International Big History Conference Program 2014
This is the program that describes all the papers and panels for the 2014 conference.
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Author: Jennifer Morgan
The Origin, Differentiation and Role of Rights
This important document helped launch a movement for defending the rights of Nature and Earth Jurisprudence. It lays out the foundation for where rights originate and why they need to be respected, and how the rights all things fit into the larger context.
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Earth Literacy Syllabus, Genesis Farm
The Genesis Farm Earth Literacy Program provides a model of educational context and subject matter appropriate to this time of transition into a mutually enhancing relationship with Earth. The program is based on new understandings of the history and nature of the Universe as these have emerged through the recent and fresh encounter between modern […]
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Cosmic Story Mat
A stunning companion piece to the book, Born With A Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story....
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Video about An Tairseach, Wicklow, Ireland
This video of Sr. Marian O’Sullivan at An Tairseach and its farm and the surrounding area of Wicklow explains the inspiration behind its work. An Tairsearch means threshold and the idea, according to Sr. Marian, is that humanity has to pass through a threshold into another phase in the Human/Earth/Cosmic Journey.
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BEING HUMAN in the Age of Humans (The Anthropocene: The Era of the Man-Made World)
Terrific article about the anthropocene as a way of thinking about human identify, and what it...
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Birth of the Solar System (Song for Elementary Level)
This is a wonderful song for teaching the steps from the Big Bang to Formation of the Solar...
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Twelve Principles for Understanding the Universe and the Role of the Human in the Universe Process
This is a distillation of Thomas Berry’s work into Twelve Principles. They can serve as the basis for teaching his thought.
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Expanding Teilhard’s “Complexity-Consciousness” Law
One of Teilhard’s great discoveries related to the theory of evolution is his Law of Complexity=Consciousness. Simply put, this law reflects the tendency in matter to become more complex over time and at the same time to become more conscious. Teilhard recognized that this tendency in material things toward higher levels of complexity leading to […]
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Reimagining the Cosmos, Interview with Brian Green
This is an interview on On Being with Krista Tippett.
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