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Dr. Spencer S. Stober is a Professor of Biology, and Director of the Center for Ethics and Leadership, Alvernia University (USA). His primary areas of interest include bioethics and sustainability.
(See my biography page for more information).
Publications:
| Close Encounters of the Natural Kind: Eco-Composition, Citizen Science, and Academe | |||
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Eco-composition encourages reflection on natural phenomena, and if creatively linked to a “citizen science” project, becomes a tool that can cause college students to develop plans for a sustainable environment. |
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| Sustaining Gaia through Learning Communities: A Case Study in Higher Education | |||
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A quest to promote sustainable communities through aggressive activism caused graduate professors to develop an interdisciplinary master’s program in the liberal arts tradition. |
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| Academic Service Abroad: Confronting our Limitations | |||
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An academic service project in the Dominican Republic by health care professionals earning their MBA caused this professor to reflect on limitations imposed by worldviews and the academic culture. |
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| Mother Nature and Her Discontents: Gaia as a Metaphor for Environmental Sustainability | |||
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Gaia (the Greek goddess of Mother Earth) came to life in modern times as Lovelock’s Hypothesis. Her discontents are revealed to us as global warming and she deserves our consideration. |
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| Ecuador: Mother Nature’s Utopia | |||
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Political and cultural factors may explain Ecuador’s recent move to include environmental provisions that protect ecosystems by recognizing Pachamama (“Mother Earth”) in its 2008 Constitution. |
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| Environmental Memes: Form, Function, and Reasons for Optimism | |||
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This paper describes environmental memes as creating principles in the minds of people, and these principles are used as benchmarks to judge and mediate our interactions with nature. |
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