Mar 20, 2020

March

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"Wherever you are now, however urban or interior your life, nature is still there for you - anchoring, inspiring, helping you bec...
Mar 3, 2020

March

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) sink in the city / Sumidouro de dióxido de carbono (CO2) citadino. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( C...
Feb 27, 2020

Symbiosis

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"Mutualism is a subset of symbiosis in which there exists between organisms a prolonged relationship that is interdependent and reci...
Feb 18, 2020

February

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"It was so long ago that my mind softens even the sharpest features, melting memories into liquid pain. (...) It's odd how fac...
Feb 14, 2020

February

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" no one told us that love was the hardest craft to master " by Elif Shafak (2014). The Architect's Apprentice. Image by ...
Feb 6, 2020

February

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  "Living wood, left long enough, behaves as a slow-moving fluid." Robert MacFarlane, 2019. Underland: a deep time journey. I...
Feb 1, 2020

February

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Which life is this? Some say it’s hell some say it’s bliss Some neither know  nor care to glimpse  What is temporal and what ...
Jan 31, 2020

January

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 Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
Jan 15, 2020

January

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"(...) humans who build their success solely on the oppression of others may one day find their own feathered nests collapsing. We...
Jan 6, 2020

Homo sapiens

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" We are not bacteria in a petri-dish earth ." Are we?  Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin (2018). The Human planet: how we cre...
Dec 25, 2019

December

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"Applying ourselves to minimize human suffering and the loss of species by making every efford to limit the coming chaos under rap...
Dec 24, 2019

December

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"Rewilding is about an act of unbounded restoration, and an act of mitigating against the negative impacts of rapid environmental ...

December

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"This guide will help you to decipher the vast quantities of information you can glean from your local environment and especially ...
Dec 22, 2019

December

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"We create space - our holistic ’view of the world’ - to manage awareness, relate and contrast our embodied information. Perceived...
Dec 12, 2019

December

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"We hope that The Limits to Growth will command critical attention and spark debate in all societies. We hope that it will encour...
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Nov 21, 2019

Life in Syntropy

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Nov 6, 2019

November

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“A garden of 1,000 square meters (a quarter of an acre) can pack away up to one ton of CO 2 per year.” Peter Wohlleben (2019). The Weather ...
Oct 27, 2019

Gaia

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Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
Oct 19, 2019

October

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"In narrative terms, the Anthropocene began with widespread colonialism and slavery: it is a story of how people treat the environmen...
Sep 29, 2019

September

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" One critical aspect of our environmental impact results from what we do with our time ." (Lewis and Mark, 2018). Where do you ...
Sep 23, 2019

September

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"If restoration is not possible for a disturbed ecosystem in an irreversibly changed environment, then rewilding is the adaptive ...
Sep 12, 2019

Territory of Life

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"No matter how small, if you attend to the space you control with love you become part of the solution, not the problem! What can ...
Sep 10, 2019

September

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"(...) selective tree breeding to enhance genetic diversity in forests and protect endangered genetic resources increases disease ...
Aug 26, 2019

Agosto

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"[M]elhorar o efeito estético da vegetação natural (...) na base das paredes, juntas e áreas" que favoreçam "espécies com...
Aug 19, 2019

Improve

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   "(...) any knowledge we have is dependent on the technology, circumstances, situations, and actions from which it was construct...
Aug 3, 2019

Painting with Nature

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"(...) it was nature herself who created the shapes and patterns (...) without the need for pruning shears; branches feathered do...
Jul 20, 2019

July

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Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)
Jul 18, 2019

July

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"Infrastructure is both relational and ecological—it means different things to different groups and it is part of the balance of ac...
Jul 13, 2019

July

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There is a small forest in the city "(...) that has a shade of green for every possible felicitation of light;" Zadie Smith, 2...
Jun 29, 2019

June

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“An organism tends to act upon the world in a mediated way. It actively converts (sensory) data into information and then constructively...
Jun 26, 2019

June

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This plant (agapanthus) is producing flowers with more than the habitual 6 petals. In the photo you can see a flower with 10 petals. Othe...
Jun 21, 2019

June

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Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC )
Jun 19, 2019

June

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"Without me having to lift a finger, or calling for help, I know that the images belong to me, the owner of the body within which ...
Jun 13, 2019

Lightning speed

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"(...) when workers in dirty sectors are offered good jobs in clean sectors (...), and are enlisted as active participants in a gr...
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May 26, 2019

Behaviours

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"To the extent people prioritize values and goals such as achievement, money, power, status and image, they tend to hold more nega...
May 15, 2019

Flourishing

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«Homeostasis refers to the fundamental set of operations at the core of life, (...) is the powerful, unthought, unspoken imperative, wh...