Faith and the Environment
12:15 PM
Panel description coming soon.
Moderator
George Thorman, D’11
As a native of Lincoln, Nebraska, and a recent graduate from Dartmouth, George works as a research assistant for the college's Environmental Studies Program. His position includes aquaculture research at the Dartmouth Organic Farm as well as participation in the college's Sustainability Strategic Planning Initiative. George studied Geography and Studio Art as an undergraduate and hopes to continue pursuing a creative intersection of his environmental concerns and design.
Panelists
John Copeland Nagle
John N. Matthews Professor, The Law School, University of Notre Dame
John Copeland Nagle is the John N. Mathews Chair at the Notre Dame Law School, where he teaches a variety of environmental law courses, as well as legislation and property law. He is the co-author of three casebooks: “The Practice and Policy of Environmental Law,” “The Law of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management,” and “Property: Cases and Materials.” His book “Law’s Environment: How the Law Affects the Environment,” was published by the Yale University Press in 2010. He is currently working on a book about the relationship between Christian teaching and environmental law.
Professor Nagle has received two Fulbright awards: first to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer at the Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing during 2002, and then to serve as a distinguished scholar with the faculty of law of the University of Hong Kong during the spring of 2008. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the University of Michigan Law School. He helps organize the annual meeting of the Law Professors’ Christian Fellowship and has served as an elder in the South Bend Christian Reformed Church.
Stephen Blackmer D’79
Green Friar / Kairos Earth
Stephen Blackmer is completing his third and final year at Yale Divinity School where he has been focusing on Christianity and Ecology while preparing for ordination in the Episcopal Church. Prior to returning to school, Steve worked for 25 years to conserve forests and strengthen rural communities in the Northern Forest of New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and New York – a region he got to know first through the Dartmouth College Grant. Steve is an Environmental Fellow with the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation, was a Bullard Fellow at Harvard University, and was awarded the National Conservation Partnership Award. He has a Master’s degree in Forestry from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Dartmouth College (’79). Steve lives with his wife, Kelly Short, in Canterbury, New Hampshire and they have two children, Alex and Emily, D ’13.
