No. 61 March 2013

In This Issue:  Twelve Understandings Concerning the Ecozoic Era (a CES Foundational Statement  Resilient Sustainability  The Supreme Court and Equal Rights for Gay Couples  The Chronicle  Become a Member

The Supreme Court and Equal Rights for Gay Couples By Del Morrill   The United States Supreme Court in the current session will address whether to uphold the part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that prohibits same-sex, legally-married-under-state-law couples from obtaining federal benefits. Personally, I can’t see how that law, which, to me,…

The Nature of the Universe 1.         The Unity of the universe. The universe as a whole is an interacting community of beings inseparably related in space and time. From its beginning, the universe has had a psychic-spiritual as well as a physical dimension. The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of…

Resilient Sustainability By Mike Bell   In 1972, the book Limits to Growth[1] was published. It was the result of a research project commissioned by the Club of Rome and developed by a team of scientists, many of them from MIT. The prime author was Donella Meadows, and her husband, Dennis Meadows, was the Project…

Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet 1 March 2012   9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. The Club of Rome and the Smithsonian Institution’s Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet hosted a one-day symposium on March 1, 2012 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the launching of Limits to Growth, the first report to the…

The Chronicle (March 31, 2013) Our readers are invited to present their own reports of what they are paying attention to in the transition from economic-industrial ecological-cultural societies.   Herman Greene – Are We Entering a Period of Uncontrolled Decline? Thomas Berry would often speak from the template of where are we, how did we…