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CES published CES Musings, an online magazine, from 2007 to 2017. 

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The Chronicle

CULTURE A revived interest in religion in China has inspired environmental activism. In recent years hundreds of millions of people have turned to religions like Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, and as they do they are starting social service organizations to oppose polluters, and citing their faith to protest plans to build factories and power…
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Abundance

Editor’s Note: We repeat this article annually during gardening season. There is so much to learn in a garden.  This week was explosive. My garden produced cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, potatoes and the first cherry tomatoes. I was overwhelmed and since I can’t share the fruits, I share the reflections. I am not sure there…
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We Need A Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is Not Enough’

    NO IS NOT ENOUGH Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need By Naomi Klein Haymarket Books, 2017 Editor’s Note: John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. This review first appeared on June 13, 2017, in the Monthly Review Online…
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For Climate Cause, Trump’s Withdrawal from Paris Accord Just One Hurdle among Many

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in ProPublica, on June 2, 2017, and is reprinted with permission under a Creative Commons license. Revkin provides an analysis of economic forces beyond the reach of the Paris climate accord, forces that are at work regardless of the US or other nations are committed to the Paris…
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CLIMATE Climate action continues. “As the federal government abdicates its role on this important issue, it is critical for states to fill the void,” said Virginia’s Governor Terry McAuliffe as he issued an executive order on May 16, 2017, instructing officials to begin crafting regulations to “abate, control, or limit” emissions from power plants in…
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Changes Coming in CES

  When we begin our CES Service Group meetings we begin by reciting We are about the Great Work . . . the Work of moving on from a terminal Cenozoic, to an emerging Ecozoic era in the history of the planet Earth . . . which is the Great Work! We firmly believe this…
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CES-Led Symposium with David Orr on the Long View in Addressing the Ecological Crisis

On April 1, 2017, EcoCiv and CES convened a major symposium at the home of Steven Knapp, President of George Washington University in Washington, DC. Participants included leaders of environmental organizations, policy experts, scholars, and activists. The symposium provided attendees an opportunity to step back from their day-to-day efforts to construct and implement sustainable policies…
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