The Green Institute's
Initiative in Interdisciplinary Studies

The Initiative adresses issues of religion, ecology, governance. Also, the Society for Conservation Biology has accepted the new working group on Religion and Conservation Biology chaired by Baugh. Cracks in the Ice is the newest offering, in which Baugh proposes that the response of religion and theology to the environmental crisis has not been timely or significant enough to help stop the slide of civilization into chaos.

Two book reviews by Tom Baugh: Black Mass: Apocalyptic religion and the death of Utopia and Politics of nature: How to bring the sciences into democracy.


From Dr. Jared Ball, Green Institute Communications Fellow


A four-part series on Hip-Hop

Professor Ball examines corporate power, the fraudulence of pop culture, and the colonization of Black America, as seen through the focal lens of Hip-Hop. The content of hip-hop has been a public controversy and with this four-part series, the Green Institute looks at an issue that is far
deeper than the lyrics in commercial hip-hop music.


GreenPRO
Green Policies, Resolutions, and Ordinances

 

GreenPRO is a database of local policy. With Google maps to show you where the entries are from, background pages to discuss how the ordinances came to be, and the ease of searching on a wiki, GreenPRO is one of the best tools for the activist, local officeholder, and student of public policy. GreenPRO lives at http://www.greenpolicy.us.


Global Greens 2008

In May of this year, Greens from all over the world will participate in the second Global Greens Gathering in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The objectives are to:
  • promote the Global Green Charter among the Green Parties of the world, as
    well as kindred groups and society at-large;
  • stimulate and facilitate action on matters of global consequence; and
  • deepen communication among Green Parties and Federations everywhere


The Green Institute will be attending with observer status and is conveing a meeting of Green think tanks and institutes from around the world.


The Writings of Roger Morris


The Green Institute's former Research Fellow is an award-winning historian and author.


By Roger Morris & Steve Schmidt A New Vision for the 21st Century
On September 20th, 2006, the Green Institute hosted a panel discussion at the Washington Club on Dupont Circle in Washington DC. Surviving Victory examined the situation we find ourselves in after our supposed military victories in Afghanistan and Iraq.