism for the Republic of South Africa, and Karla Monteiro Matos of the Environment Ministry of Brazil, will also be in attendance. The meeting will be held in February 2010 to mark several events of the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity. The work will then be taken to the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in October 2010.

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Leopold Centennial Gathering at Yale University features CHN Colleagues

Ideas of Humans and Nature, Advancing the Land Ethic

April 3rd, 2009

On April 3 the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies held a special symposium and celebration to honor the centennial of the graduation of Aldo Leopold. Dean of the School and CHN Board Member Gus Speth welcomed some 150 attendees to the gathering, which was co-sponsored by the Aldo Leopold Foundation of Baraboo, Wisconsin. Presenters at the symposium included Curt Meine, Leopold biographer and CNH Director for Conservation Biology and History; Bruce Jennings, CHN Director of Bioethics; CHN advisor Wes Jackson; and CHN Senior Fellow Peter Brown. Also representing CHN were Board Member Vivian Donnelley and Acting President Brooke Hecht.

The day featured roundtable discussions on four themes: Leopold’s place in American environmental history; his legacy in natural resource management; his contributions to philosophy and ethics; and his meaning for contemporary students in the environmental sciences and conservation. Leopold’s daughter (and Yale alumna) Estella Leopold and great-granddaughter Clare Kazanski (currently working with Environmental Defense) offered personal recollections of life in the Leopold family. Attendees were also able to watch a special “sneak preview” of the film-in-progress Green Fire: The Life and Legacy of Aldo Leopold. The Yale School plans to make netcasts of the symposium discussions available soon. If you would like to be notified of their availability, please send an e-mail to leopold@yale.edu. For more information on the Yale-Leopold centennial events, visit the website http://environment.yale.edu/leopold.

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CHN Board Member joins Outdoor Hall of Fame

February 28th, 2009

Dr. George Rabb, a member of the CHN Board of Directors, will be inducted in to the latest class of the Illinois Outdoor Hall of Fame by the Illinois Conservation Foundation. The award honors “lifelong dedication to enhancing outdoor recreation and natural resources protection.” The ceremony will occur on the evening of February 28, 2009 at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, IL. Other inductees are William Guerrini of Spring Valley, the late Don Hankla of Anna, Dwight Hoffard of Johnston City.

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CHN Board Member to Receive 2008 NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award

December 8th, 2008

George Rabb, a member of the CHN Board of Directors will be honored for his work in conservation with Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Center for Science and the Environment (NSCE). The award will be given at the 9th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment of NSCE to be held at the Ronald Reagan Building and the International Trade Center in Washington, DC on December 8-10, 2008. Also being honored are Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and Edward O. Wilson, noted entomologist and conservationist and professor emeritus at Harvard University.

George Rabb, Ph.D., is the President Emeritus of the Chicago Zoological Society. He began his conservation career at the College of Charleston where he majored in Biology, and then earned his doctorate in zoology from the University of Michigan. In 1956 he joined Brookfield Zoo as a research zoologist. Dr. Rabb became the Director of Brookfield Zoo and President of the Chicago Zoological Society in 1976. He has been a leader in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, chairing its Species Survival Commission for nearly two decades. Most recently Dr. Rabb has been very active in organizing a response to the decrease in amphibian populations worldwide. Among many other awards, Dr. Rabb has received the Marlin Perkins Award from the America Zoos and Aquariums Association and the Society for Conservation Biology Service Award. (http://ncseonline.org/Conference/Biodiversity/cms.cfm?id=2277)

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CHN Board Member Gus Speth Discusses His New Book

December 1st, 2008

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability is the most recent book by Gus Speth, Dean of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Humans and Nature. He is an accomplished environmental leader, lawyer, author and the founder of many organizations.

Read a review of Speth’s book in our journal Minding Nature, Vol 1 No 1. Read more about the author, his work and the book at http://www.thebridgeattheedgeoftheworld.com/.

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CHN Board Member Named 2008 Hero of Conservation

August 25th, 2008

Field & Stream, the world’s leading outdoor magazine, announced its 2008 Heroes of Conservation on August 25, 2008. The awards recognize sportsmen “dedicated to the grassroots protection of fish, wildlife, and habitat.” Charles Lane, of Charleston, SC and a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Humans and Nature, was among the seven honorees.

In 1989, Lane helped found the ACE Basin Project. “It’s a unique partnership where we have hunting and other conservation groups usually associated with anti-hunting working to preserve this area for traditional land uses, which includes hunting,” says Lane. The ACE Basin Project has protected over 172,000 acres including 40,000 acres of public hunting land.

The Heroes of Conservation Awards are open to individuals involved in a hunting- and/or fishing-related conservation project that is well under way or completed. Selections are based on a number of factors, including leadership, commitment, project growth and results. The seven heroes will be celebrated at the third annual Heroes of Conservation Awards Gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on September 25, 2008. Read more from Field & Stream and watch videos of Lane and the other honorees.

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