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Background and Discussion Papers

April 2007 E-Conference
From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: Making the Shift


Allen, John (2001) The Evolution of Humanity: Past, Present, and Possible Future. Expanded from a philosophic essay, The Duversity Newsletter No. 4, Ed/Pub: AGE Blake. Online: http://www.biospheres.com/
paperevolutionofhumanity.htm

Allen, John (2003) Ethnospherics: origins of human cultures, their subjugation by the technosphere, the beginning of an ethnosphere, and steps needed to complete the ethnosphere. ESEP 2003:7-24. Online: http://www.int-res.com/articles/esep/2003/E29.pdf

Alex, Rayson K. (unpub) The Moral of the Story is...Biocentric ideas found in a story of the Kurumbar. Online: http://raysonalex.blogspot.com

Bartra, Valentin (unpub) New Ecological Ethics. Online: http://www.eco-res.org/files_shift/Bartra_newethics.pdf

Bender, Fred and Wendy Lynne Lee (2007) Advancing the Deep Ecology/
Ecofeminism Debate: A Dialogue between Fred Bender and Wendy Lynne Lee
. EcoRes Forum Panel Perspectives. Online: http://www.eco-res.org/files_
shift/PanelPerspectives_Lee_Bender.pdf

Brown, Donald (2002) American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States Response to Global Warming. Rowman and Littlefield, Lathham, MD

Brown, Donald, et al (2006) The Importance of Expressly Integrating Ethical Analyses into Climate Change Policy Formation. Climate Policy 5 (2006) 549–552. Reprinted with the generous permission of Earthscan

Brown, Donald, et al (2006) White Paper on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change. EDCC, Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Online: http://rockethics.psu.edu/climate/whitepaper-intro.htm

Byrnes, W. Malcolm, et al (in press) Global Climate Change and Catholic Responsibility: Facts and Faith Response. Preprinted with permission: This manuscript has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Catholic Social Thought, and will appear in Volume 4, Number 2 (2007)

Byrnes, W. Malcolm (2003) The Ecological Imperative and Its Application to Ethical Issues in Human Genetic Technology. ESEP 2003:63-69. Online: http://www.int-res.com/articles/esep/2003/E36.pdf

Cairns, John, Jr (2002) Goals and Conditions for a Sustainable World. ESEP Book 1. Inter-Research, Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany. Online: http://www.esep.de/journals/esep/esepbooks/CairnsEsepBook.pdf

Cairns, John, Jr (2003, 2004) Eco-Ethics and Sustainability Ethics. ESEP Book 2. Parts 1 & 2. Inter-Research, Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany. Online: http://www.esep.de/journals/esep/esepbooks/EB2Pt1.pdf and http://www.esep.de/journals/esep/esepbooks/EB2Pt2.pdf

Dalla Casa, G (2002) The Myth of Origin. Dirigentilndustria, ALDAI Monthly Review, July 2002. English translation. (Italian original online: www.filosofia-ambientale.it/)(pdf)

Finley, Mary Lou (in press) Shaping the New Climate Change Movement. Adapted from "Shaping the Movement," in: Jonathan Isham and Sissel Waage (Eds), Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement, Washington DC: Island Press, available July 2007. Copyright © 2007, Island Press. IgniteAMovement.org. Reproduced with permission of Island Press

Finley, Mary Lou (2006) Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement. In: Poverty and Race, Poverty and Race Research Action Council Newsletter, May-June 2006. Online: http://www.prrac.org/full_text.php?text_id=1078&item_id=9869&newsletter_id=87&header=Search%20Results

Fishelson, Lev (2007) Global Ecology, Man and Environment. EcoRes Forum Panel Perspectives. Online: http://www.eco-res.org/files_shift/Panel
Perspectives_Fishelson.pdf

Frome, Michael (in press) In An Age of Enlightenment Wildlife Comes First and Not Last. From: Heal the Earth, Heal the Soul: Collected Essays on Wilderness, Politics and the Media. Forthcoming May 2007. Port Washington, WI: Bartram Books. Online: http://www.eco-res.org/files_
shift/PanelPerspectives_Frome2.pdf

Frome, Michael (in press) Postscript: Continuum. From: Heal the Earth, Heal the Soul: Collected Essays on Wilderness, Politics and the Media. Forthcoming May 2007. Port Washington, WI: Bartram Books. Online: http://www.eco-res.org/files_shift/PanelPerspectives_Frome1.pdf.

Legendre, Louis (2004) Science, culture and (eco-)ethics. ESEP 2004:13-23. Online: http://www.int-res.com/articles/esep/2004/E46.pdf

Lemons, John (2007) Climate Change: A Commentary on the IPCC’s "AR4" Report and Use of the Precautionary Principle. EcoRes Forum Panel Perspectives. Online: http://www.eco-res.org/files_shift/Panel
Perspectives_Lemons_ClimateChange.pdf

Lemons, John and Robert Shavelson (2007) Conflicts Between Local Development and Global Climate Justice: A Case Study from Alaska. Climateethics.org. Online at: http://climateethics.org/?p=15

Mosquin, Ted (2000) The Roles of Biodiversity in Creating and Maintaining the Ecosphere, 107-136. In: Biodiversity in Canada: Ecology, Ideas, and Action, Stephen Bocking (Ed). Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press. 426 pp. Online: http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/MosqEcoFun5.html

Mosquin, Ted and J. Stan Rowe (2004) A Manifesto for Earth. Biodiversity 5(1):3-9. Online: http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/EarthManifesto.html

Moyer, Bill, et al (2001) Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers. About: http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3694

Munasinghe, Mohan (2007) Making Development More Sustainable: Sustainomics Framework and Applications. MIND Press, Munasinghe Institute for Development, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Online: Encyclopedia of Earth, http://www.eoearth.org/article/Making_Development_More_
Sustainable~_Sustainomics_Framework_and_Applications_(e-book).

Revkin, Andrew (2002) Managing Planet Earth: Forget Nature. Even Eden is Engineered. New York Times, 8/20/2002. Online: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/20/science/earth/20MANA.html

Revkin, Andrew (2005) A New Measure of Well Being from a Happy Little Kingdom. New York Times, 10/04/2005. Online: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/science/04happ.html

Rome, David (2004) Searching for the Truth that Is Far Below the Search. Shambhala Sun, September 2004. Online: http://www.shambhalasun.com/ind
ex.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1435&Itemid=247

Rome, David (2004) The Deeper Dimensions of Transformational Change: A Call to Collective Inquiry and Action. Rev. of Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future. The Systems Thinker Newsletter, V15N5. Online: http://www.pegasuscom.com/presencereview.html


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