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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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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 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 Receives Honorary Degree

August 9th, 2008

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, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at the commencement ceremonies of the University of South Carolina on August 9, 2008.

Speth, a native of Orangeburg, SC, attended South Carolina’s public schools, earned a bachelor’s and a law degree from Yale and a master’s degree in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He is an accomplished environmental leader, lawyer, author and the founder of many organizations. His most recent book, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, was published earlier this year. Read more about Dean Speth.

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