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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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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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CHN Launches New Project on Ecological Political Economy

Ideas of Humans and Nature, Humans, Nature, and Democracy: Ecological Political Economy

February 12th, 2010

If nature were understood as a living system with natural limits instead of raw material, how would economic and governance institutions and practices be organized? What would a right relationship between human activities and natural systems be? These are the basic questions posed by a new research project on Ecological Political Economy recently begun by the Center. This project is being done in collaboration with scholars from Yale University and the New School and is co-directed by Bruce Jennings and Peter Brown, CHN Senior Fellow and professor at McGill University. The first meeting of the project research group was held on December 9, 2009 at Yale. Presentations addressed basic shifts in scientific/ontological paradigms, modes of ethical reasoning, and approaches to democratic governance. A project hypothesis is that these shifts of worldview and ethics will be required for building a new political economy based on ecological perspectives. For more information about the project, click here.

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CHN Colleague Works for Sustainability in His Own Community

September 2nd, 2009

As an elected official in the village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, Bruce Jennings, CHN Director of Bioethics, is spearheading the greening of the community. Recently, BP corporation, which owns and is remediating a large brownfield site in Hastings, donated a solar vehicle for community use. The presentation on September 2, 2009 was covered on the local TV station and included a short comment by Jennings. You can view the brief broadcast segment below or here.

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