Claremont Energy Vision

Shanahan Center at Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United States

You are cordially invited to Claremont Energy Vision—a convening sponsored jointly by Toward Ecological Civilization (EcoCiv), Community Home Energy Retrofit Project (CHERP, Inc.), the Hixon Center at Harvey Mudd College, and the Environmental Analysis program at Pomona College. Together, we will explore the city-wide strategy that Claremont is currently deploying to drive its energy use…

Higher Education and Institutional Divestment

This convening will bring together institutions that have already reached the decision to divest, board members of colleges and universities interested in exploring the process, and other leaders who work in roles that help achieve these goals, such as endowment networks and facilitating student participation in leading ecological movements. When business executives, grassroots organizers, scholars,…

Can Exceptional Experience Help Save the World?

Claremont School of Theology 1325 N College Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

This conference will explore applying the insights from process philosophy and transpersonal psychology to the issues we are facing today. How can we bring our understandings into the world to create a more sustainable, just, and humane civilization for future generations? Our aim will be to explore how Whitehead’s metaphysics can be applied to connect…

Vermont 2050: Rethinking the Urban-Rural Relationship

Middlebury College Bread Loaf Campus 4229 Route 125, Ripton, VT, United States

To kick off our Urban-Rural program, EcoCiv is gathering leaders from across the state of Vermont to participate in a one-day event called Vermont 2050: Rethinking the Urban-Rural Relationship, that will take place at the Middlebury College Bread Loaf Campus on September 15, 2019. In partnership with the Center for Process Studies, Middlebury College, and…

The Next Economy: Transforming Economic Systems after COVID-19

EcoCiv is excited to invite you to join our next live panel, “The Next Economy: Transforming Economic Systems after COVID-19” on April 30 at 9 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. As the socio-economic effects of coronavirus worsen, the deep failures of our global economic order are being revealed. Is this the end of the neoliberal era?…

EcoCiv Dialogues on Global Systems Change: Community and the Common Good

Join us for a dialogue with experts to discuss the future of work and the need for shifting labor paradigms for an ecological civilization. EcoCiv is partnering with One Project to elevate themes of The New Possible through a series of dialogues on global systems change. Our December topic is “Community for the Common Good:…

Conversations for a Life Economy December Panel Discussion

Across the fields of marine biology, international banking, and global poverty, how can each one of us lead a path that supports the shift from a Death Economy to a Life Economy? Join us on December 17th at 11am EST to consider how we can use our values to influence ethical action in the professional…

Deeper Dimensions of Water and Partnerships

From intergovernmental organizations, multilateral development banks, multinational corporations, academia, and more, panelists for the W12+ Exchange will share how partnerships cut across silos and what we can learn from innovative collaborations that already exist. The latest IPCC report affirms that the challenges facing the water world are large: about half of the world’s population experience…