Anthropocentrism
Anthropocentrism is a term used to describe our human-centrism” or “speciesism,” not unlike “racism,” “ageism,” or “sexism”.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the diversity of living things – eco-systems, species and genetic complexity.
Biomimicry
Biomimicry comes from the word bios, means life and mimesis, meaning to imitate.
Butterfly effect
The butterfly effect is a term used to describe the idea within chaos theory called sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
Deep Ecology
Deep Ecology, In 1973, Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer Arne Næss introduced the phrase deep ecology to environmental literature.
Ecocentric
Ecocentric is a type of environmentalism taking the view that large-scale ecological processes such as evolution, adaptation, and biogeochemical cycling are the most important aspects of nature. Moral values and rights are ascribed to ecological processes, read more..
Ecofeminism
Feminist environmentalists argue that the domination of women by men reflects and reinforces the domination over the environment by society, and that the two are understood to be linked; patriarchal ender relations in society correspond to domination of male environmental ethics. Read more..
Gaia hypothesis
In the beginning of 1960’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) asked the scientist James Lovelock to participate in a scientific research project aimed at trying to find evidence of life on Mars. While working with the project setting up design instruments capable of detecting the presence of life that could be sent on a spacecraft to Mars.. read more..
