[act-ma] BASEA Forum - Thursday, May 9th: Sustainability and Spirituality

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*Boston Area Solar Energy Association Forum: Thursday, May 9th, 2013*

*/Sustainability and Spirituality/*
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	/"Sustainability is the
possibility that human
and other life will flourish
on the planet forever."

- John R. Ehrenfeld/


/At our May Forum we dig down to the roots of our unsustainable society. 
There we find human behavior springing from an outdated worldview, 
producing increasingly bitter fruit.
Do our current efforts, in the name of 'sustainability', amount to 
plucking the leaves of the weeds - as Ehrenfeld contends, merely 
reducing unsustainability?

Can we expect flourishing when a drive for perpetual growth feeds on 
finite terrestrial resources, or do we need to dig again, to tend to the 
soil - and the soul, to nurture culture, to nourish flourishing? Is 
sustainability a spiritual movement?

Join us as we examine 'sustainability' from a philosophical perspective, 
in conversation with two leading thinkers who are urging us to attend to 
making ourselves whole, so that we may take care of the world.

//
"...the healing and unification of
our attention is the true pay dirt
behind the work of sustainability."

- Justin V. Good
	

/

Location: First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian Universalist; 3 Church 
Street, Harvard Square

Time: Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m

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/Speaker:
Dr. John R. Ehrenfeld, former Director of the MIT Program on Technology, 
Business and Environment, currently serves as the Executive Director of 
the International Society for Industrial Ecology. His new book, 
"Flourishing 
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A Frank Conversation about Sustainability", published in April, follows 
"Sustainability by Design 
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A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture", published 
in 2009.

Respondent:
Dr. Justin V. Good, a philosopher with a background in fine arts, 
teaches Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of Connecticut. He 
is the Executive Director of the solar-powered "Sanctuary at 
Shepardfields 
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