Sentences with phrase «human ecology at»

Seeing yesterday's post on energy literacy, and the lack thereof, Mick Womersley, an associate professor of human ecology at Unity College in Unity, Me., submitted a particularly useful comment on smart energy choices in the home, which is excerpted below as a «Your Dot» contribution.

Mick Womersley, who teaches human ecology at Unity College, has blogged on earlier White House efforts to cut energy waste and weighed in with a Dot Earth comment laying out his argument for a big solar deployment push and expressing pride in his students» initiative.

Mick Womersley, a professor of human ecology at Unity College in Maine, has offered a provocative and powerful reaction to my post on new work pointing to the abundance of oil now that new methods have been developed to extract it from deposits that were previously too costly to tap.

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(Examples, in addition to the statements on abortion cited above, include a 1970 LCA statement on ecology, a 1979 UCC statement on human rights and at least two statements by the National Council of Churches — a 1979 statement on energy and a 1986 statement on genetic science.)

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

By shifting our attention from the now completely irrelevant and anachronistic politics of nationalism and military power to the problems of the human species and the still inchoate politics of human ecology we shall be killing two birds with one stone — reducing the threat of sudden destruction by scientific war and at the same time reducing the threat of a more gradual biological disaster.

At the very time we humans have been learning more about the ecology of all planetary life, we have been discovering to our horror how much we are now upsetting the delicate balances in the living systems of the ecosphere.

In fact, the only way the race (human) can survive is to look at reality square in the face and accept that the whole «survival of the fittest» (a true perversion of Darwinism and evolutionary ecology, by the way) is plain wrong.

So are the miracle wheat and rice of the Green Revolution, the technology of behavior modification proposed by B. F. Skinner, 1 and the computerized model of the global ecology produced by the authors of The Limits to Growth.2 This kind of reasoning operates within the limits of what is possible as defined by (1) the available material and human resources, (2) the laws of nature, and (3) the state of knowledge at the time.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

Nichols goes on: «When looked at more closely, this «human ecology» is in fact a series of interlocking ecologies, as indeed is the complex of ecological systems which make up our natural environment.»

The team found that the microbes lurking on the forearm, palm, index finger, back of the knee and sole of the foot were often more diverse than those in the gut, «traditionally considered to be very diverse», says David Relman, who researches human microbial ecology at Stanford University in California but was not involved in the research.

After an earlier stint as a senior writer at Science, where she was widely known for her coverage of the Human Genome Project, Leslie returned as a deputy news editor in 2000, specializing in public health, infectious diseases, stem cells, and ecology.

By re-instilling fear in coyotes, humans may be relieved of their own, according to Heather Wieczorek Hudenko, a graduate student in resource ecology at Cornell.

An international research team including Mark van Kleunen, ecology professor at the University of Konstanz, shows for the first time how ties to different habitats control the human - induced spread of European plant species on other continents.

degree program in environmental management at Northumbria University, studying human and physical geography, environmental science, applied ecology and conservation, sustainable development, waste management, and environmental policy and regulation.

They therefore have a significant impact on the ecology and evolution of all organisms, from bacteria to humans,» says co-author Welkin Johnson, Professor of Biology at Boston College where his team carried out the research.

«We found that genes expressed in the human brain have in fact slowed down in their evolution, contrary to some earlier reports,» says study author Chung - I Wu, professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago.

From his perch at the crossroads of informatics, evolution, and ecology, Knight, a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, commands a comprehensive view of microbes and their interplay with humans and the environment.

Associate Professor in the Forestry & Environment Resources Department at NC State University whose research includes «the evolutionary ecology of vertebrate responses to human modification of habitats, and on the dynamics of coupled natural and human systems»

«For 30 years scientists have suspected that gene regulation has played a central role in human evolution,» said Kevin White, PhD, associate professor of genetics and ecology and evolution at Yale and senior author of the study.

The book is aimed at any graduate students and researchers with a strong interest in plant biodiversity monitoring and assessment, plant community ecology, biodiversity conservation, and the environmental impacts of human activities on ecosystems.

«Every day human beings make choices among multiple options in how to respond to various social situations,» says lead author of the current study Sergey Gavrilets, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in a statement.

My training includes a five - year undergraduate degree in animal physiology from one of Germany's leading universities for biology (University of Tübingen, Germany), training in the conduct of human psychophysical experiments and in cognitive neuroscience from one of the world's major centres for cognitive neuroscience (Masters on human face recognition at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics under Profs. Nico Troje, Heinrich Bülthoff and Dezsö Varjú) and training in coral reef biology and ecology from the University of Queensland (PhD on visual ecology of reef fish) under Prof. Justin Marshall and Prof. Jack Pettigrew).

Dr. Marc Bekoff — professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and co-founder (with primatologist Jane Goodall) of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — argues that the same brain mechanisms that control moral behavior in humans also control such behavior in other mammals.

In this volume, Metzger talks to Obrist about his past and present association with Auto - destructive art, how he has come to fuse his art practice with his political commitment to human rights and ecology, how he escaped the Holocaust at the age of 13 and the many projects he has yet to realize.

As a public expression of the World Frontiers Forum, the prize encourages aesthetic exploration at the crossroads of biology, ecology, architecture, food, communications, transportation, human health, biotechnology, design and physics that changes how we think and live.

At the heart of Unholding, Transformer, and Jimmie Durham is this reimagining of what it means to be a human within a world nexus encompassing history, ecology, and politics.

I spent the tail end of last week at the annual conference of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, a young network of scholars and students aiming to foster collaborations among disciplines — from ecology to ethics — in studying, and improving, the human relationship to the environment.

«Considering these... major and still growing impacts of human activities on Earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term «anthropocene» for the current geological epoch.»

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

We've designed this archive to put human affairs in the larger context of ecology and now seek to connect our project with students and faculty at other schools, the media, and the global community focused on improving environmental and social quality.

While the ecology of fire in the western U.S. has been studied extensively, there is a dearth of information about how humans, particularly those residing at the wildland - urban interface, influence and respond to wildfire, and how institutional barriers may hinder effective fire management.

The things that came together in my mind at that point were the human problems we were facing and the principals of ecology that guided literally everything on earth.

They have an optimistic view of human capacities to solve human problems and to conserve ecologies at the same time.

Considering... [the] major and still growing impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term «anthropocene» for the current geological epoch.

Humans have been changing Earth's landscapes at globally significant levels for at least 3000 years, and doing so by increasingly productive and efficient means, according to our new research challenging the claim that use of land by industrial civilization is destroying planetary ecology at an accelerating pace.