Inner and Outer Principles for Ecological Sustainability - Stockholm Seminars (Aug. 29, Stockholm)

THE STOCKHOLM SEMINARS: FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE AND POLICY.  We have the great pleasure to invite you to the seminar: Inner and Outer Principles for Ecological Sustainability with Prof. John P Milton, Friday, August 29, 2008, 14.0015.00, Linné Hall, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen 4, Stockholm. Download the seminar announcement as a pdf-file at: http://albaeco.com/htm/pdf/milton0829-08.pdf. Please, post or circulate the announcement among your colleagues or put it on the note board. The seminars are open for all interested and free of charge. No registration needed.

SEMINAR ABSTRACT: During the decade before the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972, Milton pioneered major work to understand the human impact on nature and the specific ecological effects of global technological development. In 1963 Milton began mapping disciplines that in any way internalized the impacts on nature into their work; later he gathered leaders together from those disciplines, designing a process for them to learn from each other and to understand the need for interdisciplinary work if we are to truly understand environmental systems. This innovative work further evolved into a broad investigation of the ecological effects of development projects worldwide. Milton's work was compiled in his book, The Careless Technology: Ecology and International Development. This book was published in 1972, the year of the Stockholm Conference. It had a large impact at Stockholm and helped provide the main
scientific database for that gathering. The lessons learnt from this work Milton now put into another book: Ecological Principles for Economic Development (1973). This was a pioneering volume on ecological sustainability and how to manage humans and nature as one integrated system. Today the research community believes that we still are on an unsustainable path. Now Milton works on internal changes that are needed to alter the direction society is heading. Milton is convinced that political, legal, and economic approaches don't go deep enough, we need penetrating changes in human culture for people to live in true harmony and balance with one another and the earth.

ABOUT PROF MILTON:  John P. Milton is a professional ecologist, an experienced meditation, Tai Chi and Qi Gong teacher, author, and a  Pioneering environmentalist. A founding father of the environmental movement in the early 1960s, he was a professor of environmental studies and a Woodrow Wilson Center scholar at the Smithsonian Institution. He was one of the first  ecologists on staff at the White House as a member of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisors, and was a founding board member of the environmental organization Friends of the Earth. Currently he is the President of The Way of Nature and its well-known wilderness programs, Sacred Passage and NatureQuest. He is also Chairman of the environmental foundation Threshold.

ABOUT THE STOCKHOLM SEMINARS: FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE AND POLICY  The Stockholm Seminars cover a broad range of perspectives on sustainability issues and are focused on the need for a sound scientific basis for
sustainable development policy. The Stockholm Seminars is arranged by seven interdisciplinary institutes to communicate scientific results on sustainable development. The seminars are given at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and are visited by a large audience, including scientists, students, media and policy makers in the public and private sector. The lectures are free of charge and open for all interested. For more information: contact Albaeco (08 - 674 74 00) or e-mail: info@albaeco.com, or www.albaeco.com/sthsem

ARRANGED BY: The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.  - The Stockholm Resilience Centre. The Stockholm Environment Institute, SEI.  The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, IGBP, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.  The Stockholm International Water Institute, SIWI.  The Swedish Biodiversity Centre, CBM, at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala University.  The International Foundation for Science, IFS.