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Tag: Ecological Civilization

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.…
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The world renown Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. addressed the participants of the 16th Claremont International Forum on Ecological Civilization and 5th International Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization in the opening remarks. He pointed out that "today, there is no topic that is more important than ecological civilization!" Indeed, the…
The Center for Process Studies
On 1 April, during the 28th episode of Cobb Eco-Academy Lectures, Ms. Maria Alonso, founder of Huerta del Valle-Organic Farm in Ontario,California, USA, shared with the audience the story of her organic community garden and urban farm Huerta del Valle. She was nominated and selected as the Ontario Woman of…
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On January 6, 2023, the 2nd Sharing From the Heart - Living Earth Youth Dialogues was held successfully via Zoom Meeting. More than 100 people from China and the United States participated the dialogue, during which American youth Alexi Caracotsios shared his observations and insights on the long-standing "pandemic" in…
2022-Ecological-Civilization-in-Korea-Conference
EcoCiv Korea had its 6th annual conference in South Korea on Nov 18, 2022 (PST). EcoCiv Korea launched "A Decade to Make a Difference" a series of conferences last year, and the 2nd year of the series continued to discuss the urgent need of attention to ecological issues. The main…
Religion and Ecological Crisis Christian and Muslim Perspectives from John B. Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Religion and Ecological Crisis delves into the complex relationship between religions and ecology, presenting Christian and Islamic perspectives on ecological issues through the work of John Boswell Cobb and Seyyed… Read More »Religion and Ecological Crisis: Christian and Muslim Perspectives from John B. Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead Ecological Attunement

Russell Duvernoy develops ‘resonances’ between the metaphysics of Whitehead and Deleuze with regard to effects on attention and affect. The implications of these lead to an altered existential orientation, described… Read More »Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement

After more than five years’ hard work, the Chinese book, Cobb and China: An Intensive Study of Cobb’s Postmodern Ecological Civilization Thought by Meijun Fan, Lu Liu, Kaige Gao was published by Central Compilation & Translation Press, in February, 2022.…