Before you come to class, calculate your ecological footprint
Alternative footprint calculators:
Ecology fund (fast and simple)
Try different calculators, and change some of the input data for an informal "sensitivity analysis" (e.g., country in which to live). We will discuss the results in class
Before you come to class, download and review the code of ethics from one
of the following organizations:
Ecological Society of America code of
ethics
Society of American Foresters code of ethics
Society for Conservation Biology code of member ethics
Society for Range Management code of ethics (bottom of second page of this pdf file)
The Wildlife Society code of ethics (starts halfway down the first page of this pdf file)
We will discuss these professional codes in class
Bell, D. 2002. Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth. Bloomsbury, New York.
Eckstein, J. 2002. On Meanings of Life: Their Nature and Origin. State University of New York Press, Albany.
Eco-Ethics International Union
Martin, M. 2002. Atheism, Morality, and Meaning. Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York.
Phillips, C. 2001. Socrates Cafe. W.W. Norton, New York.
Phillips, C. 2004. Six Questions of Socrates. W.W. Norton, New York.
Singer, J.S. 2001. The Spendid Feast of Reason. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights