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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…
The Chronicle Here we begin the “chronicle” portion of this online magazine, the chronicle of what we believe is a global transition from economic-industrial to ecological-cultural societies. In each issue of Musings authors will share their reflections on what they see going on in relation to this transition, both good and bad. We invite our…
Call for Ecozoic Societies (a Foundational Paper of CES) By Herman Greene* We need to bring into being Ecozoic Societies! The challenge is set forth in The Universe Story by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry: The future of Earth’s community rests in significant ways upon the decisions to be made by the humans who have…
The Chronicle By Alice Loyd (through August 31, 2014) CLIMATE We begin this edition with the warming of Gaia. June 2014 was the hottest June we’ve ever had, and was the 352nd hotter-than-average month in a row.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on July 21 that June’s average global temperature was 16.2C…
IS THOMAS BERRY’S NEW COSMOLOGY THE SAME AS THE UNIVERSE STORY? IS THE NEW STORY THE SAME AS THE UNIVERSE STORY? By Herman Greene Within the Berry community three terms are used almost interchangeably: “the New Cosmology,” “the Universe Story,” and the “New Story.” I have concerns with this when people (1) use them…
SIGNS OF THE ECOZOIC By Alice Loyd (through August 31, 2014) A great number of people are working to create a more livable future, and their activities have recently been given a new name—the anti-apocalyptic movement. Here CES Musings highlights some of the positive, life-serving collective actions that may lead to an Ecozoic future….
ISSUES AFFECTING CONTEMPORARY PHYSICAL COSMOLOGY By Timothy E. Eastman, Ph.D. (Space Plasma Physicist) A full consideration of issues in contemporary physical cosmology requires a treatment that includes philosophical presuppositions, scientific method, political and sociological issues, data and data analysis, basic science questions, and the consideration of viable alternatives. Brief notes on such considerations are…
OH EARTH! EARTH’S ACT OF FAITH AND SOCIETY By Meera Chakravorty, Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bangalore) Earth is in need of a little redemption if we set out to provide it, making it a moral and civic obligation since we ought to know how unique an investor Earth is in…
The Chronicle By Alice Loyd (through July 2, 2014) Social Justice: Immigration Communications: Privacy Climate Change Pollution Shorts SOCIAL JUSTICE: IMMIGRATION The wave of immigrant children flooding Texas Border Patrol facilities calls our attention to a human dilemma that is bound to increase as climate change worsens, resources become scarcer, and governments lose ground to…
FREE THOMAS BERRY! By Herman Greene I realize that the title of this article and the accompanying picture are provocative. Further, I understand they imply Thomas Berry has been restrained by someone or some group. I began this article under several other titles, but continued to come back to this one. I felt it…
The Chronicle By Alice Loyd (through April 30, 2014) CLIMATE Story 1: IPCC Working Group Reports on Adaptation to and Mitigation of Climate Change Released Perhaps the most important news event of spring 2014 was the release of two new reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Working Group II (Adaptation – this…
THE WHITEHEADIAN CENTURY: A LOOK AHEAD By Herman Greene This paper was originally presented as a plenary lecture at the Ninth International Whitehead Conference in Krakow Poland on September 10-, 2013 Those involved in the founding of the International Process Network (IPN) in 2001 warrant a place in the history of process thought.[1] IPN…
CONSIDERING THE LEGACY AND FUTURE OF THOMAS BERRY’S WORK ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH By Herman Greene It seems there are multiple ways to appropriate the work of Thomas Berry. Common ways are in terms of the Universe Story, meaning the scientific account of the evolutionary development of the universe; eco-communalism, meaning…
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD’S PROCESS PHILOSOPHY IN RELATION TO DE CHARDIN, BERRY AND SWIMME By Herman Greene Thomas Berry and Teilhard de Chardin, who greatly influenced Berry,[1] have been impressed by the story of the universe as narrative, and from this narrative have drawn conclusions about the nature of the universe. Their reflections were based…
THOMAS BERRY, WHITEHEAD, DE CHARDIN, BEING, BECOMING, PROCESS AND ONTOLOGY By Herman Greene Not always appreciated is the fact that Thomas Berry was the consummate scholar. As a Catholic Priest and a member of the Passionist Religious Order he received a classical education in philosophy and theology and earned a doctoral degree in history…
DOUGLASS HUNT LECTURERS FOR THOMAS BERRY COLLOQUIUM The Douglass Hunt Lecture Series of the Carolina Seminars program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) has invited five distinguished lecturers to present at the “Colloquium on the Work of Thomas Berry: Development, Difference, Importance, Applications,” to be held on the UNC-CH campus, May…
ACADEMIC COLLOQUIUM CRITICALLY ASSESSING THE WORK OF THOMAS BERRY, MAY 28-30, 2014, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL On May 28-30, the Center for Ecozoic Societies and the Relationality Seminar of Carolina Seminars of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) will co-sponsor a “Colloquium on the Work of Thomas Berry:…