What are the keys to restoring the Chesapeake Bay? Here are some familiar answers: more research, better technologies for treating sewage runoff and air pollution, new controls on stormwater runoff from cities and suburbs, reductions in nutrient runoff from farms, perhaps a cap and trade approach, certainly smarter regulation of fishing. The list goes on and nearly every step is needed for restoring the country's largest estuary. A number of activists have another answer to add to the list. They're calling for an environmental ethic - and they suggest it should be at the top of the list. Science findings may explain how we can restore the Bay. But they don't explain why we should. That's the role of an ethic. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Sandy Rodgers.
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Lynn White Jr. gave the first end-of-the-day speech for the 1966 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Entitled 'The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis,', White stated that the root causes for the environmental crisis were not in our industries, not in the way they were exhausting natural resources, felling our great forests, fouling the air, or polluting the water in our rivers and bays and oceans. The causes of the crisis were in our heads, in the unconscious ideas that we carried through our lives. And for most people in Western societies, those ideas came from the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Sandy Rodgers.
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If you had to pick two apostles to spread the gospel of faith-based environmentalism in the Chesapeake Bay region, you might not think of putting Charlie Conklin on the same team with Bill Breakey. They seem at first glance an unlikely duo. One was an activist, the other an academic. But over a dozen years the two would recruit a band of like-minded colleagues and together they would try to insert a new brand of environmentalism into the region. The result of their work would be an organization now called the Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Sandy Rodgers.
more . . . about The Third Wave - An Environmental Movement Reaches the Chesapeake
The Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake, began with a small band of activists, environmentalists, and scientists, many of them connected with progressive churches in the Towson area. Stormwater runoff is a problem for a lot of churches -- but for the Interfaith Partners it's an opportunity, a chance for the group to recruit new congregations into faith-based environmentalism. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Sandy Rodgers.
more . . . about The Road to Empowerment - In the Field with Faith-based Environmentalists
As the Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake tries to become an important player in the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort, it is relying in many counties on the work of two key partners: the Watershed Stewards Academy program and the Maryland Sea Grant Extension Program. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Sandy Rodgers.
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Read a letter about religion and environmentalism jointly written by Andrew Webster, a devout Methodist and a resident of an Eastern Shore community near Deal Island, Maryland, and Michael Paolisso, an anthropologist at the University of Maryland College Park. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Sandy Rodgers.
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