More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #104B: Respect
for Nature |
Environmental
Ethics (2002 article online at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) |
Manual
Cordova Rios / The Wizard of the Upper Amazon (book provides intimate
account of living in Amazon jungle and training to be a shaman; from online encyclopedia) |
PBS program Nature |
Scientific Pantheism: Reverence
of Nature and Cosmos
(whole website devoted to pantheism) |
What is Pantheism?
(from Pantheist Association for Nature) |
The Practice of
Natural Pantheism |
Caring
for Creation: links to religion and ecology sites |
Deep
Ecology Movement |
The
Great Story (educational site re:14 billion year evolutionary heritage
of humanity told as sacred story) |
Earthlight
-- The Magazine of Spiritual Ecology |
A
Profile of Thomas Berry, by Matthew Fox |
The
Paul Shepard (1925-1996) Website (archives, celebrates a key
contributor to deep ecology) |
Interview
with Matthew Fox |
Black
Elk Speaks (quotes from this Native American holy man on circles, the
Great Spirit, belonging to nature, etc. from Wikiquote) |
"Hozho:
Dine' Concept of Balance and Beauty" by Robert S. Drake (2004
paper on this Navaho concept) |
The Age of Empathy:
Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal (more on this
2010 book with excerpts from Google Books) |
God is Gone, Everything is Holy by Chet Raymo
(more about this 2008 book by a well known science writer) |
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, by
E.O. Wilson (book review in Washington Post) |
The
largest dam removal project in the US is completed – a major win for
Indigenous tribes
by Rachel Ramirez (from CNN September 1 2024)
|
Fewer
wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of
Mexico’s forests? by Linda Farthling (from The Guardian May 1 2024) |
Half of world’s bird species in decline as destruction of avian life intensifies
by Phoebe Weston (from The Guardian September 28 2022) |
World
scientists’ warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot
by Joseph J. Merz, Phoebe Barnard, Rory Sutherland
(academic paper posted September 20, 2023) |
The
People Cheering for Humanity’s End by Adam Kirsch (from The
Atlantic Dec 1 2022) |
"Animal
Welfare--If Pigs Could Fly" (report from The Economist August 20 2022) |
“The
Doomsday Glacier” by Jeff Goodell (from Rolling Stone
December 29 2021) |
“Yes,
We Can Grow 1 Trillion Trees to Help Fight Climate Change” by Jad Daley
and Marc Benioff (from Time
August 27 2021)
|
"Protecting
Biodiversity : The Other Emergency" (special section in The
Economist June 19 2021) |
Forest
gardens’ show how Native land stewardship can outdo nature By Gabriel
Popkin (story from National Geographic April 23 2021) |
"A
new UN report urges a radical shift in the way we think about nature"
(CNN story February 18 2021) |
"Nature
Demands Respect—On Hurricanes, Awe, and Humility"
by Anthony Makar (in UU World Dec 2017) |
Affluence
Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen by James Suzman
(interview with author by John Williams NY Times July 23
2017) |
Biodiversity:
Hang on (special report on Biodiversity and how economic growth may
improve it, The Economist Sep 14 2013) |
"Adaptation
and Defiance" by Jeffrey Lockwood (article about nature and
climate change in UU World summer 2013) |
From
national security to natural security
By Robert
Carlson (from Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists December
11, 2013) |
Plant Communications: Beans' Talk"
(article about how plants use fungi to communicate, from The Economist
July 6 2013) |
"The
Ecological Turn in New Confucian Humanism: Implications for China and the
World" by
Tu Weiming (2001 essay) |
"The
Continuity of Being: Chinese Visions of Nature" by Tu Weiming (summary
of chapter in 1989 book) |
Nature:
An Environmental Cosmology, by Joseph Grange (read portions of this
book at Google Books) |
The
Well Dressed Ape, by Hannah Holmes (read portions of this 2009 book at Google Books) |
Christian
Ecology, by Carl Pope, Sierra Club |
Forum
on Religion and Ecology (bibliography, etc) |
Ishmael,
by Daniel Quinn (online encyclopedia account of novel about human
history viz. the natural world) |
Newton
County, Arkansas: The Natural State (2016 video portrait of
individuals living close to nature and involved in environmental activist
pursuits) |
Belonging
to the Universe by Fritjof Capra, etal) (refers to this book and
"Ecoliteracy" path) |
Reason
and Reverence, by William R. Murry (excerpt from book promoting
humanistic religious naturalism) |
quotes
related to nature |
quotes
on wilderness |
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA)
|
The Humane Society of the United
States
|
The NonHuman Rights
Project (group “working to achieve legal rights for animals”)
|
The Moral Status of
Animals
|
Animal Rights Issues
(from Animal Liberation)
|
Animal Rights Concerns
("tackling animal rights issues and encouraging a vegetarian and
vegan lifestyle")
|
Fear Factories: The Case for
Compassionate Conservatism -- for Animals, by Matthew Scully |
Factory
Farming / Farm Sanctuary ("the truth hurts...stop factory
farming") |
Are
We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal (book
review by Matthew Cobb The Guardian October 6 2016) |
"Animals
in court -- do they have rights?" (article from The Economist Dec
22 2018) |
Veganism:
The Retreat from Meat (report
from The Economist October 13 2018) |
"The No. 1 Cause of Climate
Change the Media Don’t Mention
" by Lee Camp (article about role of
meat consumption July 2018) |
"Growing
Leather in Factories" (report in The Economist August
26 2017 about making leather w/o killing animals) |
"For
Tracey Stewart, Life After The 'Daily Show' Is All About The Animals"
(
Nov 03, 2015 story
on NPR about the book Do Unto
Animals...) |
"Slaughterhouses:
A Jungle No More"
(report on changes promoted by Temple Grandin, in The
Economist October 10 2015)
|
"Animal Rights Parties: Free the Gold Fish"
(report about Dutch pro animal rights party from The Economist December 21 2013) |
"Scholars
Explore Christian Perspectives on Animal Rights" by Mark Oppenheimer
(report in The New York Times Dec 6 2013) |
"'Factory
Farms' Aren't Farms: They Are Concentration Camps for Animals" by Jim
Hightower (April 24 2013 opinion piece post on Common Dreams) |
"Oklahoma
Lifts Horse Slaughter Ban" (March 29 2013 report from USA
Today) |
"Bills
Seek End to Farm Animal Abuse Videos" by Tracie Cone (Mar 17 2013
report from The Associated Press ) |
"Why
Animal Research Must Be Banned" by Alisa Manzelli (Dec 6 2012
opinion piece on Global Animal website) |
"The Last Days of Foie Gras"
by Ed Leibowitz (story re: rise of animal rights in California; The Atlantic July 2012) |
"Animal
Rights: Whales are People, Too" (Feb 25 2012 article in The
Economist) |
When
the Killing's Done by T. C. Boyle (NY Times review by Barbara
Kingsolver of 2011 fiction book about rights of animals / respect for
nature) |
How
Meat Contributes to Global Warming, by Nathan Fiala (from Feb 2009
issue of Scientific American) |
The
Meat--Industrial Complex, by Mark Winne (March 2006 article from In
These Times) |
Which
Animals Feel Pain? |
Earth
Voice -- Protecting All Animals: Ethics & Ecology |
Elephants on the Edge:
What Animals Teach Us About Humanity by G.A. Bradshaw (excerpts
from 2009 book at Google Books) |
The Age of Empathy:
Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal (review
of this 2009 book) |
Animals Matter:
A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals With Compassion by Marc Bekoff
(more about this 2007 book) |
Drawing
the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights (review of 2002 book
by Steven M. Wise) |
Links
to Animal Rights, Animal Welfare |
Alternatives
to Animal Testing (from Johns Hopkins University) |
Abused
No More: Rescued Fighting Dogs, by David von Drehle (in Time
Magazine, December 7 2009) |
Humane
Farm Animal Care (non-profit organization dedicated to improving the
lives of farm animals) |
All
Animals are Equal, by Peter Singer |
Do
Animals Have Rights? (another viewpoint: the objectivist /
libertarian perspective) |
North
American Vegetarian Society |
Vegetarian
Organizations and Resources |
Vegan
Values: Is Veganism a Religion? (from Vegan Values website) |
Vegetarian
Friends (monthly journal from "Quakers and other people of faith
in the practice of love for animals and a vegetarian diet") |
What
Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy,
By L.Carbone |
Eco-Terrorism--The
Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (Re: USA law passed in Nov 2006) |
quotes
from animal rights activists |
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