SUSTAINABILITY My ecological footprint: After taking my Ecological Footprint quiz‚ it seems that to support the lifestyle I’m living‚ it takes 3.4 hectares of the Earth’s productive area and it requires the regenerative capacity of 1.9 planets each year. If everyone lived the same lifestyle as I do‚ it would take about 1.9 planets each year to sustain the human population – shocking‚ isn’t it? I try to make a effort to help the environment by purchasing organic food where possible‚ I don’t eat
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Amish Tripathi is a finance professional educated from Indian Institute of Management‚ Calcutta. He is passionate about history‚ mythology and philosophy. He is an avid reader of history and his inspirations for the story ranged from writers like Graham Hancock and Gregory Possehl to the Amar Chitra Katha series of Indian comics. For mythological parts in the novel‚ Tripathi relied on the stories and fables that he had heard from his family. He believes that there is a beauty and meaning in all cultures
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Environmental ethics: is known as the discipline in philosophy that focuses on studying the moral relationship of human beings and our status of value with the environment and its nonhuman contents. Environmental ethics is the part of environmental philosophy which considers extending the traditional boundaries of ethics from solely including humans to including the non-human world. It exerts influence on a large range of disciplines including environmental law‚ environmental sociology‚ eco-theology
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The meso environment is the setting between the macro and micro opportunities. It shapes the framework of a business or organisation and can be considered as its infrastructure: policies‚ standard operating procedures‚ rules and guidelines. The meso concept is a difficult one to understand‚ there is very little research relating to the idea‚ although I can recommend: Micro-Meso-Macro by: Dopfer‚ Kurt; Foster‚ John; Potts‚ Jason. Journal of Evolutionary Economics‚ 2004‚ Vol. 14 Issue 3‚ p263-279
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Can the view contributed to the field and study of sociology by Karl Marx be considered complete‚ well rounded and focused? Completeness or having all the necessary parts and elements‚ that also has a refined view can seem unrealistic to many Sociologist. Karl Marx Studied at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin in 1835-1841. He immersed himself later with the matriculation of history and philosophy. Marx also joined with the Young Hegelians. The Hegelians and Marx sought self-awareness of human
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the intentions of the rhetor. Peripherally‚ there may exist instances when rhetoric ought to be employed as fulfilment of a moral obligation related to a situational or contextual exigency; thus‚ rhetoric may retain a normative function as an anthropocentric means by which to address perceived or veridical issues needing
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Scott Campbell first developed the planners’ triangle in 1996 and it is a three way model‚ which incorporates economic‚ environmental‚ and social equity factors. The planner has a vital role in the sustainable development of urban areas and in the long term‚ the economic growth of the area. Sustainable development is defined as “development that meets the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland‚ 1987); in an ideal world‚ the
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seeing nature as fundamentally valuable. According to Confucianism this worldview is illustrated by four main rudiments; the first being anthropocosmic perspective or the great triad of heaven (a guiding force)‚ nature and humans rather than an anthropocentric perspective or the belief that humans are most important in the world. The second of these key points is an organic holism of the continuity of being otherwise known as the universe seen as unified‚ interconnected‚ and interpenetrating. All action
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Something New Under the Sun: A Review Nicole Desaulnier 997155821 HIS1111 Topics in North American Environmental History Professor Laurel MacDowell February 03‚ 2009 Ecclesiastes‚ written by King Solomon towards the end of his life‚ discusses vanity in terms of items that bring no ultimate value‚ that many things on earth have a temporary value. He tells readers that “there is nothing new under the sun” as humankind has pursued individual‚ short-term profits and gains throughout time and will continue
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and oppression of the American Indian cultural identity that in many ways parallels her own ideologies and perspectives towards the natural world. The persona of the poem Learning about the Indians is highly critical of the ways in which the anthropocentric cultural practises of the Western world have become dominant and therefore internalised by so many. This is illustrated when Oliver describes how Mr White‚ a man of Indian decent‚ performs an Indian cultural act to school children. This was once
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