“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know […]
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We each view reality from our own unique perspective, only a community of minds can show us the truth.
Problems of Humanity – Introduction
The following is the introduction to the book Problems of Humanity. The first edition of this book, published in 1947, contained essays on the basic problems of humanity. These had originally been […]
Continue readingGIFTegrity – A Gifting Tensegrity
Timothy Wilken Tensegrity is the pattern that results when push and pull have a win-win relationship with each other. The pull is continuous and the push is discontinuous. The continuous […]
Continue readingA Stolen River
Reposted from Defenders Magazine. Rodger Schlickeisen The Colorado River was once an unbroken ribbon of life from the northern Rockies of central Wyoming through the vast arid Southwest into Mexico […]
Continue readingThe Local Connection
Reposted from Defenders Magazine. Robert Michael Pyle Our concern for the absolute extinction of species is highly appropriate. As our partners in Earth’s enterprise drop out, we find ourselves lonelier, […]
Continue readingAldo Leopold’s Reverence for Life
Reposted from Defenders Magazine. J. Baird Callicott Why has Aldo Leopold had so much influence on the environmental movement, and why has his slender book of essays, A Sand County […]
Continue readingMeanings of the Twelve Days of Christmas
My childhood friend Bill Farmer forwarded me the following note. There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me. What in the world do leaping lords French hens, swimming […]
Continue readingThe Birth of The Geodesic Dome
Lloyd Steven Sieden Although Buckminster Fuller invariably maintained that he was a comprehensivist who was interested in almost everything, his life and work were dominated by a single issue: shelter […]
Continue readingBuilding an Ethic
Reposted from Defenders Magazine. Edward O. Wilson We may think that the world has been completely explored. Almost all the mountains and rivers, it is true, have been named, the […]
Continue readingEthics and New World Order
This is the twenty fourth and final Chapter from the online book: Living Ethics: The Way of Wholeness. See: 1) How Should We Live? 2) Ethics and Civilization 3) Worldview and Ethics 4) Self […]
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