Twenty years ago, I sat at the kitchen table of David Cook and Joanna Haymore, the leaders of the Piedmont Bioregional Institute, and asked if I could form the Center for Ecozoic Studies as a program of PBI. Thankfully, they said yes. The ideas for the Center for Ecozoic Studies had come from work I…
Still Time to Submit Stories for the Great Work We have re-scheduled the date of publication of our next Ecozoic Journal on “The Living Legacy of Thomas Berry.” It will be published in early 2020, rather than late 2019. If you would like to submit (i) a story of how you have lived and will…
It is appropriate to think about trees as we enter this particular holiday season. They hold an important symbolic place in religious and secular traditions, and now their role in nature is rising to prominence. “Of all the solutions to climate change, ones that involve trees make people the happiest,” writes Bill McKibben in a…
D. Paul Schafer is director of the World Culture Project based in Markham, Canada. He has worked in the cultural field for more than fifty years and is the author of many books on the arts, culture, and Canadian culture, including “Culture—Beacon of the Future,” “Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age…
“If we are to have peace on earth . . . we must develop a world perspective.” –Martin Luther King Jr., December 24, 1967 “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty! –Commander Frank Borman, Apollo 8, December 24, 1968 Forty-one years ago, on Christmas…
Perhaps what we call Chaos is actually Creativity in the process of birthing new ordered forms. Throughout the history of the universe, changes have been ongoing. Common cyclic themes include birth/death, order/disorder, and evolution/devolution. Space and time needed for identifiable change vary. For Earth and life on it, when the process is slow enough to…
As we all know, shifting away from the dominant culture of consumption can be overwhelming. Our brains are wired to stick to habits with which we’re familiar. Our friends and family have expectations of us being a certain way. But it’s clear that we need to make big changes. We need the individual actions that…
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