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The Architecture of Biodiversity

  What Does Biodiversity Mean? Biodiversity is an interesting word so commonly used that it is beginning to sound like “motherhood” and “hot apple pie”. Said another way, many people, especially students, learn the word and are told that it is good. They are told that we must preserve biodiversity. So they agree with it. […]

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Nature’s Relationships : The Architecture of Biodiversity

  What Does Biodiversity Mean? Biodiversity is an interesting word so commonly used that it is beginning to sound like “motherhood” and “hot apple pie”. Said another way, many people, especially students, learn the word and are told that it is good. They are told that we must preserve biodiversity. So they agree with it. […]

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Ecoliteracy : The Poverty of Human Insight

By 2050, the human population will have grown from the present 6 billion people to 9 or 10 billion people. To feed 9 billion people, every acre of agricultural land in the world will be used to produce food. Wars will break out over the control of land. The structure of human societies will need […]

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Ecoliteracy : Interdependence Is Life

There Is No Such Thing As Living Separately If I were asked to select one word that describes life on Earth, I would definitely choose the word “interdependence”. Everything in Nature is interconnected. Nothing lives in isolation!! There is no such thing as living separately. Everything, including we humans, depends on everything else in Nature.  […]

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Nature’s Relationships : Interdependence

  This essay is part of a series about Nature’s interdependence and the need for systems thinking if we are to understand Nature’s relationships.   If I were asked to select one word that describes life on Earth, I would definitely choose the word “interdependence”. The fundamental processes that create and sustain all life on earth are the […]

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Nature’s Relationships: We Are Imperiled From Within

“It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants. — David W. Orr.”   A conflict rages between two groups of conservation scientists.  That conflict centers on how we humans must conserve our Earth. As far as I know, no […]

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We Are Imperiled More From Within Than Without

We humans have failed to rectify environmental problems created by ourselves “It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants.”  — David W. Orr I’ve written about a conflict that rages between two groups of conservation scientists. That conflict […]

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Ecoliteracy – Video and Text Web Resources

  Video Resources Can A Collapse of Civilization Be Avoided? https://youtu.be/MtaGNQqUWo0 *********** Biologist Predicts how Civilization Collapses Soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw0AA... *********** For more wonder, rewild the world – George Monbiot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rZzH... *********** David Orr at Schumaker College : Ecoliteracy and Ecological Education https://youtu.be/jxge4AhxlcY *********** Fritjof Capra, The Systems View of Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_MDR... *********** Karen Brown – […]

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Ecoliteracy – Empowering Our Youth

The challenge of environmental educators and their students, our youth,  is to build a new social order in which citizens seek to achieve the well-being of all life on Earth that is in harmony with Nature. We modern adults are robbing from the future. We our leaving our children, our grandchildren, and all future human […]

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Ecoliteracy – From Knowledge To Action

  Is Ecoliteracy All Talk And No Action? Does the acquisition and the application of knowledge about our environment offer a solution to the ecological crisis created by humans? Or is ecoliteracy all talk and no action? As a biologist, I have encountered situations where I wonder if my knowledge can help change the worldview […]

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