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William R Jordan III, editor, Environmental Prospect, an online journal
William Jordan, editor of Environmental Prospect: A Journal for the New Academy for Nature and Culture frequent speaker and author. Education: M.A. (Journalism) University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD (Botany) University of Wisconsin-Madison B.S. (Biology) Marquette University

Books: Making Nature Whole: A History of Ecological Restoration, with co-author George Lubick, (Island Press, July, 2011) The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). Restoration Ecology: A Synthetic Approach to Ecological Research, William R. Jordan III, Michael E. Gilpin and John D. Aber, editors (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1987) Experience: Co-Director, the DePaul University Institute for Nature and Culture, 2004-present President and Director, The New Academy for Nature and Culture, 1999-present Keynote and Invited Speaker - 1995 - present Publications and Outreach manager, University of Wisconsin - Madison Arboretum 1977-2001 NFS Fellow, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas, 1993-1994 (on leave from UW-Madison Arboretum) Newswriter, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., 1975-6 Reporter, Wisconsin State Journal, 1974-1975

While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum in the 80's, he coined the phrase "restoration ecology" and started a conversation that has changed the way many today think about nature, culture, values and restoration. William Jordan had been thinking about ecological restoration since 1977 when he took a job as outreach manager for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum but soon became intrigued with the story behind the ecological communities maintained by the Arboretum-the fact that they weren't "natural" but were the result of an attempt, begun in the 1930's, to re-create on a few hundred acres of played-out farmland examples of what Aldo Leopold described as an attempt to "reconstruct" a "sample of original Wisconsin." What good were these artificial natural ecological communities? For the environment? For ecology? What role might this business of restoration play in conservation? He thought we ought to be talking about these questions. After some observations and conversations it became clear to William Jordan that restoration is not only a way to perhaps return an altered ecosystem to a previous condition. It is also a good way to study an ecosystem. Thus the phrase "restoration ecology" was coined to refer to restoration deployed specifically as a technique for basic ecological research, a way of raising questions and testing ideas about the ecology of the ecosystems being restored. And that led, a few years later to a symposium and book, Restoration Ecology: A Synthetic Approach to Ecological Research, in which a couple of dozen ecologists explored this idea. William R. Jordan IIIEnvironmentalprospect (talk) 22:11, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

New Academy for Nature and Culture
The New Academy for Nature and Culture is a not-for-profit (501-c-3) organization committed to the idea that the quality of the relationship between humans and their environment ultimately depends on the values, ideas, myths and habits of thought that define that relationship. With this in mind, we identify widely shared ideas, values and habits of thought that may be advancing or limiting progress toward a sustainable relationship with the environment. We raise questions, propose ideas, and bring together the researchers, practitioners, educators, decision makers and communicators needed to explore these questions, test these ideas through both critique and practice in the field, and disseminate the results in effective and provocative ways through publications, education and public outreach. Environmental Prospect is an online journal for The New Academy for Nature and Culture William R Jordan III, editorEnvironmentalprospect (talk) 12:24, 26 April 2016 (UTC)