Table of Contents:
- The Chronicle by Alice Loyd
- Abundance by Margaret Aiseayew
- Thrice-Born: On the Transformation of an Expert Dufus by James Peacock
- On Ecovillages and the Universe Story by Herman Greene
- We Need A Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is Not Enough’ by John Bellamy Foster
- For Climate Cause, Trump’s Withdrawal from Paris Accord Just One Hurdle among Many by Andrew Revkin
- Remembering Wm. Theodore De Bary by Herman Greene
The Chronicle
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CULTURE A revived interest in religion in China has inspired environmental activism. In recent years hundreds of millions of people have turned to religions like Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, and as they do they are starting social service organizations to oppose polluters, and citing their faith to protest plans to build factories and power … Read More
Abundance
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Editor’s Note: We repeat this article annually during gardening season. There is so much to learn in a garden. This week was explosive. My garden produced cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, potatoes and the first cherry tomatoes. I was overwhelmed and since I can’t share the fruits, I share the reflections. I am not sure there … Read More
Thrice-Born: On the Transformation of an Expert Dufus
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James Peacock, PhD, is a member of the Board of Directors of CES. He is Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as President of the American Anthropological Association. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences … Read More
On Ecovillages and the Universe Story
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In a piece in the last Musings on “Does Thomas Berry Provide a Foundational Set of Principles for Ecozoic Societies?” I reported on and agreed with a way of viewing paradigms for a sustainable future based on ecocommunalism and a new sustainability paradigm. The latter saw the future as still being urban, technological and global, … Read More
We Need A Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is Not Enough’
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NO IS NOT ENOUGH Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need By Naomi Klein Haymarket Books, 2017 Editor’s Note: John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. This review first appeared on June 13, 2017, in the Monthly Review Online … Read More
For Climate Cause, Trump’s Withdrawal from Paris Accord Just One Hurdle among Many
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in ProPublica, on June 2, 2017, and is reprinted with permission under a Creative Commons license. Revkin provides an analysis of economic forces beyond the reach of the Paris climate accord, forces that are at work regardless of the US or other nations are committed to the Paris … Read More
Remembering Wm. Theodore De Bary
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Wm. Theodore de Bary, a renowned scholar of Asian thought, died on July 14 at his home in Tappan, New York, at age 97. He taught at Columbia University and finished his last class in May of this year. He was a close friend of Thomas Berry, and Mary Evelyn Tucker did her doctoral studies … Read More
