03: The History of Mormon Environmental Ethics w/ George Handley

Madison and Abbey sit down with former professor and current friend, George Handley. George is one of the leading Latter-day Saint environmental voices today. He is the author of many books including Learning to Like Life: A Tribute to Lowell Bennion and The Hope of Nature: Our Care for God’s Creation. They discuss the history and development of an Environmental Ethos within the Latter-day Saint community — beginning with Joseph Smith and his transcendentalist contemporaries, tracking through Brigham Young and mid-century Mormonism, to finish on the recent bloom of environmental thought within the Latter-day Saint community.

Links:
The Hope of Nature by George Handley
Learning to Like Life by George Handley
Cougar in Slate Cayon

Music by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com)