“The Work That Reconnects” both the book‚ and workshop are vital for this time in the world. Part of what makes Joanna Macy’s work so compelling and effective is the incorporation and blending of deep ecology‚ Buddhism‚ and systems theory to weave insightful and healing teachings. As was mentioned during the workshop by its facilitators‚ The Work That Reconnects validates many of the feelings that we all experience around planetary despair. This work‚ helps people to realize that they have a choice
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Chapter 10 Vocab: * Biota: The sum total of all livings organism. The term usually is applied to the setting of natural ecosystems. * Biological wealth: The life-sustaining combination of commercial‚ scientific‚ and aesthetic values imparted to a region by its biota. * Biodiversity: The diversity of the living things found in the natural world. The concept usually refers to the different species‚ but also includes ecosystems and the genetic diversity within a given species. * Instrumental
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In “More-than-Human Politics: The Case of Plastic Bags” Gay Hawkins argues that culture is anthropocentric in the way that humans interact with objects and matter. Hawkins argues that people should become more aware of the subject-object relationship. Hawkins is attempting to equalize the relationship between object and human‚ and escape from the cultural view always focused on humans. As Hawkins says‚ “My broad aim is to show why socio-ecological humanities research needs to pay more attention to
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linear‚ western individualistic approach toward a complex and interdependent approach to environment management‚ thus we have duties for future generations. Effective environmental management systems‚ must be adopted so as to manage and assess anthropocentric impacts on the environment and education for sustainable development should become common practice in all countries. Thus Western countries‚ Eastern countries‚ and other entities (environmental
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* What is order of major sociologic eras? * Know a basic typology of green cities (on blackboard) * Resilence- ability to recover or adjest easily to misfortune or change. * * Readings Beatley 1-81 Wheeler‚ 8-79‚ 105-135‚183-208‚ 319-373‚ 397-455 Slavin 1-16 Register 1-135 Examples from Beatley Water Bears. Found in lichens (in places such as Singapore‚ hong kong). Can profoundly change in response to environmental conditions. Induce hibernation. Regenerate through rehydration
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of waste material committed by governments. * Whaling should also be considered as a crime – environmentalists say. * Two views of harm: * 1) General Nation’s states and transnational corporations – adopt what White (2008) calls an anthropocentric or human centred view of the environmental harm – humans have a right to dominate nature and economic growth comes first. * 2) An ecocentric view sees humans and their environment as interdependent – if something hurts the environment then
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imagination is getting more bigger and more vivid. As Marchioness starts to think about how she can’t even think about the dept of this universe and can only see people of earth This shows that the philosopher and his hostess imaginative and anthropocentric‚ proves the conviction that considers individuals to be the most noteworthy element of the universe and deciphers or respects the world as far as human values and encounters. As they start with people on Earth‚ they divert to inhabitants of other
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Microsoft and Antitrust Laws Nicole Sherwood BUS670: Legal Environment Alexis Hooley April 2‚ 2012 Abstract Microsoft has spent 21 years fighting antitrust battles with the US government. These battles began with claims of Microsoft monopolizing the software market‚ specifically regarding internet browsers. Although the cases were settled in 2002‚ there is still discussion as to whether or not the claims against Microsoft were truly valid. On May 18
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“Deep ecology is a ecological philosophies that concerns itself with the current destruction of the Earth’s biosphere and the possibilities for the restoration of the planet’s life system” (Hathaway & Boff‚ 2009c‚ p.63). By contrast‚ Taoism‚ a ethical theory invented by Laozi in China tries to explore a ideal worldview in which everything is equally existed on the planet. Obviously‚ the debates on similarities and difference of basic worldview in Taoism and deep ecology have been continuing few decades
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Philosophy 365 Samina Jiwani Tittle: Humans‚ stewards on earth. We as humans‚ use nature as a source of power and resource‚ but ignore the fact that it is also the source of divine presence. We need nature not for shelter and food only‚ but also for Nurture of our souls‚ life is a passage‚ we should remember that we are here for specific time‚ and we should leave the world better place than we found it for the sake of our future generations. in this paper‚ I will try to present the role of
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