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EARTH CELEBRATIONS

On one autumnal equinox, when afternoon light was dancing with shadows, I remember groups of people at the north edge of the Sunshine Meadow of Botanical Gardens at Asheville clustered under the Basswood trees. At the eastern edge, others emerged from the gazebo, where they had sought shelter from the rain. At the southern edge Reed Creek babbled and gurgled, heading westward toward the French Broad River. Near the green bridge came sounds of someone playing a Native American flute.
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TIME TO FLY THE EARTH FLAG

Because I believe that human consciousness is changing in the direction of planetary consciousness, I want to suggest that we fly the flag of our Earth to strengthen this reality—and soon.  Climate change, loss of species, depletion of basic resources, and pollution of waters all send a message that our current mode of  thinking is dangerously outmoded.
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BECOME A MEMBER, DONATE, VOLUNTEER

You may become a member of CES online here. Or, you may send a letter to CES at 2516 Winningham Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516, USA, with your contact information (name, address, email, and phone) and dues. Annual dues for regular membership are US$35 (individual or family) and annual dues for a sustaining membership are US$135. Alternately you may become a member (and pay by credit card or PayPal) by contacting ecozoicstudies@gmail.com.
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CASCADING APOCALYPSES NOW COMING—ECOLOGICAL OVERSHOOT

COVID-19 dominates everything and everyone, whether they realize it or not. The United States wants to go back to normal, but that is gone and not returning. This virus could enable all of us to see through the delusions and contradictions that embody our collective and individual lives, and notice the interconnected crises abounding. Perhaps we can see behind the illusions that still govern us. Apocalypse means peering behind the curtain for revelations — they are coming, and fast.
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THE ECOZOIC, ULTIMATE COMMUNION, AND THE SPIRIT OF AN AGE

Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk now 94 years old, says that mysticism is the experience of ultimate communion—the experience that hidden behind the apparent brokenness of life there is something that connects everything in goodness. This experience comes to us and goes. It is negated in our everyday experience, and then it comes again. Mysticism is the experience of the unseen order of things.
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Announcements

Still Time to Submit Stories for the Great Work We have re-scheduled the date of publication of our next Ecozoic Journal on “The Living Legacy of Thomas Berry.” It will be published in early 2020, rather than late 2019. If you would like to submit (i) a story of how you have lived and will…
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The Trees of Our Lives

It is appropriate to think about trees as we enter this particular holiday season. They hold an important symbolic place in religious and secular traditions, and now their role in nature is rising to prominence. “Of all the solutions to climate change, ones that involve trees make people the happiest,” writes Bill McKibben in a…
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Then as Now . . . Hope!: Christmas 1968 and the Photograph that Changed the World

“If we are to have peace on earth . . . we must develop a world perspective.” –Martin Luther King Jr., December 24, 1967 “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty! –Commander Frank Borman, Apollo 8, December 24, 1968 Forty-one years ago, on Christmas…
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Creativity and Chaos—As Creativity Births New Forms It May Appear Chaotic

Perhaps what we call Chaos is actually Creativity in the process of birthing new ordered forms. Throughout the history of the universe, changes have been ongoing. Common cyclic themes include birth/death, order/disorder, and evolution/devolution. Space and time needed for identifiable change vary. For Earth and life on it, when the process is slow enough to…
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Become a Member

You may become a member of CES online here. Or, you may send a letter to CES at 2516 Winningham Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516, USA, with your contact information (name, address, email, and phone) and dues. Annual dues for regular membership are US$40 (individual or family) and annual dues for a sustaining membership…
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CES News

Twenty-Year Celebration of CES and of Alice Loyd New Schedule for Next Ecozoic Journal on “The Living Legacy of Thomas Berry ­- Stories for the Great Work” . . . Still time to submit Georgetown University October Conference on Thomas Berry’s Great Work Legal Casebook on Earth Law Twenty-Year Celebration of CES and of Alice…
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Love in a Time of Ruin: Looking at Four Recent Books on Climate Disruption

Dahr Jamail, The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption (New York: The New Press, 2019) David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2019) Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (New York: Henry Holt and Company,…
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How Then Shall We Live?

The increase in greenhouse gases, primarily from burning fossil fuels and aggressive agricultural practices, is leading to the destabilization of global weather systems. The resulting chaotic climate coupled with habitat destruction and the toxic byproducts of our economy’s rapacious resource consumption are leading to enormous losses in wildlife populations and a collapse of ecosystem functioning…
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Coming CES Events

Thursday, November 21, 2019: Salon with William Powers, Author of Dispatches from the Sweet Life: One Family, Five Acres, and a Community’s Quest to Reinvent the World Friday, December 6, 2019: Presentation by Architect Tim Watson, “Earthwalk Dwellings—Really Sustainable Homes” Saturday, December 7, 2019: Twenty-Year Celebration of CES and of Alice Loyd November 21, 2019,…
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What Do You Think Is Going to Happen? What Should We Do? Are You Hopeful about the Future?

When I give talks about the ecological situation, I am often asked one or more of the following questions: “What do you think will happen?” “What should we do?” and “Are you hopeful?” I typically have either turned the questions around or given only vague answers. Following Rainer Maria Rilke’s advice in Letters to a…
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Foresight

Humans are world-makers. We humans have used foresight to build cities, empires, companies. In the United States the “manifest destiny” to have the nation extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific led to a steadily advancing frontier. We have dreamed of putting men on the moon and flying and have accomplished both. Our great visions…
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A Simple World

Stefano is a long-time member of CES. He has written an ecozoic novel and is looking for a publisher. He teaches the ecozoic and carries the ecozoic vision. He is a singer and here is one of his recent songs. A SIMPLE WORLD A cat under the ficus, the other next, the sun reverberating in…
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Call for Stories—2019 Ecozoic Journal on “The Living Legacy of Thomas Berry: Stories from the Great Work”

Please send us your stories of how you are living the legacy of Thomas Berry. We will publish these stories in in the 2019 issue of the Ecozoic Journal, which will be on “The Living Legacy of Thomas Berry: Stories from the Great Work.” Submissions are due by the end of August (August 31, 2019),…
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October 30-31, 2019, Georgetown University Conference on “Thomas Berry and ‘The Great Work’” – Free and Open to the Public

This special conference will explore the life and legacy of Thomas Berry, with presentations on his intellectual journey, “The New Story,” the Journey of the Universe, Laudato Si, The Dream of the Earth, and the challenge of “The Great Work.” This event is free and open to the public. Wednesday, October 30         Opening Session 4:00…
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3rd Annual Flaring Forth Celebration W/Brian Thomas Swimme-The Great Work!

Holy Names University, Oakland, California, Saturday, November 16, 2019, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Registration Fee of $20.00 Twenty years ago, in 1999 CE (Common Era), Thomas Berry released The Great Work: Our Way into the Future to the Human Community. With the crucial climate crisis decade of the 2020’s CE right around the corner, now…
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Review — Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal, Thomas Berry: A Biography

(New York: Columbia University Press, 2019) Who was this man, this Thomas Berry? We know he made his mark. We can show where he made a substantial difference in, among other fields, ecological spirituality, environmental ethics, religion and ecology, Earth law, and cosmology. Yet, those of us who are devoted to his work feel he…
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Beyond Recycling

Recycling was never the answer to the problem of waste, which is the inevitable consequence of production and consumption in our industrialized economy. When we ecozoans bought a product, however, we were much happier if it could be recycled to make a new product. Using curbside services provided by our municipality or transporting recyclables to…
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The Living Legacy of Thomas Berry

TB19 – The Living Legacy of Thomas Berry Event by Herman Greene “We Are Gathered among the Trees” by Jim Conlon “Honoring Thomas Berry” by Bill Peck “On the Tenth Anniversary of Thomas Berry’s Passing” by Betty Lou Chaika “Gifts Thomas Berry Has Given Us” by Lauren de Boer Engaged Thomas Berry Legacy Projects compiled…
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CES News

CALL FOR STORIES—2019 ECOZOIC JOURNAL ON “THE LIVING LEGACY OF THOMAS BERRY: STORIES FROM THE GREAT WORK”  Please send us your stories of how you are living the legacy of Thomas Berry. We will publish these stories in in the 2019 issue of the Ecozoic Journal, which will be on “The Living Legacy of Thomas…
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Really Green Building

Often when an environmentally responsible person makes decisions about new home construction, the choices include replacing conventional building materials with recycled, or local, or low-chemical options. Rarely is the entire premise of what constitutes a healthy home for the human inhabitants or the Earth considered. Fortunately, there is a growing movementtoward usingnatural building methods and…
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Little Things Mean a Lot

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. —Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish Statesman (1729-1797) Kitty Kallen wrote a song called “Little Things Mean a Lot.” Here are a couple of verses. Blow me a kiss from across the room Say I look nice when I’m not Touch…
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October 30-31, 2019, Georgetown University Conference on “Thomas Berry and ‘The Great Work’” – Free and Open to the Public

This special conference will explore the life and legacy of Thomas Berry, with presentations on his intellectual journey, “The New Story,” the Journey of the Universe, Laudato Si, The Dream of the Earth, and the challenge of “The Great Work.” This event is free and open to the public.            Wednesday,…
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Free Access to Online Courses on Journey of the Universe and Thomas Berry

Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Yale University, are offering four six-week online courses. Brian Thomas Swimme provides introductory comments. These are featured as a specialization under the title:  “Journey of the Universe: A Story for Our Times.” They are available in English and in Chinese. This specialization includes two courses on Journey of the…
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The Long View: Thomas Berry’s Instruction on the Reform of Religion, Law, and Culture in His Later Books

Thomas Berry, Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community, ed. Mary Evelyn Tucker (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books and Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006; reissued by Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2015) ______, The Christian Future and the Fate of the Earth, ed. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2009)…
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Rising Earth: Transformative Permaculture Immersion Ten-Week Program for Young Adults, Fall 2019 Eco-Institute at Pickard’s Mountain, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

If one were to imagine a perfect program for young adults, ages 18-28, to prepare them for life and change-making in the difficult times ahead, it would probably look very much like the residential “Rising Earth: Transformative Permaculture Immersion” training program that will take place at the Eco-Institute at Pickard’s Mountain, Chapel Hill, North Carolina…
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John B. Cobb, Jr., Ecological Academy: A Different Education Is Possible — Sunshine Ecovillage, City of Jiande, Zhejiang Province, China

We all participate in and contribute to the times in which we live, as we aspire for our own destiny. With reflection and discernment, our minds free us from concerns, yet doubts still trouble our hearts. Where is the distant poetic beauty? There is a rural life, where traditional wisdom listens to the wind and…
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Free Access to Online Courses on Journey of the Universe and Thomas Berry

Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Yale University, are offering four six-week online courses. Brian Thomas Swimme provides introductory comments. These are featured as a specialization under the title:  “Journey of the Universe: A Story for our Times.” They are available in English and in Chinese. This specialization includes two courses on Journey of the…
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CES News

Delay in Publication of 2018 Journal on The Ecozoic Way: CES Foundational Papers  We made a big push to get this issue off to the printer at the end of December 2018. At that time we sent the manuscript to several leaders in Thomas Berry’s work and they suggested important changes which involved additional writing….
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When Enough Is A’Plenty

An angel of a’plenty summoned my first garden plot. She came to me from the other side at a time when I needed a nudge to get out of bed. I’d been in bed metaphorically for a few years, from the profundity of my discouragement in human behavior. I was feeling the holes rather than…
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Return to India

Sometimes in my life I have stumbled into lessons that seem unusual and unconventional. On my recent trip to Mumbai, India I found myself a student once again. The topic was acceptance. I had returned after almost three years for what I hoped was a final round of major dental work, to an exceptional clinic and…
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Green New Deal: Making It Work

At last a proposal for a Green New Deal has been introduced in Congress by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY (AOC), and Senator Ed Markey, D-MA, as a joint resolution with an outline of basic principles. The intent of the Green New Deal is threefold: First, reduce carbon dioxide emissions close to zero by 2030. Second, pull carbon…
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The Philosophy of Organism and Process: Books by Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1925; 1stpaperback ed., New York: The Free Press, 1967)  ______, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology, corrected ed., ed. David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne (1929; corrected ed., New York: The Free Press, 1978)  ______, Adventures of Ideas (1933; 1stpaperback ed., New York: The Free Press, 1967)…
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Bringing Back the Milk Man and Returnable Containers: The Loopstore

In general Ecozoans tend toward deep ecology. Deep ecology stresses the inherent worth of all living beings and the need to reduce human impact on other species. Deep ecologists favor “down-scaling”: The [principles of deep ecology] can be reduced to three simple propositions: Wilderness and biodiversity preservation Human population control Simple living (or treading lightly on…
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Religion and Ecology Summit, March 15, 2019, San Francisco—Cosmovision: Thomas Berry and the Great Work

The California Institute of Integral Studies will hold a religion and ecology summit on March 15, 2019 at Namaste Hall, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The cost of the event is $10. Featured speakers are Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, Brian Swimme, and Drew Dellinger. For additional information…
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Two-Part Salon on Journey of Universe Film in San Francisco, March 6 and March 13, Berkeley, California

On March 6, 2019, there will be a private screening of the Journey of the Universe film in Berkeley, California. The event begins with a vegetarian potluck at 7:00 pm On March 13, 2019, there will be an interactive dialogue with the co-creators of the film—Mary Evelyn Tucker and Brian Thomas Swimme. The event will…
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Free Access to Online Courses on Journey of the Universe and Thomas Berry

Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Yale University, are offering four six-week online courses. Brian Thomas Swimme provides introductory comments. These are featured as a specialization under the title:  “Journey of the Universe: A Story for our Times.” They are available in English and in Chinese. This specialization includes two courses on Journey of the…
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Climate Truth: Seven Key Numbers for Sustainability and Local Plans

Roy Morrison’s latest Book is “Sustainability Sutra” (Select Books, 2017). He builds solar farms. Local action on climate is both an essential and available path for ecological transformation. Local action does not require permission from Washington or from Paris. Action overcomes despair. Local action and planning for sustainability is essential to avoid severe climate change…
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Science, Wonder, Matter, Experience

Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine By Alan Lightman (Pantheon, 2018) Lightman’s book begins in the cave of Font-de-Gaume, in France, which is famous for its adornment of ochre and charcoal painted animal forms left behind by its long deceased Paleolithic inhabitants. Lightman’s visit inspired musings about how these primal people may have imagined…
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Reference List of Books on Humanistic Interpretations of the Anthropocene

Here are some books that discuss what the Anthropocene means and how humans should respond. Please let us know about other books about the Anthropocene that you have found helpful and send us book reviews. Christophe Bonneuil & Jean Baptiste Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene (reviewed in this issue of The Ecozoic Review) Peter…
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The Gift of Time

These are the thoughts on the meaning of being an elder shared by the participants in the “Elderhood Journey” event held at the Eco-Institute at Pickard’s Mountain on July 10, 2018. Now is a different time: Accomplishments diminish in importance, Eclipsed by appreciation, Awareness, and gratitude. Now every thought, action, and state of being Is…
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Aging and the Elder as a Prophet

“Nelson Mandela launched ‘The Elders’ on July 18, 2007, his 89th birthday. Convening a group of independent global leaders, he mandated them to speak truth to power, raise the voices of the voiceless, and offer hope where there is despair.” https://theelders.org/elders-10 My Dad used to say, son, don’t get old, it isn’t any fun. And…
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US Climate Action after Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Mending the Breach

The world was dismayed when, on June 1, 2017, Donald Trump announced he would pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. European dignitaries, US politicians, and executives of leading American companies—Facebook, Google, Apple, Unilever, for example—had sent last-minute appeals asking him not to do this (businessinsider.com), and after the announcement, his action…
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North Carolina Ecological Justice Organizing Tour with Rev. William Barber II, Al Gore, and Karenna Gore

Rev. William Barber II, as president of the North Carolina NAACP, led the Moral Monday campaigns in Raleigh, the state capital, to protest actions taken by legislators that hurt poor people, such as not approving Medicaid expansion. In 2017 he left this position to start the national “Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a…
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Are Inadequate Accounts of the Anthropocene Paralyzing Us?

Anthropocene or Capitalocene?: Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism Jason W. Moore, ed. (PM Press, 2016) What is the historical origin of humanity’s current moment of ecological crisis? A standard response might cite the invention of the steam engine, the Industrial Revolution, and the rapid and momentous transition from production powered by biomass to…
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Look For Beauty

          The Navajo or Diné—the people—see the world through the lens of hozho: all the goodness to be found through harmony, balance, beauty, and blessing. Read this well-known Navajo prayer aloud: In beauty I walk With beauty before me I walk With beauty behind me I walk With beauty above me…
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Things We Should Not Buy

 Styrofoam Cups. Styrofoam is not biodegradable.  Farm-raised Salmon. Check “Safe Seafood Tip Sheet.”  Teak and Mahogany  Conventional Cleaners. Can contain hazardous ingredients. Look for non-toxic, vegetable-based, biodegradable cleaners. Make your own cleaner from vinegar, water, and castile soap.  Items Made with PVC Plastic. Avoid plastics labeled as “PVC” or “#3”.  Plastic Cutlery (e.g. forks) and Straws. Not biodegradable or recyclable.  Paper…
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Money and Meaning

I was speaking in my head to Dorothy Parker and she said: “If you wanna know what God thinks about money just look at the people he gives it to.” In Guanajuato they like to say: Dios les da el dinero a los ricos. It’s a good thing God gives money to the wealthy—because without…
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King Clot

I awoke a year ago to our country suffering a stroke; a narcissistic clot broke through, hemorrhaging our life blood throughout the landscape of our national heart and mind without regard for what it destroyed: immigrants, races, genders, healthcare, the environment, the elderly, the vulnerable, and worst of all, mutual trust. No matter what its…
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The Great Warp

I have several Dimmercrack fiends who believe our Precident is a man of dangerously low intelligence as would light up at a gas pump or think a nuclear war with Nerfed Korea as a god thank America. Truth be tolled, he is but a spokespoison for Pastyarchy, that mindsad that has come down to dumbinate humad consciousness so white in the world….
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Toward a More Human Dialogue

A year after Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House, what’s clear is that our familiar instruments of cultural progress are no longer sufficient for the evolutionary juncture at which we find ourselves. We are accustomed to relying on the tools of evidence and rational argument; the establishment of laws and norms that guide our…
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Challenge of the Great Self

I am no stranger to polarities. Growing up, I belonged to a fundamentalist Missionary Baptist church. Its white frame, simple steeple, and family cemetery, a picturesque setting in the foothills of North Carolina not far from my place of birth. Hellfire and damnation flared forth from the pulpit, backed up by the high mountain harmonies…
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Little Earth Ball

            If Planet Earth were small in size, And circling just above our eyes … We’d be amazed and thrilled with it— What dreams and hopes we’d build with it! Soon all of us would come to stare In wonder at it glowing there. We’d watch as day turned into…
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Australian Institute of Ecological Agriculture Cooperative Ltd (AIEA)

AIEA has a vision of developing bio-diverse landscapes, biologically enriched soil, healthy food, and vibrant communities. There are five pillars of its work: Ecology Ethics Education Farming, and Food AIEA believes that ecology is the foundation stone of agriculture and that this science (which embraces its natural and social elements) needs to be the primary driver of…
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The Anthropocene Transition Project – University of Technology Sydney Business School

It is not lost on business schools that the Anthropocene proposes a radically different challenge to business. Few have, however, taken on looking the challenge in the face and recognizing that human activity is outstripping the biosphere’s capacity to function as it did during the Holocene.  The University of Technology Sydney Business School did just…
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The Big Picture: Global Warming, the Anthropocene, and Ecological Civilization

MARCH 15, 22, 29, AND APRIL 5, 10 AM TO NOON UNC-CH’S FRIDAY CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION REGISTER HERE.  FEE S $20, UNC RETIRED FACULTY $5. Climate is always changing. Is the current global warming trend different? Can it be stopped or controlled? All of human civilization has taken place in the 10,000 year period…
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The Gift of Fading Away – A Talk by Bayo Akomolafe

March 18, 2018, 7:00-9:00 Pm, Greensboro, Nc (Sponsored by the Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World) REGISTER ONLINE March 18, 2018, 7-9 p.m. The Sanctuary at Church of the Covenant 501 South Mendenhall Street. Greensboro, NC 27403 Cost: $25 Advance registrations required at: http://www.beholdnature.org/thegiftoffadingaway.php Our modern lives are built on the foundation of a truism:…
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Leadership for the Ecozoic/Economics for the Anthropocene

There are many programs for environmental education and there are fewer, but other programs in ecological literacy and even deep ecology and spiritual ecology. Is it possible though at established universities to build advanced degree programs that are self-consciously grounded in the New Story and the Ecozoic with the intent to bring about institutional reform…
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Free Access to Online Courses on Journey of the Universe and Thomas Berry

Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Yale University, are offering four six-week online courses. Brian Thomas Swimme provides introductory comments. These are featured as a specialization under the title:  “Journey of the Universe: A Story for our Times.” They are available in English and in Chinese. This specialization includes two courses on Journey of the…
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Free Access to Journey of Universe Film and 20 Conversations with Scientists and Environmentalists

The Journey of the Universe project consists of an Emmy award winning film, 20 Conversations, and a book from Yale University Press. You may access the full Journey of the Universe Film: https://vimeo.com/36950412 Password: whowouldyoube619 You may access the 20 Conversations with scientists and environmentalists: https://vimeopro.com/yalefes/journey-of-the-universe-materials Password: JOTU2014 Curriculum materials for the 20 conversations are available…
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An Amazing Summer!

Editor’s Note: Fred Lanphear died at age 74 from ALS. He wrote this article in summer 2010 just before his death on September 10. He lived with his wife, Nancy Lanphear, in Songaia, an intentional, co-housing community that he helped organize just north of Seattle, Washington. Once a professor of horticulture, he became a teacher…
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Three Broad Categories of Consideration in the Movement toward a More Life-Supporting Civilization

Here are three broad categories for consideration in the movement toward a more life-supporting civilization. Human Development Essentially, this involves supporting the full flourishing of the individual, which includes growth that leads beyond fixation on accumulative and object-identified tendencies and cultivates the development of expanded inner awareness and authentic engagement with the world. Much more…
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A World of Plastic

“Plastics,” National Geographic (June 2018) By Laura Parker Reviewed by Herman Greene   National Geographic magazine increasingly is paying attention to the state of our planet. The impact of plastics is the subject of the feature article of its June 2018 issue. This review covers some of the learnings from the article. When Thomas Berry…
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Maintaining the Rails for Transport

CES Contributor Malcolm Kenton has co-authored a major report on maintaining rail systems for public transport. The report titled Tools for a Smoother Ride; Managing Rail Assets and Leveraging Competition, was published on May 15, 2018, by Eno Center for Transportation, a nonpartisan Transportation policy think tank, and is available here. In introducing the report…
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World Environment Day, June 5th of Each Year: Report on 2018—“Beat Plastic Pollution”

“World Environment Day” takes place on June 5th of each year and is celebrated in over 100 countries. It is the United Nation’s most important day for calling for environmental awareness and for doing something about the environment. World Environment day began in 1974. Each year there is a different theme and different host country….
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Free Access to Journey of Universe Film and 20 Conversations with Scientists and Environmentalists

The Journey of the Universe project consists of an Emmy award winning film, 20 Conversations, and a book from Yale University Press. You may access the full Journey of the Universe Film: https://vimeo.com/36950412 Password: whowouldyoube619 You may access the 20 Conversations with scientists and environmentalists: https://vimeopro.com/yalefes/journey-of-the-universe-materials Password: JOTU2014 Curriculum materials for the 20 conversations are available…
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Free Access to Online Courses on Journey of the Universe and Thomas Berry

Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Yale University, are offering four six-week online courses. Brian Thomas Swimme provides introductory comments. These are featured as a specialization under the title:  “Journey of the Universe: A Story for our Times.” They are available in English and in Chinese. This specialization includes two courses on Journey of the…
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Democracy in Crisis

Review of the State of American Democracy Conference, Oberlin, Ohio, November 15-17, 2017 Why would David W. Orr, one of the foremost ecologists in the country, decide late in his career that he needed to focus on democracy? Perhaps the background for this decision is found in his book Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate…
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An Act of Defiance

Review of the New Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Naomi Klein in This Changes Everything identified three pillars of the corporate globalization process: “privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and lower corporate taxation, paid for with cuts to public spending.” And she wrote, “Granting the corporate wish list, we were…
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Deconstructing the Globe

Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime By Bruno Latour (Polity Press, 2017) Reviewed by Herman Greene Bruno Latour was trained first as a philosopher and then as an anthropologist. He came to prominence for his work in “science studies,” which is a field that studies how scientists do their work. He came…
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The Barbarism of Capitalism

In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism By Isabelle Stengers (Open Humanities Press, 2015) Reviewed by Herman Greene I have had my foot in two worlds for most of my professional career. I have worked on social justice and ecological issues since 1967, and I have practiced as a finance lawyer since 1979. I have…
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The Case for Culture as the Centrepiece of Global Development

Paul Schafer is the director of The World Culture Project. Paul has worked in the cultural field for more than fifty years as an educator, advisor, administrator, and researcher. He was Assistant Director of the Ontario Arts Council from 1967 to 1970, taught arts administration and cultural policy at York University and the University of Toronto,…
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The Wager of Democracy

Introduction to “The State of American Democracy” Conference, Oberlin, Ohio, November 15, 2017 For if we should perish, the ruthlessness of the foe would be only the secondary cause of the disaster. The primary cause would be that the strength of a giant nation was directed by eyes too blind to see all the hazards…
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Ecologically Inspired Living Places: Micro Sized Dwellings Nurturing People and Planet

Interview of Tim Watson, Architect, by Sue Barry Tim Watson’s architectural career includes searching for alternative means for people to acquire affordable, simplified high technology habitations inspired by nature. He envisions places where people live that impact the natural world in positive ways. He is now focused on a new form of architecture and local…
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World Scientists Give Second Warning to Humanity on Climate

The “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Second Notice,” signed by 15,000 scientists, was published by BioScience on November 13, 2017 (academic.oup.com). This second warning updates the original warning  twenty-five years ago by the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1,700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates (ucsusa.org). The scientists say the…
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Announcements

  The Early Days of Thomas Berry (1970s and 1980s) Program by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, 3:30 – 5:30 pm, Chapel Hill, NC, January 18, 2017, United Church of Chapel Hill The Center for Ecozoic Studies will sponsor an open discussion with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Trustees of the Thomas Berry…
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“Sustainability & Spirituality”: A Report with Personal Reflections on a 2017 Global Conference Held in Rome and Assisi, Italy

From June 27 to July 4, 2017, approximately 60 persons from Africa, the Americas, Asia/Pacific, and Europe gathered in Italy–first in Rome and then in Assisi–for a global conference to dialogue on the theme “Spirituality & Sustainability.”
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The Ecozoic Journal, No. 4, “Thomas Berry’s Work, Development, Difference, Importance, Applications,” Is Now Available

We are proud to announce the publication of the fourth issue of our journal, The Ecozoic: Reflections on Life in an Ecological-Cultural Age. The topic of this issue is “Thomas Berry’s Work: Development, Difference, Importance, Applications.” It contains twenty-five papers from a May 2014 academic colloquium held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (the “Colloquium”)…
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This New Ecozoic Review

This is our first issue of The Ecozoic Review (ER). Like our prior online magazine or ezine, CES Musings, this will be a bi-monthly publication. We will publish reviews of books, plays, events; musings including essays, insights, poems and art, news commentary, and reports on communities of ecozoic practice.
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25th Anniversary of The Universe Story Celebration, November 9, 2017, Oakland, California, and live-streamed, with Brian Thomas Swimme

On November 9, 1992 at Gaia Books in Berkeley, California, Thomas Berry and Brian Thomas Swimme were signing copies of their new book The Universe Story. Now, 25 years later, on November 9, 2017 (Thomas Berry’s birthday), a 25th anniversary celebration conference will be held.
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Publication of First Issue of E-Magazine Convergence on “Does Altruism Exist?” by the Interspiritual Network and Unity.Earth

We take it for granted that we are able to sacrifice ourselves to help others, and yet we are familiar with the argument that these good acts are really done for selfish reasons to make the do-gooder feel good. The scientific and philosophical arguments in the modern period against altruism are, even, more difficult to…
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