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Fall Programs Announced by the Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain, The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World, and The Center for Human-Earth Restoration

Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain (Chapel Hill, NC)  The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain is offering a full schedule of fall programs, including Wisdom of the Elements: Fire (Sept 17) The case for permaculture (Sept 17) Energetic Outdoor Yoga (Sept 17 and 24) Principles of Design (Sept 24) Building from Our Surroundings (Oct 22) Wisdom of the…
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Free Yale University Online Classes—”Journey of the Universe: A Story for Our Times” (Two Courses); “The Worldview of Thomas Berry”; and “Living Cosmology”

In the fall of 2016 Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Senior Lecturers and Research Scholars at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, will offer four six-week online courses. These will be featured as a specialization under the theme of “Journey of the Universe: A Story for our Times.” This will include two courses on Journey of the Universe, a course…
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Video Replay Available of Webcast with Mary Evelyn Tucker on “Living Cosmology: Dwelling within the Journey of the Universe”

We are living in a time of immense challenge on every front—socially, politically, ecologically, and spiritually. As Thomas Berry suggested, we need a new story to reorient and ground ourselves to meet these challenges. Mary Evelyn Tucker tells such a story—an epic of evolution—that has the potential to bring together the best of modern science…
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Climate Year Program to Have the United States Commence a World War II-Scale Mobilization to Restore a Safe Climate

CES has received this invitation, which we pass on to you. Allies, We are thrilled to announce our new Climate Year program. As part of our strategy to ensure that the US federal government commences a WWII-scale climate mobilization to restore a safe climate by July 4, 2017, we are looking for brilliant, talented, dedicated…
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The Chronicle

By Alice Loyd It’s All About Pollution This Time More than 80% of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that do not meet World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. The WHO update issued in June 2016 finds the worst exposure in low- and middle-income countries, where 98%…
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Grief and Gratitude

By Bill Peck Humans gain insight by Linking trillions of cells Within each brain, stretching a Mirror vast and complex enough to Catch the entire universe Reflecting its amazing Beauty and wonder We need one another All seven billion of us To weave by our cultures The interlocking segments of Vision that together As if…
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Eco-Restorative Design: An Evolutionary Process toward Care for the Greater Community of Life

By Tim Watson, Principal, TLW Architect, Hillsborough, NC And God blessed them, and said unto them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish Earth, and care for the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the air, and every living thing that moves upon Earth.” —Genesis. 1:28 (paraphrase).  While pushing wheelbarrows on the community renewal…
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Announcing the Second Edition of Matthew David Segall’s Physics Of The World-Soul and His Just Completed Dissertation on Cosmotheanthropic Imagination

Matthew David Segall is one of the brightest young philosophers around. He recently earned his PhD from the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program of the California Institute of Integral Studies. He was a student of Brian Swimme and fortunately will continue as a member of the CIIS faculty. He is taking a leading role in…
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Brian Swimme’s Podcast on “Why We Study the Universe” and Announcement of Online Graduate Program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies

By Herman Greene Few of us have the opportunity to hear Brian Swimme lecture. Here’s a fine 40-minute lecture by him on “Why We Study the Universe” of April 20, 2016. Brian teaches that cosmology is an inward desire and intention, we are one with the universe, and (of course) much more. Many of us…
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