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Arne Naess: Philosopher who invented the concept of 'deep ecology'

05/11/2013 06:57
I have learned as much from my rats as I have learned from Plato," Arne Naess informed a startled Karl Popper. Naess was the highly influential Norwegian philosopher whose ideas about ecology and humans' relationship with the environment have informed and enriched many of today's green activists...

Are We Connected to Each Other?

04/11/2013 17:51
Dr. Tesfa G. Gebremedhin,West Virginia University Everything in the universe is connected to the rest of the world on this small planet. We are connected, electrically, to every electron of every atom of every molecule that exists in the universe. We, as human beings in particular, are connected to...

Anthropological Contributions to Spiritual Ecology

04/11/2013 17:40
by Leslie E. Sponsel The term spiritual ecology is beginning to attract attention and use in anthropology (e.g., Sponsel 2001a). However, not every anthropologist who might be considered as a contributor to this domain would necessarily identify their own work with spiritual ecology or themselves...

Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places, and Biodiversity Conservation

04/11/2013 17:37
by Leslie E. Sponsel Since the 1960s there has been growing interest in spiritual ecology, and this interest has accelerated markedly since the 1990s with an increasing number of conferences and publications. Spiritual ecology focuses on the relationships between religions and environments from the...

Spiritual Ecology

04/11/2013 17:33
Joan Maloof Connects Ecology, Theology, and Ideas of Wholeness In the past forty years the study of ecology — the relationships between organisms and their environment — has blossomed into an active and well-respected field of biology. Ecology oriented biologists are no longer studying organisms in...

Leslie Sponsel on Spiritual Ecology

04/11/2013 17:29
ENGAGEMENT editors recently connected with Leslie Sponsel, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i, to talk about his recent book, Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet Revolution (2012, Praeger), and its broader contributions to environmental movements and policy decisions around the...

Spiritual ecology

04/11/2013 17:27
By Llewelllyn Vaughan-Lee Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on reconnecting to the sacred as a means to heal ourselves and the environment. The signs of a growing ecological crisis are becoming more and more clear: global warming, acidification of the oceans, the massive depletion of species....

Engaging into the Fire

04/11/2013 17:20
by Chris Bache The list of global problems humanity is facing is long and well-known: overpopulation, accelerating climate change, massive extinctions, air that is increasingly unfit to breathe and water unfit to drink, exhausted soil and less of it to farm, quickly depleting stocks of nonrenewable...

Exploring Humanity's Place In the Journey of the Universe

04/11/2013 17:16
Mary Evelyn Tucker Mary Evelyn Tucker has been one of the innovators in the study of the connections between ecology and religion. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she talks about her work and about a new film she co-produced that points to the spiritual dimension of responding to the...

The Ocean of Consciousness

04/11/2013 17:09
by Malabika Sen The highest expression of existence in this universe is consciousness. The theory of evolution of consciousness is perhaps the most fascinating and challenging one.The cosmos is constantly in motion and the universe is continuously expanding and evolving.Today in the age of...
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