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Holmes Rolston Endowed Chair in Environmental Ethics: announced March-April 2014
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2014) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, speaker; Unidentified speaker; Colorado State University, producer
The Holmes Rolston Endowed Chair in Environmental Ethics, made possible by donations from Holmes and Jane Rolston, and by Myra Monfort, is announced at four celebration events during March, April, and May, 2012. 1. Dinner at Jay's Bistro, with Dean Ann Gill, Holmes and Jane Rolston, Myra Monfort, and selected guests, March 11, 2014. 2. The President's Dinner for University Distinguished Professors, April 28, 2014. 3. Celebrate Colorado State, with Tony Frank, CSU President, April 29, 2014. 4. CLA Dean Ann Gill's Reception for Faculty and Staff Donors, May 7, 2014.
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Leading and misleading metaphors: from organism to Anthropocene
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018-05-03) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, speaker; Colorado State University, producer
Holmes Rolston presents appreciative and critical remarks at a symposium, After the Death of Nature, held at the University of California, Berkeley, on May 2-3, 2018, celebrating the life and work of Carolyn Merchant, an ecofeminist philosopher. Rolston's remarks, under the theme: "Leading and Misleading Metaphors: From Organism to Anthropocene," recognize her insights into how the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment featured the control of nature, bringing "the death of nature." A once nurturing mother earth, became inert and mechanical, manipulated by industry and agriculture. Strident recent environmentalists have been celebrating our entering the Anthropocene Epoch, boldly embracing perpetual enlargement of the bounds of the human empire. We are urged to become planetary managers, geo-engineers, rebuilding the Earth better to serve human needs. Rolston revisits Carolyn Merchant in the prospect of an Anthropocene Epoch. This symposium launches the publication of a Festschrift on Merchant, edited by Kenneth Worthy, Elizabeth Allison, and Whitney A. Bauman, After the Death of Nature, Routledge, 2019, in which Rolston's paper is included.
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Rolston viewing a Pasqueflower
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2014) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, speaker; Colorado State University, producer
Holmes Rolston, hiking in spring woods, discovers a Pasqueflower, one of the earliest blooming wildflowers, about Easter. "We walk too hurriedly if ever we pass the season's first Pasqueflower by, too busy to let its meeting stay us for a quiet moment before this token of the covenant of life to continue in beauty despite the storm." "Life decomposes and out of its throes it recomposes. It persists in beauty despite its perpetual perishing. Light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not overcome it." "Let winters come; life will flower on as long as Earth shall last."
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The future of environmental ethics
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, speaker; Landers, Heather, speaker; Colorado State University, producer
Lecture covers consideration of the following topics: 1. A managed earth and the end of nature? 2. Global warming: too hot to handle? 3. Human nature: Pleistocene appetites? 4. Sustainable development vs. sustainable biosphere; 5. Biodiversity: good for us/good in itself; 6. Earth ethics.
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Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch (University of Mary Washington)
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018-04) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, speaker; Mikhalevsky, Nina, speaker; Matzke, Jason, speaker; Colorado State University, producer
This lecture by Holmes Rolston III was the keynote lecture at a conference, Wild Places, Natural Spaces, the fourteenth annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place, at the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, on April 27-29, 2018. Rolston asks about (1) Earth as a wonderland planet, about (2) humans as the wonder of wonders on Earth. He continues (3) wondering about Anthropocene humans and their efforts to build a (4) managed planet bringing about the end of nature. He worries that this is (5) Anthropocene arrogance, and recommends, instead that these (6) wonderful humans should consider themselves incarnate on and caring for their wonderland Earth.