A new environmental ethics: the next millennium for life on Earth

The Environmental Turn. BP oil spill disaster

Global warming

Sustainability

Environmental justice

Toxics, pollutants, invasives

Living locally: green and grassroots

Biodiversity

Lynn White: dominion of man

Ecofeminism: the woman's touch

Animal welfare: Peter Singer, Tom Reagan

Environmental ethics: philosophers wake up

Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, John Muir.

Humans: People on Their Landscapes. Environmental health: skin in, skin out

Sustainable development

Domesticated landscapes: "Man the Measure"

Anthropocene epoch: managed Earth and end of Nature?

Urban, rural, wild: three-dimensional persons

Human dignity on Earth: part of or apart from Nature.

Animals: Beasts in Flesh and Blood. Somebody there? : encountering Individual animals

Environmental ethics and animal welfare

On the hunt: killing, eating, respecting wild beasts

Domestic animals: from cows to poodles

Zoos: caged beasts on display

Research animals: experimenting for animal/human good.

Organisms: Respect for Life. The buggy planet: the little things that run the world

Plants: nothing matters! never mind?

Genetic value: smart (cybernetic) genes

Invasive exotics: plants way out of place

Respect for life: biocentrism

Respect for life: naturalizing values/ virtues.

Species and Biodiversity: Lifelines in Jeopardy. Science, the Is question: what are species?

Ethics, the ought question: ought we to save species?

Enforcing saving species: the Endangered Species Act

Natural and anthropogenic extinction

Biodiversity: more than species

Biodiversity vs. humans: win-win? win-lose? lose-lose?

Ecosytems: the Land Ethic. Ecosystems: the is question

Ecosystems: the ought question

Ecological/environmental economics

Wilderness: the world that runs itself

Nature: found? constructed? re-constructed

Environmental policy: ecosystem management, once and future Nature.

Earth: Ethics on the Home Planet. Humans as Earthlings: unique species on a unique planet

Global capitalism: just? fair? enough!

Global population: full Earth?

Global warming: too hot to handle!

Sustainable biosphere: ultimate survival

Future generations on the planet with promise.