CES published CES Musings, an online magazine, from 2007 to 2017.
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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 December 7, 2014)
Consumption With this issue we introduce the category of Consumption, a topic that becomes especially conspicuous at this time of the year. Consumption is the corollary to Pollution and Climate Change; you can’t have one without the other, at least not in the Economic-Industrial model. We offer two December stories on the subject. The first…
Alfred North Whitehead’s Process Thought and Related Ideas in the Works of Teilhard De Chardin, Brian Swimme, and Thomas Berry
Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician, logician, and philosopher. His early work, as a student and professor at Cambridge University, was on mathematics and logic. The second period, 1910-24, when he had appointments at University College London and Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, he concentrated on the philosophy of science. The…
What Is Process Philosophy and Why Is It Important to the Ecozoic? Questions and Answers
What Is Process Philosophy? A process philosophy is one that understands the universe as continually becoming. In the Greek tradition Heraclitus said than no person ever steps into the same river twice. He was in the process tradition. Daoism and Buddhism are also in the process tradition. The opposite of process philosophy is not ontology,…
Introduction to a Remarkable Essay and a Remarkable Young Philosopher: Matthew David Seagal
The following essay would be a stunning accomplishment by a person of any age. It is even more remarkable that it is by Matthew David Segall, a man in his twenties. Matthew undertakes with aplomb the task of making sense of modern science and evolutionary theory in light of Whitehead’s philosophy and also a vision…
Physics of the World-Soul
Editor’s Note: Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician, logician and philosopher. His early work, as a student and professor at Cambridge University, was on mathematics and logic. The second period, 1910-24, when he had appointments at University College London and Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, he concentrated on the philosophy of…
The Importance Of Thomas Berry (A CES Foundational Paper)
Thomas Berry (1914-2009), was a cultural historian, philosopher, human ecologist, and a self-described geologian. He was among the first to observe that the effects of human activity have become so great that Earth is undergoing a change in geo-biological eras. He identified the “Great Work” of our time as the task of moving on from…
The Chronicle
CLIMATE It’s all about climate. On Sunday, September 21, New York City saw what is being called the largest mobilization against climate change in the history of the planet. The crowd, estimated at 400,000 people of all ages and from around the world, filled midtown Manhattan streets to demand action to avert catastrophic climate change….
The Anthropology And Political Ecology Of Climate Change
THE ANTHROPOLOGY AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE (Course Syllabus – Fall 2014, Anthropology 490, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Professor Arturo Escobar Course Description This course is intended as an upper division seminar devoted to a study in contemporary anthropology and new directions in research or applications. There are few topics in…
Thomas Berry, 100-Years Of Wisdom And A Birthday Gift Of My Universe Story
Excerpt from one of Thomas Berry’s Riverdale Papers: The Spirituality of the Earth I am not speaking of a human spirituality with special reference to the planet Earth. I am speaking of a quality of the Earth itself. Earth is the maternal principle out of which we are born and whence we derive all that…