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Ecological Civilization: Naming and Creating the Future We Want

December 11, 2023

Dear Friends,

I hope you were among the many to see the webinar I participated in on November 28, entitled “East and West Dialogue on Ecological Civilization.” If not, you can find a recording of the webinar on the Earth Charter International’s YouTube channel.  In the webinar, I joined three colleagues, Zia […]

2023-12-18T19:14:32-08:00December 18th, 2023|Categories: Earth Community, Ecological Civilization, Newsletter|

Three Questions to Lead Us Away from Self-Extinction

Transformation begins with clarity on the nature of the choice that confronts our species. 

Some ideas hit us in a way that is hard to shake. Last year that happened to me. I was in a public conversation with my friend and colleague, theologian Matthew Fox, when he made this observation: “Humans might be the first […]

2021-01-08T14:01:32-08:00July 5th, 2018|Categories: Cultural Shift, Earth Community, System Transformation, YES! Column|

From the Theory of the Firm to a Theory of the Community

We humans organize around shared narratives, theories of reality, that guide us in making critical collective choices. When societies get their shared narrative wrong, they can make disastrously self-destructive choices. As a global society, we face a momentous choice we must get right. And our current narrative is fatally flawed.

2021-01-08T14:01:34-08:00February 7th, 2018|Categories: Academia, Corporations, Earth Community|

Sacred Earth Community: A New Story for Our Time

Perhaps the greatest threat to our common future is a combination of extreme individualism and extreme arrogance, as we deal with proposals to expand - through the genetic engineering of species and the geo-engineering of Earth's climate - our domination of forces of nature of which we have only the most superficial understanding. The turning we humans must navigate to a viable future depends on a profound awakening to our nature as spiritual beings and our responsibility for the consequences of our choices and our relationships with one another and a living Earth.

2021-01-08T14:03:23-08:00October 21st, 2013|Categories: Earth Community, Living Earth, Presentations|

Story Change Matrix

Change the Story/Change the Future

We are captive to Empire stories that legitimate imperial domination. Our future depends on embracing Earth Community stories that affirm our potential for creative partnership.

Empire Story Earth Community Story
Obedience to God the father, creator, and ruler of all is the path to salvation and eternal bliss in […]
2023-05-24T19:20:02-07:00March 13th, 2012|Categories: Change the Story, Earth Community, Living Earth|

Earth Community: An Indigenous Perspective

Our species is blessed to have a surviving storehouse of Earth Community wisdom and experience that indigenous people have preserved despite the  of the institutions of Empire to eliminate it. Indigenous peoples lived close to Earth and were acutely aware that their security and survival depended on their deep bond to tribe and nature. As […]

2022-01-28T17:18:08-08:00September 8th, 2010|Categories: Earth Community, Indigenous Wisdom|
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