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Category: Higher Education

Principles of Deeptime Learning

These principles are the result of a collaborative effort by members of the Network.  To see the latest version, click on the link above. Deeptime Learning (DTL) connects us to our primal desire to answer fundamental questions: “Where did we come from?” “What are we part of?” “Where are we going?” “What is our role?” […]

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Cosmic Calendar with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Starting with the Big Bang, Neil deGrasse Tyson shows the timeline of the Cosmic Story within a calendar year to show/explain scale. The Cosmic Calendar was created as part of the Cosmos Series, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, which was aired on TV. Here’s the link to watch the series: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey/

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Thomas Berry’s Functional Cosmology in the Trenches

Thomas Berry’s functional cosmology flows from his concepts of a New Cosmology and Earth Spirituality. It turns concepts into action. This talk describes my own efforts trying to implement a functional cosmology while working as a community organizer in Inuit and Dene communities in the Canadian Arctic and on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia.

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The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth

Lovelock first sketched out his theory in his bestseller, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. People all over the world embraced the theory, and in less than ten years it moved from the margins of scientific research to the mainstream. Lovelock argues in Gaia Theory that such things as the level of oxygen […]

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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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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution

from the publisher “Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to our understanding of the future of the planet. Addressed to general readers, the book provides a beautifully written view […]

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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

from the publisher “‘Knowing how we know’ is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience […]

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Secret Chambers: The Inside Story of Cells & Complex Life

from the publisher “The appearance of the modern plant cell is one of the most deeply puzzling and unlikely steps in the whole history of life, and as Martin Brasier shows in Secret Chambers, decoding this puzzle has been a great adventure that has mainly taken place over the last fifty years. Covering the period […]

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