Tag: Ecological Civilization

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

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April 9, 2024
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Tad DeLay
Verso

Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology

January 23, 2024

Christmas Greetings & 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…

December 15, 2023
John B. Cobb, Jr.
General Announcement

On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics

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

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December 5, 2023
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O'neil Van Horn
Fordham University Press

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

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December 1, 2023
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Brian G. Henning
SUNY Press

Emptiness, Creativity & Feminist Ecology: An Introduction to Process Buddhism

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…

November 27, 2023
Kazi Adi Shakti

Backyards as Forests for Food and Beauty: An Urbanite Manifesto for Earth Day 2023, Inspired by the Work of A. N. Whitehead

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.…

November 27, 2023
Sung Sohn

Insights from 16th Claremont International Forum on Ecological Civilization

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…

July 7, 2023
Lifang Zhang, Simeiqi He
Report

Empowering Local Communities with Sustainable Living Practices: Cobb Eco-Academy’s 28th Lecture by Ms. Maria Alonso

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…

May 22, 2023
Wenwen Xie
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The Second Living Earth Youth Dialogue

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…

January 16, 2023
Wenwen Xie
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