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Faith & Ecology: A Primer for Practitioners and Pundits

Faith & Ecology: A Primer for Practitioners and Pundits

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Dave Grace
December 17, 2015October 24, 2016 Dave Gracealumni, conservation, ESC, faculty, students

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.

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Dave Grace
November 24, 2015October 24, 2016 Dave GraceESC, students

Temporal Scale & Death

For the overburdened or procrastinators, the end of fall semester is an opportunity to play catch up on that which has been piled aside.

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Dave Grace
October 19, 2015October 24, 2016 Dave Gracealumni, 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

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Dave Grace
August 17, 2015October 24, 2016 Dave GraceESC, students, travel

All Things Meaningless Under the Sun

Here I chronicle my trip from Point A to Point B: everything added up accounts for nothing.

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Dave Grace
July 13, 2015October 24, 2016 Dave Graceconservation, ESC, forests, students, travel

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

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Dave Grace
June 18, 2015October 24, 2016 Dave GraceESC, students

Encyclical on Environment has Arrived

Over the approximately 2000 years that the Roman Catholic Church has had a Pope, today we are seeing the first encyclical on the environment come to fruition, a major moment and sign of the times in terms ofContinue reading

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Dave Grace
June 17, 2015October 24, 2016 Dave Graceconservation, ESC, forests, students, sustainability, travel

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

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Dave Grace
May 22, 2015October 24, 2016 Dave Graceconservation, ESC, students

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

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Dave Grace
May 14, 2015October 24, 2016 Dave Graceconservation, ESC, students, sustainability

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

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Dave Grace
April 3, 2015October 24, 2016 Dave Graceclimate, conservation, energy, environmental policy, ESC, students, sustainability

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

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Faith & Ecology: A Primer for Practitioners and Pundits

Providing a bridge between the academic study of ecology and theology and communities of faith so that students, practitioners, and people of faith increasingly recognize shared ground and opportunities for contributing to the common good of the environment.

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