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Design and Planning for People in Place: Sir Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) and the Emergence of…

Daniel Christian Wahl designforsustainability.medium.com

Out of that combination came a vision of a number of centers where information and models about resources and the environment are housed. There would need to be many of these centers , all over the world, each one responsible for a discrete bioregion.

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Calvin Po • Donella Meadows Revisited - Future Observatory Journal

his human flock, and it was thus right and natural for his subjects to obey him

Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)

James Drake and Stuart Pimm of the University of Tennessee study what it takes to arrive at an assembly of species that remain in equilibrium, a condition farmers would obvously want for their domestic prairie. Unlike The Land staff, they do their experiments with ecosystems in a computer (artificial life) and with aquatic organisms in glass tanks

Janine M. Benyus • Biomimicry

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The Consilience Project consilienceproject.org

Property and mastery: nothing else counts. Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

But let’s talk about at least three ways we can conceive of animal welfare. One is a net balance of positive to negative feelings. A second way of thinking about it is whether animals are performing natural behaviors. The third way is thinking about biological functioning, or just having good health.

Asterisk Magazine Issue 02 Food

Whatever action I take, walking, eating and excreting, incurs a cost to other lives, whether by killing and eating them directly, or by eating foods that they could otherwise have lived on. The most extreme impact my life has on other species is extinction, not just of their physical presence, but also of their memories, both those acquired within ... See more

David Waltner-Toews • On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays

one of the global challenges for the next century: the need to develop high-yielding varieties that require minimal inputs, so that impacts on biodiversity can be minimized.