Less ego, more eco makes greater sense.

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The science of ecology studies the relationship of Earth's organisms with their environment. We organisms known as humans, however, increasingly have become disconnected from our natural surroundings. For evidence of this disconnect, one need look no further than the typical calendar, with its boxlike format and arbitrary seven-day cycles. Although it does measure the time it takes for Earth to revolve around the sun, the Gregorian calendar does little else to reflect the laws that have governed the physical universe since it came into being 13,700,000,000 years ago.

The ECOlogical Calendar, now in its fourth edition, seeks no less than to heal this breach, to reconceptualize time in terms of the empirical world. Instead of standard calendar grids, colorful three-foot-long full-color panels depict each of Earth's four seasons--from solstice to equinox or vice versa. Each panel's design reflects the spatial relationships among Earth, sea, and sky while emphasizing the procession of life from season to season.

On the front of each panel, graphic representations identify each season's visible planets, constellations, and brightest stars; terrestrial and meteorological phenemona; tides and moon phases; and the changing ratio of daylight to darkness. Gregorian dates with their familiar day and month names run in a single row along the bottom, accompanied by...

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