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Exploring Contemporary Realities
Growing a Mindful Orientation, Critical Outlook, Sensibility and
a New Language for Spiritually-Engaged Sustainability.
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Communion for Sustainability (Page)
GCSSFS page on Facebook. Shared contributions. Going beyond the business-as-usual sustainable development orientation and movement. Shaping a spiritually engaged sustainability orientation, one posting at a time. Reflecting on our choices. Re-thinking our lives and our futures. Providing alternatives. Changing within and trans-forming without. Join us/Like us.
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Sociology Matters (Page)
Sociology matters. And sociology matters. Shared postings of critical social-political-economic-cultural analyses on contemporary local and global realities/issues. For sociologists, social scientists or any concerned person(s). Exploring, understanding unsustainable realities. Expressing, engaging and acting for borderless sustainable worlds. Join us/Like us.
This Centre's Primary Concern and Focus:
![]() Sustainable development has become a household term. But ironically, the prospect of a common sustainable future appears to be fading ever more rapidly today. No doubt the idea developed out of a genuine concern for the negative impacts of mainstream economic development on the environment and human communities. Yet, reminders are increasing by the day that careless human interference in ecology and life processes are having dire consequences, across time and space. Our excitement about our achievements aside, the biosphere is under serious threat like never before. There is all-round unsustainability - economic, technological, political, social, cultural...Clearly, all life is threatened.
Concerned persons all over the globe have made enormous efforts (with even threats to their lives) to conceive and practise development that intellectually and emotionally goes beyond the “business-as-usual” approach to sustainable development. Engaging deeply with indigenous cultures and cosmologies and mindfully designing our future(s), pathways to a spiritually-engaged sustainability are beginning to frame and inspire the human agenda...Slowly moving from the margins to the centre. More. More. |