Watch Video When are the Global Climate Strikes? On September 20, three days before the UN Climate Summit in New York City, young people and adults will strike all across the US and world to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis. As we deal with devastating climate breakdown and hurtle towards…
When I give talks about the ecological situation, I am often asked one or more of the following questions: “What do you think will happen?” “What should we do?” and “Are you hopeful?” I typically have either turned the questions around or given only vague answers. Following Rainer Maria Rilke’s advice in Letters to a…
Humans are world-makers. We humans have used foresight to build cities, empires, companies. In the United States the “manifest destiny” to have the nation extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific led to a steadily advancing frontier. We have dreamed of putting men on the moon and flying and have accomplished both. Our great visions…
I’ve kept a food garden most of my adult life, and by now that would be more than fifty years of practice. Through all the years of raising children and going to my day job forty or fifty hours a week, the garden was my primary passion and exercise. What I like best is raising…
Please send us your stories of how you are living the legacy of Thomas Berry. We will publish these stories in in the 2019 issue of the Ecozoic Journal, which will be on “The Living Legacy of Thomas Berry: Stories from the Great Work.” Submissions are due by the end of August (August 31, 2019),…
The Ecozoic Journal 5 (2018) on “The Ecozoic Way: The Foundational Papers of the Center for Ecozoic Studies” is now available for purchase. This issue, a result of thousands of hours of work, is a compilation of the key ideas CES has worked with over the last 20 years. Readers of the journal say that it…
This special conference will explore the life and legacy of Thomas Berry, with presentations on his intellectual journey, “The New Story,” the Journey of the Universe, Laudato Si, The Dream of the Earth, and the challenge of “The Great Work.” This event is free and open to the public. Wednesday, October 30 Opening Session 4:00…
You may access the full Journey of the Universe film here. The password is: whowouldyoube619. You may access with the 20 conversation related to the film with scientists and environmentalists here. The password is: JOTU2014
Holy Names University, Oakland, California, Saturday, November 16, 2019, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Registration Fee of $20.00 Twenty years ago, in 1999 CE (Common Era), Thomas Berry released The Great Work: Our Way into the Future to the Human Community. With the crucial climate crisis decade of the 2020’s CE right around the corner, now…