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Keith Douglass Warner OFM's
Research and Education Website

Biodiversity Conservation Ethics

Faith, Ethics & the Biodiversity Crisis syllabus winter 2007

Roopi Atwal: Sikhism & the Environment (3+ mg file)

Emily Eng: Farmed Salmon

Cathy Harkness & Sarah Tarpley: Ethical Seafood Choices

Emily Eng: Ethical Recipes for Fish: Framework for Dinner and a Sustainable Future. This is a cookbook with information on biodiversity and human health. Warning: it is a huge (32 mb) file

Islam and the Environment
Aroba Hafeez

 

The March/April 2006 issue of Mother Joneson the ocean crises

 

The full IUCN Red Book, including appendixes

Environmental Ethics Short Course: What are Environmental Ethics: lesson #2 and lesson #3

Opinion-editorial assignment: first draft due March 1. Your assignment is to write an op-ed style article or letter to Governor Schwarzenegger OR members of his administration OR some kind of audience interested in the Greening of Religion. The op-ed is a very important style of persuasive writing. See my example on dam removal for fish protection in the LA Times. You must include references to the greening of religion, to religioius environmental values, OR why this is significant. Here's an example of how an Evangelical did this in a public paper in West Virginia (Bob Marshall is a colleague of Keith's). You do not need to advocate a personal view on religion, but you must incorporate the Greening of Religion into your arguments. I ask you to consider thanking the Governor for his past support of ocean protection and the Marine Life Protection Act (or here), OR to encourage him, the California Resource agencies (including the California Ocean Protection Council) and the California to do more, OR the public to support more initiatives! You might find this helpful: Communicating Oceans to the Public. Rewrite due March 8

Three part ethics assignment to complete the quarter, the Environmental Ethics Decision Making Guide in pdf , the EE Decision Making Guide in Word, and the wikipedia entry on the precautionary principle. The EE Decision Making Guide for oral presentations. Background on the use of the precautionary principle in environmental ethics and regulation. Background on virtue ethics and scientific integrity.

Personal survey: Religious dimenision of environmental problems in pdf, or Word

Personal survey + Congregational practices survey in pdf, or Word

The Living Ocean Initiative! A major thrust of the Central Coast Environmental Vocation Internship 2006-7. Santa Cruz Sentinel news article about the Living Ocean Initiative (February 21, 2007). Monterey Herald's article. Monterey Weekly article and editorial about the same. Here's a compliation of all the print media coverage. Rev. Deborah Street's Prayer for our Coast & Oceans

 

Congregational practices survey in pdf or Word

 

 

The EE Decision Making Guide in Word, which you will need again for part 2 of the final. Before I grade your final, you will need to complete the Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG), including the following information:

Course ID: 1241
Course Password: biodiversity
Student ID: Selected by student

link to SALG course ID: 714715968 password: bd

The ethics of scientific integrity and communication paper assignment due March 15.

Final, with another ethics and integrity of science question and a greening of religion & ethics question due by email March 19

Readings & assignments for the balance of winter quarter

Grizzly Man Questions

The Living Ocean Initiative Poster assignment

PHOTOGRAPHS of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

The IUCN photo library

How Keith will grade the poster

First assignment: connecting DOE to California's Central Coast


As we delve into the twenty-first century the profound changes humankind has begot in the context of the natural world become ever so apparent. As the Biodiversity crisis plays out, whole populations are quickly beginning to dwindle eventually to be completely wiped out. The dramatic nature of this crisis necessitates urgent action on the part of all people. Muslims represent one-fifth of the world population. Islamic scripture repeatedly highlights the environment. However, very seldom is the connection between Islam and the environment distinctively established. This presentation introduces basic fundamental perspectives and ethical principals of Islamic theology on the environment.
Educational resources and photo credits

Information on how to do citations for the final paper

 

Materials used for Envs 163 winter 2006

Readings for March 14:

 

Oceans reading hotlinks

Information about poster assignment due March 2

 

Information about how to prepare a powerpoint - based poster, an

Scriptures used in ENVS 163

Oceans reading assignments: who reads and reports what Feb 23 and 28 Note: please also read the first chapter of the green book, Martin-Schramm & Stiver, for Tues Feb 28.

The Root Causes diagram

An electronic slide show outlining how conservation easements can be used to fulfill our ethical or Christian duties for stewardship of the environment:
Suzanne Replinger & Dominique Norton: Conservation Easements:
A mechanism for fulfilling religious and ethical duties for conservation

A talk given at a Watsonville area church on religious duties and marine conservation:
Matt Valdin: Faith in Nature

The Koko Connection: do gorillas have consciousness? And, Paul Fitzgerald on "Do Animals Have Rights? The Theological Status of Animals as Moral Beings."

Robert Warner on the Performance of Marine Reserves: Large file(3+ Mgs!) or Smaller file without pictures (1.6 Mgs)

IntGuide

 

 

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