Nature & The Environment: The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series
September 20, 2007
Geoffrey Heal, Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia University,"Corporate Environmentalism: Doing Well by Doing Good?"
October 4, 2007
Michael J. Bean, Attorney, Chair of the Wildlife Program, Environmental Defense Fund
"Endangered Species Conservation: An Assessment and Prognosis"
November 15, 2007
Ariel Lugo, Director, International Institute of Tropical Forestry,"Emerging new forests in the shining star of the Caribbean"
February 7, 2008
Ivette Perfecto, Professor of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, "Brewing biodiversity: the ecology of coffee farms in Chiapas, Mexico"
March 20, 2008
Roger Gottlieb, Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,"Hope in a Dark Time: The Promises of Religious Environmentalism"
April 10, 2008
Joseph Bruchac, Storyteller and Writer,"This Earth, Our Mother"
Carl Jones, International Research Fellow, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust; Scientific Director Mauritian Wildlife, "The Dodo's Legacy: Conservation on Mauritius."
William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University; Member of the National Academy of Science,"Carbon Taxes to Slow Global Warming."
April 12, 2007
David Allen Sibley, Author and Illustrator, The Sibley Guide to Birds, "Birds and Bird Guides."
Sharon Matola, Founding Director, Belieze Zoo and Tropical Education Center, "High Voltage Conservation Action in Tropical America"
Robert A. Berner, Alan M. Bateman Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, "Trees and Late Paleozoci 02 X XX CO2 Climate Evolution"
November 3, 2005
James Gustave Speth, Dean, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University; 2002 Blue Planet Prize Awardee, "This Sacred Trust: The American Land and the Climate Emergency"
September 22, 2004
Rosina Bierbaum, Dean School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, former Clinton White House Director of the Office of Science, Technology and Policy. "The Role of Science in National Policy Making: Lessons from Working in Congress and The White House"
Tom Lovejoy, Director of The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, "Teaming With Life: The Future of Life at the Dawn of the Sixth Great Extinction”
William Hooke, Director, Atmospheric Policy Program, American Meteorological Society, “Living Sustainably on a Planet of Extremes"
Char Miller, Trinity University, Texas, “Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism”
Diana Wall, Professor and Director, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, "Below-ground Biodiversity of Hot and Cold Deserts"
Gordon Orians, Professor Emeritus of Zoology, University of Washington, "Environmental Esthetics: Beauty and the Evolutionary Mind of the Beholder"
Kaiulani Lee, Playwright and Actor; OBIE Award winner for outstanding achievement off-Broadway, "A Sense of Wonder: A One Act Play Based on the Life and Works of Rachel Carson"
P. Dee Boersma, Professor, Zoology, University of Washington, "Penguins, People, Pollution, and Politics: When Science is not Enough"
Jason Shogren, Stroock Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and Management, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming, "Economic Incentives for Spatial Habitat Design to Protect Endangered Species"
William Denevan, "Prehistoric human impacts on the environment of Amazonia, with emphasis on anthropogenic dark earths"
Scott Barrett, "Environment and statecraft: the strategy of environmental treaty-making"
Bill McKibben, Award-winning Author of The End of Nature; Middlebury College, "Crossing Thresholds: The Environment as Moral Challenge"
Cort Willmott, Professor, Geography, University of Delaware, "Estimating Climate and Climatic Change from Lousy Weather-Station Networks"
Peter deMenocal, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Columbia Earth Institute, Columbia University, "African Climate Change and Human Evolution"
Nancy N. Rabalais, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, "Linked Watershed/Ocean/Human Ecosystem: Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico Water Quality"
Stephen Kellert, "The value of nature and human physical and mental well being"
Mark Sagoff, "The plaza or the pendulum: Two concepts of the ecosystem"
William Cronon, "Humanist environmentalism"
Gretchen Daily, "Forecasting the future of biodiversity in a human-dominated world"
Dan Janzen, "Tropical conservation through biodiversity development: The only hope"
Sandra Postel, "Dividing the waters: the challenge of sustaining people and ecosystems in a new era of scarcity"
David Carroll, Author, Illustrator, and Environmental Consultant, Swampwalker's Journal: Reflections on 50 Years of Turtles and Wetlands
John Terborgh, Co-Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University, “Making Parks Work”
Jeffrey Vincent, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University, “Tropical Forests: For Whom and For What?”
J. Baird Callicott, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of Texas, President, International Society for Environmental Ethics, “The Concept of the Intrinsic Value: Theoretical and Pragmatic Considerations”
David R. Foster,"Thoreau's country: Historical insights to ecology and conservation"
Mike Bender, "Global climate change during the last 400,000 years"
Pam Matson, "Fertilizer and global change in the nitrogen cycle, too much of a good thing?"
Dennis Meadows, "Sustainable development is not a destination (it's the way you make the trip)"
Ann F. Guian, " Edwin Way Teale - An American Naturalist"
Thomas A. Potter, “On the trail to Trailwood: In pursuit of Edwin Way Teale"
Tom Tietenberg, "Regulation by revelation: Disclosure strategies for controlling pollution"
Pete Matthiessen, "Nature and the everglades - in the fiction AND nonfiction of Peter Matthiessen"
Gary Snyder, "Gratitude to trees: Buddhist resource management in Asia and California"
David Wilcove, "Science, politics and the Endangered Species Act"
Gene Likens, "The science of nature: The nature of science"
Maureen Cropper, "Regulating environmental health risks"
Bryan Norton, "Sustainability and obligations to future generations"
Fred Krupp, "Environmentalism in the 21st Century: New ways to get results"
Robert Costanza, "Economics and Ecology: The value of ecosystem services"
Evan J. Ringquist, "Pollution and prejudice: Who bears the burden of environmental risk?”
Kerry Smith, "Pricing what is priceless: Ecologists vs. economists"
Eduardo Fuentes, "Financial challenges to the implementation of the convention on biological diversity in developing countries"
Lawrence Buell, "The environmental imagination"
Paul Ehrlich, "Beyond science and reason"
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