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Dr. Banzhaf speaks on Environmental Economics and Christian Ethics
On October 2nd, Dr. H. Spencer Banzhaf spoke at Duke University in the Nicholas School of the Environment’s Environment Hall. The event was sponsored by the Nicholas School, the Economics Department,...
View Article2014 Alternative Fall Break on Food and Interfaith Dialogue
This Fall Break, a group of Duke students chose to pursue an alternative Fall Break, investigating the topic of food and faith (read the overview here) . While food and faith is not a novel topic to...
View ArticlePerspective for Prospectives
Now that mid-terms at the Nicholas School have concluded, I will offer some thoughts on the dual-degree program with the Divinity School. I’m aware that it is not the most popular choice of degrees in...
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Church Food Hubs: A Response to Food Deserts?
The way the USDA defines food deserts — in terms of distance to a supermarket and income level at the unit of a census tract — can be portrayed easily from satellite views such as this map of a Food...
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Global Food Trade in Perspective
Food trade is not a problem. However, a global food system is highly problematic. Nation states administer taxes, tariffs, and often delineate lines of conflict. However, the nations are not primarily...
View Article25-March: Faith-based Climate Advocacy
If you are a person of faith looking for a place to share your views on climate change with NC elected officials, this post is for you: Rev. Sally Bingham and North Carolina Interfaith Power and Light...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleEncyclical 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...
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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...
View ArticleAll Things Meaningless Under the Sun
My nearly 4 hour commute to visit Shiv Nadar University from sector 86 in Faridabad was a lot like Mad Max, except it wasn’t the mad man sucking up exhaust and straddling on to the back of a vehicle —...
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Social Innovation in Conservation: Seminar in Review
View the Recorded Seminar here: goo.gl/rYhMe4 An evening of sharing new innovations, focusing on: Conservation projects extending the social reach of the conservation field Sponsored by the Audubon...
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Temporal Scale & Death
Fall semester is coming to a close, and with registration set – solidly?- Spring semester is in near sight. For the overburdened or procrastinators, this is an opportunity to play catch up on that...
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What is Nature?
What is Nature? This is a longstanding question which continues to trouble us. This seems straightforward Here I provide an account of the 12/7/15 discussion which contemplated this seemingly banal but...
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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...
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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 provocative cover...
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Seeing India: 6 Pictures
Aesthetically, India is fascinating. World renown for its bright colors — such as those in the air during Holi or on the streets on Saris — one only has to walk outside to see the display. Also, due to...
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The Village and the City
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 definition I...
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