Humans & Nature
Ecological belonging is living in an ongoing interconnected relationship with ourselves, each other and our broader natural... See more
Ecological Belonging
Thomas Klaffke • Natural Intelligence
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
For the largest part of our species’ existence, humans have negotiated relationships with every aspect of the sensuous surroundings, exchanging possibilities with every flapping form, with each textured surface and shivering entity that we happened to focus upon. All could speak, articulating in gesture and whistle and sigh a shifting web of
... See moreDavid Abram • The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Let us try a thought experiment which might make this clearer. In order to calculate the rate of economic growth, it is necessary to treat all of the activities in which money is handed over as essentially interchangeable. According to the World Bank, agriculture currently makes up around 4% of global GDP. Seen in these terms, the growing of food
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Green Biz • We need to value natural capital | Greenbiz
PERMACULTURE Farmer Shares How To GROW HEALTHY FOOD Yourself
youtube.comThe story of separation can be vividly seen in the human-nature divide. Treating the environment as a resource that should be used for the benefit of humankind has ultimately led to its abuse and destruction. Today, the world economy has become the ‘end,’ and nature and humans have become the ‘means,’ the resources for the economy. Believing
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