Leader Kate Lovelady spoke to the New York Society for Ethical Culture in October 2010 on this topic.  We will show her talk via Youtube, and discuss our reactions to it.  The Pulitzer Prizewinning book "The Overstory" was published in 2018, and it covers similar territory as Ms. Lovelady's talk.  You can view it here […]

Prof. Anna Gassman-Pines of Duke University will speak about how service workers are impacted by the COVID19 Pandemic.  Prof. Elizabeth Ananat of Barnard College and Prof Gassman-Pines recently published an article in the New York Times about the problems and needs of service workers: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/opinion/coronavirus-paycheck-guarantee-act.html.  Their study began before the COVID19 outbreak, and has continued […]

Randy Best, Leader of the Northern Virginia Ethical Society, will speak to us via Zoom.  Here is his synopsis... "What tools do I need to help me deal with a global pandemic?  Are some of the ideas and approaches found in Philosophy useful in helping me cope with this existential crisis?  I have found that […]

The upcoming presidential election may be the most important in modern American history. Voter turnout will be an essential factor in the outcome, especially given voter suppression efforts and the idiosyncrasy of the electoral college. The American Ethical Union, our national organization, is partnering with Reclaim Our Vote, a non-partisan organization, to increase voter turnout […]

EHST will be taking a holiday, so there will be no Zoom meeting, and no meeting at Extraordinary Ventures.  We hope you have a safe, and happy 4th of July weekend!