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What’s at Stake in Barbara Marx Hubbard’s Conscious Human Evolution?* By Marilyn McNamara Barbara Marx Hubbard lectured on “Conscious Evolution” in Chapel Hill on February 21, 2014, a presentation co-sponsored by CES, the C.G. Jung Society of the Triangle, Emerson Waldorf School, the Fenwick Foundation, Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute and United Church of Chapel Hill. The…
IN THIS ISSUE MUSE CES’s New Logo and Motto Publications of the Center for Ecozoic Societies The Age of Austerity NEWS World’s First Ecozoic Cuisine Website Death of Lou Niznik – Chronicler of the Ecozoic Death of Peter Berg–Father of Bioregionalism Keystone XL Pipeline, Consequences, Mass Protests and Arrests Climate Change Causes Migrations Increase…
IN THIS ISSUE MUSE “CES 2012,” Herman Greene “Economic Problems, Cultural Solutions” D. Paul Schafer “Powered with Compassion: Joanna Macy and the Work that Reconnects,” Hope V. Horton REVIEW Ervin Lazlo and Allan Combs, eds., Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Earth: The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Environmentalism (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2011),…
IN THIS ISSUE: “July Issue of CES Monthly Musings: New Format, and Focus on Reframing CES” “Identity and Difference: On Being Hungarian, American, Christian and Buddhist,” by Les Muray “Mutually Enhancing Relations: Buck the film, and the Orangutan and the Hound,” by Herman Greene
In this issue: “The Ecozoic University: A Proposal,” by George Bortnyk
In this issue: “Garden as if Your Life Depended On It, Because It Will,” by Ellen LaConte “Excerpts on Gardening, Humans, Humus and Spirituality: Thomas Berry On Gardening and Children, Mary Oliver on ‘The God of Dirt,’ Humans, Humus and Gardening in Genesis, and ‘In the Garden’ (a gospel hymn),” selected by Herman Greene…
In this issue: “Zen Calmness” by Jaime Vergara “To Life: Reflections on the Vernal Equinox, March 20, 2011, 7:21 pm, EDT,” by Hope Horton “Last Year’s Leaves,” by Maria Termini
In this issue: “Definition of Ecological Democracy,” “The Theory of Building an Ecological Civilization: Postulates and Corollaries,” and “The Practice of Building an Ecological Civilization: Renewable Energy Super Grids, Ecological Consumption Taxation, and Global Catalytic Dynamics,” Each by Roy Morrison
In this issue: “Living in Accord with the Rules of Life: A Review of Ellen LaConte’s Life Rules,” By Herman Greene Ellen LaConte has worked freelancing articles, essays and stories for magazines including The Sun, East/West Journal, New Perspectives, Odyssey, Country Journal, Countryside, Convergence and Gaia: A Literary & Environmental Journal, and…
In this issue: “Environment and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations: Turning China from Unsustainable Modern to Ecological Civilization” by John B. Cobb, Jr.
In this issue: “Is Growth Possible? The High Cost of Growth in the Industrial Economy and Ecological Civilization in an Ecozoic Age” by Herman Greene
In this issue: “De-Linking Growth from Sustainability” by Herman Greene “Green Doesn’t Go Far Enough” by Tim Toben “De-Growth” by Herman Greene
In this issue: “Earth Lives,” by Mary Elizabeth Clark, SSJ; “Dawn” by Patricia Webb “The Story of the Hummingbird,” sent to CES by Youngmin Song
In this issue: “Our Way into the Future: Guides from The Great Work by Thomas Berry,” by Center for Ecozoic Societies
In this issue: “The Importance of Thomas Berry,” by Center for Ecozoic Societies “Celebrating Thomas on EAARTH,” by Angela Manno “The Most Succinct Presentation of Thomas Berry’s Ideas,” by Thomas Berry “Is It Ethical to Ride on Airplanes?,” by one of our readers
Scientists in the former Soviet Union called for an ecological civilization in 1984. The idea was taken up in China by Ye Qianji in 1987. The Chinese as a whole rejected a separation of man and nature in the sense that one could become whole without the other. This aspect of Chinese traditional culture had a great impact on Thomas Berry’s thinking. Robert Woolf prefers the term “culture,” the necessarily local way a group of people have learned to live in balance with each other and with their local environment.
Climate justice as equality and as dignity are on a collision course. Equality calls for postponing action on climate until the conditions of equality of development are satisfied. Dignity demands action immediately unless the future of, for example, the Maldives is to be sacrificed. The important core is human rights—the right to have a decent and gracious life.
We have entered in a completely new horizontal historical dimension, where the simultaneous transmission of facts, disrupts each order of succession between past and presence, while the bombardment of information causes confusion and disorientation in the thought. Nobility (ever set on excelling oneself) underlies civilization; each generation has to reproduce it afresh based ideas from the past.