Cyril said that water is the sign of the Spirit because it adapts and transforms into all living things. Christians need to reclaim the embodied spirituality that suffused early Christianity, as a way to feel part of nature and thus committed to its preservation.
/ June 26, 2015
It would not surprise me now, however, if 2020 turns out in fact to be the peak year for consumption and population.
/ June 24, 2015
The legal system is based on a “design” mentality that was doomed to fail from the start, due to the dynamic nature of human systems. It is impossible to engineer systems like we would program a computer; they will always evolve beyond the purposes they were designed for, and it is impossible to predict what they will become.
/ June 24, 2015
The Laudato opens with St Francis’s prayer, “Praise be to you my Lord, through our sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.” It resonates with the Indian philosophy of Vasudhaiv Kutumkan, with the contemporary movement for the Rights of Mother Earth, with cultures and faiths across the world.
/ June 22, 2015
On a day when the nation's press was preoccupied with the appalling racist murders in Charleston, our task of redirecting the world away from massive suicide became more difficult.
/ June 21, 2015
If fossil fuel companies had to pay the full cost of their production, one wonders whether they could compete with solar energy.
/ June 21, 2015
Pando implies a fundamentally different way of understanding the world – and places a symbol of ecological relations at the heart of things.
/ June 18, 2015
This is a truly historic event. It is possible, just possible, that June 18, 2015 will be remembered as the turning point, when humankind began to come to its senses.
/ June 18, 2015
“Ecological Civilization” by Tucker Nichols for Pando Populus. Artwork copyright (c) 2015 by the artist. What Can We Hope For?...
/ June 15, 2015
I have imprinted on my mind something Cobb said to me when I was a student, on a walk, here--35 years ago,: “what we need is enough ecological catastrophe that people wake up, and not so much that it is too late.” Still true? Catastrophe can be a catalyst.
/ June 15, 2015
This century is still far away from being a Whiteheadian century. But it’s going in the right direction.
/ June 14, 2015
“Nature alive” also allows us to view ourselves differently. Gone is the anthropomorphism of old; we now see that human agents share their essential features with all living agents.
/ June 14, 2015