Francs C. Verhagen Ph.D, Air date: 09-23- ...FRANS C. VERHAGEN, M.Div., M.I.A., Ph.D., Environmental/sustainability sociologist Director Sustainability Education and Research Earth and Peace Education Associates International (EPE) EDUCATION Ph.D. in Sociology-- specializations in international development, the sociology of organizations, social change, social theory and philosophy (Columbia University) 1979. Dissertation: Conformity and Unconformity: The Relationship of 100 American Voluntary Aid and Development Organizations towards the U.S. Government and Transnational Corporations. Masters in International Affairs with Certificate in African Studies (Columbia University) 1974. Masters in Divinity (SMA & Augustinian Colleges) 1963 and (Nijmegen University) 1968. Advanced Certificate in International Development: NUFFIC (Netherlands University Federation For International Cooperation) (Nijmegen University) 1969. Licenses for Day High Schools in New York City and New York State: Social Studies, General Science, and Earth Science, 1989, 1995. LANGUAGES Dutch (native language) English (second language) German (good) French (fair) Twi (fair) reading knowledge of classical Greek and Latin Dr. Verhagen has also been active in civic organizations. He established the Ecology Task Force at the Riverside Church in Manhattan (1989). As chair of the Ecology Task Force he organized activities that led to the Riverside Church Declaration on Becoming an Earth Community Church; organized a national conference on Religion and Ecology in 1989 featuring invited speakers Thomas Berry (geologian), Hazel Henderson (economist) Jay McDaniel (process theologian); represented the Church at the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992 and served as founding member of the International Coordinating Committee for Religion and Earth (ICCRE) that brought the world religions to the Earth Summit. For ten years (1989-99) he chaired the Queens Green Party, the first local of the green movement in NY State, which he founded in 1989. He produced and hosted a monthly one-hour TV program dealing with the fundamentals of environmentalism, as part of the Partys educational outreach (1989 1999) and has recently started a new series entitled Sustainable Living, sponsored by EPE. In 1998, he became president of Sane Aviation for Everyone (SAFE, Inc), a local coalition of civic groups that is working for a sustainable, equitable and accountable aviation industry which he co-founded (www.metronyaviation.org) and in April 2002 he accepted the presidency of Citizens Aviation Watch, the national coalition of civic groups with goals similar to SAFEs (www.us-caw.org ) code pour embarquer la vidéo : >>> http://www.youtube.com/embed/-g8zdax-X3I <<< |