This edition of Ecocities Emerging is dedicated in memory of cosmologist and Earth historian Thomas Berry, who passed away on June 1st at Wellspring home in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Over his 94 years as a historian of the Earth and its evolutionary processes, Thomas Berry contributed many valuable insights and observations to help guide the human perspective. Perhaps not one of his more poetic quotes, but the fulcrum on which the fate of humanity, nature and evolution itself teeters is as follows: “Nature’s economy is primary, human economy derivative.” Read more…