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Introduction Photovoltaic cells (PV) Batteries and storage Wireless transmission Concentrating solar power (CSP) Conclusion Introduction Each day the news about climate change grows more disheartening, and the most disheartening aspect is that it didn’t have to happen. Energy sources able to supply power for human activities without wrecking the planet and altering its atmosphere have…
The new Thomas Berry website, http://thomasberry.org/, will not disappoint, be you a veteran scholar or a new disciple. It is a good tool for understanding Thomas Berry, his contribution, and his influence. The site has a number of parts and functions: book store, summary of his contribution to our current moment, original source audio-video library,…
Editor’s Note: Mary Southard will be one of the leaders of the April 29-30, 2016, event on “Living the Creative Life: Art, Beauty, Ecology.” She will give a talk on “My Creative Life as an Artist” and will lead a workshop involving drawing with pastels. Her art is inspired, beautiful, heavenly. Both originals and prints…
Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” comes to mind when I think of the US presidential race. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs . . . If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way…
Berta Cáceres was a Honduran environmental activist and leader of the Lenca people. She organized a grassroots campaign to prevent the building of dams on the Gualcarque River. The Lenca engaged in the dangerous fight against the project because of the harm it would cause to the environment, their access to water, food and medicine,…
CES EVENT: “LIVING THE CREATIVE LIFE: ART, BEAUTY, ECOLOGY” APRIL 29-30, 2016, Church of Reconciliation, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Sandra Lubarsky, PhD; Mary Southard, CSJ; and Marcus Peter Ford, PhD Adult workshops on art, poetry writing, singing, movement, and poetry reading All-Day Saturday children’s workshop with Cely Chicurel of www.celyshouse.com Adult Programs – For more…
Living the Creative Life: Art, Beauty, Ecology Friday, April 29, 2016 (7-9 PM), and Saturday, April 30, 2016 (9 AM to 3:30 PM) Church of Reconciliation, 110 North Elliott Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Sandra Lubarsky, PhD; Mary Southard, CSJ; and Marcus Peter Ford, PhD
By Alice Loyd (through December 31, 2015) CLIMATE The much-anticipated 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21), was held in Paris, France, from November 30 to December 12, 2015, with 196 nations participating. The adopted version of the Paris Agreement will become legally binding if joined by at…
By Herman Greene, Founder and President, Center for Ecozoic Societies We invite your comments and questions on this article. Please send them to ecozoic.societies@gmail.com. I was recently asked, “What is different about CES?” My response was, “Our Ideas.” So how does that make CES different? There are many organizations concerned about ecological well-being, but there…
By Therése Halscheid Therése Halscheid has been an itinerant writer for more than two decades, living simply on the road as a house-sitter. She writes, “A nomadic lifestyle has allowed me to connect with the Earth and understand more deeply the interconnectedness between nature and human nature.” Regarding the lotus, they have their beginnings…
By Katherine Savage Katherine Savage lives next to the same patch of woods in which—as a child—she played, dreamed, and learned about being wild. Though this patch is thin now, the woods continue to speak; and she, in love with listening, keeps paper and pen with her at all times. She translates what she hears…
CES EVENT: “ECOLOGY, BEAUTY, ART” Featuring Sandra Lubarsky, PhD; Mary Southard, CSJ; and Marc Ford, PhD Includes workshops on art, music, and poetry April 29-30, 2016 Chapel Hill, North Carolina The importance of beauty and of art for ecologically-minded people is underrated, or at least seldom discussed. “Aesthetics,” while remaining as a subject matter of…
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THE POWERS It is increasingly understood that our age is dominated by corporations and by the most wealthy families and individuals. In the past, we have noted that income inequality is a growing concern worldwide. With this issue we begin tracking news that is specifically about the “one percent” and the business organizations US…
2015 happens to be the International Year of Soils,[1] and yet the year has been passing without much attention paid to this most important mixture of weathered rock, decayed organic matter, mineral fragments, water, and air. As George Monbiot wrote last spring, “Even if everything else were miraculously fixed, we’re knackered if we don’t…
October 16, 2015. Coffee in hand, I wander in predawn darkness through my candle-lit living room. The outside doors are open to the sweet, fresh smells of wet soil from last night’s thunderstorm, a brief respite from our five-year drought. I let my dog out to sit on his deck bed where he can…
George Alfred James received his PhD in History and Philosophy of Religion from Columbia University in 1983. He is author of Interpreting Religion, and Ecology is Permanent Economy: the Activism and Environmental Philosophy of Sunderlal Bahuguna. He is also edited the volume Ethical Perspectives on Environmental Issues in India. Over the past 25 years…
The Center for Ecozoic Societies in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is one of many organizations grounded in the work of Thomas Berry. Thomas Berry was[1] a self-described “geologian,” a lover and student of Earth. He has been credited with beginning the spiritual ecology movement. With respect to the relation of ecology, religion, and culture,…