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In the 1992 volume The Universe Story, written with the cosmologist Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry articulates one of his clearest economic claims directly related to our environmental challenges:

"Our human economy is derivative from the Earth economy. To glory in a rising Gross Domestic Product with an irreversibly declining Earth Product is an economic absurdity."

— Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme, The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era — A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992)

The line is precise and uncompromising. The economy the human community runs is a subset of the larger economy the Earth has been running for four billion years — the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, water, soil, energy, and biological diversity that makes every human transaction possible. To celebrate human economic growth while the Earth economy is collapsing is, in Berry's framing, not a tradeoff. It is incoherent. The numbers do not add up because they are measuring different things on different scales.

The Great Work, in this dimension, includes the slow re-grounding of human economic thinking inside ecological reality. Mutually beneficial relations cannot be built on accounting that pretends the Earth is an externality.

What is one place in your own life where the human economy and the Earth economy have stopped speaking to each other?

Carry the Great Work forward at thomasberry.org

We are thrilled to announce "Reimaging a Universe-in-the-Making: Teilhard and Process Theology," our third Annual event and Retreat! This year's retreat will meet from May 29-31, 2026 and feature Donald Viney, PhD as our plenary speaker. Stay tuned for more information!
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'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs In this excerpt from "The Story of Birds", author Steve Brusatte explores the moment where paleontologists realized they had critical evidence to show birds came from dinosaurs — a fluffy fossil from China.

Hi everyone, We've completed 91% of a fundraising campaign for Starborne: The Journal of Autocosmology. Our target is $9000. We've reached $8250, only $750 left to go. If you can please help put the campaign over the top. To read more about Starborne, click on the link and read a message from Brian Swimme. Thanks so much for considering.

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Check out this beautiful poster for Shad Fest in Lambertville, NJ created by board member Brian Tucker. It adds so much to see and feel Deeptime, even in a Shad Fest poster. Afterall, everything comes out of, and is part of, Deeptime. Even Shad!

In this episode of the Journey of the Universe: 10 Years Later podcast, Sam King speaks with the award-winning artist Angela Manno about her creative journey painting icons of threatened and endangered species.

Her latest project, The Sacred Biodiversity Oracle, features 36 full-color cards with sacred, icon-style paintings of threatened and endangered species to inspire contemplation and action.
Manno’s art has been featured in numerous exhibitions including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History, with works in distinguished public collections including that of NASA. Her artworks are in private collections throughout the Americas, the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia and in distinguished public collections including NASA and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air & Space Museum.

In 2022, the Vatican commissioned her to create a visual prayer featuring her art celebrating the seven year anniversary of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking encyclical, Laudato Si: On Care of Our Common Home.

Watch the episode here! https://youtu.be/_yctGiZ0G-o?si=c-0aLFtvJ10u5qqg



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You gotta watch the astronauts talk about the indescribable as they looked back at Earth from space. So emotional. Planet Earth is a crew.

Artemis II Crew Goes Fully Emotional in First Words After Moon Return After their successful Artemis II mission, the crew arrives in Houston and shares their first public thoughts following their journey around the Moon. In thi...