Articles from the bimonthly e-zine
We are living in a time of immense challenge on every front—socially, politically, ecologically, and spiritually. As Thomas Berry suggested, we need a new story to reorient and ground ourselves to meet these challenges. Mary Evelyn Tucker tells such a story—an epic of evolution—that has the potential to bring together the best of modern science…
CES has received this invitation, which we pass on to you. Allies, We are thrilled to announce our new Climate Year program. As part of our strategy to ensure that the US federal government commences a WWII-scale climate mobilization to restore a safe climate by July 4, 2017, we are looking for brilliant, talented, dedicated…
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…
CLIMATE—Crossing 2oC and 400ppm April 2016 was the warmest April on record for the planet, and the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records. data.giss.nasa.gov According to data released on May 14 by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the global temperature departure in April was 1.11 degrees Celsius above the…
A WIDER AND DEEPER ASSOCIATION In the January-February issue of CES Musings, we described CES as an association of people dedicated to research, education, art and action for the transition to ecozoic societies. Then we spoke of our associates as being “people who, including members of CES, are supported by the work of CES, see…
Ecozoans operate out of a big history. Thomas Berry said that our present situation is not like any other period in human history because, for the first time, the human species is undergoing a transition in geo-biological eras—from the terminal Cenozoic to the emerging Ecozoic era. This, he said, is not like a disturbance in…
Two centuries of explosive economic growth have radically altered our material and ideological worlds. With human activity now the major driver of geological change, the industrial era has come to be called the Anthropocene. This inquiry instead adopts the term Econocene, underscoring its ideological foundation: economism. The concept of economism, the reduction of all social…
Toward Ecological Civilization, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation (EcoCiv), emerged out of the vision of John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor of Theology (emeritus) of Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, CA, a 501(c)(3) organization (CST), and the work of the Center for Process Studies (CPS), a center within CST. Under the leadership of Cobb, CPS…
On Stillness (A Message from the Tree of Life) “Have you ever experienced stillness?” “I don’t mean quiet!” the tree said to me. No, stillness is something else. In fact, I suspect I have avoided stillness Much like I avoid a cobra or a tarantula. For stillness has a bite to it, That can…
THE POWERS In January 2016 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 1074 corporate chief executives or company chairs and more than 40 world leaders gathered to socialize, hold conversations, and spark ideas about the issues they currently face: the refugee crisis, climate change, rising interest rates, and many other problems that concern…
Messenger of morning, sign of the sun coming, let it live on our bodies as well as the waking sky, let it be the sudden blush, the shade of the tongue which colors our speech let it appear as the pale skin of the palm, any palm, as with the luster of meadows,…