The Ecology, Economics, and Ethics Web Site project is under initialization, i.e. construction, for use in the spring semester, 2006, for SENV30501 at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Henceforth, Ecology, Economics, and Ethics will alternatively abbreviate to simply EEE.
The spring 2006 is my initial offering of EEE. Much of the substance has been developed for my Ramapo College MBA elective, Business and the Environment. I am greatly in debt to my friend and colleague Professor Trent Schroyer, also of Ramapo College, who has pioneered EEE and who has supported my taking on this project. Please note that Trent's 2006 anthology, co-edited with our friend Tom Golodik, Creating World Sustainability: Past Experiences/Future Struggles, provides much of the material used throughout this course.
Neither Trent nor I have allowed ourselves to be captured by the parochialism of orthodox disciplines. Trent, however, displays his roots in philosophy and Critical Theory just as I revert to political economy and my long-term advocacy of progressive causes, a wellspring of strategic thinking. The mission of EEE, however, has not changed: The promotion of World Sustainability. The deficiencies, however, are all mine.
Discernable in the background is my dear friend, Larry Susskind, Ford Chair of International Environmental and Urban Policy at MIT, my summer neighbor and daily interlocutor. Larry and I have spent many hours pondering the implicit substance of this course--often while circumnavigating the swimming raft at Chase Pond, New Hampshire. I remain an attentive listener. Larry has helped introduce much new material and, more than anything, has tried, perhaps unsuccessfully, to keep me grounded. His inspiring work and unflagging commitment to World Sustainability remains heroic.
There are, fortunately, many diverse paths to the work of sustainability, and I have offered here only a glimpse. I invite the visitor to discover their own unique path.
The Ecology, Economics, and Ethics Web Site and this offering of SENV30501 is dedicated to our children and to their children. What we ponder here, World Sustainability, they shall inherit. Beware, for as Neitzsche has forewarned in Thus Spake Zarathustra: "The Wasteland grows."
The author, Wayne Hayes, Ph.D., Professor of Regional Planning at Ramapo College can be reached at whayes@ramapo.edu or his office phone, 201-684-7751. My office at Ramapo College is G-231. My office hours through the spring, 2006, semester are Monday and Thursday from 1:00 P.M. to 2:30 P.M. and on Wednesday by appointment.
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January 18, 2006 | Last Update: April 11, 2006