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Peter Brown, CHN Senior Fellow, Co-edits New Book on Water Ethics

March 22nd, 2010

Peter Brown, CHN Senior Fellow, has co-edited a new book published by Island Press, Water Ethics: Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals, with colleague Jeremy Schmidt. To read the press release from Island Press, click here.

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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 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 Senior Fellow gives presentation at the Commonwealth Club of California

July 20th, 2009

The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, the nation’s oldest and largest public affairs forum, recently hosted CHN Senior Fellow, Peter Brown, to give a talk entitled, “Building a Whole Earth Economy.” Watch the video of Peter’s presentation and the Q&A session below or at Fora TV.

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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 Senior Fellow’s New Book Discussed on NPR’s Worldview program

March 11th, 2009

CHN Senior Fellow Peter Brown, Professor of Environment at McGill University’s School of Environment, and former CHN Chicago Director, Paul Heltne, were interviewed on NPR Worldview to discuss concepts of Peter Brown and Geoffrey Garver’s book Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy and “on a global governance system that would make climate change and saving the environment the top priority.” Listen to the interview on WBEZ above and read about the program here: http://www.wbez.org/content.aspx?audioID=32720. Peter Brown and Geoffrey Garver’s book is available on Amazon, many bookstores, and from Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

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CHN Senior Fellow Authors Op-Ed on Huffington Post

February 19th, 2009

“It Is Time to Order a New Economic Order,” an op-ed from Peter Brown, CHN Senior Fellow, and Geoffrey Garver was developed to respond to the current flurry of activity in Washington aimed at getting business-as-usual underway again. Brown and Garver’s new book Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy (launched this month) expands in marvelous ways on the themes in the op-ed. The book is already available on Amazon, many bookstores, and from Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Read the op-ed on the Huffington Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-brown-and-geoff-garver/it-is-time-to-order-a-new_b_165358.html

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CHN’s Senior Fellow Peter Brown discusses “Building a Whole Earth Economy”

February 10th, 2009

CHN Senior Fellow Peter Brown’s new book, Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy, co-authored with Geoffrey Garver, is now available on Amazon, in many bookstores, and from Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Learn more about the book, the Moral Economy Project and the authors here: http://www.moraleconomy.org/.

“It Is Time to Order a New Economic Order,” an op-ed by Brown and Garver featured recently on the Huffington Post, was developed to respond to the current flurry of activity in Washington aimed at getting business-as-usual underway again. Right Relationship expands in marvelous ways on the themes in the op-ed. Read the op-ed on the Huffington Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-brown-and-geoff-garver/it-is-time-to-order-a-new_b_165358.html

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New Book Published by CHN Senior Fellow

February 5th, 2009

Peter Brown’s new book, Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy, co-authored with Geoffrey Garver, is now available (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2009).

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