Sentences with phrase «for ecological consciousness»

This can provide the basis for the ecological consciousness and caring on which our collective survival or spaceship earth may well depend.

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I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

We have also become aware that the anthropocentrism that characterizes much of the Judeo - Christian tradition has often fed a sensibility insensitive to our proper place in the universe.2 The ecological crisis, epitomized in the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, has brought home to many the need for a new mode of consciousness on the part of human beings, for what Rosemary Ruether calls a «conversion» to the earth, a cosmocentric sensibility (Ruether, 89).3

1For an excellent survey of the ambiguous record of Christian thinking vis - a-vis the need for creation consciousness, see Paul Santmire, The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).

Change in circle 7 involves a combination of consciousness - raising education designed to increase enlightened caring for the whole biosphere, and social - political action to produce changes in the institutions of our society that are essential to protect our precious and fragile ecological environment.

As an alternative to true government regulation, private organizations like Green Seal and the Green Business Bureau offer voluntary certifications for companies interested in displaying their ecological consciousness on their product labels.

Empowered by knowledge of the Ecological Footprint from my studies at UC Berkeley and work at Global Footprint Network, I now consider Earth Hour as a great opportunity for everyone to review our relationship with the entire ecosystem and at the same time raise environmental consciousness.

Though playing off a similar idea - that some type of catastrophic showdown is coming our way at the end of the current Mayan calendar in December 2012 - this new movie «2012: Time for Change» is actually an animated documentary that takes a positive spin on our joint ecological predicament - positing that an evolution of human consciousness could get us back in tune with nature and make humans more able to be positive stewards rather than wanton destroyers of our world.

«I feel the global ecological crisis is a wake up call for us all, a call to awaken I AM consciousness, the magnificence of who we are,» says Parvati.»