“…all the gifts, seeded by our ancestors and evoked by the future ones, can pour through us. These gifts are not our personal property, nor meant for the separate self. They come through now for the sake of Life itself.”

– Joanna Macy, The Community Awaiting Us/span>

Keynote Convening CCC19

Dancing with Gaia

By Stephanie Mines

It may be difficult for organizers and strategists, planners, activists and environmentalists to comprehend how an event as broad in scale and as detailed as the upcoming gathering, 'Climate Change & Consciousness: Our Legacy for the Earth', was delivered completely through spiritual guidance. But it was.

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Article Preparedness

Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament

By Michael Lerner

Global strategies are beyond the ken of most of us living ordinary lives. What is firmly within our ken is to make our lives and our communities and organizations more resilient. What that means will differ depending on circumstance. But the shared intention to make future shocks survivable is something we can all share.

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Article Abundance

Book | Trees of Power

By Akiva Silver

They have come from the mysteries of the deep past. When I look at the sky, what I see there is not simply blue. There’s a radiance, an energy, a power. It is from this power that trees feed. Literally building their bodies out of the radiant sky, trees of power are strong beings to ally ourselves with. Their wisdom and abilities are very different from our own.

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Article Nature

Quiet Places Initiative

By Gordon Hempton

Gordon Hempton is a natural born listener. Known as the Sound Tracker®, he is an acoustic ecologist dedicated to capturing and preserving one of Earth’s most precious experiences on the verge of extinction: silence.

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Gallery Deep Ecology

Gallery 3 | Guardians of the Sacred in Tibet

By Diane Barker

The nomads and other Tibetans hold a reverence for the natural world, which ensures that they remain stewards of the land they have lived with for thousands of years. Small pockets of awareness of the land's magic, its sacredness, its deep inner value, still remain.

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Music Cosmology

Emergent Universe Oratorio

By Kari Auerbach and Sam Guarnaccia

The EUO was deeply inspired by the work Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, and Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim from the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University. These seminal thinkers have endeavored to lead us to a new understanding of the place of humans in the Universe.

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Credits

Staff and Advisors

Spring 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
The Earth is Doing Her Best
Rhonda Fabian
Convening CCC19
Dancing with Gaia
Stephanie Mines

Articles

Great Turning
The Community Awaiting Us
Joanna Macy
Mythos
Turtles Among Us
Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD
Abundance
Book | Trees of Power
Akiva Silver
Global Data
Paradise Lost | The Sequel
Said E. Dawlabani
Vocation
Cultivating Right Livelihood
Della Duncan and Mark Phillips
Nature
Quiet Places Initiative
Gordon Hempton
Nonduality
Rising Earth Consciousness
Alfredo Sfeir-Younis (Dzambling Cho Tab Khen)

Conversations

Voices | CCC19
Consciousness and the Combustion Engine
Stephanie Mines and Robert E. Yuhnke
Voices | CCC19
The Lie of the Land | Conversation and Essay
Margaret Elphinstone and Marie Goodwin

Essays

Awe
Look Up!
Valerie Brown
Anima Mundi
Rejoining the Great Conversation
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Quantum
Physics and Spirituality
Claudius van Wyk
Gratefulness
A Vision for the World
Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
Transition
Chama River Revelations
Marilyn DuHamel
Law
Rights of Nature
Betsey Crawford
Ecosystem
Council of the Wild Gods
Geneen Marie Haugen
Ecovillages
The Power of Community
Kosha Joubert

Galleries

Hues
Gallery 2 | Flower Flourescence
Craig Burrows

Music

Cosmology
Emergent Universe Oratorio
Kari Auerbach and Sam Guarnaccia
Indigenous
A Conversation with Alanis Obomsawin
Kari Auerbach and Alanis Obomsawin

Poetry

Three Poems
Jake Sheff
Two Poems
John Grey
Dear Reed Canyon
Sage Cohen
Two Poems
Judith Arcana
Three Poems
Jan Chronister