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Thursday November 20. 2008. 5:04 pm "... I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use."~ Mother TeresaAs we watch the sun go down evening after evening through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or. "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them."~ U Thant"Wildness is the preservation of the World."~ Henry David Thoreau"We can never have enough of nature."~ Henry David ThoreauWalden. 1854"What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"~ Henry David ThoreauEvery creature is better alive than dead men and moose and pine trees and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.~ Henry David Thoreau "We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial."~ Ted Turner"Plans to protect air and water wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."~ Stewart Udall"A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life."~ Stewart UdallThe packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.~ David Wann"We have forgotten how to be good guests how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do."~ Barbara Ward"Our only choice whatever our dogma is to protect the Earth. This is our common progress or our common ruin. There is nothing in between"~ Barbra Ward. Special Advisor of the UN Development Program"You didn't come into this world. You came out of it like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here."~ Alan Watts "When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment it will be done!"-- Dennis Weaver "To halt the decline of an ecosystem it is necessary to think like an ecosystem."~ Douglas P. Wheeler I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.~ E. B. White "I awake each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savour the world. This makes it hard to plan my day."~ E. B. White"I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better change of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially."~ E. B. WhiteWe shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.~ Lynn White. Jr. "This is what you should do;love the Earth and sun and the animals...~ Walt WhitmanAfter you have exhausted what there is in business politics conviviality and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.~ Walt Whitman"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."~ Walt Whitman"This is what you should do;love the Earth and sun and the animals,despite riches give alms to everyone that asks,stand up for the stupid and crazy,devote your income and labour to others,hate tyrants argue not concerning God,have patience and indulgence towards the people,take off your hat to nothing known or unknownor to any many or number of men.. re-examine all you have been told at schoolor church or in any book,dismiss what insults your soul,and your very flesh shall be a great poem."~ Walt WhitmanIn its broadest ecological context economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.~ Richard WilkinsonTo be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from."~ Terry Tempest Williams "Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future."~ Timothy Wirth"If we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy it will in the end not produce food either."~ Joseph Woodkrutch Saturday November 22. 2008. 1:15 pm Thank you so much Mariemma. Be glad you have the opportunity to be alive at this time and to be a part of that preparation for the coming influences of a spiritual nature that must rule the world. These are indicated and these are part of thy experience. Be happy of it and give thanks daily for it. Edgar Cayce Reading 2376-3 Saturday November 22. 2008. 2:14 pm EDWARD ABBEY:For myself I hold no preferences among flowers so long as they are wild free spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. The idea of wilderness needs no defense it only needs defenders. What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

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We've been through quite a few historic "Ages" as a species.  The Stone Age. Bronze Age. Industrial Age and Technology Age.  Each marked for the most part by revolutionary advances in technology.  The other day an acquaintance put forth the theory that we are entering the "Ecology Age".  Intrigued. I asked him to expand on his theory.  Here's the grist of it for your consideration... The "Age of Ecology" comes when the dominant specie(s) of a planet passes the Industrial Age and realizing their planet doesn't have infinite resources starts to act in the interest of protecting those resources. I asked why the "Age" couldn't come after an earlier one.  Why for instance it couldn't come after the stone age.  After all aren't most indigenous people on Earth more "in tune" with nature and the ecology?  According to her the reason it is necessary for the specie(s) to have passed the Industrial Age is that an earlier society isn't advanced enough to require a choice to protect the resources.  IE; Native Americans only took what they could use because they didn't have the technology to do otherwise. Furthermore there are two paths that can be taken during the "Age of Ecology".  Conservation or Protection.  Conservation is when they understand that they must use some resources to maintain their current level of civilization let alone advance.  Their factories become more environmentally friendly.  They recycle more materials.  They become more efficient in their use of natural resources.  Ultimately they may even find a way to gather resources from off the planet. Protection is when they try to restrict all further use of those resources.  This results in the decline of their civilization as existing "stockpiles" of previously collected resources decline.  The decline would be slow at first as it might take years for existing products to wear out.  But as the specie(s) became aware of the decline they would face the choice of changing to Conservation - and protecting their society as well as the planet - or staying the Protection course.  Staying the Protection course would lead to rationing of the products of industry the deaths of those unable to be supported without such products and the eventual change back to a pre-industrial age. Looking at it from her point of view our country is on the edge of this "Ecological Age".  And while there are a few voices encouraging Conservation.. the loudest and most violent are calling for Protection.

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I asked Rob Walker the lead compose on one of our papers for next week ("Growth rates and life histories in 22 small-scale societies") to blog about some of his investigate and his thoughts on what determines adult be size in humans. Some of the exciting and relevant features of Rob’s investigate include his argument that there are two pathways to small be size. One driven by resource limitation that causes smaller growth and the other by high mortality. I am biased to favor this view because Rob is an old friend and collaborator and more importantly his view agrees with the Charnovian perspective we covered in class (bequeath the equation with growth over mortality? – Rob’s model shows the same predictions as that copy we went over). evaluate about how these processes of be coat dress might cerebrate to the patterns demonstrated in Ruff and the potential implications for H floresienses (to the degree that insular dwarfism may be a possible explanation for this dwarfed hominid). I have some command interests in the evolution of the human life cover and especially factors that influence patterns of growth and development. To alter the paper on ’22 small-scale societies’ that you are reading. I started putting together data from as many societies as I could that had life-history information (e g. growth rates age at menarche first reproduction and age-specific mortality). I wanted to get a better feel for the overall variation in these traits across human populations. We were able to show that in general larger better-nourished societies have faster/earlier growth and development (we call this the conventional model). However while the consume is rather small there is also some indication that societies that suffer from high mortality also change relatively fast (relatively given their adult body coat a proxy for energetic intake). This may support the general life-history model where higher mortality prompts faster growth and development in order to get past the high mortality juvenile stage (or high mortality at small be size). live on islands at relatively high population densities. We show that population density has a negative effect on adult body crowd across hunter-gatherers. Humans decrease drink growth and development and demonstrate smaller adult body sizes in high population density contexts presumably because of less food and more disease. In addition there is bear witness of selection for relatively faster/earlier development in societies that suffer from high mortality. We understand this finding as natural selection for earlier reproductive maturity (menarche and first bring forth) and consequent smaller adult body coat in high mortality regimes in order to more quickly pass into the safer adult stage. In sum comparative results support density-dependent effects on be size that act through two pathways (energetic constraints and juvenile mortality) at varying intensities in different societies contributing to a nearly two-fold range in be coat across human populations. selection for fast growth and smaller body size in a high mortality regime would seem to agree findings in other species where predation pressures increase how change state would do we expect disease mortality/energetic constraints to approximate predation mortality? ican see both similarities and differences for example morbidity might direct desire a variable or gradiant of mortality risk what are the potential effects of this regime on the unique human life history? (ie extended investment in learning etc) do we evaluate to find related differences such as increase in multiple births or a command trend towards an R reproductive strategy? lesspaternal investment or and greater emphasis on male genetic fitness? all seem like fascinating areas toinvestigate and border up the hypothesis. We ordain use this site as a class resource and more importantly as an change state forum for discussion and postings on the theme of human macroecology. We ordain affix background information on difficult concepts and/or methodologies and will encourage input from scholars around the world to comment and to change state involved. We wish it takes on a life of its own. To find the readings in pdf format go to and search by department for 'biology' and be for this categorise. 'biology 402/502 perspectives in human ecology.' The password is 'lobo402'.

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“It ordain be this exclamation mark saying the most important location in our city is the transit center.” The rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco permeates life in California infiltrating debates on everything from sports and defy to cuisine and water consumption. accept to Topix Forums! Please fill out the create below to set up an account and post your mention. If you are a returning user. . Sign in with your existing Topix be and write your comments below. Please note by clicking on "affix Comment" you acknowledge that you undergo read the and the mention you are posting is in compliance with such terms. Be polite. Inappropriate posts may be removed by the moderator.

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Here is a you ordain not see on the cover of any jaunt magazine for the next few…hundred years. For the back up year running the Blacksmith Institute has released a list of the most polluted places on the planet. Needless to say there was an unfortunate amount of competition for the honor. What is remarkable (but not necessarily surprising) is the. North America (North of Mexico). Western Europe (West of Belarus) and Australia are scot remove. None of the top ten not change surface the top thirty most polluted sites are to be open in our backyards. What does this mean? Should we “developed folk” praise ourselves on the success of our environmental regulations and efforts at conservation? We’ve realized our errors and are cleaning up our messes. We are taking good care of the planet. Being stewards of what we’re given. Those backwards folks in the third world have yet to get on the ecological bandwagon. I would not be too hasty with the laud. It rests on an say (”Not In My Back Yard!”) too facile to function for desire. For all our efforts at conservation for all our tough-talk toward polluters (which don’t get me do by are good things) we still have not gotten down to the real root of the problem. When we continue to buy the products that create pollution but refuse to allow the polluter to live next door we do little more than export our cast aside. It’s like saving measure by training your dog to displace duke on the neighbor’s lawn. The stuff stinks change surface if the fumes aren’t filling your nostrils. Our rabid consumption and power-backed aesthetic imbibes the raw materials from other people’s mountains and leaves the alter by-product in other folks’ rivers while all we ever see is the plastic wrapper (oh and the price tag). What does this mean theologically? I’ve offered but I’ll furnish another. To my object the best challenge to start with is this: Where does Jesus rest in this dynamic? Which river is he drinking out of? If we want to sight God in this mess where should we go? I’ll ingeminate Matthew to make my answer clear. “When you supported companies that caused cancer for the least of these you did it to me. When you saw that I had filth in the air but kept on driving you did it to me. When you wouldn’t visit me in my industrial slum because you had pristine wilderness to occupy you you left me in the dust.” If I ever make my big move and get into the Miss America pageant. I know what I’ll say. Seriously. I’m waiting for the talent scouts to sight my unparalleled beauty but when they ask me how I’d change the world. I have my say already. If I had one wish one magic pill to solve the world’s problems it would be to… I dislike the way that the world’s laborers are disenfranchised from thier land and thier way of life–let’s forbid feeding the forge that causes the injustice. I fear the vapid materialism that leaves so many of us crammed to the gills with possessions…and miserable. Let’s depart pretending that “more buying”=”more happy.” I worry about our forests our polar bears our oceans–let’s pull the close on the bespeak that fuels their demise. I don’t desire the cater that money weilds in our political process these days–let’s sell economic growth as the bushel determining factor in our decisions. We could continue. The capitalist myth of the ever-expanding economy is one of the most destructive ideals ever foisted on the planet. A finite planet cannot aid infinite growth. But we aren’t the ones dealing with the consequences of our pipe-dream…not yet. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

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“The No. 1 threat to this monument was fire and No. 2 is invasive species which follows fire” When wildfires raced through tinder-dry grass and sagebrush on the Hanford arrive National Monument this summer much of the worry centered on whether flames would reach radioactive waste at the neighboring... Welcome to Topix Forums! Please fill out the form below to set up an account and affix your mention. If you are a returning user. . Sign in with your existing Topix account and create verbally your comments below. gratify note by clicking on "Post mention" you acknowledge that you have read the and the comment you are posting is in compliance with such terms. Be polite. Inappropriate posts may be removed by the moderator.

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Recently I've been prompted to consider the role of evolutionary ecology frameworks in create by mental act affect and strategy. Evolutionary ecology takes into account the evolutionary histories of organisms as a way to understand the ecological interactions that structure their abundance and distribution. What prompted me was a job ad of all things. A populate and Practices Research assort was recently looking for individuals that (among other things): "…are inspired to develop research or "design" programs that seek to understand people practices and institutions and desire to use this understanding as a basis from which to map out new disruptive opportunities for technological innovation. authorise so Intel is interested in disruptive technologies. That's no surprise. I had a pretty good idea of the disruptive technologies concept but I visited the wikipedia page for some (hopefully) new information. This distinct statement was among the overall description: Now when the an analogy is drawn between technological dress and evolutionary dress. I tend to go to bring home the bacon. First off. I was struck by the possibilities of this statement much more than its potential factual nature (as it was no compose was given for the claim). Two possibilities jumped out immediately. If disruptive technologies show evolutionary or ecological dynamics biological models could be useful predictors. For example disruptive technologies are those that turn a dominant species of technology (see how I've already replace variety or kind with "species"). If we were to reconsider these patterns within an ecological copy we might use the concept of carrying capacity to structure our thinking. When a population reaches carrying capacity it is said to have reached the point at which it has only enough resources (food habitat water etc) to bear on its current population size. In mathematical terms there is neither positive nor contradict growth and the first derivative is 0. Can we translate this in terms relevant for technology and create by mental act. Let's say that instead of food the resource in question is cognitive fill. For some users the create by mental act of technology is inconsistent with the ways in which organisms undergo either developed or process information. act my grandma for instance. She just wants to call her friends using the communicate schedule but can get through the maze of menus on her cell telecommunicate to do that. In her inspect the modes of information retrieval used by the designers aren't accessible. Now if someone were to create by mental act a telecommunicate that say had a rotary interface then perhaps she would use it. My point is that the complexity of the interface sometimes overshots the cognitive "carrying capacity" (see also: ). What this means is that fewer and fewer populate are likely to support or prefer that telecommunicate. In the meantime the situation is ripe for a much simpler device (symbol-besed for example) to increase in abundance and displace the previously dominant model. This is the point at which ecology leads to selection and consequently evolution. Keep in object that previous constraints often affect these changes. So in my grandma's inspect the fact that my grandfather worked for Michigan Bell for many years also impacts her decision to use an AT&T phone (AT&T came from what was once Michigan Bell). These kinds of constraints may be "evolutionary" in quality (analogous to co-dependent genes for example) and as such not often considered among the range of interactions promoting the growth or change integrity of "populations" of "technologies." I speculate these is what made me start thinking about Evolutionary Design Ecology as a new framework for spanning disciplines. As far as I experience there has been no formal definition put forth in this area. However. I guess great confusion to ensue anytime create by mental act and evolution are used concurrently. So let me proceed by proposing my own and I will go with a brief analyse of other attempts to help dilate why my definition takes a greater range of interactions during the design affect into be. Of course taking interactions into account is only one matter; organizing and arranging them is another be altogether. Let's start with a definition of design ecology. Design ecology is concerned with the distribution and abundance of create by mental act concerns and how their distribution and abundance is affected by interactions with other concerns. I leave this notion of "concern" purposely vague yet I have Bruno Latour's proposition in mind when constructing this definition. For Latour: A matter of concern is what happens to a be of fact when you add to it its whole scenography much desire you would do by shifting your attention from the re-create to the whole machinery of a theatre. [1] As an aside there's a certain connection here that's worth noting. Shifting one's attention to from matters of fact to matters of concern is a way of resolving Gregory Bateson's. In the context of create by mental act this may ingeminate for example to questions of usability versus cost. We can add evolution to expand this definition of design ecology to include the histories of these concerns. The result is an evolutionary create by mental act ecology. Evolutionary design ecology creates the opportunity to accept context dependence. In english this means that teleology or purpose in design is constrained by its context. Thus an a priori assumption that any particular create by mental act or process can be innovative due to it ecological relationships alone ordain miss at least one important consideration. Multiple ecological configurations exist and for each there exists a different complement of historical constraints. These constraints make one thing certain; what's good today may not be good tomorrow. .. to be continued.1. Bruno Latour. What is the call of matters of concern? Two lectures in empirical philosophy. April and May 2005 for the Spinoza Chair in Philosophy www bruno-latour fr/articles/bind/97-STYLE-MATTERS-CONCERN pdf

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The guys over at The Wilderness Foundation UK recently got an of the. They ask him about the latest move by CHE to start consulting what his his autum reading list to act us all busy for the coming few months and they even risked asking the toughest challenge almost every human ecologists fears most! Well that is the newbies anyway. to learn what’s Osbert and CHE is up to these days. And maybe just maybe you’ll learn what ‘is’ Human Ecology exactly and how it’s a bit different in principal than ‘regular’ ecology. Some HTML allowed:<a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <label> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> All trademarks and copyrights on this summon are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. place owner does not necessarily endorse any of the companies organizations and/or individuals who are posting on any site within the HumanEcologyForum org domain network. We cannot guarantee that information provided by this place is accurate or up-to-date.

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