by Evan Dwan | Aug 28, 2021 | News |
The biosphere is a term that refers to the air, water and land that surrounds the earth. Often, in the past, humans have seen themselves as separate from the biosphere. We have thought of the biosphere as being like a machine that we can control. When we get into our...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 28, 2021 | News |
Jeremy Lent writes that the resilience of a system will determine whether it can withstand big shocks or if it is likely to collapse from small disturbances. Resilience is the capacity of a system to recover from disturbance. Recovering does not mean staying the same....
by Evan Dwan | Aug 28, 2021 | News |
Deep ecology is a way of looking at the world, a deep ‘ecological’ view, that sees the fundamental interdependence of all life. It sees that we humans are embedded in, and part of the natural world – a world we depend on for our existence. Fritjof Capra describes the...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 28, 2021 | News |
A resilience approach to sustainability focuses on how to build capacity to deal with unexpected change. This approach moves beyond viewing people as external drivers of ecosystem dynamics and rather looks at how we are part of and interact with the biosphere – the...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 26, 2021 | News |
Bruce Ecker writes that the emotional brain makes meaning in ways that are implicit and nonverbal. This ability to make models of the world is innate and present in 3-month-old infants who have expectations of their environment and respond accordingly. Psychotherapy...
