Earth Ethics Index
Earth Ethics Index
Ethics and Spiritual Values and the Promotion of
Environmentally Sustainable Development.
Articles by James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, Ismail Serageldin,
Vice President for Environmentally Sustainable Development, Maurice F. Strong,
Secretary General of the 1992 United National Conference on Environment and
Development, and John A. Hoyt, President of CRLE. Excerpted from presentations
to the World Bank/CRLE cosponsored conference.
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| Winter 1996
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Ethics and Spiritual Values and the Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Development. Articles by James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, Ismail Serageldin, Vice President for Environmentally Sustainable Development, Maurice F. Strong, Secretary General of the 1992 United National Conference on Environment and Development, and John A. Hoyt, President of CRLE. Excerpted from presentations to the World Bank/CRLE cosponsored conference.Ethical Economics and Sustainable Development, by Denis Goulet. Raising four practical/ethical questions that must be answered by efforts to provide sustainable development Right Livelihoods: Chipko Movement, Conference Recommends World Bank Winter’s Fog, Rites of Ancient Ripening,
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| Fall 1995
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Awakening Academia , by Mary E. Clark. Likening current academic thinking to dwarves going into their own mines each day, U.S. academia is suffering from “a surfeit of specialized ‘knowledge’ and a dearth of wisdom and vision.” Wakening these academic “slumbering giants” to the connections among our ecological, social, scientific and economic disciplines is essential to facing current challenge.The Universe and the University, by Thomas Berry. CRLE cofounder Thomas Berry proposes that all academic disciplines need to reshape their language and world view to reflect the new vision of an interconnected and interdependent creation. Georgics Book II, 475-486 Principles of Sustainability in The Ecological Transformation of Ecological Design A Paradigm Shift in Academic A Way of Looking |
| Summer 1995
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The Challenge of a World Environmental Ethic, by J. Baird Callicott. Achieving one world view and a consistent univocal environmental ethic will require harmonization of the plurality of reviving and renewed bioregional perspective and ethics grounded in traditional wisdom.The Ethic of Sustainability, by Stanley R. Euston and William E. Gibson. Enlightened self-interest is not an adequate basis for sustaining ourselves and our planet into a new century. Fundamental Ethical Principles Revisioning Environmentalism, Gabriel and the Water Shortage, Learning to Meet the Environmental The Boy Who Lived with the Bears, |
| Spring
1995
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Money, Ecology, and Spirituality: Toward a Holistic Framework for Social Development, by Richard M. Clugston. A report on the World Summit for Social Development.Women’s Vision of a Just Social Order, by Janet Hunt. Excerpts from a paper prepared for the Asian Regional Consultation on Sustainable Livelihoods. Report from Cairo, The Rites of Passage. Theological Perspectives on Two Ways to Tiptoe, Principles of Sustainable Case Studies On Sustainable |
| Winter
1995
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Eco-phobia, by David Sobel. Prematurely asking children to deal with problems beyond their control, argues Sobel, cuts them off from their unique sources of strength. Sobel proposes primary education that cultivates children’s sense of connection to nature and their burgeoning imaginations.Education for Earth Literacy, by Mary Evelyn Tucker. The author outlines important requirements for achieving an environmental ethic in higher education, including ending the separation of religion and science and of the sciences and the humanities, and encouraging and athropocosmic outlook. Campus Blueprint for a Sustainable Greening Higher Education, In Search of Resonance, Some Nights, |
| Fall
1994
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The Ethics of Genetic Engineering. The comments of Thomas Berry, Michael Fox, Dieter Hessel, Stephanie Kaza, and Robert Welborn, selected from a CRLE-sponsored symposium that explored the ethical ramifications of genetic engineering.Sustainable Livelihoods: Redefining the Global Social Crisis, by David Korten. Korten proposes that solutions to the growing social crises need to be approached in terms of jobs: providing meaningful, productive activities that meet communities’ real needs in a socially and environmentally sustainable manner. Saving Graces: Sojourns of a Red-tailed Hawks, |
| Summer
1994
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Homeless in the Global Village, by Vandana Shiva. The author argues that traditional models of sustainable development measured by gross domestic products and per capita incomes inevitably uproot peoples from their ancestral lands and destroy the “economies” that sustained these lands. She argues for sustainable development that is instead based on enhancement of local cultures and on economies responsive to the ecology of local place. The Crisis of Development, by Bruce Rich. Excerpted from the author’s book Mortgaging the Earth, the author describes why conservation of ancient cultures is a “foundational act of freedom” for the present. [Or, how the most important elements of local knowledge are lost when attempts are made to generalize them to a global level.] A Pocketful of Stones, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Freda and the Ants, |
| Spring
1994
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The Reenchantment of Art, By Suzi Gablik. Discusses the central role of the arts in creating the images and inspiration for an earth community.“Seeing” Poems, by Robert Bly. With examples from poets such as Rilke, the true sight of art separates itself from the narcissism of popular culture. The Dead Seal Near McClure’s Beach, Nature Into Art Into Nature, The Arts and the Earth: From |
| Winter
1994
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Eco-psychology, by Theodore Roszak. Examines an emerging psychology that frees the human psyche as a particular mode of reflection of earth processes, interconnected psychically with all life, and that diagnoses and treats with the earth as context. Excerpted from the author’s book Voice of the Earth.Psychotherapy and Aesthetic Justice, by James Hillman. Examines the role of the Earth in maintaining psychological health. Environmental Influences, Walking, The Deep Ecology of Human A Dark Time, |
| Fall
1993
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Nature’s Laws and Human Ethics, by Rosemary Radford Ruether. A leading writer in the ecofeminist movement offers her version of basic ecological principles and their implications for the ordering of human society. Excerpted from Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing.Worldviews, Ethics, and Environment, by G. Tyler Miller, Jr. A discussion of three human-centered levels of environmental awareness, contrasted to a Sustainable Earth, life centered view, in which we recognize ourselves as just one particular strand in a web of life. Democratic Foundations for a World Your Nature, Ecological Wisdom, The Way of Silence, |
| Summer
1993
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The Constitution and the Land, by Donald Worster. An environmental historian comments on the Constitution’s lack of attention to the land out of which this nation’s wealth arose, and suggests an important constitutional revision.Land of the Free, Home of the Brave: Iroquois Democracy, by Oren Lyons. The author, speaker for the Onondaga nation, discusses the history and structure of the Grand Council of the Iroquois Indians, and calls for the recognition of the influence of the council on the form of government created by the U.S. Constitution. Deep Ecotourism, Transforming Tourism, Local Geographies, |
| Spring
1993
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Dancing with Nature: An Emerging Ethic for Sustainable Agriculture, by Fred Kirschenmann. The author, president of the Organic Food Producers Association of North America and Farm Verified Organic, describes the ethics and practice of sustainable agriculture on his family’s biodynamic wheat and cattle farm.The Owl’s Call, by Elizabeth Lawrence. Cultural and scientific roots of the “wise old owl” metaphor, and its relationship to the present-day battle to save the spotted owl. Some Questions You Might Ask, Of Land and Habitat, by Evelyn Developing a Workable Earth Ethic, Listening for the First Smelt Run, An Ethical Examination of the |
| Winter
1993
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The Ecology of Commerce, by Paul Hawken. The founder of Smith & Hawken catalog company explores the ethics and practices of ecologically-sensitive commerce and industry.Agenda 21 is Blueprint for the Planet, by Bill Clinton. A discussion of the correlation between environmental health and economic health. Implementing the Business Charter Developing Greed in a Contented The Shape of Night, Composting, |
| Fall
1992
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Population, Poverty, and Planet Earth, by Donella Meadows. The net primary productivity as a direct reflection of human overpopulation.Deep Ecology and the Population Factor, by Arne Naess. The concept of carrying capacity and the need to include the importance of diversity and quality of life. Population Growth and the Status of An End to Birth, CRLE Report: The Road from Rio, The Rio Declaration on Environment Anthropocentrism: The Original Sin, |
| Summer
1992
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Green Grace, by Jay McDaniel. Ecological spirituality as a binding force in the community is the key to a sustainable future.Developing Sustainable Communities, by Richard Clugston. Ideas about what it means to live sustainably. EcoCommunities: The Re-Inventing of On Ecoregional Boundaries, The Ecology of Magic, To the Insects, In a Chinese Landscape/The Whole |
| Spring
1992
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What is Education For? by David Orr. A discussion about the myths that drive modern education and a presentation of a set of principles that might replace them in order to develop a stronger earth ethic.Higher Education’s Ecological Mission, by Richard Clugston. A list of critical steps that can be taken to refocus the academic mission towards a commitment to the earth. Environmental Ethics and the Land The Rainbow Bridge, Earth Stewardship, |
| Winter
1992
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The Primordial Imperative, by Thomas Berry. An international consensus on ethical guidelines to address global environmental and social justice issues must be grounded in truly universal principles.Earth Ethics Report: A Turning Point, by Richard Clugston. An explanation of the elements of an earth ethic and sustainability in a time of great change. A Common Destiny. The Voice from the Whirlwind, What Happened During the Ice Storm, |
| Fall
1991
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Economism or Planetism, by John B. Cobb, Jr. Discussion of the inherent tension between contemporary economic theory and the welfare of the planet.The Joint Appeal in Religion and Science. A statement made by leaders of major American religious denominations in response to a request for the religious community to address the planetary environmental crisis. Putting Technology in its Natural When a South Dakota Night Shuddered The Earth Charter. |
| Summer
1991
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Re-Inhabiting the Earth: Genesis Farm, by Miriam Therese MacGillis. The connections between spirituality and global ecological issues.Operational Principles for Sustainable Development, by Herman E. Daly. Guidelines for the criteria of sustainable use of renewable and non-renewable resources. Early Buddhist Views on Nature, To Mourn Their Passing, Ancient Wisdom: Plato’s Living |
| Spring
1991
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Healing Community: Restoring Creation, by Nancy C. Alexander. Support for local communities as a central value in an agenda for a sustainable future, and North vs. South in the 1992 UNCED.How Much is `Enough’? by Alan Durning. Worldwatch Institute Senior Researcher calls for a simpler lifestyle, living by the criteria of sufficiency rather than that of “the hunger for more.” The Wilderness Within, The World Charter for Nature. Parliament of the World’s Religions, |
| Winter
1991
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A Pact with the Planet, by Stephen Jay Gould. The “golden rule” as a basis for an environmental ethic.An Experience of Biosphere, by Tony Hiss. Using our imagination to understand our place in the universe. The Real Work, A Jewish Earth Ethic, Redefining “Progress,” Ethics in Action, |
| Fall
1990
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Sustainable Development for the Earth Community, Discussion of the meaning and implications of sustainability.Forum: Sustainable Development - A Sound Ethical Guideline? Eight organizational leaders, writers and thinkers voice their opinions. The Ecological Imperative, Cosmic Homelessness: Some |
| Summer
1990
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The Social Responsibility of Land Ownership, by Leonard Weber. Individual vs. community in land management decisions.The Sun is Among Us, by Martha Heyneman. Creative essay. A New Set Of Values, Consciousness is the Hope of the |
| Spring
1990
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The End of Nature, by Bill McKibben. Human dominance over nature and our adaptations to the world we are changing.Toward a Sustainable World, by William D. Ruckelshaus. Changes needed in values, policies, and institutions. Peace with God…With All Creation, The Dance of Herons, |
| Winter
1990
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The Shadow Our Future Throws, an interview with Ivan Illich by the editors of New Perspectives Quarterly about sustainable development and industrial growth.Changing Our Minds, by Paul Erlich. The need for evolution in human’s awareness of and relationship to the environment. The Road and the Wheel, George Bush on Environmental Ethics. |
| Fall
1989
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Thinking About Values, by Neil Sampson, Barbara Dean, Bryan Norton, and Mollie Beattie. Four editorial advisors speak out on the reasons why discussion about the values that affect our environment is so important.Planetary Progress, by Thomas Berry. Progress with minimal regard for well-being of the life systems of the planet and the role that religious traditions play. Economics, Environment, and Protecting the Global Commons, Thinking Like a Mountain,>, |
