Spiral Dynamics, mastering values, leadership, and change
A phenomenal exploration of the great integral dynamic forces and systems underlying...
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Category: Ecology/Sustainability
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
Paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly describes how the decisions we make about the environment...
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Big History: Between Nothing and Everything. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014.
Written by three big historians with long experience of teaching big history, this is the first college level textbook on big history. It updates the big history narrative, incorporates the core idea of Thresholds of Increasing Complexity, adds further readings and resources, and also chapter questions and many illustrations, maps and diagrams. Nine of the […]
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Cynthia Stokes Brown, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. 2nd ed. New York: New Press. 2012. 1st ed, 2007.
This short book (250 pages) tells big history for a general audience in clear, non-academic language, yet well documented. The general theme is of the human history portion is humans in their environment, connected by food.
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Somatic and Narrative Ways of Knowing (Sonar) for Transformative Learning
This is my dissertation which traces our cultural environmental unsustainability, social injustice...
Read MoreExperiences of Astronauts Returning to Earth
This film has a number of astronauts describe their experience of seeing the earth from space. Some of them call their experience the “overview effect.” They recall Carl Sagan’s recognition that the earth is a fragile spaceship, protected by a thin atmosphere. This 19 minute film is an important introduction for recognizing the importance of […]
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Sisters of Earth Network
SISTERS OF EARTH 2014 CONFERENCE July 10-13, 2014 at the University of Saint Mary (USM) in Leavenworth, Kansas. Conference Theme: The New Emerging Humanity: Healing Into Wholeness. The ‘Sisters of Earth’ is an informal network of women most of whom are rooted in deep understandings of new cosmology and all of whom share a deep […]
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The Big History Project
The Big History Project is now publicly available at https://www.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive! The Big History Project is a free, online course that tells the story of our Universe and humanity. Developing a framework to help people learn about anything and everything. It’s inherently interdisciplinary – combining the best of social studies, humanities, and science. It will take […]
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Nuns With a New Creed: Environmentalism (and the Story of the Universe)
Article about Catholic sisters in the US and Ireland who have embraced environmentalism and the Story of the Universe. Featured sisters include Gail Worcelo, Miriam MacGillis, and Marian O’Sullivan among others. A changing world and climate demand a new kind of vocation. The article discusses how Thomas Berry and his book, co-written with Brian Swimme, […]
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