Author Archives: Allysyn Kiplinger
Sisters of Earth 2014 Conference – Leavenworth, Kansas
Dear SOE Members, The SOE planning committee would like to announce that the SOE 2014 Conference will be held July 10-13, 2014 at the University of Saint Mary (USM) located in Leavenworth, Kansas. USM is a sponsored work of the … Continue reading
Story of Earth Jurisprudence
A very informative chronology of the development of the idea of Earth Jurisprudence, from its deep roots in time immemorial to today. It begins: The following milestones chart the evolution of Earth Jurisprudence or Earth Law, which recognises the Earth … Continue reading
Ecological Civilization and a Commonwealth of Life
by Herman Green, Cynthia Sampson and Rebecca Tobias of the United Religions Initiative Environmental CC What time is it? On April 15, 2013, a bomb goes off in Boston, and millions, if not billions, of dollars will be spent on … Continue reading
Santa Monica Recognizes Legal Standing for Ecosystems
By Global Alliance Friday, April 12th, 2013 Legalizing Sustainability? Santa Monica Recognizes Rights of Nature 11th April, 2013 – Posted by Shannon Biggs Reprinted from Global Exchange Media Release First-in-California law seeks to make sustainability legal On April 9, the … Continue reading
Comprehensive Compassion for Subjects of the Past
This is a lovely, whimsical example of comprehensive compassion for the unique subjectivity of things past. This is a song written for a specific trilobite. I’m not sure I’ve ever thought much about the unique life experience of any particular … Continue reading
Seriously! A Movie About Play and Its Cosmological Dimensions
If you like to laugh, or play or be silly, or ever did as a child, you’ve got to get involved in helping spread the word about this film project that was brought to my attention yesterday. Gwen Gordon, the … Continue reading
Resiliency as a Cosmological Power
Website Review: wild resiliency! The focus of Larry Glover’s writing and website, “wild resiliency!”, is to highlight the cosmological power of resiliency innate in all life, and thus the life force. He periodically highlights and writes about how the cosmological … Continue reading
Science, Evidence, and the Whole
Without any accompanying explanation, this was posted this morning on a cosmology based e-group to which I belong. Subject: Bill Nye: Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children Post: Thank you, Bill Nye, the Science Guy! www.youtube.com/watch My response after watching … Continue reading
How Thomas Berry Has Touched My Life
Allysyn Kiplinger, Oakland, California September 30, 2008 Thomas Berry touches my life in three ways – in what he says with his clear mind, how he says it with his warm heart, and how he has inspired and activated me … Continue reading
Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time
Green Fire film www.aldoleopold.org/greenfire/about.shtml Duration: 74 minutes View the Trailer here www.youtube.com/watch The first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold, Green Fire highlights Leopold’s extraordinary career, tracing how he shaped and influenced the modern environmental … Continue reading