Articles from the bimonthly e-zine
By Alice Loyd It’s All About Pollution This Time More than 80% of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that do not meet World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. The WHO update issued in June 2016 finds the worst exposure in low- and middle-income countries, where 98%…
Excerpt from a recent letter by Herman Greene I feel CES is needed because I don’t think people are thinking about the magnitude of change that would be needed to be sustainable. Sustainability must meet three criterion: (1) the human community lives within Earth’s carrying capacity—according to the Ecological Footprint Network we humans are now…
By Bill Peck Humans gain insight by Linking trillions of cells Within each brain, stretching a Mirror vast and complex enough to Catch the entire universe Reflecting its amazing Beauty and wonder We need one another All seven billion of us To weave by our cultures The interlocking segments of Vision that together As if…
By Tim Watson, Principal, TLW Architect, Hillsborough, NC And God blessed them, and said unto them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish Earth, and care for the fish of the sea, and the fowl of the air, and every living thing that moves upon Earth.” —Genesis. 1:28 (paraphrase). While pushing wheelbarrows on the community renewal…
Matthew David Segall is one of the brightest young philosophers around. He recently earned his PhD from the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program of the California Institute of Integral Studies. He was a student of Brian Swimme and fortunately will continue as a member of the CIIS faculty. He is taking a leading role in…
By Herman Greene Few of us have the opportunity to hear Brian Swimme lecture. Here’s a fine 40-minute lecture by him on “Why We Study the Universe” of April 20, 2016. Brian teaches that cosmology is an inward desire and intention, we are one with the universe, and (of course) much more. Many of us…
Announcement by The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale In the fall of 2016 Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Senior Lecturers and Research Scholars at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, will offer four six-week online courses. These will be featured as a specialization under the theme of “Journey of the Universe: A Story for our Times.” This…
By Thomas Keevey COME, spend a weekend with Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato Si and the Wisdom of Thomas Berry, Passionist, sponsored by the Passionist Community to be held at Immaculate Conception Parish, Jamaica (Queens), New York September 9 & 10, 2016 Friday Evening: 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm General invitation to free showing of the…