Timothy C. Weiskel
Selected Web-Accessible Publications & Talks
"A Public Policy for Plant Genetic Resources," Worldview, 23, 10 ("October 1980), 11-13. http://ecoethics.net/papers/Plant-Genetic.pdf"Food, Famine and the Frontier Mentality," Worldview, 24, 12 (December 1981), 14-16. http://ecoethics.net/papers/Famine-And-Frontier-Mentality-bw.pdf
"Rubbish and Racism: Problems of Boundary in an Ecosystem,"The Yale Review, (Winter, 1983), pp. 225-244. http://ecoethics.net/papers/Rubbish-and-Racism.pdf
"Agents of Empire: Steps Toward an Ecology of Imperialism," Environmental Review, 11, 4, (Winter, 1987), pp. 273-288. http://ecoethics.net/papers/Agents.pdf
"The Ecological Lessons of the Past: An Anthropology of Environmental Decline,"The Ecologist, Volume 19, No. 3 (May/June, 1989), pp. 98-103. http://ecoethics.net/papers/Lessons-of-Past.pdf
'"While Angels Weep..." Doing Theology on A Small Planet,' The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, XIX, 3 (1989). http://ecoethics.net/ops/tsp.htm
"The Need for Miracles in the Age of Science," The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, , XX, 2, (Summer 1900). http://ecoethics.net/papers/1990-Miracles.pdf
"Urbanization: A Doomed Experiment?"EcoDecision, (December 1991), pp. 16-21.
http://ecoethics.net/papers/1991-Urbanization.pdf"In Dust and Ashes: The Environmental Crisis in Religious Perspective,"The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 21, 3 (Spring 1992), pp. 8-11, 19, 23. http://ecoethics.net/papers/Dust-and-Ashes.pdf
"New World, New Values: Religion, Belief, and Survival on a Small Planet,"The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 21, 4 (Summer 1992), pp. 11, 17. http://ecoethics.net/papers/New-World-New-Values.pdf
Environmental Decline and Public Policy, with Richard Grey, (Ann Arbor, MI, Pierian Press, 1992). (Publication Information)
Preface
Chapter I - Devising Public Policy in an Ecological Community
Chapter II - Historical Aspects of Environmental Decline
Chapter III - "Development" and Environmental Decline in the Contemporary Third World
Chapter IV - Environmental Decline in Post-War Africa: A Case Study
Chapter V - Time's Arrow and the Human Prospect"Visious Circles: African Demographic History as a Warning," Harvard International Review, (Fall, 1994), pp. 12-16. http://ecoethics.net/papers/1994-Population-150.pdf
"Environmental Ethics and the Problem of Community," Quinnipiac-Schweitzer Journal, (Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities), Volume 1, 2 (Fall 1994, Winter 1995), pp. 44-53. http://ecoethics.net/papers/1994-Schweitzer-Community.pdf
"Selling Pigeons in the Temple: The Danger of Market Metaphors in an Ecosystem," Occasional Papers Series, No. 8. (July 1997). http://ecoethics.net/ops/ops-008.htm
"Designing Within The Possible: The Art and Theology of Engineering Sustainability," Cambridge Arts Council "Waterworks: A Symposium on Art and Water," The Sackler Art Museum, 5 April 1997. Occasional Papers Series, No. 4, http://ecoethics.net/papers/1997-Designing.htm
"Some Notes from Belshaz'zar's Feast," in The Greening of Faith: God, the Environment, and the Good Life Edited by John E. Carroll, Paul Brockelman and Mary Westfall (Hanover, London, University Press of New England, 1997), pp. 11-29. http://ecoethics.net/papers/Belshazar-front.htm
"Bad Samaritans on a Small Planet: Rethinking 'Neighbor' in an Ecosystem," Sermon, St. John's, Lafayette Square,Washington, D.C., 3 May 1998. http://ecoethics.net/sermons/samaritans.htm
"Doing Theology on a Small Planet: The Role of Religion in Addressing the Dilemma, 'Where Do We Go From Here?'" Christianity & Ecology Conference, Harvard Divinity School, Panel - "Public Policies for Sustainability" - 18 April 1998. http://ecoethics.net/papers/1998-chr&eco.htm
"The 'Apostles's Creed' for Ecologically Sustainable Public Policy." (1998). http://ecoethics.net/papers98/creed-02.htm
"Denying the Evidence: Science and the Human Prospect," in Earth at Risk: An Environmental Dialogue between Religion and Science, Donald B. Conroy and Rodney L. Petersen, (eds.), (Amherst, New York, Humanity Books, 2000), pp. 107-130. http://ecoethics.net/papers/2000-Denying-Evidence.pdf
"Coming to Believe What We Know: The Rise of Civilization and the Disjunction of Knowledge and Belief." [Lecture, Smith College, 24 September 1989 ]. http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/audio/a2a/weiskel.ra
Selected Course Lectures -"Environmental Ethics and Land Management" (Harvard University Extension School - Fall Semester 2002).
For example,
Lecture #2 - 24 September 2002
Lecture #13 - 10 December 2002
National and International Web Chats Include:
Web Chat on Global Change
http://ecoethics.net/enn-chat/Web Chat on Biotechnology and Global the WTO
http://ecoethics.net/enn-chat/biotech-links.htm
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