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

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My Magic Manifesto

By Katherine Savage Katherine Savage lives next to the same patch of woods in which—as a child—she played, dreamed, and learned about being wild. Though this patch is thin now, the woods continue to speak; and she, in love with listening, keeps paper and pen with her at all times. She translates what she hears…
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CES Event: Ecology Beauty Art

CES EVENT: “ECOLOGY, BEAUTY, ART” Featuring Sandra Lubarsky, PhD; Mary Southard, CSJ; and Marc Ford, PhD Includes workshops on art, music, and poetry April 29-30, 2016 Chapel Hill, North Carolina The importance of beauty and of art for ecologically-minded people is underrated, or at least seldom discussed. “Aesthetics,” while remaining as a subject matter of…
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Five Years of Drought Now Rain–Three Rivers, California, A Country Village in the Foothills of the Sierra Mountains–I am Earth

  October 16, 2015. Coffee in hand, I wander in predawn darkness through my candle-lit living room. The outside doors are open to the sweet, fresh smells of wet soil from last night’s thunderstorm, a brief respite from our five-year drought. I let my dog out to sit on his deck bed where he can…
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Uncompromising Sustainability: How the United Nations’ New Sustainable Development Goals Will Transform Our World

  The Center for Ecozoic Societies in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is one of many organizations grounded in the work of Thomas Berry. Thomas Berry was[1] a self-described “geologian,” a lover and student of Earth. He has been credited with beginning the spiritual ecology movement. With respect to the relation of ecology, religion, and culture,…
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A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Dear world, I want to say “thank you” for the privilege of the joyous journey of life on this planet.  Each day is an adventure to learn more and see more of the splendid gifts in nature that surround us, if only we open our eyes and other senses to perceive them. Amen
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