It is not always clear as to what the term village refers. In some cases, it seems synonymous with what I think of as a small town (in a highly developed context)… not necessarily the definitionContinue reading
Category: conservation
Empirics in Tradition
On the cover of the April 8, 1966 edition of Time Magazine was the stark red lettered question, Is God Dead? This question was posed about four years before the first Earth Day. The provocativeContinue reading
Conservation History in Social Space
The American conservation movement – beginning in the early 19th century – has been critiqued for privileging wilderness over ‘working landscapes’ as well as for marking wild places as spaces of privilege. This movement is associatedContinue reading
What is Nature?
What is Nature? This is a longstanding question which continues to trouble us.
Here I provide an account of the 12/7/15 discussion which contemplated this seemingly banal but overwhelmingly complex question. I follow my brief review with a series of remarks offered as an invitation for subsequent blogs to address this topic.
Dave Grace
alumni, climate, conservation, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, students, sustainability
alumni, climate, conservation, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, students, sustainability
Social Innovation in Conservation: Seminar in Review
An evening of sharing new innovations, focusing on conservation projects extending the social reach of the conservation field
An Invitation to the Sacred
I am visiting India to learn of its sacred groves and to follow their contours as boundary markers in various contexts which are transforming age-old institutions with the familiar tools of fossil fuel, roads, electricity, andContinue reading
Introduction to Delhi’s Last Sacred Grove
Delhi is the world’s 2nd most populous city. It is India’s capital, and it is situated in the National Capital Region (NCR), joined by its rapidly developing neighbors Gurgaon and Faridabad. Mangar village sits directly southContinue reading
An Integrated Labyrinth and Columbarium Design
R.E. Lee Memorial Church in Lexington, Virginia has a quite well done Labyrinth directly behind the sanctuary (to the left of the wider views below). While this Labyrinth juts into the campus of WashingtonContinue reading
Audubon’s Bird Friendly Communities Meets Communities of Faith
On April 25th, an interesting group came together for a biodiesel bus tour of best habitat and energy practices in Raleigh faith communities. The tour was organized by my Youth Faith Conservation Network, a ToyotaContinue reading
The Pope and Ecology: Shouts from the Highest Steeple
The excitement is building: for the first time in history, the Pope is issuing an encyclical on the environment… but wait, why is this important? Two details: 1. The Pope presides over the largest religiousContinue reading