January 5, 2022

January 5, 2022

Friends,

I am happy to have finally published my new text, Business Ethics: Kant, Virtue, and the Nexus of Duty, on December 9, 2021. (It is a “Springer Text in Business and Economics,” ISBN: 978-3-030-85996-1 for hardcover and 978-3-030-85997-8 for eBook version). I will be using it for this semester’s “Business and Ethics” course at SUNY Fredonia. I do like the cover’s design and colors, and I thank the artist. All who are considering using this text can also use any or all of my associated videoed lectures attached to this blog. (I do wish, however, that users let me know of their use.) But if any adopting instructors wish to record their own lectures and make them available for other instructors to use, then as long as they concern the topics of this text, then please let me review them. Perhaps I can promote your videos for others to use. Perhaps we can get a dynamic going here, one that will lead to more course-related instructional materials. Note that the videoed lectures attached to this blog are actually on You Tube with links provided here.

My more scholarly book, Environmental Organizations and Reasoned Discourse, was published last July by Palgrave-Macmillan, ISBN: 978-3-030-75605-5 for hardcover, and 978-3-030-75606-2 for eBook. My last check indicated it has sold 500 copies. In this effort, I attempt to indicate the heroic and importantly crucial efforts of our environmental advocacy organizations in stimulating reasoned environmental considerations for our policy debates. I gratefully thank the editors of Palgrave’s “Environmental Politics and Theory” series, Joel Jay Kassiola and John Barry, for their kind words presented in the forward of this book.My more scholarly book, Environmental Organizations and Reasoned Discourse, was published last July by Palgrave-Macmillan, ISBN: 978-3-030-75605-5 for hardcover, and 978-3-030-75606-2 for eBook. My last check indicated it has sold 500 copies. In this effort, I attempt to indicate the heroic and importantly crucial efforts of our environmental advocacy organizations in stimulating reasoned environmental considerations for our policy debates. I gratefully thank the editors of Palgrave’s “Environmental Politics and Theory” series, Joel Jay Kassiola and John Barry, for their kind words presented in the forward of this book.

I continue my latest effort concerning the areas of concern (AOCs) restorations along our Great Lakes. The restorations of these AOCs illustrate our ability to transform severely degraded localities into positive community environmental assets. I intend to suggest that the relatively new Urban Waters effort of NOAA – in coalition with other agency partners – can extend our Great Lakes’ methodologies into other American areas such as the polluted rivers and watersheds of the Northeast. Note that all of these efforts involve local community environmental advocacy organizations, and I have begun interviews with both local advocates and agency personnel. My hope is that elucidating the accomplishments of these environmental activists will help stimulate the efforts of others. Perhaps we should organize a series of You Tube videos to document these restoration efforts.

I recommend to all the “Nature Conservancy’s” Fall, 2021, magazine Life on Earth. That volume’s article “Edge of Existence” review’s our global diversity crisis, a subject we should all be aware of and confront.

Prof. Richard Robinson

SUNY Fredonia richard.robinson@fredonia.edu