First Earth Day: April 22, 1970, NBC News
A look at different demonstrations and celebrations of the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970 from around the country. The clip ends with a quote from Jay Murray Mitchell of the American Geophysical Union who warned (in 1970) of increasing levels of pollution which could lead to a greenhouse effect within the next 200 years and extensive global flooding caused by the melting of the Arctic Ice cap. Continue reading
We are pleased to announce that videos from the November 2013 symposium “Thinking Extinction: The Science and Philosophy of Endangered Species and Extinction” are now available for viewing.
I came out of the University of North Texas. One of the many great many things about the Environmental Philosophy program at UNT is its practice of interdisciplinarity in the field. A particularly illustrative example is their Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program headed up by Ricardo Rozzi. The program is a long-term biocultural research, education and conservation initiative coordinated by the University of North Texas in the United States, the University of Magallanes and the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity in Chile. It is based at the southernmost end of the Americas, in the sub-Antarctic Magellanic ecoregion at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in Puerto Williams, the capital of the Antarctic province of Chile. Since 1999, the SBC program addresses global environmental change challenges to link the conservation of biological and cultural diversity with socio-ecological well-being by working at multiple, nested scales: (i) locally, it manages the transdisciplinary, sub-Antarctic research center of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve; (ii) nationally, it co-founded the Chilean network of Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research sites; (iii) internationally, the SBC program develops collaborative courses, publication series, and research that integrate ecological sciences and environmental philosophy into biocultural conservation.
Enjoy this video about the program and trips to the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in Chile.
The University of Tennessee hosted the Animals, Ethics, & Law Symposium on March 2-3, 2012. Most of the talks, commentaries, and Q&A were recorded and are available online for viewing here. Nick Robinson’s keynote address and Clare Palmer’s talk should be of particular interest to environmental ethicists. Also, photographs of the event are available on the symposium website.
Speakers:
Nick Robinson (keynote) – “The Legal Principle of Resilience: A Guiding Norm for Life in Our Anthropocene Epoch”, Pace Law and Forestry; Yale, Environmental Studies
Colin Allen – “Ethics, Law, and the Science of Fish Welfare”, Indiana, Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Commentators: Dean Rivkin, Tennessee, College of Law, and Gary McCracken, Tennessee, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Taimie Bryant – “Animal Law and Virtue Ethics”, UCLA Law. Commentators: Iris Goodwin, Tennessee, College of Law, Joan Heminway, Tennessee, College of Law
David DeGrazia – “The Question of Animal Suffering”, George Washington University, Philosophy. Commentators: Ralph Harvey, Tennessee, College of Veterinary Medicine, and John Nolt, Tennessee, Philosophy
David Favre – “Respectful Use: An Ethical Construct for Lawful Interactions with Animals”, Michigan State, Law. Commentators: Jon Garthoff, Tennessee, Philosophy, and Hal Herzog, Western Carolina, Psychology
Rebecca Huss – “The Intersection of Legal Issues Involving Animals and Gerontology”, Valparaiso, Law. Commentators: Marian Roman, Tennessee, College of Nursing, and Elizabeth Strand, Tennessee, College of Veterinary Medicine
Clare Palmer – “What (If Anything) Do We Owe Wild Animals?”, Texas A&M, Philosophy. Commentators: Gordon Burghardt, Tennessee, Psychology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Joel MacClellan, Tennessee, Philosophy
UNESCO Climate Change and Ethics Conference, Monaco
Interview by Douglas F. Williamson
An interview with Donald Brown at the UNESCO Climate Change and Ethics Conference in Monaco in December 2010. Professor Brown discusses the importance of framing the climate change debate in an ethical discourse and talks about the importance of the Earth Charter as a tool for introducing ethical perspectives.
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