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Earth Matters: Thomas Berry, the Pacifism of Religious Cosmology and the Need for Ecojustice

Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Feb 17, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Higher Education, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice, Story of the Universe |

Abstract This article begins by unfolding Thomas Berry’s notion of Pax Gaia, using the...

The Story of Big History

Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Feb 5, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Big History, Higher Education, Lifelong, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |

Currently, a group of historians is claiming that it might be history that provides the framework for a scientific and evolutionary account of everything. Big History, so named by its foremost practitioner, David Christian, seeks to unite the two cultures under the framework of an elegant story of the universe, a history, in the words […]

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Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (Revised Edition)

Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Jan 31, 2020 | Adult Education, Book, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Cosmology, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Secondary 9 - 12, Story of the Universe |

First published in 1996, Hidden Heart of the Cosmos sought to answer the question: What does it...

The patient genius of transmutation

Posted by Betsey Crawford | Jan 25, 2020 | Article, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Ecology/Sustainability, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Science, Story of the Universe, The New Story, Website |

“All is flux,” the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said 2500 years ago. “Nothing stays still.” He offered us a perfect description of transmutation, one of the great powers that cosmologist Brian Swimme ascribes to the universe. Every molecule, every cell, every feature of our earth has come to this point through transmutation. Now it’s asking us […]

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Deep Time Walk App

Posted by Geoff Ainscow | Jan 22, 2020 | Adult Education, Audio, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Book, Education, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Higher Education, Lifelong, Middle 6 - 8, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12, The New Story |

The Deep Time Walk is a walking audio book. No, the book doesn’t walk beside you on a leash. You walk for 3 miles listening to an engaging conversation between a scientist and a fool (Shakespeare’s court jester) which is downloaded for free into a smartphone. You walk 4.6 kilometers (3.2 miles) representing 4,600 years […]

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