Author Archives: Allysyn Kiplinger
Remembering Hiroshima. Thomas Merton and the Original Child Bomb
Editor: Have you been to Hiroshima or Nagasaki? I have. To Hiroshima. In 1984. Remembering Hiroshima. Thomas Merton and the Original Child Bomb Vincent Di Stefano thehealingprojectwebcast.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/remembering-hiroshima-thomas-merton-and.html “Original Child Bomb” is one of a small number of pieces written by … Continue reading
A Historic Week for Indigenous Rights – Will It Stand?
Fri, 27 Jul 2012 by Bill Twist, Pachamama Alliance Because you are our valued partner in creating a just, thriving, sustainable world, I had to write to you today with some big news out of Ecuador. This past Wednesday (July … Continue reading
STATEMENT OF COMMON AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION OF SACRED SITES
Link to pdf: www.africanbiodiversity.org/system/files/images/Statement%20of%20custodians%20Final.pdf Text here below. STATEMENT OF COMMON AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION OF SACRED SITES 28 April 2012 Nanyuki Custodian Meeting, Kenya We, custodians of Sacred Sites from four African countries, are working together to revive … Continue reading
Rio+20 and Custodians of Sacred Natural Sites
Dear all You may remember that ‘The Future We Want’ was the theme of the Rio +20 Summit. Disappointedly the majority of world leaders decided that our future lies on the continued commodificatiion of Nature as an economic service for … Continue reading
Living the New Cosmology, An Interview with Jim Facette
Sophia Center Alumni Interview Series www.hnu.edu/sophia/alumni/2012/05/jim-facette-living-the-new-cosmology/ Jim Facette – Living the New Cosmology Posted on May 1, 2012 by Sophia Center Jim Facette is a Marianist Brother currently living in Dayton, Ohio. Born and raised in Milwaukee, he entered the … Continue reading
We Will Never Give Up on the Web of Life: Reflections on Fukushima a Year Later
by Dennis Rivers For years the antinuclear movement has been saying to the general public: pay attention to this information because this bad thing is going to happen. And now, the really bad thing has happened. What have we to … Continue reading
Lonesome George: The End of the Line? Yes.
Betty just called to say that Lonesome George died on Sunday. We saw him in Galapagos Islands in 2005. Though he had lots of girl friends he never had any viable babies. His species is gone forever with his passing. … Continue reading
Prosperity consist in our ability to flourish as human beings…
Cognizant of the history of civilizations, I’ve been thinking about the characteristics of a sustainable civilization as a condition for healthy humans within a healthy Earth community. Instead of creating institutions and bureaucracies let’s create and encourage values, mores, characteristics … Continue reading
Twelve Principles for Understanding the Universe and the Role of the Human in the Universe Process
by Thomas Berry 1. The universe, the solar system, and the planet Earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that mystery whence all things came into being. 2. The universe … Continue reading
The Historical Mission of Our Time is… – Seven Phrases One Sentence
The historical mission of our time is to… • reinvent the human at the species level • with critical reflection • within the community of life systems • in a time-developmental context • by means of story • and shared … Continue reading