Biomimicry comes from the word bios, meaning of life and mimesis, meaning to imitate. Biomimicry imitated biological design’s processes and laws to solve human problems and emulating nature strategy and patterns to design products. Read more..

The butterfly effect is a term used to describe the idea within chaos theory called sensitive dependence on initial conditions. It explains how single factors creates sensitivity to “initial conditions” such as situations in which events in one area of a network can cause major and unpredictable responses in other parts of the network. Read more.

In 1973, Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer Arne Næss introduced the phrase deep ecology to environmental literature in the short essay “The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary” (1973). Deep Ecology is rooted in Eastern religion and philosophies. Read more..

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..

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..

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..

Geocomplexity is a term used to describe a category of global issues in which social, political, military, and economic activities interact as a complex system and in which the dynamic nature of the issues make top-down, command-and-control, and reductionist management methods ineffective. Read more.

Nonviolence is a term used to describe political actions performed without the use of violence. Gandhi was the first in modern times performing such actions against the British Empire while setting the India then colony free. Read more.