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The Center for Humans & Nature's website has been honored by the 2013 Communicator Awards with an award of excellence in the Social Responsibility Website category. The Center's website was designed by Orbit Media Studios, a Chicago based Web Design Company. Read More »

Gerald Adelmann, chairman of the Center for Humans and Nature's Board and President & CEO of Openlands has been awarded the Garden Club of America's Frances K. Hutchinson Medal. This medal recognizes figures of national importance for distinguished service to conservation. Read More »

Tune into PBS Chicago, WYCC Channel 20 this weekend to watch Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. The EMMY® Award-Winning film will air on Sunday, April 21 at 4pm & Monday, April 22 at 9pm. Read More »

Curt Meine, Senior Fellow with the Center for Humans & Nature and renowned Leopold scholar, has edited and annotated a volume of Aldo Leopold’s writings for the Library of America series: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology. Read More »

Curt Meine, Senior Fellow with the Center for Humans & Nature, discussed Aldo Leopold's legacy this past weekend on NPR's All Things Considered along with Stan Temple of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Read More »

Gavin Van Horn, Director of Cultures of conservation for the Center, will present at the Wild Things Conference on February 2, 2013 at the UIC Campus. Van Horn will speak about his work heading up City Creatures, a project that seeks to place the dialogue about urban conservation front-and-center and contribute to moving the environmentalist paradigm toward care for the everyday places where people live and work. Read More »

Center for Humans & Nature Program Associate, Anja Claus, has received her Master's degree in Geography and Environmental Studies from Northeastern Illinois University. Her thesis is titled, Chicago Wilderness: A Case Study in an Ethics of Place and explores how urban experiences can provide opportunities for developing deeper ethical interrelationships between human and non-human others. Read More »

As a member of the TEDMED Challenge Team on End-Of-Life Care, Center Director of Bioethics Bruce Jennings has contributed a response to the question: What are the top 10 contributing factors or dimensions of end-of-life care that make it a difficult medical and social problem? This is part of a conversation sponsored by TEDMED on 20 Top Health Challenges of 2012. Read More »

Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time has been honored with an Emmy award at the 54th annual Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. It won for best historical documentary. Read More »

Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time received the John Muir Award for Documentary Film at the 2012 Yosemite International Film Festival. Read More »