Embedded in vibrant and richly textured New Mexican landscapes, Storying Plant Communication: More-than-Human Relationships in New Mexico explores the narrative accounts of southwestern herbalists, healers, teachers, farmers, and other plant enthusiasts who maintain deep and reciprocal relationships with the local flora.
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth.
Exploring the words and images used to represent plants, this interdisciplinary book examines how vegetal life has been theorised both in the contemporary plant humanities, a developing field of research which aims to rectify the traditional neglect of plants as a model for thinking, and in Western modernity more generally.
Exploring the words and images used to represent plants, this interdisciplinary book examines how vegetal life has been theorised both in the contemporary plant humanities, a developing field of research which aims to rectify the traditional neglect of plants as a model for thinking, and in Western modernity more generally.
Translated into English for the first time, My Animals and Flowers bring forth Theodor Lessing's visionary philosophy of need in an idiosyncratic series of musings on the natural world, which range from light-hearted to darkly shadowed.
Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Empirische Kulturwissenschaften, Note: 2,0, Universität Regensburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Seminararbeit untersucht das Phänomen Lebensmittelretten, "Foodsharing" und "Containern" aus einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektive.
Translated into English for the first time, My Animals and Flowers bring forth Theodor Lessing's visionary philosophy of need in an idiosyncratic series of musings on the natural world, which range from light-hearted to darkly shadowed.
While plenty of books tell readers how natural selection works, Force of Nature focuses on why understanding it has enormous practical value for reader's lives, right now.
This book introduces Method Supporting Product Improvement (MSPI), a method that aggregates key sustainability criteria during the product design and development stages, including conceptualization and prototyping.
While plenty of books tell readers how natural selection works, Force of Nature focuses on why understanding it has enormous practical value for reader's lives, right now.
Within contemporary Heathen communities, the Old English term "e;wyrd"e; is used to refer to the web of relations that connect all threads of existence.
Within contemporary Heathen communities, the Old English term "e;wyrd"e; is used to refer to the web of relations that connect all threads of existence.
This book introduces Method Supporting Product Improvement (MSPI), a method that aggregates key sustainability criteria during the product design and development stages, including conceptualization and prototyping.
Hailed by philosopher Martin Buber as "e;the true teacher"e;, pioneer, philosopher and dreamer, Aharon David Gordon (1856--1922) is increasingly being recognized as the first Jewish environmentalist.
Hailed by philosopher Martin Buber as "e;the true teacher"e;, pioneer, philosopher and dreamer, Aharon David Gordon (1856--1922) is increasingly being recognized as the first Jewish environmentalist.
Developing a new understanding of the cultural relationships of humans with nature through heritage and tradition, this book examines ways of transforming these relationships sustainably and assesses the impact on policy related actions for ecologically embedded futures, drawing particularly on case studies from the European north.
Developing a new understanding of the cultural relationships of humans with nature through heritage and tradition, this book examines ways of transforming these relationships sustainably and assesses the impact on policy related actions for ecologically embedded futures, drawing particularly on case studies from the European north.
This book is an urgent invitation, provocation, and proposal to devise possible theories, methods, and practices of eco-entangled, cobwebbed, symbiotic, and chaotic forms of existence between human and more-than-human species.
This book is an urgent invitation, provocation, and proposal to devise possible theories, methods, and practices of eco-entangled, cobwebbed, symbiotic, and chaotic forms of existence between human and more-than-human species.
Nachhaltigkeitsziele - implizit oder explizit eingebettet in den Kontext einer nachhaltigen Zukunft"e; - sind oft-mals vage und willkurlich formuliert.
Energy Images: Aesthetics of Resemblance and Form explores how visual representations of future oil and gas resources shape energy policy, investment decisions, and public understanding.
Energy Images: Aesthetics of Resemblance and Form explores how visual representations of future oil and gas resources shape energy policy, investment decisions, and public understanding.
Examining anthropocentric assumptions and arguments in care ethics literature, this book argues that caring for plants represents a moral obligation and vital relationship between human carers and plant cared-fors.
Examining anthropocentric assumptions and arguments in care ethics literature, this book argues that caring for plants represents a moral obligation and vital relationship between human carers and plant cared-fors.
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing.
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and communityAs Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.
Deffenbaugh calls us to "e;live in a reciprocal relationship"e; with our biotic communities-the plants, animals, and other non-human cultures that share our particular places in the world.
The debate over the value of community-based environmental collaboration is one that dominates current discussions of the management of public lands and other resources.