CES published CES Musings, an online magazine, from 2007 to 2017.
Access articles published in CES Musings by clicking the links below.
To obtain citations for these articles, refer to the Index of Articles.
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The Chronicle
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Abundance
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Thrice-Born: On the Transformation of an Expert Dufus
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On Ecovillages and the Universe Story
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We Need A Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is Not Enough’
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For Climate Cause, Trump’s Withdrawal from Paris Accord Just One Hurdle among Many
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Remembering Wm. Theodore De Bary
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The Chronicle
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Changes Coming in CES
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CES-Led Symposium with David Orr on the Long View in Addressing the Ecological Crisis
The Chronicle (through May 4, 2015)
ENERGY The biggest energy event in the past 30 days may have been Tesla’s announcement that a small, low-cost, high-storage-capacity solar battery is ready to go into production. The lithium-ion Powerwall, which can capture and store up to 10kWh of energy from a solar panel, is 68cm by 1.3m in size (only a little…
CES News: A Reconciliation—Unity Within the Thomas Berry Community
This picture (see pdf) of Thomas Berry taken late in his life is a reminder of the spirit of this great man and of the legacy he left with us. June 1, 2015 will be the sixth anniversary of his death. Thomas was a Catholic. The day that is celebrated for a Catholic saint is…
CES News: James Peacock Announces His Re-Firement
On May 7, 2015, a reception was held honoring Professor James L. Peacock of the Anthropology Department of the University of North Carolina of Chapel Hill (UNC) and Member of the Board of CES. He is pictured here at that event in front of a plaque marking one of his many achievements—the establishment of…
2015 Is a Signal Year for Sustainability
As we celebrate our personal experiences of the natural world this spring, and lament the declining state of the global environment, we should also pay attention to the really significant events that will take place this year relating to sustainability. It could well be that we look back on this year as a turning…
Reflections on Earth from Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Jaime Vergara lives in Saipan and is a columnist for the Saipan Times. Born in the Philippines, he became a naturalized US citizen in 1984. He has lived and worked all over the world, including in the Philippines, Nigeria, Tonga, Jamaica, Guatemala, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Malaysia, Venezuela, Korea, and in the United States, Chicago, Dallas,…
The Chronicle (through March 31, 2015)
CLIMATE In 2014 for the first time in 40 years, annual worldwide CO2 emissions did not rise. On March 13 the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that annual global emissions remained at 32 gigatonnes in 2014, unchanged from the previous year. The agency reported that except for 3 years when major economic downturns affected…
CES News: Law Track of Ecological Civilization Conference
I am the co-organizer of the law track in the Ecological Civilization conference described in the events section of this Musings. This track illustrates the kind of work that will be done in each of the 83 tracks in the conference. It is also illustrative of the work CES is doing and will continue to…
Two Poems: The Briefing and Will Justice Come
THE BRIEFING You are new here and have been given the keys. I’ve been asked to lay out the big picture Of how the world works – from our point of view Without the feel good bullshit. You are being paid too much to need that. First, understand that it is all related And it’s…
The Colder Winter Anomaly
Was it weather or was it climate? The colder winter anomaly in the Eastern United States For those of us in the eastern part of the United States, the shortest month was long and hard. About the time we recovered from one severe cold front, another moved in. February 2015 continued a trend James Hansen…
Thomas Berry’s Sense of the Sacred
Editor’s Note: Thomas Berry often wrote about spirituality, the sacred and the divine. Here are three articles related to Thomas Berry’s sense of the sacred. The third article on the “Interspiritual Movement” did not come out of the Thomas Berry community as such. It is presented as additional new spiritual/religious movements will be presented in…