On November 22nd, 2024, the conference “Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Process Philosophy” was held at Beijing Normal University by the School of Philosophy and The Center for Sciences and Humanities. Conference participants included scholars from Yale University, Institute for Postmodern Development of China, Center for Process Studies, USA, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Minzu University of China, Beijing Institute for the Study of Cath...| Center for Process Studies
The Center for Process Studies is growing a new branch of eco-education programs dedicated to cultivating the vision of ecological civilization through process-relational culture in youth education. With aims to build a global eco-education community, this project brings together collective wisdom from many cultures for eco-literacy and project-based learning programs. As well, this project has a special focus on creating hope amidst the metacrisis by empowering youth to become co-creators of...| Center for Process Studies
The re-election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency will have global implications for decades to come. This article identifies key underlying drivers that led to this event, explores the potential…| Patterns of Meaning
It’s time to face the fact that resolving the climate crisis will require a fundamental shift away from our growth-based, corporate-dominated global system. Originally published October 9, 20…| Patterns of Meaning
Upcoming courses on Ecological Civilization and The Web of Meaning Wildfires. Floods. Political polarization. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the onslaught of these harbingers of society’s unraveling. Sometimes, it might seem like there’s nothing we can do to help steer our civilization away from the precipice. Yes—society needs to undergo deep transformation, much deeper … Continue reading Join Me in Weaving a New Story of Meaning| Patterns of Meaning
Like all self-organized, adaptive systems, society moves in nonlinear ways. Even as our civilization unravels, a new ecological worldview is spreading globally. Will it become powerful enough to avert a cataclysm? None of us knows. Perhaps the Great Transition to an ecological civilization is already under way, but we can’t see it because we’re in … Continue reading The Future Is Not a Spectator Sport| Patterns of Meaning
March 29, 2024 This paper, a companion to my earlier paper "Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence," outlines a big picture conceptual and interdisciplinary framework for a new eco-nomics that recognizes our distinctive human nature and purpose as living beings born of and nurtured by a living Earth. This new eco-nomics is dedicated| David Korten
March 31, 2024 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conventional economics serves us well only if our purpose is to exploit people and Earth to make money for the already rich. I call it ego-nomics. To secure the wellbeing of all of Earth’s people, we will need a new economics that| David Korten
February 29, 2024 Dear Friends, My January newsletter column focused on the Earth Charter as a bridge between the conservative commitment to preserving the family and community values of our past and the progressive focus on moving forward to actualize our potential as a now interconnected global species. This February column takes on the discussion of human| David Korten
The idea that science and religion are enemies is a most unfortunate and misleading result of some of what happened during the widespread discussion of evolutionary theory. There were leading scientists who opposed Darwin’s theory, and there were leading churchmen who sided with them. On the whole, as scientific opposition faded, so did that of the mainstream churches.| Religion Online