Sentences with phrase «with environmental ethics»

But again putting its more egregious consequences to one side reveals the broader problem with environmental ethics.

First is the intellectual pragmatism advocated following the American Civil War by Oliver Wendell Holmes and William Dewey, later furthered by John Dewey and Jane Addams, and ultimately joining with environmental ethics in the tradition of Rachel Carson to form a new and distinctive «environmental pragmatism.»

f course, I know that a large part of the objection to the encyclical is its central concern with environmental ethics.

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First, in these views nature has only instrumental value and this conflicts with the strong moral intuitions that we now hold from environmental ethics.

Recognizing that the concerns of animal rightists pertain for the most part to animals subjected to human captivity, Birch and Cobb demonstrate that these concerns can be combined with those of the land ethicist into a single environmental ethic.

To make such a leap of logic is to commit the other glaring error often made by proponents of animal rights and environmental ethics: they fail to see that the rights endowed to animals are not identical with the rights of human beings.

She is the author of The Attentive Heart: Conversations with Trees (Ballantine, 1993) and is currently working on a book on Buddhist environmental ethics.

She is currently working on an anthology concerning approaches to environmental problems with a biologist and has published an article on Whitehead's metaphysical system as a foundation for environmental ethics in Environmentaenvironmental problems with a biologist and has published an article on Whitehead's metaphysical system as a foundation for environmental ethics in Environmentaenvironmental ethics in EnvironmentalEnvironmental Ethics 8/3.

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.

Research is clearly substantiating that an affinity to and love of nature, along with a positive environmental ethic, grow out of children's regular contact with and play in the natural world (Bunting 1985; Chawla 1988; Wilson 1993; Pyle 1993; Chipeniuk 1994; Sobel 1996, 2002 & 2004; Hart 1997; Moore & Wong 1997; Kals et al. 1999; Moore & Cosco 2000; Lianne 2001; Kellert 2002; Bixler et al. 2002; Kals & Ittner 2003; Phenice & Griffore 2003; Schultz et al. 2004).

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt faces potentially make - or - break hearings today on Capitol Hill, where he is expected to be peppered with questions about spending and ethics scandals that have triggered bipartisan calls for his ouster.

The company, with offices in HongKong and Dubai, specialises in financial engineering and projects geared towards socio - economic transformation, with a principled work ethic guided by environmental stewardship, cultural diversity and social responsibility.

«The debate in biodiversity conservation between economics and ethics, or between pragmatism and principle, is in many ways a misguided contest, one that assumes that there exists a deep philosophical division between environmental ethics and societal action,» she wrote with her ASU colleague Ben Minteer, an environmental ethicist.

With the rise in awareness around ethics and environmental impact, there are more and more events companies popping up that specialize in «conscious» catering.

She has also earned a Masters in Bioethics, Certificate in Women's Health and Certificate in Global Health from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Public Health along with a Certificate in Environmental and Occupational Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, pursuing work and research in health outreach and education, global health, ethics, telemedicine and corporate wellness.

Besides their environmental strengths, ONO also ensures social ethics by aligning with standards set by the FairWear Foundation and the International Labour Organization, to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for their employees.

Few students enter Common Ground with a strong environmental ethic or a thirst for interdisciplinary study — or a deep desire to do farm chores in the dead of winter.

For an environmental ethics unit, we explored the photographs of Robert Adams and the work of Mark Dion in conjunction with a selection of non-fiction essays from Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder, Henry David Thoreau, and others.

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 hear echoes of «Wilson's Law» above, and also some resonance with articles I've written focusing on how environmental and animal - welfare groups, while often working toward shared goals (an end to whaling, for instance) rarely use the same arguments, with one focused on population statistics and the other on ethics.

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.

IPBES is particularly looking for fellows with a scientific and / or practical background in: ecological and environmental economics, environmental and sustainability sciences, environmental ethics and philosophy, environmental sociology and anthropology, environmental psychology and behavioral science, environmental history, science and technology studies, political ecology, human geography, human ecology, cultural ecology, environmental policy and law, political sciences and trade, and from other fields related to integrative approaches to human - nature relations and linking knowledge to policy and practice.

Since some things that I am going to say may easily be twisted the wrong way by some, let me clarify something for the record: I'm writing this as a lifelong environmentalist and outdoorsman with a strong environmental ethic.

VBSR is a non-profit, statewide business trade organization with a mission to advance business ethics that value multiple bottom lines - economic, social, and environmental.

Yet here we see a man, with associations to commercial interests in the implementation of environmental policy (contrast with the speculation that surrounds sceptics who have worked with the oil industry), with a clear commitment to the environmental ethics espoused WWF, who is responsible for determining the UK's policy over the next 45 years.

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.

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).

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.

One respondent valued the firm's «top quality talent with a real attention to detail, client satisfaction focus, and strong business ethics, particularly in their environmental practice.»