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
CES Musings May 2010
Scientists in the former Soviet Union called for an ecological civilization in 1984. The idea was taken up in China by Ye Qianji in 1987. The Chinese as a whole rejected a separation of man and nature in the sense that one could become whole without the other. This aspect of Chinese traditional culture had a great impact on Thomas Berry’s thinking. Robert Woolf prefers the term “culture,” the necessarily local way a group of people have learned to live in balance with each other and with their local environment.
CES Musings March 2010
We have entered in a completely new horizontal historical dimension, where the simultaneous transmission of facts, disrupts each order of succession between past and presence, while the bombardment of information causes confusion and disorientation in the thought. Nobility (ever set on excelling oneself) underlies civilization; each generation has to reproduce it afresh based ideas from the past.
CES Musings February 2010
“The Ecozoic” is a vision and a summons, a planetary embryo in gestation, the Bride’s Song. Earth marries air, air marries fire, and fire marries the sea.
CES Musings January 2010
Many human civilizations have come and gone. An ecological civilization will have the capacity to endure, being built on spiritual understandings of biological systems and organizing itself to follow natural patterns.
CES Musings December 2009
For many, the experience of Thomas’s thought was a sudden, powerful opening to a hitherto unsuspected major and life-altering reality. That reality might be expressed as the unity of a sacred Earth community in which humans are [but] the climactic part in a unified, divinely revelatory, evolutionary enterprise.
CES Musings November 2009
The universe is so vast it will answer any cosmological question we put to it. Newton asked: “What are the principles of motion and action?” Einstein asked: “What are the meanings of time and moving frames of reference?” It is now time to ask the universe a new cosmological question: “What is love?”
CES Musings October 2009
In this issue: Partial Correction—The Ecozoic #3 on “What is Ecozoic?” – Invitation for Submissions, by Herman Greene; Reflections on the Thomas Berry Award and Memorial Service: Earth Is Primary, the Human Derivative, by K. Lauren de Boer.
CES Musings September 2009
To bring into being the Ecozoic Era means building an ecological civilization, moving from a human-centered to an Earth-centered norm of reality and value. In this issue we call for ecozoic writing to be published in The Ecozoic #3; honor deceased ecozoic author Edward Goldsmith; and offer two poems by Therése Halscheid.
CES Musings August 2009
Herman Greene honors the passings of herbalist, teacher and botanical explorer Frank Cook, and British biologist and author Brian Goodwin; Jordan Vilchez gains understanding of the world through Thomas Berry’s writing, as Elizabeth Ayres does through kayaking.
CES Musings July 2009
Herman Greene reports on the awesome country of China, its environmental issues and its interest in ecological civilization