Re: [gep-ed] Different types of reasons for saving the environment?

2018-01-03 Thread syma ebbin
BEth AN interesting article linking SJ and the environment to Rev. Martin Luther King...  Opinion | Dr. King’s Interconnected World | | | | || | | | || Opinion | Dr. King’s Interconnected World By Drew Dellinger In his last Christmas sermon, Martin Luther King

[gep-ed] Call for participation -- STS Underground Workshop

2018-01-03 Thread Roopali Phadke
*Apologies for cross postings. Deadline extended to February 1.* Call for Participation 4s 2018 Pre-Conference Workshop *Making Sense of the Underground* *University of Wollongong**, Australia* *August 27-28, 2018* *DUE DATE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 1, 2018* What does the field of Science

Re: [gep-ed] Different types of reasons for saving the environment?

2018-01-03 Thread Kevin Olsen
I have been using the Catskill watersheds for my classes as well. kevin On 1/3/2018 12:10 PM, Peter M Haas wrote: For exploring the economic value of ecosystem services, I've used the case study of analyzing the protection of the NYC public water supply watershed in the Catskills. There are

RE: [gep-ed] Different types of reasons for saving the environment?

2018-01-03 Thread Peter M Haas
Deirdre McCloskey offers the classical economic argument that the problem is inadequate economic growth. He alludes to the liberal argument that democracy/representation plus economic resources solves everything, but comes down on the economic side. He has a 3 volume (with more to come) set

Re: [gep-ed] Different types of reasons for saving the environment?

2018-01-03 Thread syma ebbin
Hi Beth,very cool! In the past I've used excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac to start a discussion on the intrinsic value of nature. But I'd be interested in other perhaps more updated references that highlight this. For exploring the economic value of ecosystem services, I've used

[gep-ed] Amazon Hq2 and climate change

2018-01-03 Thread aseem
Hello everybody: Happy new year. I hope 2018 brings better news on environmental policy and climate change issues than 2017. Here is a follow-up (short) piece on Amazon HQ2 and climate change: "Information-Based Regulation and the Search for Amazon’s Second Headquarters."