2016 Sisters of Earth Conference
Zest for Life – Partnering with our Sacred Earth Community
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A New Common Sense: Montessori’s and Dr. King’s Hope for Humanity
This is a copy of the speech I will be giving for Community Montessori’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Tribute program on January 18, 2016.
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Fruitcake and the Magi’s Cosmic Gifts
Story tells of our struggles to respond to the fears of terrorism and needs of refugees in the midst of Christmas, 2015. A family struggling to know what they believe are visited by a caravan of wiseones offering unusual and cosmic gifts. The author weaves scripture and cosmology to create an entertaining and relevant expression […]
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January 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
This issue deals with the origins of long history of almost all ideas, the fallacy of “arguments from authority,” the framing of ideas as “extraordinary”, Lynn Margulis’s “math of biology 1 + 1 = 1,” misappropriation of the scientific term “symbiogenesis” in John Archibald’s history of the current rethinking biology in terms of collaborating consortia, […]
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Bacteria to Biosphere – Gaia is symbiosis seen from space
A presentation to the European Society for Literature,Science and the Arts (SLSAeu) at their 2015 meeting on “Scale” in Malta. The presentation discusses the new paradigms in biology and evolution that have provided new support for the importance of the microcosmos, symbiosis, Gaia theory, and the work of Martin Brasier on his discovery of “the […]
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Is the idea that the Universe is a living system scientifically valid?
An scientific analysis of the statement “The Universe is a living system.” There are very specific criteria for the statement of a scientific hypothesis, which are outlined. There is also a method by which scientific terms are changed, broadened, narrowed or replaced. The scientific definition of a term, such as “life” may not be complete […]
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Laudato Si’ Reflection Resource
This downloadable resource is for any group wanting to know what Pope Francis actually wrote in...
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The Thousand Names of Gaia
Written for the Rio de Janeiro meeting The Thousand Names of Gaia September 2014 Bruno Latour, Sciences Po For discussion only. English kindly corrected by Michael Flower “Since we are assembled for a sort of political, scientific and anthropological ritual in order to review, utter, celebrate, list, enlarge, narrow down, pin point, conjoin or compose […]
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In Search Of Truth. In Memory of Lynn Margulis
from Vimeo “A short film documentary in remembrance of the biologist who changed our point...
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Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
from the publisher “*Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization’s very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own […]
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