I am 72 and I just ran the Boston Marathon. This was my 21st marathon . . . far from a record but still something. I’ve run enough to know what training and running a marathon is about. Though marathons were beginning to be popular , there weren’t many marathoners when I began running 35…
Mary Kay Klein has sent us information on New Story Groups that are coming into being around the country. The first meeting she was involved in was at Friends Meeting Cambridge, MA. This group began in 2005 and wrote this statement. The “New Story Group” in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an interfaith group that has been…
Here are some books that discuss what the Anthropocene means and how humans should respond. Please let us know about other books about the Anthropocene that you have found helpful and send us book reviews. Christophe Bonneuil & Jean Baptiste Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene (reviewed in this issue of The Ecozoic Review) Peter…
Thomas Berry writes of the Great Work of transitioning from a terminal Cenozoic era to an emerging Ecozoic era. His interpretation that a geological era is ending, one that began 65,000,000 years ago following the death of the dinosaurs, is a bold one. If it is true, then, as Berry wrote, for the first time…
The Shock of the Anthropocene By Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Verso, 2017) Christophe Bonneuil and Jean Baptiste are historians who work at the French National Center for Scientific Research, the largest fundamental research agency in Europe. The Shock of the Anthropocene is based on a history of the Anthropocene course they taught for four…
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine By Alan Lightman (Pantheon, 2018) Lightman’s book begins in the cave of Font-de-Gaume, in France, which is famous for its adornment of ochre and charcoal painted animal forms left behind by its long deceased Paleolithic inhabitants. Lightman’s visit inspired musings about how these primal people may have imagined…
For fifteen years I’ve been writing about current events—the news that news sources report—for people who care a lot about protecting the planet. I’ve weighed carefully the content of these columns in order to balance the bad news with the good. I’ve reported advances in green technology as faithfully as I covered the rise of…
One of the members of CES, Stefano Panzarasa, has just sent us this link to a YouTube video of his new song. He lives in Italy and sings the song in Italian. See the Italian lyrics below the English lyrics. Enjoy! OVER TIME, OUT OF TIME (Mirroring me in a window striped by the rain)…