Article - Spirituality And Ecology: Reverence For Nature Is The Only Way To Save It  
Ancient scriptures say we have five sheaths: physical environment, physical body, mind, intuitive sheath or subtle environment, and th...   » Read the article

Article - Sacred Nature: Back To Basics: Nature Talk  
Our love and concern for animals emerge out of two basic postulates of Indian philosophy. One, that like us, every plant and living be...   » Read the article

Article - Sustainable Development: Transform Self To Heal The Earth  
    (See also: Sustainable development , Faith and Belief, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of ...   » Read the article

Article - Sacred Nature: Man Not Measure Of All Things  
Man is no longer to be the measure of all things, the centre of the universe. He has been measured and found to be an undistinguished ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arne Næss: Encyclopedia - Arne Næss
Arne Dekke Eide Næss (born January 27, 1912) is the foremost Norwegian philosopher of the 20th century and founder of deep ecology. He w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia - Conservatism
Conservatism Part of the Politics series Christian Democracy Liberal conservatism Neoconservatism Paleoconservatism Social conservatism A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anarchism: Encyclopedia - Anarchism
Schools Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Eco-anarchism Individualist anar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza: Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza
Benedictus de Spinoza (November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677), was named Baruch Spinoza by his synagogue elders and known as Bento de E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia - Biodiversity
Biodiversity or biological diversity is the diversity of and in living nature. There are a number of definitions and measures of biodiver...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics: Encyclopedia - Ethics
Ethics (from Greek ethikos) is the branch of axiology – one of the four major branches of philosophy, alongside metaphysics, epistemolo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Classification Of Conservatism
Conservatism - Cultural conservatism. Cultural conservatism hopes to enshrine the received heritage of a successful nation or culture. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radical Environmentalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Radical Environmentalism - History Of Radical Environmentalism
One of the first significant radical environmentalist group was Greenpeace, which made use of direct action to confront a variety of tran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ecosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Ecosophy - Naess's Definition Of Ecosophy
While a professor at University of Oslo in 1973, Arne Naess, introduced the terms "deep ecology movement" and "ecosophy" into environment...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Benefits Of Biodiversity
Biodiversity has contributed in many ways to the development of human culture, and, in turn, human communities have played a major role i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza: Encyclopedia Ii - Baruch Spinoza - Philosophy - Overview
Known as both the "greatest Jew" and the "greatest Atheist", Spinoza contended that God and Nature were two names for the same reality, n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Benefits Of Biodiversity
Biodiversity has contributed in many ways to the development of human culture, and, in turn, human communities have played a major role i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sex Ecology Spirituality: Encyclopedia Ii - Sex Ecology Spirituality - The Structure And Theses Of Ses
Sex Ecology Spirituality - Introduction. Wilber describes the deeply dysteleological perspective of contemporary philosophical natur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - History
“Rednecks” are largely descendants of the Ulster-Scots and Lowland Scots immigrants who travelled to North America from Northern Irel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Links To Songs
Punk ideology - On The Decline Of Man. The Decline, The Decline, NOFX Punk ideology - On Government. A Commercial, Bedtime for Dem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Self-organization: Encyclopedia Ii - Self-organization - Examples
The following list summarizes and classifies the instances of self-organization found in different disciplines. As the list grows, it bec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anarchism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anarchism - History Of Anarchism
see also Past and present anarchist communities Anarchism - Chart of influences. Anarchism - Justice against the state. The first ess...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Berry: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Berry - Biography
Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Berry was third of 13 children. By age eight, he had concluded that commercial values were threatenin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Velvet Cacoon: Encyclopedia Ii - Velvet Cacoon - Biography
It is not entirely clear when, how, or by whom Velvet Cacoon began. According to the band, the group was originally a trio that consisted...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exergy: Encyclopedia Ii - Exergy - Applications
From equation (1), This expression applies equally well for theoretical ideals in a wide variety of applications: electrolysis (G<0...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza: Encyclopedia Ii - Baruch Spinoza - Philosophy
Known as both the "greatest Jew" and the "greatest Atheist", Spinoza contended that God and Nature were two names for the same reality, n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics - Applied Ethics
Main articles: applied ethics, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Titor: Encyclopedia Ii - John Titor - Titor's Predictions In Detail
In the interest of evaluating Titor's claims more precisely, here are some of the slightly less vague predictions that can be derived fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Past And Present Anarchist Communities: Encyclopedia Ii - Past And Present Anarchist Communities - Examples Of Revolts And Uprisings With Anarchist Qualities
Instances of anarchist and anti-authoritarian systems of operation during periods of uprisings and revolts against authoritarian governme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Environmental Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Environmental Ethics - Libertarian Extension
Marshall’s Libertarian extension encompasses those theories that extend human rights to non-human animals and possibly even the inanima...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Classification Of Conservatism
Conservatism - Cultural conservatism. Cultural conservatism hopes to enshrine the received heritage of a successful nation or culture. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Cantos: Encyclopedia Ii - The Cantos - Lxxiv – Lxxxiv The Pisan Cantos
With the outbreak of war in 1939, Pound was in Italy, where he remained, despite a request for repatriation he made after Pearl Harbor. D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Energy Economics: Encyclopedia Ii - Energy Economics - Energy Efficiency
According to Brian Czech, "Most modern economics has defined 'efficiency' in terms of output per personhour instead of output per unit of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Conservatives In Various Countries
See American conservatism for information on conservatism in the United States, and Canadian Conservatism for information on conservatism...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Biodiversity Management: Conservation, Preservation And Protection
The conservation of biological diversity has become a global concern. Although not everybody agrees on extent and significance of current...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Liberal, Conservative?
In the USA conservatism and liberalism are sometimes seen as polar opposites, yet in actuality the situation is more complex. A major are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Authoritarianism
In punk thought, authority corrupts humans to intolerable extremes. Police, religion, governments, and any other institution that has the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Religion
Many punk songs have lamented the conformity that religion inspires and the coercive authority of the Church. Most punks adhere to a uniq...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Politics
The political ideology most often associated with punk is that of anarchism. A lot of punk activism has been done in support of anarchist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Self-organization: Encyclopedia Ii - Self-organization - Overview
The most robust and unambiguous examples of self-organizing systems are from physics, where the concept was first noted. Self-organizatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza: Encyclopedia Ii - Baruch Spinoza - Life
Born to a great family of Sephardic Jews, among the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam, he gained fame for his positions of pantheism and neutr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Militarism
Punk ideology uncompromisingly rejects the use of military force. To punks, the military is the most extreme form of authoritarianism. Se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Self-organization: Encyclopedia Ii - Self-organization - History Of The Idea
The idea that the dynamics of a system can tend by themselves to increase the inherent order of a system has a long history. One of the e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Summary
Since the mid 1970's, punk has been in the political crossfire between left and right. From the clashes between TheSocialist Workers Part...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Criticisms Of Punk Ideology
Punk is critical of the state of society, irrespective of whether it's Hardline, Nazi Punk or Queercore. However, it has been criticised,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Ethics
As explained in the other sections of this article, punk ideology sees the world as deeply corrupt. Because of this worldview, a distinct...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Selling Out
The issues surrounding the act of compromising one's ethical parameters in exchange for personal gain are of particular relevance to punk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Aesthetics
Punk ideology - Music. In its almost three decades of existence, punk music has evolved and mutated to create a diversity of sounds. Pu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Conformity
Conformity and non-conformity create one of the most misunderstood issues in Punk ideology. The real issue behind the Punk movement is fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - The Media
Punks often portray the mass media as a dangerous instrument of social control. Television is, for the most part seen as a waste of time ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Environmentalism
Many punks are practicing environmentalists. "While there will always be different opinions coming from under the punk banner, the most e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punk Ideology: Encyclopedia Ii - Punk Ideology - Other Punk Ideologies
Punk is typically seen as having an affinity with radical left-wing or progressive politics, but there are several important exceptions t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Biodiversity And Evolution
Biodiversity found on Earth today is the result of 4 billion years of evolution. The original origin of life is not well known to science...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Energy Economics: Encyclopedia Ii - Energy Economics - Issues
This section will review some of economic ideas and techniques that relate directly to energy economics. Energy economics - Peak Load Pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Tradition In Conservatism
By definition, conservatives value tradition. Tradition does not mean simply custom, habit or nostalgia for the past, though custom does ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ecosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Ecosophy - Félix Guattari
Ecosophy also refers to a field of practice introduced by psychoanalyst and militant Félix Guattari in 1992 as a response to perceived s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Biodiversity And Size Bias
Biodiversity researcher Sean Nee, writing in the 24 June 2004 edition of Nature, points out that the vast majority of Earth's biodiversit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Biodiversity Management: Conservation Preservation And Protection
The conservation of biological diversity has become a global concern. Although not everybody agrees on extent and significance of current...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Juridical Status Of Biological Diversity
Biodiversity must be evaluated and its evolution analysed (through observations, inventories, conservation...) then it must be taken into...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Etymology
Redneck - Possible Scots-Irish Etymology. The word redneck was first cited in Scotland. In Scotland, the National Covenant and The Sole...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Modern Usage
"Redneck", like the word nigger, has two general uses: firstly, as a pejorative for outsiders, and secondly as a term used by members wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Related Terms
Redneck - Australia. The term "Redneck" is also often used in Australia to describe individuals of Anglo-Celtic heritage living in rura...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Velvet Cacoon: Encyclopedia Ii - Velvet Cacoon - Band Members
Velvet Cacoon - Current members. Josh (SGL) - Vocals, songwriting, guitars Velvet Cacoon - Contributors. Angela (LVG) - Vocals (on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Extraterritorial Conclaves
There are also several areas where large groups of Rednecks live outside of their normal ranges. One is Bakersfield, California and the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Popular Culture
The Grand Ole Opry, and Hee Haw are popular entertainments from years past, and they, as well as the entertainers Hank Williams, Grandpa ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Stereotypes
The stereotypical redneck lives in a trailer or old weatherbeaten farm house in a rural area, and drives an old, large, beat-up pickup tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Threats To Biodiversity
During the last century, erosion of biodiversity has been increasingly observed. Estimates of extinction rates are controversial, ranging...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Distribution Of Biodiversity
Biodiversity is not distributed evenly on earth. It is consistently richer in the tropics. As one approaches polar regions one finds larg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Conservatism And Nationalism
Nationalism has an inherent conservative tendency, since the nation itself is usually defined as a centuries-old community. Conversely, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Liberal Conservative?
In the USA conservatism and liberalism are sometimes seen as polar opposites, yet in actuality the situation is more complex. A major are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Conservatism's Effect On History
Conservative attitudes can be found in all historical cultures which left a written record of their politics. In the western world, conse...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Tradition In Conservatism
By definition, conservatives value tradition. Tradition does not mean simply custom, habit or nostalgia for the past, though custom does ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza: Encyclopedia Ii - Baruch Spinoza - Modern Relevance
Albert Einstein said that Spinoza was the philosopher who had most influenced his worldview (Weltanschauung). Spinoza equated God (infini...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza: Encyclopedia Ii - Baruch Spinoza - Bibliography
Baruch Spinoza - By Spinoza. Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being. 1662. On the Improvement of the Understanding. Project Gut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Nature And Environment
In early liberal philosophy 'Nature' and the environment were treated as a resource to be exploited: value derived from their human use, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Conservatism And The Right
In western democracies, 'conservative' and 'right-wing' are often used interchangeably, as near-synonyms. That is not always accurate, bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Definitions
Biological diversity has no single standard definition. One definition holds that biological diversity is a measure of the relative diver...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Measurement Of Biodiversity
No single objective measure of biodiversity is possible, only measures relating to particular purposes or applications. For practical con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Etymology
Biodiversity is a neologism and a portmanteau word, from bio and diversity. The term biological diversity was coined by Thomas Lovejoy in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Conservatism And Nationalism
Nationalism has an inherent conservative tendency, since the nation itself is usually defined as a centuries-old community. Conversely, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Conservatives In Various Countries
Conservatism - North America. See American conservatism for information on conservatism in the United States, and Canadian Conservatism...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza: Encyclopedia Ii - Baruch Spinoza - Philosophy - Relativism
Encapsulated at the start in his Treatise on the Improvement of the Understanding (Tractatus de intellectus emendatione) is the core of S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Titor: Encyclopedia Ii - John Titor - Criticism Of Titor's Claims
Dr. Robert Brown, a physicist at Duke University analysed the science involved in Titor's time travel explanations and states it is impos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Evaluation Of Biodiversity
Biodiversity - Measurement of biodiversity. From the viewpoint previously defined, no single objective measure of biodiversity is possi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Threats To Biodiversity
During the last century, erosion of biodiversity has been increasingly observed. Estimates of extinction rates are controversial, ranging...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Origin Of Life And Biodiversity Evolution
See also biodiversity and evolution Biodiversity found on Earth today is the result of 4 billion years of evolution. The original origin ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Biodiversity Definitions
Biodiversity is the variety of life: the different plants, animals and micro-organisms, their genes and the ecosystems of which they are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics - The Analytic View
The descriptive view of ethics is modern and in many ways more empirical. But because the above are dealt with more deeply in their own a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Etymology
Biodiversity is a neologism and a portmanteau word, from bio and diversity. The term biological diversity was coined by Thomas Lovejoy in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Biodiversity Management: Conservation Preservation And Protection
The conservation of biological diversity has become a global concern. Although not everybody agrees on extent and significance of current...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Juridical Status Of Biological Diversity
Biodiversity must be evaluated and its evolution analysed (through observations, inventories, conservation...) then it must be taken into...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Conservatism And Nationalism
Nationalism has an inherent conservative tendency, since the nation itself is usually defined as a centuries-old community. Conversely, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Liberal Conservative?
In the USA conservatism and liberalism are sometimes seen as polar opposites, yet in actuality the situation is more complex. A major are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Conservatism's Effect On History
Conservative attitudes can be found in all historical cultures which left a written record of their politics. In the western world, conse...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservatism - Tradition In Conservatism
All conservatives value tradition. Tradition does not mean simply custom, habit or nostalgia for the past, though custom does inform trad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biodiversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Biodiversity - Biodiversity And Size Bias
Biodiversity researcher Sean Nee, writing in the 24 June 2004 edition of Nature, points out that the vast majority of Earth's biodiversit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics - Descriptive Ethics
Some philosophers rely on descriptive ethics and choices made and unchallenged by a society or culture to derive categories, which typica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ethics: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics - Ethics By Cases
A common approach in applied ethics is to deal with individual issues on a case-by-case basis. Casuistry is one such application of case-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza: Encyclopedia Ii - Baruch Spinoza - Bibliography
Baruch Spinoza - By Spinoza. Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being. 1662. On the Improvement of the Understanding. Project Gut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anarchism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anarchism - Precursors Of Anarchism
Anarchism - Primitive cultures. Many anarchists, particularly anarcho-primitivists, assert that before recorded history, human society ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza: Encyclopedia Ii - Baruch Spinoza - Quotes
Mind and body are one and the same individual which is conceived now under the attribute of thought, and now under the attribute of exten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza: Encyclopedia Ii - Baruch Spinoza - Modern Relevance
Albert Einstein said that Spinoza was the philosopher who had most influenced his worldview (Weltanschauung). Spinoza equated God (infini...   » Read the article