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A Book, a Practice, and a Community Invitation
Planetary Foresight and Ethics is a bold and timely book published in Washington, D.C., exploring how humanity might navigate an era of planetary disruption with wisdom, ethical clarity, and long-term vision. Drawing on ancient history, futures studies, philosophy, science fiction, and planetary consciousness, the book offers a practical and reflective framework for ethical transformation amid climate instability, technological acceleration, and cultural transition.
More than a standalone text, Planetary Foresight and Ethics is an invitation—to read together, to reflect together, and to practice foresight as a lived, collective discipline. It is particularly suited for foresight networks, ethics circles, policy innovators, spiritual communities, and interdisciplinary groups seeking deeper grounding in how futures thinking intersects with values, responsibility, and care for Earth.
Book link:
https://www.amazon.com/
From Reading to Practice: Entering the Seasonal Threshold
The Winter Solstice offers a powerful moment to embody the book’s themes. It is a planetary pause point—the longest night of the year—when the Earth invites rest, reflection, and nourishment in the sacred dark. For many moons, trees have shed their leaves, offering them back to the soil as a blanket of renewal. This seasonal intelligence mirrors the ethical stance explored in the book: restraint, humility, and attentiveness to deep time.
How might foresight communities align their work with this seasonal wisdom?
How might ethical futures emerge not only from projection and planning, but from stillness, listening, and reverence for planetary rhythms?
A Shared Gathering: Winter Solstice as Planetary Practice
In this spirit, readers and foresight practitioners are invited to join the UU Ministry for Earth and special guests for their 5th Annual Winter Solstice Service, an evening honoring Earth’s darkest time of year and its teachings. The gathering creates space to rest, to reflect, and to reconnect ethical imagination with planetary cycles.
Sunday, December 21
Winter Solstice Gathering
Registration & details:
https://www.uumfe.org/2025-
An Invitation to Foresight Networks
This is an open invitation to foresight networks, ethics labs, futures studios, and community practitioners to engage with Planetary Foresight and Ethics not only as a text to be discussed, but as a shared practice—seasonally grounded, ethically oriented, and planetarily aware.
Reading circles, solstice reflections, and community dialogues are all pathways into a deeper form of foresight: one that remembers the Earth is not a backdrop to the future, but an active participant in it.
