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Tag: Ecological Civilization

Liberating People, Planet, and Religion: Intersections of Ecology, Economics, and Christianity by Joerg Rieger & Terra Schwerin Rowe (editors)

There is growing consensus that life on the planet is in peril if climate change continues at its current pace. At stake is not only the future of many species… Read More »Liberating People, Planet, and Religion: Intersections of Ecology, Economics, and Christianity

Call for Papers | The Great Turning: Towards an Ecological Civilization Aiming at the Common Good of Humanity and Nature
The 17th International Forum on Ecological Civilization and 6th International Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization are seeking papers. Please submit a 500-word abstract in English outlining your ideas. The deadline for abstract submission is May 10th, 2024.…
Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change

The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green- washing distract the public from the climate violence suffered by the… Read More »Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change

John Cobb Christmas Letter & Thoughts on the Future of the Process Movement
I am 98, and for that age, my faculties are quite good. While I still can, I am reviewing my “legacy.” It is mixed up with the legacies of many others in the process movement. I rejoice not only that all of the process organizations are engaged in important activities…
On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics by O'neil Van Horn

Climate change is here. Its ravaging effects will upend our interconnected ecosystems, and yet those effects will play out disproportionately among the planet’s nearly 8 billion human inhabit­ants. On the… Read More »On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics

Value, Beauty, and Nature: The Philosophy of Organism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Environmental Ethics

Much of early environmental ethics was born out of the belief that the ecological crisis can only truly be solved by overcoming a pernicious worldview that limits all intrinsic value… Read More »Value, Beauty, and Nature: The Philosophy of Organism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Environmental Ethics

Emptiness, Creativity & Feminist Ecology: An Introduction to Process Buddhism by Kazi Adi Shakti
The synthesis of Process and Buddhism, while being coherent and consistent, is necessarily incomplete (because it is an actual part of the very creative advance it refers to) and open-ended (because it is not an exception to its own rule/law/dharma that all things are open/empty), therefore it could never stand…
Backyards as Forests for Food and Beauty: An Urbanite Manifesto for Earth Day 2023, Inspired by the Work of A. N. Whitehead by Sung Sohn
This manifesto encourages urbanites to transform their backyards into a forest for food and beauty for the coming years and their predicted climate-related issues. Like Whitehead’s forthcoming speculative ideal, the new vision must first be formulated. Something tangible is then able to come into existence based upon this new ideal.…