Sentences with phrase «ecological thinking in»

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So on average I think there's likely to be some froth or overvaluation in companies that are going to be No. 2 in an economic - ecological niche.

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

When the Chinese thought of ecological improvement of their cities, they tended to create tree - lined boulevards and large parks in city centers.

According to Rubin, the framework that popularizers have established for discussing ecological problems leads people to think of their solutions in wide - ranging terms.

In particular, the basic ecological realities of today and tomorrow require us to think in terms of a «world - man image» in the context of a planetary societIn particular, the basic ecological realities of today and tomorrow require us to think in terms of a «world - man image» in the context of a planetary societin terms of a «world - man image» in the context of a planetary societin the context of a planetary society.

The link between justice and ecological issues becomes especially evident in light of the dualistic, hierarchical mode of Western thought in which a superior and an inferior are correlated: male - female, white people — people of color, heterosexual - homosexual, able - bodied — physically challenged, culture - nature, mind - body, human - nonhuman.

The depth, opulence, and vitality of a culture is determined by the fullness with which each episode in thought, feeling, and action is heavy with this ecological matrix.

The word «ecological» is added because of the emphasis on relationships in the development of postmodern thought that has been influenced by process philosophy and in particular the thought of A.N. Whitehead.

I also think that the ecological model of Birch and Cobb is superior in explanatory power to any present mechanical model because the ecological model accepts human feelings as primary givens.

Focussing on the notion of prehension as the basis of a concept of «shared existence,» Cobb stresses the possibility» of an «ecological theology» to counter the Kantian overemphasis on the human point of view.8 A fuller discussion of Whitehead's ecological dimension is to be found in an article by John B. Bennet.9 Bennet suggests three possible sources of Whitehead's value to ecological thinking.

In the profoundly ecological vision of process thought, organisms always interact with their environments.

Native American beliefs are more in line with ecological thinking than any other religion the world over.

I am suggesting that we must think differently about what the saving love of God means if it is to speak to our time, addressing the question of the possible end of existence raised by, ecological deterioration and nuclear escalation and that we do this by thinking in different images.

They come from persons influenced by ecological concerns, from feminists, from those influenced by Eastern forms of thought, by those interested in parapsychology, and by those who reflect on the implications of recent developments in physics.

Young proposes that we employ an ecological model in thinking of a pluralistic society.

Ingrained in Ruether's argument are solutions to two problems which have long plagued not only ecological ethics but feminist thought and Roman Catholic natural law ethics.

Nature may kick back at us from time to time — with erosion, pollution, holes in the ozone layer and so on — but we like to think that these are simply impersonal matters of ecological imbalance.

With the ecological crisis, the threat of nuclear war, and international monetary problems, everyone is thinking in apocalyptic terms — except the liberal, contented church, which long ago made its peace with the present and trusted in tomorrow.

And it allowed him to see more clearly the implications of ecological thinking that had been present in his teachers, Alfred North Whitehead and Bernard Meland, but that he had not previously seen.

There was a time when we thought that ecological crisis was not a serious problem for us in the poorer countries.

And he, much to the shock of vegetarians, liberals, animal - rights activists and grocery - store shoppers everywhere, makes an enthusiastic and palpable argument (palpable in that it is entertaining and well thought - out, albeit full of name - calling like «tofu breath») for the supposed ecological, physical and familial benefits of killing your own food (including growing your own veggies).

«I Never Thought of Science as Something Like This» - Incorporating an Ecological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning iEcological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning iecological approach to STEM learning in Chicago.

In a forthcoming paper, Haldane uses ecological thinking to propose a range of preventive policy measures (see ««Haircuts» identified as a cause of financial crisis»).

Lambert and his colleagues think that Mystacodon may have started suction feeding in response to ecological changes.

What's more, work with animals has led to the idea that personality traits evolve to help individuals survive in a wider variety of ecological niches, and this is influencing the way psychologists think about human personality.

Although Christianity has seldom been recognized as an ally to the ecological movement, with the Church proving all too often too slow to meet the environmental challenge — there are many Christian theologians that contributed to and significantly participated in the early ecological thought.

«It's a very exciting idea, but I think we're very far away from being able to take advantage of it, because we don't know which parts of the genome are important,» says Christina Richards, an ecological genomicist at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

«This work highlights that ecological way of thinking and why it's important in understanding infectious diseases.»

So, in a moment that is as weird as this one — being an ideological crisis caused by us facing (or not) the reality of a coming ecological crisis — many people are thinking we've got to do better.

«Knowing which microbes live in various ecological niches in healthy people allows us to better investigate what goes awry in diseases thought to have a microbial link, like Crohn's disease and obesity,» says George Weinstock, associate director of the Genome Institute at Washington University in St Louis and one of the Human Microbiome Project's principal investigators.

We tend to think of pollinating insects as our ecological friends, but in the wrong place nonnative bees can spell trouble instead by competing with native insects, promoting reproduction in nonnative plants and potentially spreading disease.

Most scientists thought that a bird's preference for a certain number of companions had to be determined at least in part by life experience or by ecological conditions such as food abundance or the threat of predators.

In the absence of native mammals, weta are thought to perform similar ecological functions.

«The original ecological footprint is a good metaphor and a good way of getting us thinking about overusing the planet, but what you really want a footprint to do is to be a management tool,» says Peter Kareiva, co-author of the study, published November 5 in PLoS Biology.

Since the CERP was launched, a scientific consensus has developed that the Everglades ecosystem contained much more water historically than previously thought, which means recreating that level of hydrology will require more new water and have different ecological outcomes than first anticipated in the planning.

Unraveling interactions and events in biological scenarios typically requires ecological perspectives; perhaps space weather, they thought, was one necessary component of the grander ecological conditions that lead to mass stranding events.

This reveals a greater ecological diversity in an early mammaliaform clade at a more fundamental taxonomic level not only between major clades as previously thought.

I think the evidence is pretty clear that for instance, local, labor — intensive, low - input agriculture is the smartest option from much of the world, both in terms of providing jobs, security, stability and food, and in making those ecological systems robust enough to withstand the damage that's coming, that's already here.

Tritylodontids lived in the Jurassic era and proliferated worldwide, but were thought to have died out as herbivorous mammals took over their ecological role in the late Jurassic.

In other words, if climate sensitivity is toward the low end, 2 K is more dangerous than we currently give it credit for, and arguments for low risk because of low sensitivity are less valid because that means that more ecological changes occur for a given temperature change than currently thought.

Once again the politico's fail to learn from past mistakes (the entire history of the sea is one mismanagement after another), ignoring no only the impact on bird life but the impending ecological disaster of exposing a 600 sq mile alkali bed to the high winds of the area (think of salt blowing all over those green golf courses in Palm Springs, only 30 miles away).

Mary is pregnant, and Michael can't bear the thought of raising a child in the face of ecological catastrophe.

A young person could be a prodigy in one or more areas (kinesthetic, inter-personal, musical, ecological), yet still grow up thinking that he or she is a failure based on messaging given by the schools.

We think Ocean Beach, in between Point Reyes and Half Moon Bay, has high ecological value for shorebirds.»

If you're a sim fan in general, I think you'll enjoy Block» hood; you're still sitting waiting for your city to generate enough money to do the next thing you want to do sometimes, but at the very least there's a challenge here to maintain some kind of ecological equilibrium... and you'll get a little bit of a moral high the next time you recycle.

Es el autor de Hyperobjets: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013) Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Casuality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Harvard, 2007), ocho libros mas y 160 ensayos en filosofia, ecologia, literature, musica, arte, arquitectura, diseño y comida.

Both authors will discuss the relationship of the idea of the avant to their own work and the extent to which it is or isn't a useful way to think about ideas of time and temporality, newness and oldness, chronology and succession, beforeness and afterness, and the layered, textured, multi — species spaces in which culture (and not just human culture) happens: Morton in relation to his writings on literature, art, music, and ecology in landmark texts such as Ecology Without Nature, The Ecological Thought, Hyperobjects, and Dark Ecology; and Wolfe in relation to his work as both author (Critical Environments, Animal Rites, and What Is Posthumanism?)

She is currently pursuing a doctorate in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, on the intersection between ecological thinking and art history.

When I brought this piece back from Iceland in 2011, I was thinking about issues of dislocation, and about the difficulties in navigation as we look for an exit from the worsened ecological crisis.

Ecological thinking views citizens and citizenship within co-defining relationships from the start, and by doing so it incorporates ecological impact into the picture it draws: as an element in a system, a citizen is both impacted by and has impact on thEcological thinking views citizens and citizenship within co-defining relationships from the start, and by doing so it incorporates ecological impact into the picture it draws: as an element in a system, a citizen is both impacted by and has impact on thecological impact into the picture it draws: as an element in a system, a citizen is both impacted by and has impact on this system.