Jun 28, 2020

June

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"A certain conception of «nature» has allowed the Moderns to occupy the Earth in such a way that it forbids others to occupy their own...
Jun 20, 2020

June

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Resilience "is a passive process, implying the ability to absorb blows and get back up. Regeneration, on the other hand is active: ...
Jun 8, 2020

June

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May 29, 2020

May

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“The information society is like a tree that has been growing its far-reaching branches much more widely, hastily, and chaotically than its...
May 24, 2020

May

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“Growing our connections to nature will allow us to push past mere intellect to embrace sensory experiences, emotions, intuition. (…) For t...
May 22, 2020

May

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“(…) whenever suitable conditions to move demand and supply closer can be identified by reducing the number of technological and human i...
May 14, 2020

May

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   «The new Earth 2.0 that will emerge after COVID‑19 will be a “new normal”, but many fundamental challenges will still exist. Chief a...
May 13, 2020

(re)growth

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  Define growth: the process of increasing in size. the upward growth of plants. the process of developing physically, mentally, or spi...

mobility

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May 8, 2020

May

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“We are nature. When we stand firm on that undeniable fact, shedding the long-standing illusion that there’s nature “out there” and the...
May 7, 2020

May

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“Expectation, fantasy and reality are intermingled on the surface of our skin, a stage on which our life is played out. (…) Touch is e...
May 5, 2020

May

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"In categorical thinking the boundaries are drawn. But mystery is open-ended, messy, full of promise, and lacking in certainty. (.....
May 3, 2020

May

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Apr 30, 2020

April

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"Given enough solitude and enough time, the mind shifts into default mode and pans through connections that at first seem wholly rando...
Apr 29, 2020

April

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“It is a matter of broadening the definitions of class by pursuing an exhaustive search for everything that makes subsistence possible. As ...
Apr 18, 2020

April

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“(…) it’s time to wake up the tissues of perception that have been there all along. We are nature. When we stand firm on that undeniabl...
Apr 15, 2020

Diversity

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"(...) trees and plants aren´t simply competing with one another. (...) Instead, over millions of years vegetation has built vast c...
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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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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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...