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Join Us on August 17 for the Indiana Premiere of ‘Green Fire’ and the Launch of the ‘Ethic of the Indiana Dunes Region’

Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time, Relatos: Giving Voice to Local Ethics around the World

June 5th, 2011

Join the Center for Humans and Nature and the Lake Michigan Coastal Program of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources on August 17th, at the Dorothy Buell Memorial Visitor Center in Porter, Indiana for the free Indiana public premiere of Green Fire: Aldo Leopold And A Land Ethic For Our Time. Curt Meine, the Center for Humans and Nature Director of Conservation Biology and History, and the film’s on-screen guide, will be part of a panel discussion following the film.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Lake Michigan Coastal Program
Center for Humans and Nature

The event  also highlights the launch of the Ethic of the Indiana Dunes Region, with commentary by Thomas Anderson, Cassandra Cannon, Kathryn Kintzele (Center for Humans and Nature Director of Global Responsibilities), Nicole Messacar, Charlotte Read and Laurel Ross.The event is hosted by Indiana Dunes Tourism. To get more details click here to view the invitation.

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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 heads to the World Social Forum in Brazil

Global Program, The Biosphere Ethics Initiative

January 27th, 2009

CHN colleague Kathryn Kintzele will be representing CHN at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Belém, Brasil January 27-February 1st, 2009. “The World Social Forum is an opened space – plural, diverse, non-governmental and non-partisan – that stimulates the decentralized debate, reflection, proposals building, experiences exchange and alliances among movements and organizations engaged in concrete actions towards a more solidary, democratic and fair world; [it is] a permanent space and process to build alternatives to neoliberalism.” http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/.

While in Belém, she will be chairing the CHN-sponsored workshop, “Keeping Nature Alive: the Biosphere Ethics Project (BEP) and Brazil’s Local Agendas 21.” This workshop aims to advance the work of CHN and the Ethics Specialist Group of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law on the creation of a code of ethics for biodiversity conservation. Karla Monteiro Matos, Director of Citizenship, Social and Environmental Responsibility of the Department of the Brazilian Ministry of Environment, will be providing her expertise on the implementation of the international Agenda 21 Programme in Brazil. BEP Co-Chair Patrick Blandin, Professor at the Paris Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, will also be joining the project’s involvement at the WSF.

Kathryn has also been asked to present the work of the Biosphere Ethics Project at the Local Agenda 21 Day events of the WSF. They have also been asked to represent the project at Earth Charter events. In addition, Kathryn and Patrick will join Karla for a site visit to a Local Agenda 21 Amazonian community, just south of the state of Para. Here, they will be able to gain invaluable insight into the implementation of this international document at the most local of levels. This will be the third formal case study for the ethics project, following Chicago Wilderness and South African National Parks.

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Book Announcement – Governance for Sustainability: Issues, Challenges and Successes

January 1st, 2009

Co-authored by CHN Senior Fellow Ron Engel, Governance for Sustainability – Issues, Challenges and Successes is the latest addition to the IUCN Environment Policy and Law Series. This book makes an important contribution to the on-going discussions on environmental governance, in particular by providing a thoughtful consideration of concepts that are critical to our understanding of how citizens in diverse societies are creatively using the law to advance the protection and restoration for ecological integrity and social justice. A range of case studies are presented, which share experiences of people and communities as they address environmental issues and demonstrate a number of different governance models. It invites all of us engaged in environmental issues to begin a renewed dialogue on the issue of governance for sustainability in order to seek real solutions on the ground (see http://www.iucn.org). CHN colleague Kathryn Kintzele contributed the Recommended Readings for the book.

Klaus Bosselmann, Ron Engel and Prue Taylor. Governance for Sustainability–Issues, Challenges and Successes. Bonn, Germany: IUCN–The World Conservation Union, Environmental Law and Policy Series Volume 70, 2008. 250 pages. Available at http://www.earthprint.com/productfocus.php?id=IUCN2281.

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