The Network of Spiritual Progressives

"Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that judges corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacity to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation."
- Rabbi Michael Lerner

Learn about the Network of Spiritual Progressives:
http://spiritualprogressives.org/newsite/

the nexus of democracy and its response to climate change

"Can democracy in crisis deal with the climate crisis?"

Great writings from the contributors at the Center for Humans and Nature:

http://www.humansandnature.org/can-democracy-in-crisis-deal-with-the-climate-crisis

Earth stewardship: http://www.esa.org/esa/science/earth-stewardship/

"Earth stewardship involves shaping trajectories of social-ecological change at local-to-global scales to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being. Over the next decade or two, society has a window of opportunity to radically redefine our relationship with the planet to reduce risks of dangerous global changes that could otherwise seriously degrade Earth’s life-support systems."

 

it's time to re-read this "Thinking Like a Mountain"

Always worth coming back to this essay: http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/Anthropo.htm


BEYOND ANTHROPOCENTRISM
by John Seed
from THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN - TOWARDS A COUNCIL OF ALL BEINGS by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Arne Naess & Pat Fleming, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1988

Our dependence on nature

Go to this link: http://www.conservation.org/pages/nature.aspx to learn more about how we depend on nature.

Then read about the concept of "ecosystem services" - how nature works for us: http://www.teebweb.org/resources/ecosystem-services/

Ph. by J. Eastland, Wikim. Commons