The Sustainability Revolution – part 1: Understanding our worldview roots (The ‘Taker’ Worldview)

“What you’re doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future” Ken Robinson. I spent the last few posts discussing a probable history of our modern destructive ‘Taker’ worldview.  I’ve had people come up and shake their heads after Read more…

Biophilia and Biodiversity 4: Nature – other pragmatic reasons to care for it!

In the last three posts I have outlined why I think we are all connected to nature.  But that connectedness lies along a continuum of liking it for its pragmatic personal needs to loving it intrinsically as a part of who we are.  I really do not believe that anyone Read more…

Biophilia and Biodiversity 3: Nature – love it because it is essential to humanity!

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.  William Shakespeare BioDiversity is known to be a complete interaction of all the species in an ecosystem.  Modern science accepts that an ecosystem is a complete and interactive and dynamic collection of species (from the micro to especially the micro levels, which we Read more…

Biophilia and Biodiversity 2: Nature – love it or leave it, why we need it!

Earth is not a platform for human life.  It’s a living being.  We’re not on it but part of it.  Its health is our health.  Thomas Moore (archetypal psychologist and mythologist). I really do not think that indigenous peoples go around saying I love nature.  To people that live within Read more…

Biophilia and Biodiversity 1: Nature – love it or leave it, or is it just a fun playground?

In my last post I stated that nearly everyone connects to the natural world on a fundamental level.  The term Biophilia was first coined by Erich Fromm in his book The Heart of Man: It’s genius for Good and Evil (1964), but was popularized by E.O. Wilson in 1984 with Read more…