AUTUMN opens with another open global table gathering of significant articles on Human development in harmony with nature. This is the existential challenge of our time. The mission of this journal is to foster human development within the limits of an integral ecology.    Please share any insights or affirmations that encourage you in your own particular concerns and actions. Peter

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From: Luis Gutierrez <the.pelican.web@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sept 2025 at 05:03
Subject: Mother Pelican ~ September 2025
To: solidarity-sustainability group <solidarity-sustainability@googlegroups.com>

Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability
Vol. 21, No. 9, September 2025Solidarity for Long-term Sustainability
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One Sacred Community – Mary Southard CSJ – Ministry of the Arts* 2025 * 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’ on Care of the Planet and Integral Ecology and 5th Anniversary of  Fratelli Tutti on Solidarity and Integral Human Development – FREE DOWNLOAD
PATRIARCHY is a deeply ingrained gender ideology. There can be no integral human development as long as religious patriarchy lurks in the collective unconscious. For 1.4B Catholics, 1 November 2025 will mark the 75th Anniversary of the dogma of the ASSUMPTION of Mary of Nazareth. This would be a good time to transcend CANON 1024. What is degrowth?
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CONTENTS
Significant Research and Forthcoming Events

Let’s (Not) Choose Sides and Fight
Richard Heinberg

Human Ecology and the Law of Requisite Variety
William E. Rees

Twenty-four Reasons Why We Are Hooped ~ On Human Cognitive Deficiency
William E. Rees

A Little Learning (or Too Much Ignorance) Can Be a Dangerous Thing
Clifton Ware

Developing a “Big-Picture” Worldview
Clifton Ware

The Myth of Infinite Growth
Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo

The Global Environmental Crisis ~ What Does World Population Day Have to Do With It?
Charles Knight

Iceland’s Renewable Dreams, Fossil Realities
Art Berman

‘New Era of Climate Accountability’: ICJ Says Nations Have Legal Duty to Combat Planetary Crisis
Jake Johnson

Climate Reparations are Necessary but Not Sufficient: World Needs Less Growth & More Justice
Kirsten Stade

Some Thoughts on Humanity’s Really Big Disease
Bob Este

The Hidden Cost of AI: How Energy-Hungry Algorithms Are Fueling the Climate Crisis
Sharon Kumar

The Coming Deconstruction of Global Money
Tim Morgan

Half of the Global Population Can’t Afford Healthy Food
Gunnar Rundgren

The Dream That Humanity Is Unable To Wake Up From
George Tsakraklides

Greenwashing in the Amazon: Debunking False Green Solutions
Mauricio López

Tariffs vs. Tankers: Why Trump’s Clash with India Misses the Real Energy Battlefield
Art Berman

Preparing for the Darkness and Holding the Light
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Towards a Climate-Capable Democracy
Gus Speth

Drones of Change: The Rise of a Violence-Based Economy
Ugo Bardi

Is “Degrowth” a New Concept for You?
Richard Grossman

The Power to Resist Power: Reclaiming Reverse Dominance in a Post-hierarchical World
Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov

The Annihilation of the Ontological Feminine
Kevin R. Nelson

Big Beautiful Barns
Anna Bowden

Supplement ~ Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and NatureSupplement ~ Dynamics of Growth, De-Growth, and Post-Growth

There is an annotated archive with links to all articles published since May 2005.
Human development in harmony with nature is the existential challenge of our time. The mission of this journal is to foster human development within the limits of an integral ecology.
You are invited to submit comments, suggestions, and articles for publication. Deadline is the 15th of the month to be considered for the following month.

Sincerely,
Luis
Luis T. Gutiérrez
Editor, Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability