2012
The term Choice Point indicates a place of branching, a point of possibility. The point of transformation. This remarkable, new documentary points the way to mankind's Choice Point, the ...
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In 1962, Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” highlighted the dangers of widespread use of synthetic pesticides. Decades later, rising malaria rates have led some to question whether the ban on DDT is to blame. .
In this passionate talk, Albert Wiggan calls for better recognition from the scientific community arguing that Indigenous knowledge is science and that's what we should call it.
Marc Barasch speaks on deforestation, planetary healing, and the Green World Campaign during the Climate Change Plenary at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah October 15-19.
In Mindfully Facing Climate Change, Bhikkhu Analayo offers a response to the challenges of climate change that is grounded in the teachings of early Buddhism and mindfulness meditation.
In this interview, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a university professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, talks with the Bulletin’s Elisabeth Eaves about Islam and the environment.
In this talk, Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr will look at the relationship between man and nature and the spiritual crisis that inflicts the world. He will offer his vision for the alleviation of the spiritual crisis through a return to our tradition.
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In this 6th Age of Extinctions, the biosphere’s life-support systems that have allowed humans to ascend are collapsing.
Though she did not set out to do so, Carson influenced the environmental movement as no one had since the 19th century’s most celebrated hermit, Henry David Thoreau, wrote about Walden Pond. “Silent Spring” presents a view of nature compromised by synthetic pesticides, especially DDT...
“The Sea Around Us” and “The Edge of the Sea” might not have the polemical force of “Silent Spring.” They share with it, though, the sense that life on earth is too complicated, and too strange, to be knowable and predictable.
If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.