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“Ecozoic” means “House of Life.” “Ecozoic societies” are “Societies of Life.”
Life is what makes Earth special!
Earth is subject to irreversible damage in its basic functioning.
Humans collectively are now the primary geological force shaping Earth.
The “Great Work” is to bring into being an “Ecozoic Era”—
an era of mutually enhancing relations within the community of life.
This is an awesome task! We can do it . . .
even in a complex world where humans affect almost everything.

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An online magazine, The Ecozoic Review: News, Muse and Reviews for an Ecological Age.
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Thomas Berry’s Great Work

We need Thomas Berry to help us understand what is going on; to give us eyes to see, ears to hear, passion to feel, courage to act; to give us ways to explain what has happened; and to give us knowledge of what we authentically may rely on, hope for and move toward if we are to create a viable future.

The Determining Features of the Ecozoic Era

by Thomas Berry Earth is a communion of subjects not a collection of objects. Earth exists and can survive only in its integral functioning. It cannot survive in fragments any more than any organism can survive in fragments. Yet, Earth is not a global sameness. It is a differentiated unity and must be sustained in … Read More

BENEFIT CONCERT FOR CES
May 20, 2018
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Works to be performed

Il Gelsomino by George Friderich Handel (Cantata No. 63) (1685-1759), Aria 1
ÉLÉGIE by Jules Massenet “Ô Doux Printemps” (1842-1912)
“Dream with Me” by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

With remarks by

Herman Greene, President of the Center for Ecozoic Studies

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Home of Jim and Florence Peacock
306 North Boundary Street
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
RSVP to ecozoic.studies@gmail.com

FLORENCE PEACOCK, soprano, has performed as a soloist in oratorio, recitals, and baroque opera throughout the United States and in Canada, England, Japan, Indonesia and Russia. Performances abroad include the Franz Schubert Institute in Austria, where she studied with Elly Ameling. She accompanied her husband, anthropologist James T. Peacock, to Indonesia, during which time she studied Javanese singing, dancing, and Gamelon. In the United States, Florence Peacock has received critical acclaim for her solo performances in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Austin (Texas), with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and as a regular soloist at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute. She was featured on NPR’s Performance Today in a broadcast of songs by Stephen Foster. She holds her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hollins College and her Master of Music degree from the Yale University School of Music.

ROMAN PLACZEK is the cellist of the Nezhdanova-Placzek Duo, Executive Director of The North Carolina Bach Festival, Inc. and a published composer. He is an internationally recognized soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player as well as a sought-after cello teacher and music educator. Dr. Placzek has served as an executive director, board president and founder of music festivals, academies and other cultural institutions in both Europe the United States. He holds degrees from The Boston Conservatory, UMass Amherst and, in 2014, received his D.M.A. in Cello Performance from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

SUSAN LOHR became the accompanist for the North Carolina Master Chorale in 2002 and since that time has participated in the preparation and performance of dozens of choral masterworks. Highlights of her stint with NCMC include duo piano performances of Carolina Ballet’s Carmina Burana, Brahms’ Liebeslieder and Neue Liebeslieder Walzer with the Chamber Choir, and Stravinsky’s Les Noces. In 2009, she was a featured soloist with the Tar River Orchestra in a performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. In 2014, she was featured in the Master Chorale’s performance of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy. Susan is pianist at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Raleigh, is a staff accompanist at Campbell University and maintains an active schedule as a freelance artist.

Herman Greene is Founder and President of the Center for Ecozoic Studies in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a thought, imagination and dialogue center for ecological civilization. He serves on the Boards of Toward Ecological Civilization and the International Process Network, and on the Advisory Boards of the Center for Process Studies and the Institute for the Post-Modern Development of China. He holds degrees in Spirituality and Sustainability, DMin, United Theological Seminary 2004; Law, JD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1979; Ministry, MTh and MDiv, University of Chicago Divinity School 1969 and 1970; Political Science, MA, Stanford University 1967; and Political Science, BA, University of Florida 1966.

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