• Professor, Environmental Conservation

Research

After a six month delay beyond October 1, 2001, Hatch 424 was finally given approval in Washington, and this three year project was launched. Research was conducted in Vermont (Center for Sustainable Agriculture of UVM) in October, in Maine in March (University of Maine Sustainable Agriculture Program), in Vermont in May (University of Vermont Sustainable Agriculture Program), and research is scheduled in Wisconsin (University of Wisconsin Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems and the Aldo Leopold Foundation) in June and July, in Maine in July, with more trips to be arranged. Focus in the first year is on reading and research on Aldo Leopold; the amassing of a sizeable library of Leopoldiana; basic study of the sustainable agriculture programming of the Universities of Maine, Vermont, Wisconsin and their Extension Services, with similar study planned for Iowa State University.

My sabbatical leave research in Spring 2001 culminated an approximate six year research effort on the linkage between sustainability and spirituality, and a considerable amount of my time, professional and personal, in summer 2001, autumn 2001, and winter 2002 was dedicated to writing, refining and editing the full book length manuscript entitled Sustainability and Spirituality. The manuscript has been submitted for publication to two publishers, the University Press of New England (UPNE) and Orbis Books, with both of whom I have previously published. I expect to have word soon and a contract in hand. This effort consumed a significant portion of my available time for over nine months this year (July - March). Chapters focus on outstanding models of sustainability on the land; the linkage between religion, ecology and sustainability; the thought of philosopher Thomas Berry; the work on the land of Sisters of Earth; monasticism and ecology; science, native peoples, social justice and eco-justice.

Graduate Students

M.S. Students
	Jeremy Lougee
Ph.D. Students
	Martha Sunderland
	Irina Trubetskova
	David Wilson
Alumni :: 2000-present
	Nancy Miaoulis	May 2005	Ph.D.
	Katharine York	May 2005	Ph.D.
	Zebulon Wright (Liberal Studies)	May 2005	M.S.
	Jennifer Wilhelm	December 2004	M.S.
	Gabriel Bautista	December 2003	Ph.D.
	Nikham Patel	December 2002	M.S.

Primary Teaching Responsibilities

• NR 902: Ecological Ethics and Values
• NR 701/801: Ecological Ethics and Values
• NR 637: Senior Practicum in Environmental Conservation
• NR 444: The Real Dirt: Ecological Sustainable Food and Farming

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Selected Publications

Sustainability and Spirituality ( Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004) (Foreword by Bill McKibben)

Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic and Sustainable Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities (in press)

Ecology and Religion: Scientists Speak (Edited with Keith Warner) (Quincy, Illinois: Franciscan Press, 1998)

The Greening of Faith: God, the Environment and the Good Life (Edited with Paul Brockelman and Mary Westfall) (Foreword by Bill McKibben) (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1996)

Embracing Earth: Catholic Approaches to Ecology (Edited with Albert LaChance) (New York: Orbis Books, 1994)

International Environmental Diplomacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) (paper edition in 1990)

Environmental diplomacy: An Examination and a Prospective of Canadian - United States Transboundary Environmental Relations (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1983) (Reprinted 1986)

Canadian-American Relations: The Promise and the Challenge (with Kenneth M. Curtis) Foreword by Cyrus Vance) (Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1983)

Acid Rain: An Issue in Canadian-American Relations (Washington, D.C. and Toronto: National Planning Association and C. D. Howe Research Institute, 1982)

The Garrison Diversion Unit: A Case Study in Canadian-U.S. Environmental Relations (Montreal: C.D. Howe Research Institute, 1980)

Education