Sentences with phrase «environmental ethics at»

Dr. Kevin J. O'Brien teaches courses in Christian ethics, comparative ethics, and environmental ethics at Pacific Lutheran University.

«It was literally a fender bender of the plane variety,» said Christians Peppard, a professor of environmental ethics at Fordham University.

Not exact matches

The John Molson School of Business at Concordia University placed third, allowing students to specialize in numerous categories: corporate governance and business ethics; business sustainability and environmental management; or community development.

Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt is announcing the departure of two top aides amid ethics investigations at the agency.

Apr. 8, 2013 — At some point, scientists may be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early humans, raising questions of ethics and environmental disruption.

Recently many environmental philosophers in the West have come to agree.6 One of the most influential among them is J. Baird Callicott, professor of philosophy and natural resources at the University of Wisconsin, author of numerous influential works on environmental ethics and foremost interpreter of the pioneer of Western environmental philosophy, Aldo Leopold.

For one, there are excellent works at the interface of environmental ethics and public policy, such as K. S. Schrader - Frechette's Nuclear Power and Public Policy (Boston: D. Reidel, 1980), and her Environmental Ethics (Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood environmental ethics and public policy, such as K. S. Schrader - Frechette's Nuclear Power and Public Policy (Boston: D. Reidel, 1980), and her Environmental Ethics (Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Environmental Ethics (Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Press, 1981).

Thus to the extent that an environmental ethic would have to grow out of at least some appreciation and reverence for the mystery of nature, modern ideals of clear and exhaustive explanation can easily prove deleterious if they overrun their legitimate epistemological margins.

She has provided several presentations on ethics to the National Institute of Environmental Health at the National Institute for Health.

Scott Pruitt, the top official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is fighting for his job amid ethics questions.

Of course, the environmental ethics win (and so they should), but you at least have a sense of the impact on the dinner tables of the displaced workers.You might also what to help your children note that breaking the law isn't reserved for just the whalers.

If ethics and social responsibility are important to you, take a look at companies» environmental and human rights policies.

I spent the tail end of last week at the annual conference of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, a young network of scholars and students aiming to foster collaborations among disciplines — from ecology to ethics — in studying, and improving, the human relationship to the environment.

As a philosophy professor teaching a course in environmental ethics, I want to do justice to the issue of global warming — at least, as best I can given my layperson status when it comes to climatology.

Early this week, I heard through some e-mail traffic that 10 climate, behavioral and environmental scientists and scholars were meeting with the Dalai Lama to discuss «ecology, ethics and interdependence» — a mix at the core of this blog.

I actually got started in the broader field of sustainability ethics and worked at the United Nations under the Clinton administration as the program manager for United Nations organizations at the Environmental Protection Agency Office of International Policy on all the Rio Earth Summit issues, namely Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Convention, the UNFCCC, the Forests agreements, and Toxic Substances.

At Penn State I teach, among other global ethical environmental problems, the science, economics, politics, ethics and solutions to climate change.

I recently conducted a short Q&A with one of the blog's founders, Donald A. Brown, an associate professor of environmental ethics, science, and law at Pennsylvania State University.

He has testified as an expert witness on the theology, ethics, science, and economics of climate change policy before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce; briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy; delivered a paper at a conference at the Vatican sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and spoken at the 2008, 2009, and 2010 International Conferences on Climate Change and at colleges, churches, and other venues.

Presented at two national religious ethics conferences regarding environmental justice work with the Lummi Nation against coal export; spoke at two denominational conferences

Every time we choose a more sustainable option over one with environmental, social, or health concerns (or all three, in some cases), we are essentially voting in favor of it, and every time we choose to boycott a product or company that is at odds with our ethics and principles, we remove our financial support from that company's bottom line.

(Or all three at once...) But as environmental ethics continue to become a more integrated part of our social worldview, it is worth noting the inevitable backlashes that will occur.

We really wanted to emphasize the complicated interconnections among politics, health, social justice, ethics, and environmental impact in food systems, while still looking at how we contribute to and what we can do to change these systems.

Currently, the parks offer visitors wilderness experiences to inspire them with a deeper environmental ethic (you can read more at the Foundation for Deep Ecology http://www.deepecology.org).

So it's not that there was no environmental ethic there at all, but I think we've helped bring more attention to and influence other building projects.

There is, as Yuval Levin noted in his remarks on the encyclical, something paradoxical about the union of the left, which tends to see itself as the party of science, and the environmental movement, since the latter's holistic view of nature is at odds with modern science's ethic of human power over nature.

He has authored numerous articles in state and national legal publications in areas ranging from substantive tort and evidentiary law to trial tactics, and is a frequent lecturer on a variety of legal issues, ranging from environmental coverage issues, pre-trial investigation and discovery, effective presentation of evidence at trial, medical records, trial tactics and ethics.