Event Title
Coyote Lives in Maine Community Partner Research Project
Location
Davis 117
Start Date
30-4-2015 2:00 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 2:25 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
Our group is working with a community partner, Coyote Lives in Maine, as part of our Environmental Ethics course. We will be applying concepts used in class regarding human impact on and moral obligation to nature as a life-supporting system. In order to do this, we will be creating a presentation based on our work this semester with the organization. In order to help Coyote Lives in Maine realize the goal of creating a more sustainable human-coyote relationship, we will be researching the local historical interactions between our two species and applying this knowledge to a modern, political space. By interviewing state legislators and compiling the collected information, our goal is to gain a better conception of how the current leaders of our society understand these interactions and the conflicting interests at hand. Conflicted interests in these areas often include people working in the agricultural sector, so this project is designed to look into how social and professional interests play into environmental decisions at a policy level. As politicians are elected to represent their constituents, we hope to see the prevalence or lack thereof of environmental ethics within our collective conscious in Maine, as well as within the institutions that uphold our own rights and, hopefully, the rights of other species who share this area with us. We will be creating a final visual project, most likely in the form of a short film, to present our research and conclusion in full.
Faculty Sponsor
Keith Peterson
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Philosophy Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Humanities
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1360
Coyote Lives in Maine Community Partner Research Project
Davis 117
Our group is working with a community partner, Coyote Lives in Maine, as part of our Environmental Ethics course. We will be applying concepts used in class regarding human impact on and moral obligation to nature as a life-supporting system. In order to do this, we will be creating a presentation based on our work this semester with the organization. In order to help Coyote Lives in Maine realize the goal of creating a more sustainable human-coyote relationship, we will be researching the local historical interactions between our two species and applying this knowledge to a modern, political space. By interviewing state legislators and compiling the collected information, our goal is to gain a better conception of how the current leaders of our society understand these interactions and the conflicting interests at hand. Conflicted interests in these areas often include people working in the agricultural sector, so this project is designed to look into how social and professional interests play into environmental decisions at a policy level. As politicians are elected to represent their constituents, we hope to see the prevalence or lack thereof of environmental ethics within our collective conscious in Maine, as well as within the institutions that uphold our own rights and, hopefully, the rights of other species who share this area with us. We will be creating a final visual project, most likely in the form of a short film, to present our research and conclusion in full.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/78