Center for Humans and Nature
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The Center for Humans and Nature is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization with a mission to explore and promote human responsibilities in relation to nature.[1] The organization is headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois.[2]
The organization was founded in 2003[3] by Strachan Donnelley, Ph.D.[4] a philosopher and ethicist who began his career at the Hastings Center.[5]
Donnelley founded the Center to explore the role of ethical thinking—based in an environmental ethics—for informing individual and political decision-making.[6]
About the Center for Humans and Nature
The Center provides in-depth and diverse perspectives about what it means to be human in an interconnected world.[7]
Contributors and Editorial Fellows for the Center’s publications and projects have included philosophers, biologists, ecologists, lawyers, political scientists, anthropologists, artists, poets, and economists.”[8]
The Center has co-hosted events with the Chicago Botanic Garden, Lincoln Park Zoo, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, American Museum of Natural History, Western Colorado University, Wisconsin Public Radio, Point Reyes Books, and New School at Commonweal. The Center has also partnered with the nationally syndicated public radio show To the Best of Our Knowledge on a podcast series.[9] Event and podcast participants have included Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Abram, Jane Goodall, Kathleen Dean Moore, Sharon Blackie, Enrique Salmon, Suzanne Simard, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Julian Agyeman.[10]
