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Globethics.net in collaboration with CITVN has produced a webcast series on the reading of Pope Francis' environmental encyclical Laudato Si, which has been describe as a ‘worldwide wake up call to help humanity understand the destruction that man is rendering to the environment and his fellow man'.
Dates: The webcast takes place every Tuesday from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST.
We invite you to participate in this webcast series and to engage in the current discussion on what can be done to prevent the destruction of ecosystems that impact both human and non-human beings.
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Programme
September 2018
| Date | Speaker 12:00 | Speaker 13:00 | Lecture Laudato Si |
| 18 Sep 2018 |
"Asset Allocation with Positive Impact in the Green Industrial Revolution"
Jochen Wermuth
Founding Partner
Chief Investment Officer
Wermuth Asset Management GmbH
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Chapter 3. The Human Roots of the Ecological Crisis
Section 1. Technology: Creativity and Power
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| 25 Sep 2018 |
"Civil Society and Sustainable Development in China"
Liu Baocheng, Ph.D.
Director, Center for International Business Ethics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing China
Member of the World Economic Forum
Advisory Board - Ministry of Commerce
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Chapter 3. The Human Roots of the Ecological Crisis |
October 2018
| Date | Speaker 12:00 | Speaker 13:00 | Lecture Laudato Si |
| 2 Oct 2018 |
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Andrew Simms-political economist, author, co-director New Weather Institute |
Chapter 3. The Human Roots of the Ecological Crisis
Section 3. The Crisis and Effects of Modern Anthropocentrism
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| 9 Oct 2018 |
"Reinventing the Commons"
David Bollier
Writer and Activist
Director, Reinventing the Commons Program
Schumacher Center for New Economics
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"Energy Access and Sustainable Development"
Robert J. Brecha, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Physics and Renewable and Clean Energy Program
Director of Research, Hanley Sustainability Institute
University of Dayton
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Chapter 4. Integral Ecology
Section 1. Environmental, Economic and Social Ecology
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| 16 Oct 2018 |
"Atmospheric Trust Litigation Around the World"
Mary Christina Wood, J.D.
Philip H. Knight Professor of Law
University of Oregon School of Law
Author of "Nature's Trust"
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"Ecumenical background of and reactions to Laudato Si"
Guillermo Kerber, Ph.D.
Professor
Atelier Œcuménique de Théologie
Service Formation Eglise
Catholique Romaine – Genève - Switzerland
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Chapter 4. Integral Ecology
Section 2. Cultural Ecology
Section 3. Ecology of Daily Life
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| 23 Oct 2018 | Michel Bauwens Founder Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives External expert at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2008, 2012) |
"Sustainable finance as a driver for the energy transition; what are the risks of investing in the fossil economy?"
Mark Campanale
Founder & Executive Director
Carbon Tracker Initiative
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Chapter 4. Integral Ecology
Section 4. The Principle of the Common Good
Section 5. Justice between the Generations
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| 30 Oct 2018 | Michael Shuman, Investing locally |
Chapter 5. Lines of Approach and Action |
November 2018
| Date | Speaker 12:00 | Speaker 13:00 | Lecture Laudato Si |
| 6 Nov 2018 |
"The Joy of Less"
Kim Coupounas
Director, B Lab
bcorporation.net
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Chapter 5. Lines of Approach and Action
Section 2. Dialogue for new National and Local Polices
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| 13 Nov 2018 |
"Organizing Locally for Laudato Si' "
Marisa Vertrees
Director of Organizing
Global Catholic Climate Movement
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"A Third World Environmental Debt"
Julia M. Puaschunder, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
The New School for Social Research
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Chapter 5. Lines of Approach and Action
Section 3. Dialogue and Transparency in Decision-Making
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| 20 Nov 2018 |
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Meghan J Clark, PhD, Theology, St. Johns University, new York. |
Chapter 5. Lines of Approach and Action
Section 4. Politics and Economy in Dialogue for Human Fulfilment
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| 27 Nov 2018 |
Stewart Wallis- A movement of movements, next steps advocate for transition to a new economic system
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Chapter 5. Lines of Approach and Action
Section 5. Religious in Dialigue with Science
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December 2018
| Date | Speaker 12:00 | Speaker 13:00 | Lecture Laudato Si |
| 4 Dec 2018 |
Hunter Lovins, Ph.D. president of Natural Capitalism Solutions Professor of sustainable business management at Bard College, NY
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Chapter 6. Ecological Education and Spirituality
Section 1. Towards a new Lifestyle
Section 2. Educating for the Covenant between humanity and the Environment
Section 3. Ecological Conversion
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| 11 Dec 2018 |
2018 Globethics Prize
Environmental Ethics
Prize Winner Presentation
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2018 Globethics Prize
Environmental Ethics
Prize Winner Presentations
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Chapter 6. Ecological Education and Spirituality |