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Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821, scarr@unm.edu
October 5, 2005
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT OPENS FALL 2005 LECTURE SERIES
The Geography Department at the University of New Mexico opens its fall 2005 lecture series with noted author Charles E. Little who will give a lecture titled, “On Faith and the Environment in America: Can Religion Save God's Green Earth?” It will be held Thursday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium (rm. 208) of the UNM Science and Technology Park, located at 800 Bradbury Dr., S.E. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Little will discuss how and why there has been significant religious involvement in environmental issues since the early 1990s; the origins of an American earth spirituality as expressed by Thoreau, Muir, and Leopold (all non-churchgoers) and Native American beliefs; the uneasy association of organized religion with the environmental movement; and some observations on the potentials for a non-sectarian “place-oriented” religious environmentalism in the future.
Charles E. Little is a writer on American land, landscape and the environment. Among his recent books are Discover America (Smithsonian), Sacred Lands of Indian America (Abrams), The Encyclopedia of Environmental Studies (Facts on File), and The Dying of the Trees (Viking-Penguin).
Little was formerly the head of natural resources policy research at the Library of Congress (Congressional Research Service) and president of The American Land Forum, a Washington, D.C., His current projects include a book on religion and the environment and a study of economic and ecological recovery in the Great Plains.
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