Since 2004, the EECP and the Willson Center have co-sponsored an annual lecture to honor ecologist Eugene Odum. While recognized as one of the leading ecologists of the 20th century, Dr. Odum also had a keen interest in environmental ethics. He was among the founders of the EECP thirty years ago, alongside faculty and students initially drawn from ecology, religion, and philosophy. They recognized the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to addressing our relationship with the environment, and the necessity...

Doug Davis reads an excerpt from his essay appearing in "Bartram's Living Legacy: the Travels and the Nature of the South." Taped March 4, 2011 at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia, as part of the conference "William Bartram's Georgia: Art and Science on the Southern Frontier."

Thomas Rain Crowe reads an excerpt from his essay appearing in "Bartram's Living Legacy: the Travels and the Nature of the South." Taped March 4, 2011 at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia, as part of the conference "William Bartram's Georgia: Art and Science on the Southern Frontier."

Featuring author, playwright, and columnist John Biguinet and environmental justice activist Robert Bullard. Taped at the ASLE 2007 biennial conference at Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC.

Broadcast live from The Chapel on the Old Campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The program was a production of The University of Georgie Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, Georgia Sea Grant, and WUGA-FM. The Writers Bill Belleville is an award-winning environmental writer and filmmaker who lives in Sanford, Florida. He has traveled widely on assignment for the Discovery Channel, diving magazines and other periodicals. Assignments have included the White Sea of Russia, the Great Barrier Reef, the...

David Gessner presented this talk as part of the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program seminar series at the University of Georgia.

J. Drew Lanham presented this talk as part of the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program seminar series at the University of Georgia.

Before the bridges and golfers, when the notion of a Lowcountry "lifestyle" was just our way of life, being a wild child meant living as Mother Nature's Son, spending summer months barefoot and 16 miles by boat away from parents, rules, laws, and cares. It really was that way, people! Roger Pinckney shares the childhood of a Lowcountry writer and we learn why he's such a sought-after tour guide. Authenticity and true love shines through. Click to hear what being wild...

Join renowned entomologist and native Alabamian Dr. E. O. Wilson discussing the diversity and value of Hurricane Creek, Alabama, where he conducted his post-graduate work in the 1950s. According to Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen, Dr. Wilson documented a species of ant "Leptothorax tuscaloosae" (yep, named in honor of the home of the University of Alabama). As far as we know this is the only location for this species. John Wathen says, "Who knows or will know if we do not...

Writer David Taylor's trip down a dirty river in suburban Dallas led to a new understanding of nature. He lends NPR's Debbie Elliot his views on how Texans relate to the environment.