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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. CES also accepts members who pay lesser or no dues.
LOVE IS A GARDEN
This week was explosive. My garden produced cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, potatoes and the first cherry tomatoes. I was overwhelmed and since I can’t share the fruits, I share the reflections.
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.
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.
HOW TO LOVE A CHILD WHEN THINGS ARE FALLING APART
Janusz Korczak wrote: “An educator who does not enforce but sets free, does not drag but uplifts, does not crush but shapes, does not dictate but instructs, does not demand but requests, will experience inspired moments with the child.”
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.
CORONAVIRUS IS NOT AN ENEMY RATHER A COURIER: A PERSPECTIVE FROM CHINESE DAO THINKING
The worldwide COVID-19 is a tragedy, not only for the lives lost and for the ones suffering illness, but also for all of us in the world since we live in a same global village and are deeply interconnected. This paper offers a reflection on COVID-19 from a Chinese Daoist point of view.
CASCADING APOCALYPSES NOW COMING—CLIMATE COOKING
We are in an emergency: Humanity will either respond immediately and constructively to the emergent crises of ecological overshoot and the cooking climate, or there will be no viable future for humanity. So, let us relate to those who at least have some understanding that the climate and ecological emergencies exist.
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.
REVIEW OF ARTURO ESCOBAR, PLURIVERSAL POLITICS: THE REAL AND THE POSSIBLE
An English translation of Arturo Escobar’s book on Pluriversal Politics was published in spring 2020 by Duke University Press. Upon reading this book I realized that the Center for Ecozoic Studies was moving along the lines he was describing, and he gave helpful language for understanding this.
THE IMPORTANCE OF ECOZOIC JOURNEYS, COMMUNITIES, AND CONVERSATIONS
There are many things that are important in the world. Playwrights are important and tailors are important. Operas are important and notes on refrigerators are important. Running a corporation or serving in public office is important and serving on a church committee or being a teacher’s aide is important.
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.
THE ECOZOANS—LEANING IN TO AN ECOLOGICAL ERA
In this essay I will attempt to explore the essential qualities needed for ushering in an ecological civilization—a human presence organized not only for human benefit, but one given form with supreme consciousness of and responsibility for the sustained flourishing within Earth’s entire community of life.
IN MEMORIAM: DEAN JAMES PARKS MORTON
We gratefully celebrate the completed life of Dean James Parks Morton. He was a friend of CES and contributed to The Ecozoic Journal #2 (2009), “A Tribute to Thomas Berry.” Here is an announcement from the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology:
Herman Green Lecture Announcement
HERMAN GREENE TO LECTURE ON THE NOOSPHERE AT THE INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION SYMPOSIUM ON MONDAY, AUGUST 3RD. JOIN ONLINE
Twentieth Anniversary of the Center for Ecozoic Studies
Twenty years ago, I sat at the kitchen table of David Cook and Joanna Haymore, the leaders of the Piedmont Bioregional Institute, and asked if I could form the Center for Ecozoic Studies as a program of PBI. Thankfully, they said yes. The ideas for the Center for Ecozoic Studies had come from work I…
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…
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…
Making America Great Again—A Canadian’s Perspective
D. Paul Schafer is director of the World Culture Project based in Markham, Canada. He has worked in the cultural field for more than fifty years and is the author of many books on the arts, culture, and Canadian culture, including “Culture—Beacon of the Future,” “Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age…
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…
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…
Step by Step – Can We Make New Decisions?
As we all know, shifting away from the dominant culture of consumption can be overwhelming. Our brains are wired to stick to habits with which we’re familiar. Our friends and family have expectations of us being a certain way. But it’s clear that we need to make big changes. We need the individual actions that…
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…
Greta Thunberg Holds Accountability and Hope
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, age 16 and self-described as being on the autism spectrum, has directed her intense powers of focus on, and her clear, forceful speech to, climate change. In her recent speech in Charlotte, North Carolina, she said: For well over a year young people have been striking from school every Friday,…
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…
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,…
The Story of Thomas Berry Continually Evolving
Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal, Thomas Berry: A Biography (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019) Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was one of those rare and wonderful people who completely changed the vision of their time. Two people whose lives he changed–Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim—joined with Andrew Angyal, Professor Emeritus of English and…
Boundless Compassion for Creation
. . . the universe is a communion of subjects rather than a collection of objects . . . —Thomas Berry Precious memories of childhood activities on our Iowa farm fill my inner storehouse: running through dawn’s dew-laden grasses, my hands in the black soil making mud pies in the grove, long hours of planting,…
An Appreciation of Thomas Berry
I wish I had known Thomas Berry better. I recall meeting him briefly only once or twice, and I was struck by his graciousness and humility. I first came across his essays in Cross Currents when I was teaching courses on science and religion at Georgetown, and later on I used his Dream of the…
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…
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,…
Global Climate Strikes, September 20 and 27, 2019
Watch Video When are the Global Climate Strikes? On September 20, three days before the UN Climate Summit in New York City, young people and adults will strike all across the US and world to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis. As we deal with devastating climate breakdown and hurtle towards…
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…
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…
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…
On the Practice of Growing Food
I’ve kept a food garden most of my adult life, and by now that would be more than fifty years of practice. Through all the years of raising children and going to my day job forty or fifty hours a week, the garden was my primary passion and exercise. What I like best is raising…
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),…
Journal on “The Ecozoic Way: The Foundational Papers of CES”
The Ecozoic Journal 5 (2018) on “The Ecozoic Way: The Foundational Papers of the Center for Ecozoic Studies” is now available for purchase. This issue, a result of thousands of hours of work, is a compilation of the key ideas CES has worked with over the last 20 years. Readers of the journal say that it…
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…
Free Access to Journey of Universe Film and Conversations
You may access the full Journey of the Universe film here. The password is: whowouldyoube619. You may access with the 20 conversation related to the film with scientists and environmentalists here. The password is: JOTU2014
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Age of Culture – Why, What, and How?
Editor’s Notes: This is an abridged copy of a keynote paper D. Paul Schafer wrote for the “10thInternational Scientific and Practical Conference on ‘Spiritual and Cultural Upbringing of a Personality in Conditions of Humanity’s Entry into the Age of Culture’” held on May 30, 2019, at the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine in…
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…
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,…
Order New Biography on Thomas Berry at a Discount
Columbia University Press has published the first biography on Thomas Berry in spring 2019. The book was written by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal. Information on the book and how to order it at a 30% discount are available here. Berry was one of the 20thcentury’s most important thinkers. He had encyclopedic…
Free Access to Journey of Universe Film and Conversations
You may access the full Journey of the Universe film here. The password is: whowouldyoube619. You may access with the 20 conversation related to the film with scientists and environmentalists here. The password is: JOTU2014
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…
Discoveries Made upon Re-Reading Thomas Berry’s Later Books
The focus of this issue of The Ecozoic Reviewis on Thomas Berry’s later books. Herman Greene’s review of these books is extensive and somewhat complex. This outline may help the reader in studying this review:
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)…
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…
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…
Order New Biography on Thomas Berry at a 30% Discount
The first biography on Thomas Berry, published in spring 2019, is now available from Columbia University Press. The book was written by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal. The book has been released just prior to the 10th anniversary of Thomas Berry’s death on June 1, 2019. Information on the book and how to…
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…
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….
What’s the Deal with the Green New Deal?
Climate change is finally getting a lot of mainstream media coverage, and recently most of that has been about the phenomenon known as the Green New Deal (the GND). The GND and its photogenic sponsor Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (also known by her initials AOC), Democrat from New York, have even taken attention away from the…
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…
A Remarkable Day at “Safe Passage” in Guatemala
About 20 years ago a young woman from Maine named Hanley Demming visited Guatemala. A friend invited her to come see something in the large landfill, in the center of the city. What she saw changed her life. Hundreds of families scavenging for food and salvaging what they could to sell—plastic, glass, aluminum, etc.—were living…
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…
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…
Edward Goldsmith, The Way: An Ecological Worldview
Thomas Berry wrote in The Great Work that ecology is not another course or program, it is the foundation of all courses because it is a functional cosmology. Berry never to my knowledge explained why he sometimes wrote that the universe story is a functional cosmology and, at other times, ecology is a functional cosmology. It…
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)…
The Universe Story Calendar Initiative
The way out is the invention of new, life-enhancing cultures. This amounts to a reinvention of the symbols that orient us to the powers in space and time. We have exploded beyond the fossilized knowledge of The Gregorian Calendar. —Brian Thomas Swimme From Foreword to The Universe Story Calendar Book The Universe Story Calendar (TUSC)…
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…
Pre-Order New Biography on Thomas Berry at a 30% Discount
Columbia University Press will publish the first biography on Thomas Berry in spring 2019. The book was written by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal. The book will be released just prior to the 10thanniversary of Thomas Berry’s death on June 1, 2019. Information on the book and how to pre-order it at…
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…
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…
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…
Special Issue on the Center for Ecozoic Studies
Gratitude for you We give thanks for you our readers every day. Many of you have been with us for years. You have given us your encouragement and support. You have shared your essays, poems, art, music, prayers, and dreams with us. You have understood and joined with us in Thomas Berry’s Great Work. It…
As the World Warms: Part 1 Work in the Heat
CES Series on Climate Implications We’ve driven our cars slowly past highway construction sites on hot summer days and felt sympathy for the workers bearing the sun’s heat near newly laid asphalt. Hot weather has always made such jobs disagreeable, but as the world warms the nature of outdoor labor will become worse than disagreeable….
From Controlling Carbon to Interbeing
Climate—A New Story Charles Eisenstein (North Atlantic Books, 2018) It would not be an exaggeration to say that climate change has become the defining narrative for those who sense the precariousness of civilization’s current direction. Carbon accounting serves as a proxy for all matters ecological; the prevention of warming to catastrophic levels has become the…
There Is Something New Under the Sun: Humans’ Giant Experiment on the Earth
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World, J.R. McNeil (W. W. Norton, 2000) Ecclesiastes laments: 4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hurries to the place where it rises. . . . 8…
The Inevitable Adjustment to the Anthropocene
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945, J.R. McNeil and Peter Engelke (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014) Civilization began with the rise of Neolithic farming villages around 10,000 BCE. All of human development until very recently occurred during the geologic epoch known as the Holocene. In the history of…
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…
Over Time, Out of Time, Where Eternity Is the Measure of Everything
One of the members of CES, Stefano Panzarasa, has just sent us this link to a YouTube video of his new song. He lives in Italy and sings the song in Italian. See the Italian lyrics below the English lyrics. Enjoy! OVER TIME, OUT OF TIME (Mirroring me in a window striped by the rain)…
On Running Marathons and the Great Work
I am 72 and I just ran the Boston Marathon. This was my 21st marathon . . . far from a record but still something. I’ve run enough to know what training and running a marathon is about. Though marathons were beginning to be popular , there weren’t many marathoners when I began running 35…
Alice’s Blog: On Not Writing the News
For fifteen years I’ve been writing about current events—the news that news sources report—for people who care a lot about protecting the planet. I’ve weighed carefully the content of these columns in order to balance the bad news with the good. I’ve reported advances in green technology as faithfully as I covered the rise of…
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…
Thinking the Anthropocene and its Multiple Histories
The Shock of the Anthropocene By Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Verso, 2017) Christophe Bonneuil and Jean Baptiste are historians who work at the French National Center for Scientific Research, the largest fundamental research agency in Europe. The Shock of the Anthropocene is based on a history of the Anthropocene course they taught for four…
Terminal Cenozoic Era or Anthropocene? Emerging Ecozoic Era or Sustainability?
Thomas Berry writes of the Great Work of transitioning from a terminal Cenozoic era to an emerging Ecozoic era. His interpretation that a geological era is ending, one that began 65,000,000 years ago following the death of the dinosaurs, is a bold one. If it is true, then, as Berry wrote, for the first time…
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…
Elders: Their Creative Role in the Human Community
On Spaceship Earth, as has been noted, everyone is crew as well as passenger. To be an idle traveler is not acceptable. Everyone is needed. The captain without the cook cannot long guide the ship. So in the social order with professor and craftsman, farmer and city dweller, governor and sanitation worker. So too with…
Listening to Death and Ursula Le Guin in the Transition to the Ecozoic
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin died at the age of 88 at her home in Portland, Oregon on January 22, 2018. It wasn’t until I read the tributes and revival of interviews following her death that I realized what a remarkable thinker and writer she was. Her insights into what has the capacity to undo and…
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…
Eldering Younger People in Today’s World: My Take at 81
When I hear someone use the term “elder,” I think: “old person being asked to provide wisdom.” From an early age it was in my plans to become wise. I said so in a poem I wrote in my thirties, “When I Am 94.” Though not 94 yet, I am definitely old, and I’m asking…
Where I’m from and Who I Am: Reflections of an Elder
A Universe of billions of stars, the birth and death of galaxies A cosmic dance of forces, dark and light A gathering of Earth atoms into elements, compounds, mixtures Raging volcanoes, earthquakes, great seas and vast change The evolution of chemical soup into nucleic acids for life Diatoms, jellyfish, dinosaurs, wooly mammoths, cave dwellers Birth,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
New Story Groups Spring up around the United States
Mary Kay Klein has sent us information on New Story Groups that are coming into being around the country. The first meeting she was involved in was at Friends Meeting Cambridge, MA. This group began in 2005 and wrote this statement. The “New Story Group” in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an interfaith group that has been…
Becoming Intimate with What We Cannot Bear
The question has been asked: what has changed since January 20, 2017? It is a question that poses many and one for which there is no one easy answer. What has changed . . . ? presupposes a different yesterday, and by the fact of its utterance, it portends an as yet unknown tomorrow. Yet…
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…
Stepping Back to See Trump from a “Wave” Perspective
24/7 news has given us tunnel vision. Inevitably, since fall 2016, we are seeing the world through the lens, I should say prism, of Donald J. Trump: He is a very prismatic character, shooting across the spectrum in all directions. Never focused. We are obsessed with how to explain Trump and what he is up…
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…
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” – Musings on Brexit and Other Matters
The nation is sick, trouble is in the land, confusion all around. That’s a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. –Martin Luther King, Jr. This declaration by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is from his celebrated “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech which…
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….
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…
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…
What’s Next? One Experiment with Community-Focused Living
In a recent issue of Sierra, Naomi Klein shared how she was learning the importance of environmental and justice movements’ describing what they are wanting to create, giving form to the ‘utopia,’ rather than always fighting what they oppose. Her words made me realize I might be doing what she advises as I’m trying to…
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…
Life in an Intentional Community in a Thriving Democracy
What if it means . . . We treat Earth as a living biological entity, with its own needs for the survival of its natural systems (consumption, growth, pruning/maintenance, and waste management) and we believe that our own health and future success are directly linked to understanding the life-giving processes and healthy functioning of Earth’s…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
Thinking Again, Grounded Discourse
Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came. —Wendell Berry Blue Ridge Mountains, Celo, North Carolina Around…
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…
Love for the House of Life: A Vision of Ecological Civilization
Editor’s Note: Ann Loomis is the author of “Celtic Cycles: Guidance from the Soul on the Spiritual Journey” My vision for an ecological civilization is that we humans will connect with the trees, the creatures, and our own souls as we learn to perceive with Planetary Consciousness. It has been said that “You will protect…
A Vision of the Archetypal Journey to Ecological Civilization
We will reach a critical mass where enough of us are aware of and understand the essence of the Universe Story that humankind will start pulling in the same direction: Toward Becoming an Ecological Civilization. From Dreams to a Vision Our visions are manifestations of our dreams for the future Dreams originate in our unconscious…
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…
Was There Sorrow before the Universe Was Born?
Was there sorrow Layered within the Darkness deep Before the universe was born? Invisible spirits – as yet unreal – Sighed when looking ahead toward Clashing with other tuggings of Longing The trees of longing Lofted imaginary Branches high – pulling Away from Newton’s stone-like grip Into thick multiplicity Circling among great Mountains…
The Role of Music in the Development of Our Personalities and Lives
I believe music has a unique role to play in the development of our personalities and lives. While this is a personal belief, I have encountered many people in the world who share it. Furthermore, there is mounting evidence to support it. There is something about music that broadens, deepens, and enriches our personalities and…
Where Are We on Environmental Regulation under Trump?
Every environmental regulation that exists in law or policy came into being because people valued the health of humans and the planet above other considerations. Most of the rules were hard-won—the result of years of advocacy, and sometimes blood and tears. Probably none has ever received unanimous support before or after it was put in…
The Inside of the Universe and Indestructible Rightness
The New Cosmic Story: Inside Our Awakening Universe By John F. Haught (Yale University Press, 2017) Reviewed by Herman Greene The “Book of the Year”? “Yes” wrote a reviewer of John Haught’s book, The New Cosmic Story: Inside our Awakening Universe. “Yes,” says this reviewer, “It’s the book of the year for me.” I highly…
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…
We All Participate in the Mysterious Journey of Life—Even a Leaf . . .
Thanks to Sharman Noguchi for referring to us this beautiful video presentation of Even a Leaf . . . a book about the gift of life by Shelly Hehenberger, a Chapel Hill, North Carolina, author, artist, and illustrator. Ms. Hehenberger introduces her book by writing, We all participate in the mysterious journey of life. We…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Global Citizens and the Planetary Phase of Civilization
“How Do We Get There? The Problem of Action” By Paul Raskin and Respondents (Great Transition Initiative, 2017) In 1995, the Stockholm Environment Institute convened the “Global Scenario Group” to study the requirements for the transition to sustainability. An outcome of this work was the publication in 2002 of the influential and widely read book,…
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,…
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…
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…
Bringing Back Industrial Hemp, North Carolina USA
So why did I build the first panelized hempcrete house in North America? Two years ago I met with architect Mike Spinello and told him that I wanted to create a lego-like system for tiny houses. Right around the same time, I became President of the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association. The mandate changed to…
Alice’s Blog: How Shall We Clothe, House, and Feed Ourselves?
Too many bad things are happening. At this moment the US Congress is preparing to approve a tax code revision that is a hymn to the rich and a declaration of war on the poor. The economic-industrial system continues to put pressure on the planet’s ability to sustain life. As the ice melts, the time…
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…
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…
Review of Defiant Earth–Humans Rupture Earth System; Earth Fights Back
Clive Hamilton in Defiant Earth gives a lucid account of the implications for the humanities of the current scientific meaning of the Anthropocene epoch–a geological term introduced in 2000 to name the extent of human-induced alteration in the Earth System.
“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.”
The Veil
The veil keeps us protected, hidden, withdrawn so that we can experience aloneness with God. Dawn a veil in your life and encounter the hidden majesty within.
Ecological Civilization and the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
The term “ecological civilization,” which is becoming increasingly important in the global discourse, was highlighted as a goal for China in President Xi Jinping’s 2017 report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party.
Go Conscious Earth, Democratic Republic of Congo
The organization works to preserve large tracts of land in the Congo River Basin, the second largest rainforest in the world, while also addressing the needs of the communities in the Lake Tumba (or Ntomba) region.
Alice’s Blog: Reflections on News Coverage of Recent Disasters
The disasters of recent days–the Atlantic hurricanes, the California fires, and the Las Vegas shooting–are commonly reported as if they arrived unforeseen and can’t be prevented. This news is presented in ways that won’t disrupt the industrial economy.
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”)…
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.
This New Center for Ecozoic Studies
The Center for Ecozoic Studies will be a thought, imagination, and dialogue center for the transition to ecozoic societies . . . societies of life! The mission will be to advance ecology (the flourishing of life on Earth) and culture (full human development) as the organizing principles of societies
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.
Happy Birthday Dr. Margaret Berry!!
We join with many others in celebrating the birthday of Dr. Margaret Berry, Professor Emeritus of John Carroll University of Cleveland, Ohio, and faithful Aid to Thomas Berry during the last 14 years of his life.
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…