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CLIMATE Despite President-Elect Donald Trump’s stated intention to withdraw US participation in the Paris agreement on climate change, US Special Envoy for Climate Change Dr. Jonathan Pershing went to Marrakech, Morocco, to take part in the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP), held November 10-18. The State Department communication said, “The United States goes to…
Note: An “ecozoan” is one who believes there are two primary ethical questions: (1) Does this promote the flourishing of life on Earth? (2) Does this promote full human development? In the wake of the November 8, 2016, US presidential election, much has been written about how we need to listen to each other and…
Dear daughters, Though we can’t know what will happen, it is likely there will be much turmoil in our future days. Policies and laws will be put into place that bolster the ways in which capitalism harms our planet, and therefore our survival as a species. These laws will be motivated by the desire of…
One of the primary intentions of our recent six-week pilgrimage, first to Scotland and then to Ireland, was to visit EarthSpirit sanctuaries in these ensouled landscapes. We hoped to find portals to the Otherworld in order to contact renewing, healing, transformative energies for us all, and especially for some friends with cancer. I wanted to…
It is a reality of relationships today that what used to be face-to-face connections have been replaced by “electronic, digital, wired, virtual, web, Internet, Net, online” links. Worse, “social media” hides an actual person. Four construction workers from China, setting up electrical and water systems, and finessing doors, windows, and floors, wanted to speak English….
September 25, 2016 Human beings must move into ecological civilization. There is a subtext to this. Civilization began with Neolithic villages 10,000 years ago. Early civilization was based on agriculture and it continued this way until the industrial revolution. During this period, the period of Agricultural Civilization, the classical civilizations arose—the Sinic, the Indic, the…
Editor’s Note: This talk was given at the conference on “Alternative Futures: Pathways Toward Ecological Civilization” hosted by Toward Ecological Civilization, Claremont, CA, October 28-29, 2016 To talk about values and worldviews for an ecological civilization in one presentation is a tall order. I’ll take this on by speaking to you about some elements of…
Just released this month (November 2016) David W. Orr’s new book, Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward, provides the best contemporary guidance to the situation humankind is in and what is needed for a viable future. Written before the end of the 2016 US presidential election, his analysis covers the…
Dirk Spruyt, who was an active member of CES for many years, died peacefully at age 91 on November 15, 1925. He grew up in California, Holland, Washington, Long Island, Massachusetts and Vermont. He went to college at Swarthmore (PA), earned an MD from the University of Rochester (NY) in 1954, and then went to…