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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
Various ecological thinkers have pointed out that in the West, the felt sense of place--that tree, this brook, my room--has slowly given way to the abstract notion of space: a chunk of real estate, a Cartesian grid, a sector on a map. Philosopher Ed Casey points out that many languages contain this place/space distiction, which in the West goes back at least as far as Plato's Timaeus. Our cultural preferrence for space to place survived even the Einsteinian destruction of categories like absolute time and space: in fact, "place was absorbed into space. " This has far-reaching consequences for how we experience ourselves as subjects, lost and place-impoverished, in a conceptually dematerialized world. (Casey points out, for example, the word morality goes back to a term for "custom," whereas the word ethics refers ultimately to the place where the horses went home at night. For more information, see his Getting Back into Place and The Fate of Place. )
Industry:Biology
A planetwide celebration of our home that started on April 22, 1970 with a "Teach-In" organized by Gaylord Nelson to bring greater awareness to environmental concerns. It spread spontaneously to thousands of campuses and involved at least 20 million participants. Earth Day has become popular enough that politicians and corporate heads have started giving speeches on April 22. (President Bush tried it in 2005, but the Great Smoky Mountains thundered and rained him out. See Animism. )
Industry:Biology
Истощение кислорода в воде и менее чем в 2 miligrams/литр. Избыток питательных веществ (эвтрофикация) от удобрений стоков, загрязнение воздуха, сточных вод, эрозии почвы и других источников может зажечь достаточно роста водорослей лишить воды кислорода и убить рыб и других организмов, которые в ней нуждаются.
Industry:Biology
The perceived split between people and nature normally traced back to French philosopher Rene Descartes but with roots in monotheism, Plato, and still older sources. Val Plumwood has named five features that characterize dualism: backgrounding, radical exclusion, incorporation, instrumentalism, and homogenization.
Industry:Biology
Шкала измеряет огромное количество времени, за который геологические изменения происходят. Разделен на эоны, эпох, периодов и эпох. Сейчас мы находимся в фанерозое Eon, который начал 543 млн лет назад, когда животные стали fossilize в больших количествах, кайнозойской эры (начал 65 миллионов лет назад, когда динозавров задул), четвертичного периода (примерно 2 млн лет назад, когда появился перед людьми), эпоха голоцена (10 000 лет назад, когда завершился последний ледниковый период).
Industry:Biology
Makers and maintainers of protoplasm; the basic living unit of all organisms except viruses. The cells of organisms other than bacteria are eukaryotes those containing a defined nucleus in which chromosomes contain the DNA recipes from which cells synthesize protein. Cells know what to do and which genes to turn on because of what surrounding cells do in reference to a chemical-directional gradient. In organisms of greater complexity cells specialize into a variety of tissues.
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Industry:Biology
Накопление частиц в малых масс, которые выпадают из жидкой суспензии, обычно, чтобы осесть на дно. Соль делает это с глинистых частиц. Он также может использоваться для разделения примесей из сточных вод.
Industry:Biology
Фасоль или горох растение. Все бобовые способствуют азот, фосфор (ключ для цветения и образования семян) и калия питания сельскохозяйственных культур, которые следуют. Люцерна является тяжелым продюсер азота.
Industry:Biology
A hexagonally latticed silicon dioxide mineral. A chief component of sand and therefore sandstone. It is the second most abundant mineral after feldspar and is common in continental crust but rarer in oceanic crust.
Industry:Biology
Опасность потому что Уэллс оставил на освободившихся землях могут направлять воды загрязнены пестициды и удобрения прямо вниз в грунтовые воды. Некоторые Штаты в США предлагают стимулы для блокирования этих неиспользуемых скважин.
Industry:Biology
