CES Musings February 2010
“The Ecozoic” is a vision and a summons, a planetary embryo in gestation, the Bride’s Song. Earth marries air, air marries fire, and fire marries the sea.
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CES Musings December 2009
For many, the experience of Thomas’s thought was a sudden, powerful opening to a hitherto unsuspected major and life-altering reality. That reality might be expressed as the unity of a sacred Earth community in which humans are [but] the climactic part in a unified, divinely revelatory, evolutionary enterprise.
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CES Musings November 2009
The universe is so vast it will answer any cosmological question we put to it. Newton asked: “What are the principles of motion and action?” Einstein asked: “What are the meanings of time and moving frames of reference?” It is now time to ask the universe a new cosmological question: “What is love?”
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CES Musings October 2009
In this issue: Partial Correction—The Ecozoic #3 on “What is Ecozoic?” – Invitation for Submissions, by Herman Greene; Reflections on the Thomas Berry Award and Memorial Service: Earth Is Primary, the Human Derivative, by K. Lauren de Boer.
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CES Musings September 2009
To bring into being the Ecozoic Era means building an ecological civilization, moving from a human-centered to an Earth-centered norm of reality and value. In this issue we call for ecozoic writing to be published in The Ecozoic #3; honor deceased ecozoic author Edward Goldsmith; and offer two poems by Therése Halscheid.
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CES Musings August 2009
Herman Greene honors the passings of herbalist, teacher and botanical explorer Frank Cook, and British biologist and author Brian Goodwin; Jordan Vilchez gains understanding of the world through Thomas Berry’s writing, as Elizabeth Ayres does through kayaking.
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CES Musings July 2009
Herman Greene reports on the awesome country of China, its environmental issues and its interest in ecological civilization
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CES Musings June 2009
Thomas Berry passed away on June 1, 2009. He is being remembered in many places across North America and around the world. This issue records how students and friends of Thomas have gathered to honor the life of this remarkable teacher, writer, and sage.
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CES Musings May 2009
In a visit with Thomas Berry near the end of his life, I was grounded by looking down at his familiar shoes. I had once washed mud from them, and at another time, in a moment of spiritual vertigo, I had studied his black shoes steady on the floor under the table.
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CES Musings April 2009
A public protest on April 20, 2009 in Charlotte, NC, called attention to the Cliffside coal plant, a symbol of the suicidal momentum now driving collective human conduct. Cliffside is well-named in this respect, since burning coal is one of the most dangerous features of the pattern that has put us at the edge of the cliff. 44 people risked arrest through civil disobedience, stepping over an orange line drawn around Duke Energy headquarters. Attendee Alice Loyd and arrestee Lib Hutchby report their reasons for participation.
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CES Musings February 2009
Invitation for the International Symposium on Ecological Civilization Institute of Hominology, Peking University
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CES Musings January 2009
I’ve seen people return with slightly glazed eyes. I’d heard about them, those “huddled masses,” “those who live on less than a dollar a day,” “the bottom half.” Most people. But I hadn’t really seen them until I went to India. Now I understand in a new way that humans are part of nature.
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CES Musings March 2009
Christianity in its origins and in the foundational doctrine of the Trinity provides a starting point for an
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CES Musings May-June 2014
In this issue: ARTICLE Free Thomas Berry by Herman Greene The Chronicle (May-June 2014) by Alice Loyd o Social Justice: Immigration o Communications: Privacy o Climate Change o Pollution o Shorts
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THE MULTIPLE FACES OF SCIENCE IN ETHICAL ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING
THE MULTIPLE FACES OF SCIENCE IN ETHICAL ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING By Herman Greene This paper was originally presented as a plenary lecture at the “Bounds of Ethics in a Globalized World” conference held at Christ University in Bangalore, India. There were over 500 participants in the Conference from 47 countries. This is an essay on the…
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The Chronicle January-February 2014
The Chronicle January-February 2014 From Alice Loyd and Herman Greene Inequality CES shares a growing concern about the increasing economic inequality in the US and the world. We included The Earth Charter among the foundational statements of our organization when we first began our work—at about the same date as the publication of the Charter…
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We Who Would Live the True Life of Nature
WE WHO WOULD LIVE THE TRUE LIFE OF NATURE By Alice Loyd I live wedged between the canyon walls of this culture. Beyond them I sense—I swear I’ve seen—the green light Of the world where I belong. We who would live the true life of nature Only view it now through the cracks Scratched…
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The Chronicle November-December 2013
The Chronicle By Alice Loyd (through December 31, 2013) At the end of 2013, we review recent news stories reflecting the shrinking world humans have made. The planet seems smaller due to gains and losses: information and transportation technologies on the one hand, and species and habitat loss, including ice melt, on the other. But…
