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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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Curt Meine Publishes Story Honoring Leopold and the Arboretum at the University of Wisconsin

June 10th, 2009

Arboretum burn2Aldo Leopold (second from left) and students conduct early prescribed burns at the UW Arboretum in Madison, WI

This year the University of Wisconsin Arboretum in Madison celebrates its 75th anniversary. Since 1934 the Arboretum has played a central role in developing the science and practice of ecological restoration. In the midst of the Depression and Dust Bowl years, university scientists, students, and Civilian Conservation Corps workers worked to establish at the Arboretum the world’s first restored prairies, setting a precedent for ecosystem restoration efforts around the world. Aldo Leopold, the first research director, noted in his dedication address the goal was to provide “a reconstructed sample of old Wisconsin, to serve as a bench mark, a starting point, in the long and laborious job of building a permanent and mutually beneficial relationship between civilized men and a civilized landscape.”

CHN’s Director for Conservation Biology and History Curt Meine tells the story of the Arboretum in a new article published in the Isthmus, Madison’s widely read alternative weekly. Meine, an alum of the UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, was a guest speaker this spring in a special graduate seminar that reviewed the past, present, and future of restoration ecology and the Arboretum. Meaine’s article, “Back to Nature” can be read at www.isthmus.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26006.


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New Scholarly Contributions by Curt Meine

April 1st, 2009

CHN Director for Conservation Biology and History Curt Meine has published several new contributed book chapters and articles. His entries on conservation, the Society for Conservation Biology, and the U.S. Forest Service appear in the newly published Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, edited by J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman (Farmington Hills, Mich: Gage Cengage Learning, 2009). Meine has also provided the opening chapter, “Conservation Biology: Past and Present,” for the forthcoming volume Conservation Biology, edited by Navjot S. Sodhi and Paul R. Ehrlich (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press).

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CHN Contributes to New Book on Recovery of Gray Wolves

Regional Cultures of Conservation,

March 20th, 2009

Curt Meine, CHN Director of Conservation Biology and History, has contributed the opening chapter, “Early Wolf Research and Conservation in the Great Lakes Region,” to The Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States: And Endangered Species Success Story, edited by Adrian P. Wydeven, Tim R. Van Deelen, and Ed Heske (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2009).

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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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New Article by Bruce Jennings on Citizenship and Public Health

February 2nd, 2009

CHN Director of Bioethics, Bruce Jennings has co-authored an article with Andrea Bonnicksen (of Northern Illinois University) on “State Newborn Screening Advisory Committees: How Programs Introduce Public Participation into Decision-Making,” in Mary Ann Baily and Thomas Murray, eds. Ethics and Newborn Genetic Screening: New Technologies, New Forces, New Challenges, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, pp. 136-159.

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New Essay by Curt Meine

February 1st, 2009

CHN Director of Conservation Biology and History, Curt Meine, has contributed the opening chapter, entitled “This Place in Time,” to the newly published volume Conservation for a New Century: Redefining Natural Resource Management, edited by Richard Knight and Courtney White (Island Press, 2009).

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