new issue of The Trumpeter is online

A favorite online journal - for those interested in environmental ethics - The Trumpeter - has a new issue (Volume 30, Number 2, 2014) available:
 http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/issue/view/116

a great teaching, from a master teacher

Absolutely wonderful advice from one of the world's great teachers, Pema Chodron:
"Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away." http://www.lionsroar.com/turn-your-thinking-upside-down/#

Pope Francis' "integral ecology"

Read a fine essay by Dr. David Pruett, emeritus professor of mathematics at James Madison University, on Pope Francis' "integral ecology"- in expectation of his ground-breakng encyclical, due later this summer: http://fore.yale.edu/news/item/pope-francis-integral-ecology/

a new conference pointing the way forward

Read about a noteworthy new conference pointing toward an ecological civilization:
"The conference is organized around the idea that there is an alternative to modern industrial life, and that in order to avoid catastrophic conditions we must seize an alternative way of thinking and living. That 'alternative' is an ecological worldview." http://www.pandopopulus.com/conference/